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Published online 27 October 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041025-13

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Cassini sweeps past Titan

Spacecraft gets closest ever view of Saturn's giant moon.

The first close-up pictures of Saturn's enormous moon Titan have been beamed back to Earth by the Cassini-Huygens space probe.

The snapshots reveal a world shrouded in photochemical smog and show atmospheric details that have never been seen before.

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