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A whole new world: astronomers draw first global map of Titan

Cassini data reveal the geological diversity of Saturn’s largest moon.
  1. Jonathan O'Callaghan
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Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Cassini mission to map the entire surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, for the first time. Their charts reveal a diverse terrain of mountains, plains, valleys, craters and lakes unlike anywhere in the Solar System outside Earth.

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Nature 575, 426-427 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03539-8

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  1. Lopes, R. M. C. et al. Nature Astron. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0917-6 (2019).

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