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Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather

Most of Titan’s surface is oddly flat and smooth, and it may be because it is coated by as much as a metre of fluffy organic material that snowed down from the icy moon’s thick atmosphere

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Saturn’s rings may have formed after a huge collision with Titan

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Rolling boulders on Titan could threaten NASA's Dragonfly mission

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Moon of Saturn has an equivalent of freshwater rivers and salty oceans

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Titan as snapped by NASA's Cassini spacecraft showing the sun glinting off of the moon's north polar seas

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Saturn's moon Titan is experiencing coastal erosion from methane seas

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Titan’s sand dunes may be made of smashed up small moons

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Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan

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Strange ‘magic islands’ on Saturn’s moon Titan may be porous icebergs

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Titan and Saturn as captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft

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Quantum effects could be key to the chemistry of life on Titan

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Clouds on Titan over 36 hours between November 4 and November 6, 2022, as seen by JWST (left) and Keck (right)

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JWST has taken pictures of clouds on Saturn’s moon Titan

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii have watched clouds changing shape in the sky of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, which could help us understand its weird atmosphere

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Scott Bolton on his missions to the gas giants of the solar system

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Saturn’s moon Titan may be doomed to fly away or smash into the planet

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Weird ring-shaped molecule on Titan could be a building block to life

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Saturn's moon Titan could be hiding underground reservoirs of methane

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