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Titan: tapping the flood of data

The first analyses of the Huygens mission to Titan are published this week. Mark Peplow charts the satellite's transition from fogbound moon to familiar landscape, and finds out why scientists long to return.

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Titan: tapping the flood of data. Nature 438, 538–539 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/438538a

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