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Cassini captures Saturn's moon in its birthday suit
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Cassini captures Saturn's moon in its birthday suit
By ALEXANDRA WITZE Dallas Morning News
Monday, July 19, 2004
Dallas -- Like a burlesque dancer finally ending her show, a once-
hidden moon dropped its last veil of modesty this month, exposing
itself to the piercing gaze of the Cassini spacecraft.
Without its smoggy covering, Saturn's moon Titan was revealed as a
less-than-glamorous landscape, pockmarked with giant craters and
frosted with great expanses of ice. Y...
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