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NASA's Cassini spacecraft circled Saturn for 13 years and never saw a shape at the south pole, but when the planet's slow seasons tilted that pole back toward Earth, a giant ten-sided figure was waiting there

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed a massive ten-sided geometric figure at Saturn's south pole, visible only after a seasonal tilt toward Earth.

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Titan was called an ocean world for more than fifteen years, but a reanalysis of Cassini's radio tracking published in Nature has quietly taken the ocean away — the moon's tidal response lags Saturn's pull by about fifteen hours, which fits slush and smal

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In January 2005, the Huygens probe parachuted for 147 minutes through Titan’s orange haze, landed on a cold plain scattered with ice pebbles, and kept transmitting from the surface of Saturn’s largest moon for 72 minutes before Cassini carried its signal

New interest is surfacing regarding the legacy of the Huygens probe and the resource potential of Saturn's moon Titan.

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