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Titan: Foundations

Titan is Saturn's largest moon and the only moon with a dense atmosphere at its surface. Titan is a laboratory for atmospheric chemistry, climate cycles, organic synthesis, and landscape formation under cryogenic conditions.

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Titan is Saturn's largest moon and the only moon with a dense atmosphere at its surface.

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Sunlight and energetic particles break methane and nitrogen molecules apart high in the atmosphere, driving organic photochemistry and haze formation.

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Cassini radar mapped surface features through the haze, infrared observations identified clouds and composition, and the Huygens probe directly measured atmospheric structure during descent and imaged the surface after landing.