Saturn Moon's Features Obscured ; Scientists Conclude Rings Are Decaying

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › July 06, 2004

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PASADENA, Calif. - Saturn's giant moon Titan refused to give up its secrets easily Friday as the Cassini spacecraft flew by for the first time and peered into its murky atmosphere in an attempt to see surface features.

"It's not as clear as we'd hoped," Cassini imaging team leader Carolyn Porco said as unprocessed images transmitted across 900 million miles of space arrived at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Saturn Moon's Features Obscured ; Scientists Conclude Rings Are Decaying

Some things were visible to imaging experts, and Porco was certain that some were surface features. She sai...

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