Cassini Catches Titan Naked in the Solar Wind

Cassini Catches Titan Naked in the Solar Wind
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 29, 2015 - Researchers studying data from NASA's Cassini mission have observed that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves much like Venus, Mars or a comet when exposed to the raw power of the solar wind. The observations suggest that unmagnetized bodies like Titan might interact with the solar wind in the same basic ways, regardless of their nature or distance from the sun. Titan is large enough that ... more

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