A blanket of orange clouds shrouds the suggested red continents and methane
oceans of Saturn’s largest satellite, hiding them from our view. But in November
2004, NASA’s Huygens probe will reveal all. Catch up with what we know already
by reading Titan: The Earth-Like Moon by Athena Coustenis and Fred Taylor.
Published by World Scientific, £24, ISBN 9810239211.
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