Saturn's Moon Titan (IMAGE)

University of Maryland

Saturn's Moon Titan

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A new research paper describes a period more than 2.4 billion years ago, when Earth's atmosphere was filled with a thick, methane-rich haze much like Saturn's moon Titan, seen here in an image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2013.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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