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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online New research based on observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that Titan, Saturn's largest moon, may look younger than it really is. While most moons display their age through their thousands of craters, NASA said that Titan's craters are being erased, giving it a 'Benjamin Button' appearance. "Most of the Saturnian satellites - Titan's siblings - have thousands and thousands of craters on their surface. So far on Titan,...

NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory A literal shot in the dark by imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has yielded an image of a visible glow from Titan, emanating not just from the top of Titan's atmosphere, but also - surprisingly - from deep in the atmosphere through the moon's haze. A person in a balloon in Titan's haze layer wouldn't see the glow because it's too faint - something like a millionth of a watt. Scientists were able to detect it with Cassini because the spacecraft's...