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Titan Observed Naked in the Solar Wind
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This diagram depicts conditions observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a flyby in Dec. 2013, when Saturn's magnetosphere was highly compressed, exposing Titan to the full force of the solar wind. In analyzing data from the encounter, scientists with Cassini's magnetometer team observed that the giant moon interacted with the solar wind much like the planets Mars and Venus, or a comet -- none of which possess their own internal magnetic field.
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Credit lineTitan Observed Naked in the Solar Wind. NASA/JPL, 2015-01-28. Public domain. ID: PIA19055.
