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Titan as Revealed by the Cassini Radar

Rodriguez, S.; Barnes, J. W.; Soderblom, J. M. +45 more

Titan was a mostly unknown world prior to the Cassini spacecraft's arrival in July 2004. We review the major scientific advances made by Cassini's Titan Radar Mapper (RADAR) during 13 years of Cassini's exploration of Saturn and its moons. RADAR measurements revealed Titan's surface geology, observed lakes and seas of mostly liquid methane in the …