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How Studying Saturn Moon Titan Could Unlock Secrets of Alien Planets
[Via SPACE.com]
Studying the hazy atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, should help researchers better understand the air of faraway exoplanets, a new study reports.
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It appears that many of the large number of exoplanets we have observed have a haze around them that hurts our ability to make good observations.
Now it appears that Titan has a similar sort of haze. So, gaining an understanding of how different wavelengths of light move through that haze is already giving us insights into the haze around exoplanets.
Image: NASA
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