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Saturn Is Visible Tonight and the Rings Aren't the Story
Your next chance to see Saturn is tonight, low in the western sky just after sunset, and you don't need a telescope. But while the rings are what everyone pictures, the real story is a moon that's larger than Mercury, has an atmosphere almost as thick as Earth's, and is considered more habitable in some senses than Mars.
Scientists have been arguing for years about how Saturn's rings and moons actually formed. The new theory: a collision so massive it created both Titan and Hyperion at once, two moons still tidally locked to each other billions of years later. Titan's atmosphere resembles…
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