What Cassini-Huygens has revealed about Titan

Abstract

Titan, Saturn's langest satellite, is an enigmatic world we are just beginning to explore seriously with the in-depth, in situ observations conducted by the Cassini-Huygens mission after a 7.5-year trek through our solar system. Since the Saturn orbit insertion in July 2004, we have witnessed the fantastic success of the Huygens mission, which descended through Titan's atmosphere on 14 January 2005. The combined orbiter and probe investigations have been a precious means for describing Titan's atmosphere and surface, returning wonderful new data whose analysis has revealed an amazing world, in many ways similar to our planet yet 10 times further away from our Sun. The atmospheric structure, the surface morphology and composition, and the meteorology of Titan are some of the things that I will review here.