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Fly-by Titan for a closer view 25 October 2004 by Richard Conan-Davies The NASA and ESA Cassini Huygens space craft will make a fly over of the Largest Saturnian Moon Titan skimming past at an altitude of about 1,200km starting on Tuesday 26th october pacific standard time. The probe will come close enough to make some detailed measurements of the Icey cloudy moon. This includes using RADAR to measure to surface details suchs as heights of mountains. Titan has some of the most unusual atmosphere which is mostly nitrogen rather like earth but about 1.5 times as more pressure. It is thought the atmosphere is similar to Earth's atmosphere early in its' history.   The flyby of Titan will provide much more detail than this recent image of the cloudy surface of the largest moon of saturn. Image: NASA/JPL/ESA

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