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Piercing through clouds of smog, the Cassini spacecraft has captured the best images ever of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

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Exploring Titan is a major focus of Cassini's overall mission.

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Cassini used its visible and infrared mapping spectrometer to take the unprecedented images.

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Designed to map chemical and mineral deposits, the camera is also quite good at cutting through haze and clouds.

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Below the dense atmosphere, Titan's surface appears to be made up of hydrocarbon-rich regions and icy areas.

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Scientists suspect that frozen in the ice may be the very same chemical compounds that possibly led to life here on Earth.

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Cassini took these first images of Titan from a distance of over two hundred thousand miles.

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However, future flybys will bring the craft as close as 590 miles.

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