Cassini sends intel on Titan's lakes

NASA’S Cassini mission flew past Titan early last Wednesday, successfully completing a complex manoeuvre that will help scientists better understand one of the solar system’s most intriguing moons.

Beginning around midnight, a team of scientists and engineers guided the spacecraft into an orbit that allowed them to bounce a radio signal off the surface of Titan toward Earth, where it was received by a land-based telescope array 1.6 billion km away.