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The largest mountain peak was found on the planet Titan

04.04.2016

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With the help of equipment, mounted on the space station “Cassini” astronauts saw the hill on Titan, which height reached 3337 meters. Photographic and video cameras recorded a huge mountain group, which is a priori should not be there.

After analyzing the satellite data, scientists have made the following conclusions. Titan’s mountain top is placed close to archipelago Mitrim, which is the largest object on the surface of natural satellite of distant planet Saturn.

We shall note that previously, astronauts did not have the possibility of such rapprochement with the planet. Specialists working in the aerospace research center identified the following step in the research mission to study the phenomenon of mountain.

The nearest plans of scientists – to explore the features of mountain massif, placed on the surface of the largest natural satellite in the solar system.

Source: globalscience.ru

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