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Larger than Mercury and Pluto, Titan would be a perfectly respectable planet if it were orbiting the sun instead of Saturn. Its dense atmosphere is made of organic materials like methane and ethane, strikingly similar to our own atmosphere before life emerged. Since Titan's surface temperature approaches -300ºF, the moon almost certainly does not sustain life, but studying it can give scientists a peek at a sort of cryopreserved version of Earth long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lord Of The Rings | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...touching to look back at the show's optimistic imagined future, in which there's a flying saucer in every garage and even inept button-pusher George Jetson can afford a robot maid and a Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle without worrying about his job getting outsourced to Pluto. --By James Poniewozik

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Meet George Jetson--Again | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...made some mistakes at Epcot. First, we booked a ?Lunch with the Characters? and Mary Grace is still scared . . . let?s say witless by characters. Whenever Pluto hove into view, she freaked. And both she and Jack lost it at ?Honey,? because a 3-D snake popping into your face is not want you want or need when you?re three. (Daddy?s gotta say, however: The effects were terrific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disney Diary: Into the House of Mouse | 2/17/2004 | See Source »

...only if Bush is the astronaut. How about Pluto? Nicholas Mellen Los Angeles, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should astronauts go back to the moon and to Mars? | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...unmanned mission to Pluto, which would take about nine to 11 years for arrival, is back on the drawing board. It probably should've happened already, and it remains a possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting to Know Mars | 1/7/2004 | See Source »

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