Volume 115, No.2: 2005 April
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Prof David Southwood (top left), Director of Science at the European Space Agency, quotes a poem by John Keats to a packed press conference in Darmstadt, Germany on 2005 January 15, as he shows the first images returned by the Huygens probe from the surface of Titan (centre). Prof John Zarnecki from the Open University (top right) introduces the first results from his Surface Science Package. Huygens images courtesy ESA, NASA and the University of Arizona; Darmstadt photos by Hazel McGee. See pages 60 & 61.
The surface of Titan revealed (John H. Rogers) / From the President (Tom Boles) / 'Silent, upon a peak in Darien...' (Hazel McGee) / Comet Machholz, 2004 Q2 (Jonathan Shanklin) / Aurora Section (Ron Livesey) / Solar Section (Mike Beales) / RAS award for Guy Hurst / Mercury & Venus Section (Richard McKim) / Extended mission for SMART-1 (Roger O'Brien) / The Co-op takes the lead against light pollution (Joy Griffiths)
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