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Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan
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Dec 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, ...
NASA Extends Cassini's Grand Tour of Saturn
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Apr 15, 2008 |
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NASA is extending the international Cassini-Huygens mission by two years. The historic spacecraft's stunning discoveries and images have revolutionized our knowledge of Saturn and its moons.
The Huygens landing: one year on
Jan 13, 2006 |
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One year ago this week, on 14 January 2005, ESA’s Huygens probe reached the upper layer of Titan’s atmosphere and landed on the surface after a parachute descent 2 hours and 28 minutes later.
Cassini images mammoth cloud engulfing Titan’s North Pole
Feb 01, 2007 |
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A giant cloud half the size of the United States has been imaged on Saturn’s moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft. The cloud may be responsible for the material that fills the lakes discovered last year by ...
Surface features on Titan form like Earth's, but with a frigid twist
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Aug 06, 2009 |
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Saturn's haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain, according to two pieces of research to be presented at the XXVII General ...
Saturn's largest moon Titan resembles primitive Earth, Nature study
Nov 29, 2005 |
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Astronomers say Saturn's largest moon, Titan, resembles a primitive Earth, complete with weather systems and geological activity.
Evidence for ocean on Enceladus: Tiny Saturn Moon Could Be Targeted in Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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Jul 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Plumes spewing from a tiny moon of Saturn - a moon roughly the width of Arizona - are filled with molecules that suggest that the moon, Enceladus, is likely another place in the solar system ...
Cassini Radar Images Sea, Islands and Mountains
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May 24, 2007 |
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On May 12, 2007, Cassini completed its 31st flyby of Saturn's moon Titan, which the team calls T30. The radar instrument obtained this image showing the coastline and numerous island groups of a portion of ...
Scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan
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Nov 29, 2009 |
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane ...
Building our new view of Titan
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Jun 01, 2007 |
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Two and a half years after the historic landing of ESA’s Huygens probe on Titan, a new set of results on Saturn’s largest moon is ready to be presented. Titan, as seen through the eyes of the European Space Agency’s Huygens ...
Professor on the scent of the world's smelliest flower
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Feb 02, 2007 |
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A University of Sussex biochemist will brave the stench of the world's smelliest - and largest - flower, the Titan arum, when he gives a series of public lectures about the plant's special heat-producing properties.
Fasten your seat belts -- turbulent lessons from Titan
Aug 28, 2007 |
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Have you spilled your drink on an airliner? Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are finding new ways to understand turbulence, both in the Earth's atmosphere and that of Saturn's moon Titan.
Rivers on Titan, one of Saturn's moons, resemble those on earth
Dec 05, 2005 |
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Recent evidence from the Huygens Probe of the Cassini Mission suggests that Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn, is a world where rivers of liquid methane sculpt channels in continents of ice. Surface images ...
NASA and ESA prioritize outer planet missions
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Feb 18, 2009 |
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At a meeting in Washington last week, NASA and ESA officials decided to first pursue a mission to study Jupiter and its four largest moons, and plan for another mission to visit Saturn's largest moon, Titan, ...
CSIRO telescopes help rescue Titan experiment
Feb 15, 2005 |
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CSIRO’s radio telescopes and others in Australia, China, Japan and the USA have revealed how the wind speeds on Saturn’s moon Titan vary with altitude-and have turned a disappointment into a triumph.
