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Caltech scientists discover storms in the tropics of Titan

Scientists discover storms in the tropics of Titan

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

For all its similarities to Earth -- clouds that pour rain (albeit liquid methane not liquid water) onto the surface producing lakes and rivers, vast dune fields in desert-like regions, plus a smoggy orange ...


Cassini Captures Changes in Titan's Lakes

Cassini Finds Hydrocarbon Rains May Fill Titan Lakes

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A region on Saturn's moon Titan's southern latitudes appears to have been flooded by a summer cloudburst of hydrocarbon rain, as seen in images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken before ...





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Researchers make key step towards turning methane gas into liquid fuel

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have taken an important step in converting methane gas to a liquid, potentially making it more useful as a fuel ...


Scientist shines laser light on methane in pursuit of clean fuel

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

An abundant greenhouse gas could someday help clean up the earth. Converting methane to liquid methanol could produce clean, low-cost fuel and prevent the potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere. Exploiting methane ...


Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth

Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 13, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (85) | comments 13

Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting ...


A farmer droving his sheep, northwest of Melbourne

Australian scientists aim to reduce sheep burps

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (6) | comments 9

Australian scientists are working to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country's woolly flocks, a researcher said Sunday.


Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet

Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, ...


First images from Titan

Methane storms might occur on Titan

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 27, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

University of the Basque Country researchers in Spain say they believe methane storms are common on Saturn's moon Titan.


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'Cold' Mars Could Have Harbored Liquid Water

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new NASA study provides further evidence that Martian minerals dissolved in water could have kept that water from freezing, even on a cold, early Mars.


Cassini Images Seas on Saturn's Moon Titan

Cassini Images Seas on Saturn's Moon Titan

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 13, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (34) | comments 0

Instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft have found evidence for seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan. One such feature is larger than any ...


Halting methane squanderlust

Chemistry /

created May 21, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (24) | comments 3

The pipes that rise from oil fields, topped with burning flames of natural gas, waste fossil fuels and dump carbon dioxide into the air. In new work, researchers have identified the structure of a catalytic material that ...


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Cassini instrument confirms liquid surface lake on Titan

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created Jul 30, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 4

Scientists have confirmed that at least one body in our solar system, other than Earth, has a surface liquid lake. Using an instrument on NASA's Cassini orbiter, they discovered that a lake-like feature in ...



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