News tagged with moon titan
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Scientists discover storms in the tropics of Titan
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 ...
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Surface features on Titan form like Earth's, but with a frigid twist
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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Evidence for ocean on Enceladus: Tiny Saturn Moon Could Be Targeted in Search for Extraterrestrial Life
(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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Four of Saturn's moons parade by their parent
On 24 February 2009, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. The moons, from far left to right, are the white icy moons ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Spectacular Photo-op on Saturn
Something is about to happen on Saturn that's so pretty, even Hubble will pause to take a look.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2009 |
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NASA and ESA prioritize outer planet missions
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, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Cassini Finds Hydrocarbon Rains May Fill Titan Lakes
(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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 30, 2009 |
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