News tagged with moon titan
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What is Consuming Hydrogen and Acetylene on Titan?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two new papers based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft scrutinize the complex chemical activity on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. While non-biological chemistry offers one possible ...
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Jun 03, 2010 |
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A water ocean on Titan?
Oddities in the rotation of Saturn's largest moon Titan might add to growing evidence that it harbors an underground ocean, researchers suggest.
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May 05, 2011 |
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Life Without Water?
On Saturn’s giant moon Titan, it is so cold that water is frozen as hard as granite. And yet there is a complete liquid cycle of methane and ethane. Scientists wonder whether there could also be life.
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Mar 18, 2010 |
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What caused a giant arrow-shaped cloud on Saturn's moon Titan?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Why does Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have what looks like an enormous white arrow about the size of Texas on its surface?
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Aug 16, 2011 |
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Avoid swimming in interplanetary lakes: Research confirms oily 'water' on Saturn's moon
Titan, one of Saturn's moons, is the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere -- ten times denser than the atmosphere of Earth. Five years ago, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, a collaboration ...
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Sep 21, 2010 |
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A new theory to explain superrotation on Venus
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the mysteries in our Solar System is superrotation, a phenomenon known since the late 1960s, in which the winds on Venus blow faster than the planet rotates. Scientists have proposed ...
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May 31, 2010 |
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Saturn System Moves Oxygen From Enceladus to Titan
(PhysOrg.com) -- Complex interactions between Saturn and its satellites have led scientists using NASA's Cassini spacecraft to a comprehensive model that could explain how oxygen may end up on the surface ...
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Jul 02, 2010 |
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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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Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan
(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, ...
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Dec 17, 2009 |
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Titan's lakes could be explored by boat
(PhysOrg.com) -- If a suggestion to be made to NASA comes to fruition, vast lakes thought to be filled with liquid hydrocarbons near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, may one day be explored by boat.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Giant ice volcano candidate found on Saturn moon Titan (w/ Video)
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a potential new ice volcano on Saturn's moon Titan.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2010 |
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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 ...
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Jan 30, 2009 |
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Groovy Hills Rising from Titan Surface
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hills with a wrinkly radial pattern stand out in a new radar image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 28, 2009.
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Jan 25, 2010 |
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Scientists discover fog on Titan
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system—aside from our home planet, Earth—with copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) sitting on its surface. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2009 |
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Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds
(PhysOrg.com) -- An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2009 |
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