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Researchers build computer model that explains lakes and storms on Saturn's moon Titan
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an intriguing, alien world that's covered in a thick atmosphere with abundant methane. With an average surface temperature of a brisk -297 degrees Fahrenheit (about 90 kelvins) ...
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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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Impact of comets could be responsible for Titan's atmosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- Titan, Saturn's largest moon, may have had help with the creation of its nitrogen-rich atmosphere, according to a new study published in Nature Geoscience. Scientists believe that multip ...
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May 09, 2011 |
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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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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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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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Blowing in the Wind: Cassini Helps with Dune Whodunit
(PhysOrg.com) -- The answer to the mystery of dune patterns on Saturn's moon Titan did turn out to be blowing in the wind. It just wasn't from the direction many scientists expected.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2010 |
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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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 03, 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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 31, 2010 |
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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.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2010 |
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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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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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Alfalfa sprouts hold the line on meandering streams (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sinuous, meandering streams produce diverse and wildlife-rich habitats and are the aim of many river restoration efforts, but until now, the bank, water flow and sediment conditions required ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 05, 2009 |
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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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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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