Capturing the shadow of Saturn's moon Titan from right here on Earth
Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and it is more like a planet than a moon in many respects.
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Researcher sets eyes on Saturn's largest moon
Co-led by a Western space scientist, NASA is exploring a revolutionary plan that could see a drone-like quadcopter buzz above the surface of Saturn's largest moon.
Space Exploration
Feb 23, 2018
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Researchers use Titan to accelerate design, training of deep learning networks
A team of researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has married artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to achieve a peak speed of 20 petaflops in the generation and training ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 10, 2018
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Aerospace engineers developing drone for NASA concept mission to Titan
Researchers from the Penn State Department of Aerospace Engineering are part of a team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) whose proposal for a revolutionary rotorcraft to investigate Saturn's largest ...
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Jan 10, 2018
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Algorithm leverages Titan supercomputer to create high-performing deep neural networks
Deep neural networks—a form of artificial intelligence—have demonstrated mastery of tasks once thought uniquely human. Their triumphs have ranged from identifying animals in images, to recognizing human speech, to winning ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 29, 2017
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Cassini's search for the building blocks of life on Titan
Lakes and seas of liquid methane, rain from hydrocarbon clouds, and evidence of poisonous hydrogen cyanide in the atmosphere of Titan were just some of the discoveries the Cassini probe made of Saturns's largest moon.
Space Exploration
Sep 13, 2017
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What Cassini's mission revealed about Saturn's known and newly discovered moons
The Cassini space probe not only visited Saturn as part of its mission, it also revealed many of the planet's moons in stunning detail and showed them to be interesting and unique worlds.
Space Exploration
Sep 5, 2017
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After 13 lucky years at Saturn, Cassini's mission comes to an end
In October 1997, the Cassini spacecraft blasted off to explore Saturn and drop a probe onto its eponymously named moon, Titan. Then, something unusual happened. What was meant to be a four-year mission was extended almost ...
Space Exploration
May 10, 2017
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Titan ripe for drone invasion
With its dense and hydrocarbon-rich atmosphere, Titan has been a subject of interest for many decades. And with the success of the Cassini-Huygens mission, which began exploring Saturn and its system of moons back in 2004, ...
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May 5, 2017
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Image: Titan flyby 22 April 2017
In the early hours of Saturday morning, the international Cassini–Huygens mission made its final close flyby of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, coming within 1000 km of the atmosphere-clad world.
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Apr 25, 2017
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