NASA releases new composite image of Titan, showing Earth-like surface of Saturn's largest moon

9 years, 3 months ago

NASA releases new composite image of Titan, showing Earth-like surface of Saturn's largest moon

NASA has released a composite image of Saturn's largest moon Titan, constructed from photos taken by the Cassini spacecraft, that shows the moon's surface instead of its hazy atmosphere. The image, which shows different levels of detail due to the different altitudes the individual pictures were taken from, was taken at near-infrared wavelengths that penetrated the thick orange haze of Titan's atmosphere. 'Remarkably Earth-like processes' NASA says images taken by the Cassini orbiter show "remarkably Earth-like processes" shaping the surface of Titan. Methane, a compound of carbon and hydrogen, is broken down by cosmic radiation in Titan's upper atmosphere, contributing to the orange haze that obscures the surface from visible light.

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Webb telescope spies clouds beneath the thick haze of Saturn’s moon Titan

2 years, 4 months ago

Webb telescope spies clouds beneath the thick haze of Saturn’s moon Titan

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NASA scientists spot 'unexpected' molecule in Titan's atmosphere

4 years, 5 months ago

NASA scientists spot 'unexpected' molecule in Titan's atmosphere

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Unusual molecule found in atmosphere on Saturn’s moon Titan

4 years, 5 months ago

Unusual molecule found in atmosphere on Saturn’s moon Titan

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Studying Saturn's moon Titan may offer insights into climate on Earth: Study

5 years, 4 months ago

Studying Saturn's moon Titan may offer insights into climate on Earth: Study

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Saturn's moon Titan is a lot like Earth, new research finds

5 years, 4 months ago

Saturn's moon Titan is a lot like Earth, new research finds

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Saturn's moon Titan was shaped by similar geological processes as Earth: study

5 years, 4 months ago

Saturn's moon Titan was shaped by similar geological processes as Earth: study

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Saturn moon Titan's wonderfully wierd terrain and possibility of life make it so very Earth-like

5 years, 4 months ago

Saturn moon Titan's wonderfully wierd terrain and possibility of life make it so very Earth-like

Earth

Origin of dust dunes on Saturn's moon Titan, their chemical composition unraveled

5 years, 5 months ago

Origin of dust dunes on Saturn's moon Titan, their chemical composition unraveled

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NASA's Cassini catches glimpses of fresh rainfall on Saturn's biggest moon, Titan

6 years, 2 months ago

NASA's Cassini catches glimpses of fresh rainfall on Saturn's biggest moon, Titan

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NASA's Cassini discovers giant dust storms raging on Saturn's moon Titan's equator

6 years, 6 months ago

NASA's Cassini discovers giant dust storms raging on Saturn's moon Titan's equator

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Saturn’s moon Titan may harbour simple life forms – and reveal how organisms first formed on Earth

7 years, 7 months ago

Saturn’s moon Titan may harbour simple life forms – and reveal how organisms first formed on Earth

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Scientists discover key building block of life on Saturn’s moon Titan

7 years, 8 months ago

Scientists discover key building block of life on Saturn’s moon Titan

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Saturn's moon Titan glowing at dusk and dawn

10 years, 5 months ago

Saturn's moon Titan glowing at dusk and dawn

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Saturn's moon puts on spooky show near its poles but scientists are baffled

10 years, 5 months ago

Saturn's moon puts on spooky show near its poles but scientists are baffled

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Scientists discover 'tropical' lake of methane near equator of Saturn's largest moon Titan (not bad for a planet with a surface temperature of -279F)

12 years, 9 months ago

Scientists discover 'tropical' lake of methane near equator of Saturn's largest moon Titan (not bad for a planet with a surface temperature of -279F)

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13 years, 3 months ago

Titan: A Wet World Not Far From Earth

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17 years, 4 months ago

New "Organic Building Blocks" Found In Titan's Atmosphere

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Saturn's moon looked like a snowy Utah landscape in my mind. The reality is just as compelling

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Saturn's moon looked like a snowy Utah landscape in my mind. The reality is just as compelling

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a …

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Radar study puts spotlight on Saturn moon Titan's hydrocarbon seas

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Radar study puts spotlight on Saturn moon Titan's hydrocarbon seas

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which explored Saturn and its icy moons, including the majestic Titan, ended its mission with a death plunge into the giant ringed planet in 2017. Cassini's radar …

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Redditor shares unseen pics of Titan submersible taken in 2019

1 year, 9 months ago

Redditor shares unseen pics of Titan submersible taken in 2019

The search for the missing Titan submersible is still underway. Operated by OceanGate, Titan is reportedly a 23,000 pounds vessel made of fibre and titanium that begins each trip with …

Hindustan Times

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NASA releases clearest view of Neptune's rings in decades

2 years, 6 months ago

NASA releases clearest view of Neptune's rings in decades

NASA has released its first images of Neptune captured by the James Webb Space Telescope as it shows off its capabilities within our home solar system. Key points: The James …

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Scientists Map Path of Liquid Methane, Ethane Rivers on Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon

3 years, 5 months ago

Scientists Map Path of Liquid Methane, Ethane Rivers on Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon

Adding to the wealth of information on the solar system and its planets, a recent study by astronomers at Cornell University has published the final maps of Saturn’s moon Titan’s …

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SATURN: THE BASICS

3 years, 7 months ago

SATURN: THE BASICS

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest planet in our solar system after Jupiter. Like Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and …

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Titan's Kraken Mare Lake is 10 times deeper than earlier thought: Cassini study

4 years, 2 months ago

Titan's Kraken Mare Lake is 10 times deeper than earlier thought: Cassini study

Data from the Cassini mission’s last flyby of Saturn’s moon Titan is still revealing valuable scientific data, more than three years after its demise. New research has suggested that the …

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Nasa discovers 'very weird' molecule that's never been seen before in atmosphere of Saturn's moon

4 years, 5 months ago

Nasa discovers 'very weird' molecule that's never been seen before in atmosphere of Saturn's moon

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Recent Radio Images Show How Volcanic Activity Looks Like On Jupiter's Moon

4 years, 5 months ago

Recent Radio Images Show How Volcanic Activity Looks Like On Jupiter's Moon

Radio images captured by Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have provided scientists for the first time with the direct effect of volcanic activity on the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Io. Earlier …

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Lakes on Saturn's moon Titan can stratify like those on Earth

4 years, 6 months ago

Lakes on Saturn's moon Titan can stratify like those on Earth

Lakes on Saturn's moon - Titan - composed of methane, ethane, and nitrogen rather than water, experience density-driven stratification, forming layers similar to lakes on Earth. However, whereas lakes on …

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Beautiful Infrared Images of Saturn’s Moon During Sunset Leads to New Discovery

4 years, 6 months ago

Beautiful Infrared Images of Saturn’s Moon During Sunset Leads to New Discovery

When we think of moons, we generally imagine barren and lifeless lands. NASA released a set of new sunset images of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. The new discovery based …

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Saturn's moon Titan is drifting away from the planet faster than scientists had estimated

4 years, 9 months ago

Saturn's moon Titan is drifting away from the planet faster than scientists had estimated

Researchers believe that the moon Titan had formed much closer to Saturn and has migrated outward to its current position. New research by NASA and the Italian Space Agency has …

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Science news in brief: From Saturn's moons to ancient structures of mammoth bones

5 years ago

Science news in brief: From Saturn's moons to ancient structures of mammoth bones

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Why is NASA sending 'Dragonfly' to Titan? Here are five reasons

5 years, 1 month ago

Why is NASA sending 'Dragonfly' to Titan? Here are five reasons

NASA is planning to send a drone-like spacecraft Dragonfly to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon to dig further into a world that has become one of the most important targets of …

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Understanding Saturn's moon Titan's seasons might provide insights about Earth's climate

5 years, 3 months ago

Understanding Saturn's moon Titan's seasons might provide insights about Earth's climate

Titan is the only body in the solar system, other than Earth, with a significant atmosphere and liquid surface lakes. Researchers have found that Saturn’s largest moon Titan undergoes significant …

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Saturn's largest moon Titan gets its first global geologic map

5 years, 4 months ago

Saturn's largest moon Titan gets its first global geologic map

The first map showing the global geology of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has been completed and reveals a dynamic world of dunes, lakes, plains, craters and other terrains. Titan's surface …

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First-ever map of Saturn's moon reveals its Martian landscape

5 years, 4 months ago

First-ever map of Saturn's moon reveals its Martian landscape

A map has revealed the dynamic landscape of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The chart highlights its Martian landscape of mountains, lakes, plains, craters, valleys and 'labyrinth terrains' Rosaly Lopes, a …

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Saturn’s moon Titan is largely covered in organic material, new evidence shows

5 years, 4 months ago

Saturn’s moon Titan is largely covered in organic material, new evidence shows

CNN — Before NASA’s Cassini mission ended its study of Saturn in 2017, it also flew by Saturn’s moon, Titan. “People tend to know more about and study the more …

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Lakes on Saturn’s moon may be explosion craters

5 years, 6 months ago

Lakes on Saturn’s moon may be explosion craters

CNN — Saturn’s moon Titan is a curiosity in our solar system, the only other body besides Earth to host liquid water on its surface. Now, the researchers who studied …

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Nasa to send spacecraft to Saturn's moon Titan

5 years, 9 months ago

Nasa to send spacecraft to Saturn's moon Titan

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NASA's Cassini help scientists describe methane lakes, landscape on Saturn's Titan

5 years, 11 months ago

NASA's Cassini help scientists describe methane lakes, landscape on Saturn's Titan

Scientists on Monday provided the most comprehensive look to date at one of the solar system’s most exotic features: prime lakeside property in the northern polar region of Saturn’s moon …

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What Cassini found as it plunged into Saturn a year ago

6 years, 6 months ago

What Cassini found as it plunged into Saturn a year ago

Story highlights Cassini data is shedding new light on Saturn and its rings Material from the rings rains down into the planet and changes its atmosphere CNN — A year …

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Saturn's moon Titan has dust storms much like Earth

6 years, 6 months ago

Saturn's moon Titan has dust storms much like Earth

Vast dust storms on Earth, like those that sweep over the Sahara or Arizona, have little analogue in the solar system: only one other world, Mars, is known to have …

Salon

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Craters on Titan are prime locations to search for building blocks of life: Study

6 years, 8 months ago

Craters on Titan are prime locations to search for building blocks of life: Study

Large craters on Titan, are the prime locations to search for the building blocks of life. Large craters on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, are the prime locations to search for …

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Could life exist on Saturn’s moon Enceladus?

6 years, 9 months ago

Could life exist on Saturn’s moon Enceladus?

Story highlights Cassini detected the presence of complex organic molecules in Enceladus' ocean This is a potential indicator of habitability on Saturn's icy moon CNN — Last year, astronomers announced …

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Nasa Cassini spacecraft's final images before smashing into Saturn released by agency

7 years, 1 month ago

Nasa Cassini spacecraft's final images before smashing into Saturn released by agency

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WHAT DID CASSINI DISCOVER DURING ITS 20-YEAR MISSION IN

7 years, 1 month ago

WHAT DID CASSINI DISCOVER DURING ITS 20-YEAR MISSION IN

Cassini launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1997, then spent seven years in transit followed by 13 years orbiting Saturn. An artist's impression of the Cassini spacecraft studying Saturn In …

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Saturn's moon Titan sports geographical features similar to that of Earth

7 years, 2 months ago

Saturn's moon Titan sports geographical features similar to that of Earth

It revealed that Titan is a little bit flatter - more oblate - than was previously known, which suggests there is more variability in the thickness of Titan’s crust than …

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Saturn's moon Titan has similar features like that seen on Earth

7 years, 2 months ago

Saturn's moon Titan has similar features like that seen on Earth

Using the now-complete data set from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan and found that its geographical features are similar to …

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Farewell to Saturn: A Stellar Farewell for a Grand Planet

7 years, 4 months ago

Farewell to Saturn: A Stellar Farewell for a Grand Planet

NASA unveils a stunning farewell image of Saturn, captured by the Cassini spacecraft during its final leg of its 20- year-long epic journey in space. The image showcases Saturn's magnificent …

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NASA releases "A Farewell to Saturn", the last mosaic image of the gas giant captured by Cassini

7 years, 4 months ago

NASA releases "A Farewell to Saturn", the last mosaic image of the gas giant captured by Cassini

NASA has released a breathtaking final mosaic image of Saturn, captured by the Cassini mission just two days before its final dive into the Saturnian atmosphere, where the spacecraft become …

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Saturn's largest moon Titan has intense methane rainstorms that create massive floods

7 years, 5 months ago

Saturn's largest moon Titan has intense methane rainstorms that create massive floods

Scientists have found that intense methane rainstorms batter Saturn’s largest moon Titan much more frequently than expected, creating massive floods in terrain that are otherwise deserts. The storms occur less …

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Cassini reveals stunning image of Saturn's moon Enceladus

7 years, 6 months ago

Cassini reveals stunning image of Saturn's moon Enceladus

It is a stunning, almost ghostly view of Saturn's moon. More than a week after its dramatic ‘death dive’ into Saturn’s atmosphere, NASA has released Cassini’s final images, revealing stunning …

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Cassini’s 13-year odyssey comes to end with a fiery plunge into Saturn

7 years, 6 months ago

Cassini’s 13-year odyssey comes to end with a fiery plunge into Saturn

US space agency NASA received a final signal from its Cassini spacecraft on Friday, whose 13-year-old unparalleled journey came to an end with a meteor-link plunge into the Saturn’s crushing …

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft ends its epic 20 year long mission with a fiery plunge into Saturn's atmosphere

7 years, 6 months ago

NASA's Cassini spacecraft ends its epic 20 year long mission with a fiery plunge into Saturn's atmosphere

NASA’s USD 3.9 billion Cassini spacecraft today ended its 20-year-long groundbreaking journey with a fiery plunge into the Saturn’s crushing atmosphere, beaming back never-before-seen images of the ringed planet and …

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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burns up over Saturn ending 20-year-long journey

7 years, 6 months ago

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burns up over Saturn ending 20-year-long journey

NASA's Cassini spacecraft today ended its 20-year-long epic journey with a fiery plunge into the Saturn's crushing atmosphere, while beaming back never-before-seen images of the ringed planet and its moons. …

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Cassini burns up in skies over Saturn, ends 20-year mission

7 years, 6 months ago

Cassini burns up in skies over Saturn, ends 20-year mission

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn early on September 15 in a final, fateful blaze of cosmic glory, following a remarkable journey of 20 years. Our spacecraft …

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Fly through Saturn’s rings with Cassini — while it still can

7 years, 7 months ago

Fly through Saturn’s rings with Cassini — while it still can

NASA’s Cassini is making its final dives around Saturn. Even in its final dives around Saturn, NASA ’s Cassini spacecraft is still sending us remarkable new views of this gorgeous …

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NASA's Cassini to begin last five grand finale orbits by diving closer to Saturn's atmosphere

7 years, 7 months ago

NASA's Cassini to begin last five grand finale orbits by diving closer to Saturn's atmosphere

In the final few orbits before it crashes into Saturn, Cassini will collect direct samples of the atmosphere for the first time. In the last five remaining complete orbits, Cassini …

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