The Distant Shores Of Titan Beckon
12 years, 3 months ago

The Distant Shores Of Titan Beckon

NPR  

The Distant Shores Of Titan Beckon Your boots crunch on the icy surface as you climb the long, wind-swept dunes. Welcome to Titan, the solar system's second-largest moon and home to the Great Lakes of liquid methane. The direct exploration of our solar system via robot space probes has, however, shown us that moons matter too. In the outer parts of the solar system almost all solid bodies contain significant amounts of ice. And below Titan's surface there lies another ocean that is, most likely, liquid water.

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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

Salon  

When you think of a moon, you may think of a rocky, crater-filled barren surface with little to do besides wander about in your rover and collect rocks. Using newly analyzed data from NASA’s Cassini mission, astronomers published a study in Nature Astronomy this week regarding a new map of the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. “Despite the differences …

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

Firstpost  

In the same way that Earth has a water cycle, an atmosphere, dunes, plains and lakes, the frigid moon of Saturn, Titan, has methane cycles, liquid lakes, and a diverse terrain spanning its entire surface. It shows vast plains, dunes of frozen organic material, lakes of liquid methane, illuminating an exotic world considered a strong candidate in the search for …

Lakes on Saturn’s moon may be explosion craters
5 years, 6 months ago

Lakes on Saturn’s moon may be explosion craters

CNN  

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 these images propose that areas of liquid nitrogen within Titan’s crust became explosive when they warmed up, creating towering, steep rims around craters where liquid methane could reside. “These lakes …

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

Firstpost  

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 Titan — if you like lakes made of stuff like liquid methane. Using data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft before that mission ended in 2017 with a deliberate plunge into …

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

Firstpost  

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 the building blocks of life, according to a study. The surface of Titan has abundant carbon-rich molecules that have been shown to form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins …

Titan: Decoding the mysterious ‘magic islands’ on Saturn’s moon
7 years, 11 months ago

Titan: Decoding the mysterious ‘magic islands’ on Saturn’s moon

CNN  

Story highlights Bright regions on Saturn's moon Titan have been called "magic islands" The brightness is actually due to bubbles in a "fizzing sea" CNN — When NASA’s Cassini mission surveyed Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in 2013, scientists encountered a mystery they couldn’t solve: the “magic islands.” Radar images showed unexplained bright regions in Ligeia Mare, the second largest liquid …

NASA releases this amazing image of second largest moon of Saturn – India TV
8 years, 7 months ago

NASA releases this amazing image of second largest moon of Saturn – India TV

India TV News  

The US space agency NASA has released a fascinating picture of Rhea, the second largest moon of Saturn just after Titan. As per NASA scientists, among all the moons of the Saturn, Rhea has the most heavily cratered ancient surface and has subtle albedo variations across the disk. Talking about the image, NASA said, that, this view looks toward the …

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)

Daily Mail  

Scientists discover 'tropical' lake of methane near equator of Saturn's largest moon Titan It was previously believed that bodies of liquid could not exist at Titan's midsection because energy from the sun would cause pools to evaporate Scientists have discovered a methane-rich tropical lake and several ponds near the equator of Saturn's largest moon Titan. Lakes were previously spied near …

Titan: A Wet World Not Far From Earth
13 years, 3 months ago

Titan: A Wet World Not Far From Earth

Wired  

sea-of-ligeia Sea of Ligeia Astronomers weekly announce the discovery of new exoplanets, some similar in size or temperature to our planet –- but Earth-like worlds are not always far away. Though Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is a small, cold world orbiting on the outskirts of the solar system, it actually boasts many familiar features. “Titan is fascinating because it has …

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