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Radar study puts spotlight on Saturn moon Titan's hydrocarbon seas
5 months, 1 week ago

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

The Hindu  

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 observations are providing intriguing new details about the seas of liquid hydrocarbons on the surface of Titan, our solar system's second-largest moon and a place of interest in the search …

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Scientists recreate conditions of Saturnian moon in a lab — and it could help us find alien life
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Scientists recreate conditions of Saturnian moon in a lab — and it could help us find alien life

Salon  

When scientists using NASA's Cassini space probe discovered organic compounds in blocks of ice from Enceladus, they wondered if this meant the Saturnian moon might have the ingredients for life. Previous experiments never studied the organic compounds from Enceladus in hydrothermal conditions such as those believed to exist on the moon's its subsurface ocean. Previous experiments never studied the organic …

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Depraved mom Walquiria Cassini 'no longer a Boston Scientific employee' as company says accusations she and her son sexually abused children as young as five are being 'taken seriously'
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Depraved mom Walquiria Cassini 'no longer a Boston Scientific employee' as company says accusations she and her son sexually abused children as young as five are being 'taken seriously'

Daily Mail  

The company that once employed the depraved mother accused of a litany of child sex abuse charges said it is taking the accusations 'seriously.' Walquiria Cassini, 38, her son, Matthew, 20, and her boyfriend Ryan Londono, 42, were jailed this week, after police in Boca Raton, along with FBI agents, raided their home after a four month long investigation. She …

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How Saturn got its rings: Simulations suggest they evolved from the debris of two moons which collided a few hundred million years ago
1 year, 2 months ago

How Saturn got its rings: Simulations suggest they evolved from the debris of two moons which collided a few hundred million years ago

Daily Mail  

Since it was first seen through a telescope, Saturn's rings have mystified astronomers. A new series of supercomputer simulations suggests a massive collision between two icy moons a few hundred million years ago could have led to their formation. But a team of researchers now believe they have figured out the origins of the mystical loops A new series of …

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NASA’s Cassini finds phosphorous, crucial for life, on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
1 year, 6 months ago

NASA’s Cassini finds phosphorous, crucial for life, on Saturn’s moon Enceladus

Live Mint  

Phosphorus, a key chemical element for many biological processes, has been found in icy grains emitted by Enceladus, the small moon of Saturn, into space and is likely abundant in its subsurface ocean, a new study published in journal Nature reported. An international team of researchers, featuring Frank Postberg, a planetary scientist at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and Dr. Christopher …

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Saturn's 'spoke season' has started, and the Hubble Space Telescope captured it
1 year, 10 months ago

Saturn's 'spoke season' has started, and the Hubble Space Telescope captured it

ABC  

Summer is almost over on planet Earth as we head towards the equinox later next month. Key points: Saturn gets strange "spokes" in its rings that only appear when the planet is near equinox The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images that herald the beginning of "spoke season"' Scientists believe the spokes may be caused by the planet's magnetic field, …

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NASA's Hubble telescope captures the start of a new 'spoke' season of Saturn
1 year, 10 months ago

NASA's Hubble telescope captures the start of a new 'spoke' season of Saturn

Hindustan Times  

In a latest image of Saturn captured by National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Hubble Space Telescope, the appearance of spokes on the planet's rings heralded the start of a new 'spoke' season, according to a statement by NASA. The latest image captured by Hubble is heralded the start of Saturn's "spoke season" with the appearance of two smudgy spokes in …

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Where is the Enceladus Ocean? | Science for All
2 years, 2 months ago

Where is the Enceladus Ocean? | Science for All

The Hindu  

This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Recently, a team of scientists discovered evidence for a key building block for life in the subsurface ocean of Enceladus. The Cassini spacecraft discovered Enceladus's subsurface liquid water and analysed samples as plumes of ice grains and …

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Enceladus and its endless secrets
2 years, 3 months ago

Enceladus and its endless secrets

The Hindu  

The possibility of worlds other than our own Earth where life could exist has enthralled us for a long time. A dwarf named after a giant What we do know, however, is that it was William’s son, John Herschel, who gave the moon its name Enceladus, after the giant Enceladus of Greek mythology. E ring and tiger stripes Shortly after …

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Saturn’s satellites with moons of their own
2 years, 9 months ago

Saturn’s satellites with moons of their own

The Hindu  

Answering the question "which planet in the solar system has the most number of natural satellites?" Italian mathematician and astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovered the next four moons of Saturn between 1671 and 1684. It was English astronomer John Herschel who suggested that the moons of Saturn be related with the Greek mythical brothers and sisters of Kronus – the …

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Scientists Map Path of Liquid Methane, Ethane Rivers on Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon
3 years, 2 months ago

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

News 18  

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 liquid methane rivers and tributaries. NASA’s upcoming Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Titan and the recent study may help provide context for the …

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Alien Life on Saturn Moon? NASA Cassini Found Potential Proof, Says Study
3 years, 5 months ago

Alien Life on Saturn Moon? NASA Cassini Found Potential Proof, Says Study

News 18  

Alien life is possibly the widest, and yet the most uncertain research project ever taken up by mankind. The researchers note that if all conditions of life are held true based on what we know of it from Earth, then these discoveries may well be significant indicators that Enceladus may sport alien life in certain forms. These microbial life forms …

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Aliens on Saturn? Methane Found on Planet's Moon Indicates Life's 'Very Likely'
3 years, 5 months ago

Aliens on Saturn? Methane Found on Planet's Moon Indicates Life's 'Very Likely'

News 18  

Scientists have not solved the mystery of methane on Mars yet and another exciting mystery of the gas from one of Saturn’s 82 moons, Enceladus, is here to tease them. The amount of methane on Enceladus, which is otherwise unexplainable, indicates that the existence of life on Saturn’s moon is “very likely,” scientists say. According to scientists, even the highest …

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Titan's Kraken Mare Lake is 10 times deeper than earlier thought: Cassini study
3 years, 10 months ago

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

Firstpost  

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 Kraken Mare Lake on Titan is 10 times deeper than earlier thought. Valerio Poggiali, a research associate at the Cornell University Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science and the lead …

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Unusual molecule found in atmosphere on Saturn’s moon Titan
4 years, 1 month ago

Unusual molecule found in atmosphere on Saturn’s moon Titan

CNN  

CNN — Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in our solar system that has a thick atmosphere. This radio telescope observatory captures a range of light signatures, which revealed the molecule among the unique chemistry of Titan’s atmosphere. of Nantes/JPL-Caltech/NASA When the researchers discovered cyclopropenylidene in Titan’s atmosphere, they looked over data captured by NASA’s Cassini mission. “Every …

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Beautiful Infrared Images of Saturn’s Moon During Sunset Leads to New Discovery
4 years, 3 months ago

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

News 18  

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 on these infrared images suggests that the ice is fresh, leading the scientists to believe that there might be some activity going on around the moon’s surface. The database collected …

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Hyperion, Saturn’s spongy moon
4 years, 3 months ago

Hyperion, Saturn’s spongy moon

The Hindu  

When we think about moons – natural satellites that orbit planets, dwarf planets and asteroids – the picture that we generally conceive is one of a spherical astronomical body that goes around another. Hyperion – one of Saturn’s satellites – is the largest such non-spherical moon among more than 200 moons that are in the solar system. God of watchfulness …

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