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Titan, the second largest moon in the solar system, is literally shrouded in mystery. A thick layer of hazy methane clouds obscure the moon's surface and prevents an in-depth look at its important ...
WASHINGTON — Scientists on Monday unveiled the first global geological map of Saturn’s moon Titan, including vast plains and dunes of frozen organic material and lakes of liquid methane, illu… ...
The map includes information from Cassini's radar instrument, which could probe below the thick, orange clouds of Titan to see lakes and flowing liquid at the surface.
A new map of Titan’s topography, made with data from the Cassini mission to Saturn, shows mountains (redder colors) as well as seas and depressions (bluer colors). P. Corlies et al / Geophysical ...
The first map showing the global geology of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has been completed and fully reveals a dynamic world of dunes, lakes, plains, craters and other terrains. Titan is the ...
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...
Early risers will get a rare opportunity to see something extraordinary in the early hours of July 18 — the dark shadow of ...
We still get transits of Titan’s shadow across Saturn for a few more months — catch this one early in the morning.
Webb images reveal methane clouds appearing at different altitudes in Titan’s northern hemisphere. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Keck Observatory Saturn’s most metal moon just got more intriguing. On ...
For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...
The problem is, Titan's stratosphere has almost no C4N2, so scientists aren't sure where all the stuff in the cloud came from. A possible answer is found in the Earth's own stratosphere.
Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have, for the first time, found evidence for cloud convection in the northern hemisphere of Titan, Saturn's moon.