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New close-up photos of Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, show its mysterious and massive dunes in more detail than ever before.
There are dark and massive fields of sand dunes on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, and this week two scientific papers look at how they came to be.
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have a large area of dunes, according to new images released by the U.S. space agency. The radar images came from NASA’s Cassini probe as it made a ...
The towering dunes on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may look similar to the sandy hills of Earth's Sahara, but their origins are completely different, researchers say.
The huge sand dunes on Saturn's moon Titan vary according to elevation and latitude, providing clues about the alien world's climatic and geological history, a new study reports.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — The dark dunes of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, could have fallen from space. More than enough cometary material may have struck Titan to have formed its vast dune ...
Experiments with the high-pressure wind tunnel at Arizona State University’s Planetary Aeolian Laboratory provide key data for understanding dunes on Saturn’s moon Titan.
After the scanning of about 30 percent of Titan's total surface area with Cassin's radar instrument, the observations have shown that about 5 percent of Titan's surface is covered by sand dunes.
The dunes on Saturn’s moon Titan may be made up of the remains of smaller moons that once smashed together and ground each other into sand.
Sand dunes likely dominate Titan’s lower latitudes, but yardangs—long, straight ridges formed by erosion—may stretch across the moon’s upper latitudes, her study suggests.
Do the massive dunes on Saturn's moon Titan form like those on Earth? Scientists say that rogue winds sculpt dunes on Titan into towering formations.
The huge sand dunes on Saturn's moon Titan vary according to elevation and latitude, providing clues about the alien world's climatic and geological history, a new study reports.