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 rocky mountain outcrop I’d nicknamed ...
A new NASA study of data from its old Cassini mission to Saturn suggests that giant moon Titan may not have a global ocean — ...
The disappearing “magic islands” on Saturn’s largest moon Titan have intrigued scientists since NASA’s Cassini mission spotted them during flybys a decade ago. Now, researchers believe they have ...
For years, planetary scientists treated Titan as an ocean world in disguise, a frozen shell hiding a vast global sea of ...
For years, scientists believed that Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, hid a vast ocean of liquid water beneath its thick, icy ...
This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features such as those seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft around the moon's Winnipeg ...
For years, Saturn’s largest moon Titan has worn the label “ocean world.” Beneath its orange smog and methane rain, many ...
Saturn’s moon Titan looks very much like Earth from space, with rivers, lakes, and seas filled by rain tumbling through a thick atmosphere. While these landscapes may look familiar, they are composed ...
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Six months after NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reaches Saturn in July 2004, it will deploy the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. A cold, dark, ...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures an infrared view of Saturn moon Titan during a November 2015 flyby in this composite image. Credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona / University of Idaho Saturn’s ...
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