6 August 2009, Rio de Janeiro: Saturn’s haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain, according to two pieces of ...
There is no shortage of interest in Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere, surface lakes and seas ...
Saturn’s moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what makes the depressions they lie in? A new study suggests that the moon’s surface dissolves in a similar process ...
PASADENA, Calif. -- At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn's moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the ...
Nobody was expecting very strong energy dissipation inside Titan,” says Flavio Petricca, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. That surprise signal, wrung from archival Cassini ...