What Makes the Depressions That Hold Titan’s Seas and Lakes?
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…
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Titan’s Methane Rainfall Transformed by Icy Aquifers
The NASA and European Space Agency Cassini mission has revealed hundreds of lakes and seas spread across the north polar region of Saturn’s moon Titan. These…
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Cassini Gets New Views of Titan’s Lakes and Seas
With the sun now shining down over the north pole of Saturn’s moon Titan, a little luck with the weather, and trajectories that put the spacecraft…
Read the guideHydrocarbon Ice Forming on a Liquid Hydrocarbon Sea on Titan Suggested by Cassini
It’s not exactly icing on a cake, but it could be icing on a lake. A new paper by scientists on NASA’s Cassini mission finds that…
Read the guideTropical Lakes Seen on Titan by Cassini Spacecraft
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has spied long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in the “tropics” of Saturn’s moon Titan. One of the tropical lakes appears to be about…
Read the guideCassini Examines Titan’s Chemical Factory
Saturn’s giant moon Titan hides behind a thick, smoggy atmosphere that’s well known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar…
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