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Cassini Flyby Will Look for Waves on Titan’s Seas

May 22, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Are there waves on Titan’s lakes and seas? Cassini scientists say that the best chance of answering this question is with the May 23 flyby of Titan, when the Cassini spacecraft will be just 970 km (603 miles) over Titan’s biggest [...]

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What Happened During the Huygens Mission?

January 14, 2013

It was eight years ago on January 14, 2005 that the Huygens spacecraft descended through Titan’s murky atmosphere and touched down – if a bit precariously – by bouncing, sliding and wobbling across the surface of Saturn’s largest moon Titan. This was the first time a probe had touched down on an alien world in [...]

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Chunks of Frozen Hydrocarbons May be Floating on Titan’s Lakes

January 8, 2013

The Cassini spacecraft has been getting some strange data from Saturn’s moon Titan, and scientists will soon test out whether there might be “icebergs” of sorts, blocks of hydrocarbon ice floating on the surface of the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbon. Remove this ad

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Flying, Rolling Robot Might Make a Great Titan Explorer

January 6, 2013

The HyTAQ (Hybrid Terrestrial and Aerial Quadrotor) robot developed at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Ever since the Huygens probe landed on Titan back in January 2005, sending us our first tantalizing and oh-so-brief glimpses of the moon’s murky, pebbly surface, researchers have been dreaming up ways to explore further… after all, what’s more intriguing [...]

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Cry Me a Nile-Like River of Liquid Hydrocarbons on Titan

December 13, 2012

This image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows a vast river system on Saturn’s moon Titan. It is the first time images from space have revealed a river system so vast and in such high resolution anywhere other than Earth. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI Titan is appearing more Earth-like all the time (yes, a very cold, and [...]

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