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Barbecue Moon
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| Topic: Titan |
09/09/09 |
| The latest findings concerning Titan indicate that the Saturnian moon could contain valuable in situ resources for future explorers, including fuels like propane. The discovery of propane could help scientists further understand the chemistry of Titan's atmosphere, and the potential for life's building blocks to form on the distant moon. |
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Weather Report for Titan
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| Topic: Titan |
08/18/09 |
| New evidence suggests that the parched, dry deserts of Saturn's moon, Titan, can support large-scale storms. Significant cloud formation has been witnessed over Titan's tropical zone near the moon's equator. |
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Earth, With a Frigid Twist
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| Topic: Titan |
08/07/09 |
| The surface of Saturn's moon Titan has many features that appear similar to Earth, such as lakes, weather and mountains. Scientists even wonder if Titan could harbor a prebiotic chemistry that is similar to the early Earth when life first arose. |
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Titan's Clouds Linger Longer
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| Topic: Titan |
06/07/09 |
| Clouds on Saturn's moon Titan form and move much like those on Earth, only much slower. Contrary to what was expected, scientists have found that Titan's clouds don't move with the seasons. Studying Titan's weather is allowing astrobiologists to draw some unique comparisons between the tiny moon and our home planet. |
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Titan's Topsy-Turvy Topography
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| Topic: Titan |
04/07/09 |
| Researchers are making surprising new discoveries about Saturn’s moon, Titan. The discoveries include the detection of a potential subterranean ocean of hydrocarbons and unique observations of Titan’s topsy-turvy topography. |
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Capturing Hydrocarbon Rain
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| Topic: Titan |
02/01/09 |
| NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured new images of liquid hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. More importantly, the images show changes in the lakes potentially caused by rainfall. Titan is the first world apart from Earth where bodies of liquid have been identified at the surface. |
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Astrobiology Top 10: Titan's Ethane Lake
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| Topic: Titan |
12/29/08 |
| Astrobiology Magazine is looking back over 2008, highlighting the top 10 astrobiology stories of the year. At number 5 is the confirmation that Saturn’s moon Titan has lakes. This makes Titan the only world in our solar system other than Earth to have liquid on its surface – although on Titan the lakes are made of hydrocarbons rather than water. (This story originally was published on August 03, 2008). |
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Titan Triple Threat
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| Topic: Titan |
11/06/08 |
| The Cassini-Huygens mission has given us our best view yet of Titan, but this moon of Saturn still remains shrouded in mystery. A proposed future mission takes a three-tiered approach – using an orbiting spacecraft, a surface probe, and a hot air balloon -- to further explore the enigmatic moon. |
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Titan is Electric
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| Topic: Titan |
10/28/08 |
| Scientists have determined that Saturn's moon Titan could have electrical storms occurring in its atmosphere. Such storms might provide energy for the formation of important organic and pre-biotic molecules. |
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