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NASA Now Discovers Liquid on Saturn's Moon
NASA seems to have started doing justice to all those tax dollars. Its latest discovery is the presence of liquid hydrocarbons on the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan. The hydrocarbon is ethane, which is a component of crude oil. Scientists have known...
Cassini scans lunar lakes
Pasadena :: TX :: USA | about 1 year ago
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Scientists touring Saturn's largest moon via the Cassini orbiter have found strong evidence for liquid ethane in Ontario Lacus (Lake Ontario). It's a Great Lake-size body of liquid pooled near Titan's South Pole. This is the first time Cassini has been...
After grazing on Saturn`s rings, Cassini moves in on moons
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Cassini spacecraft turned its focus Monday to Saturn's moons and how sunlight affects the surfaces of the gas giant and its natural satellites. Saturn and several dozen flybys of the moons Titan, Enceladus, Dione, Rhea and Helene. During the last four...
NASA extends Saturn mission
Pasadena :: TX :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Cassini mission that is touring Saturn and its moons for another two years. An artist's rendering depicts the Cassini spacecraft entering orbit around Saturn...Since 2004, the unmanned probe has beamed back about 140,000 images...The agency says the $160...
Tags: moon, nasa, Cassini, Saturn, cassini mission, unmanned probe, allow cassini, Titan, agency says, million extension
Titan May Harbor Underground Ocean
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A vast ocean of water and ammonia may lurk deep beneath the surface of Titan, the intriguing, orange moon of Saturn already known for its blanket of clouds and dense atmosphere.
Tags: titan, saturn, moon, saturn moon, water, liquid, Saturnian moon, moons titan, underground ocean, Cassini
NASA spacecraft fails to probe Saturn's moon's geysers
Potsdam :: Germany | about 1 year ago
Credibility Cassini spacecraft, which made an unprecedented flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on March 12, has failed in an experiment that scientists had hoped would help reveal the origin of the plumes on the moon. E nceladus has huge geysers erupting from
Spacecraft Sending Back Geyser Data
Brisbane :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Three years after geysers were spied on the icy Saturn moon, a NASA spacecraft will skirt their edges, taking samples of the water, ice, dust and gas in their plumes.
Tags: saturn, geyser, moon, enceladus, water, Saturn moon, Cassini, cassini spacecraft, Saturn Moon, saturn moons
Cassini gets an ice shower from Saturn moon
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility No other 310-mile-wide ice ball in the solar system is attracting quite the attention as Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. Cassini spacecraft had a deliberate near-miss with Enceladus on Wednesday afternoon, passing about 30 miles above its surface at a
Tags: enceladus, saturn, moon, geyser, saturn moon, Cassini, moon Enceladus
Spacecraft zips over Saturn's geyser-spurting moon
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A spacecraft whizzed past Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday and through a huge geyser spurting from its south pole, collected samples of ice and gas shooting about 500 miles into space. Scientists involved in the joint U.S.-European mission are
Tags: geyser, moon, enceladus, saturn moon, Saturn, nasa, Cassini, cassini spacecraft
NASA spacecraft to explore geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on March 12, where it will skirt along the edges of huge geysers erupting from giant fractures on the south pole of the moon. I n 2005, Cassini's multiple instruments
Tags: saturn, enceladus, geyser, moon, Saturn moon, Cassini, moon Enceladus, cassini spacecraft, south pole
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