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Comets have contained vast amounts of liquid water in their interiors during the first million years of their formation, a new study claims. The watery environment of early comets, together with the vast quantity of organics already discovered in comets,...
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Have you ever been laying naked in a corn field right when the aliens show up to do their "burn the weird sign in the corn field" thingy? No, it's never happened to me either. But I think it would be a little awkward. And just thinking about it I think...
Recent observations from the international Cassini spacecraft suggest Saturn's largest moon may be volcanically active. More News Radar images point to flows on the surface of Titan that could be the result of suspected ice volcanoes spewing chilled...
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The ruling by an appeals board of the European Patent Office may apply to as many as 200 similar inventions pending in Europe, said Rainer Osterwalder, a spokesman for the Munich-based agency. Though such patents may be possible in the U.S., the board's...
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The pioneering US spacecraft Cassini has turned up fresh evidence that water exists on Enceladus, the beguiling moon of Saturn where, some experts believe, the potential ingredients for life exist. Plumes of vapor, disgorged high above the satellite's...
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Possible evidence for lake-like features came from radar images, but this method can't distinguish between liquid and very fine gravel or other tiny solids, Brown explained. "Detection of liquid ethane in Ontario Lacus confirms a long-held idea that lakes...
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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...
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...
The more the craft Cassini flies past these two moons, the more tantalizing they become as targets for follow-up missions. "We've got to find a way to get back there," says Hunter Waite Jr., a space physicist with the Southwest Research Institute
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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.
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