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Liquid Confirmed on Surface of Saturn's Moon
Flagstaff :: AZ :: USA | about 1 year ago
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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...
Tags: ethane, liquid, titan, Ontario Lacus, Saturn
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
Credibility 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
Craft finds organic hint on icy moon
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility An international spacecraft that dove through geysers erupting from the surface of a Saturn moon found organic matter, one of the many ingredients that make an environment hospitable to extraterrestrial life, scientists said. The discovery by the
Saturn's moon has Ingredients for Life
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The basic ingredients for life — warmth, water and organic chemicals — are in place on Saturn's small moon Enceladus, scientists said on Wednesday in detailing the content of huge plumes erupting off its surface. The scientists described
On Saturn's moons, some unexpected hints of water
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility 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
Tags: saturn, moon, water, enceladus, geyser, liquid, Saturn Moon, saturn moons, basic ingredients, moons enceladus
Moon's crust may float on hidden sea
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility March 22 -- 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, according to scientists...However, they said on Thursday
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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
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