Titan
Hubble Snaps Rare Moon Parade Across Saturn
[/caption] Once every 15 years, Saturn flashes its paper-thin rings in edge-on formation relative to Earth. Because the orbits of…
Titan Dunes Turn Climate Models Upside Down
Scientists have mapped vast dune fields on Titan that may align with the wind on Saturn’s biggest moon -- flowing…
Next Big Planetary Mission: To Jupiter and Its Moons
[/caption] At a meeting last week between NASA and ESA, the two space agencies narrowed down the choices for the…
Hydrocarbon Downpours Could Be Creating New Lakes on Titan
[/caption] Recent pictures from the Cassini spacecraft of Titan's south polar region reveal new lake features not seen in images…
ExoFly: Future Space Exploration Super Hero?
This is perhaps the coolest thing I've ever seen. Ray Villard, the news director for the Hubble Space Telescope, also…
Lake-Effect Clouds Discovered on Titan
[/caption] While browsing through Cassini images of Saturn's moon Titan, astronomer Mike Brown and some colleagues noticed a recurring pattern…
Electrical Activity on Titan Confirmed: The Spark for Life?
[/caption] Titan not only has an atmosphere it has hydrocarbon lakes, oceans, sand dunes and now research has just been…
Liquid Lake on Titan Confirmed
[/caption] NASA's Cassini mission has detected liquid hydrocarbons on Saturn's moon Titan, in a large, glassy lake near the moon's…
Titan’s Hydrocarbon “Sand Dunes
Even before the Cassini spacecraft entered the Saturn system, scientists were predicting that Saturn's moon Titan would be quite Earth-like.…
Underground Oceans Discovered on Titan
With each flyby, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been building up the case that there are lakes and seas of liquid…