Titan
Lakes on Titan Might Have Exotic Crystals Encrusted Around Their Shores
Titan is a mysterious, strange place for human eyes. It's a frigid world, with seas of liquid hydrocarbons, and a…
Methane-Filled Lakes on Titan are “Surprisingly Deep”
The Cassini mission to Saturn and its moons wrapped up in 2017, when the spacecraft was sent plunging into the…
Cassini Saw Rain Falling at Titan’s North Pole
The Cassini mission to Saturn ended in September 2017, but the data it gathered during its 13 year mission is…
Titan’s Thick Clouds Obscure our View, but Cassini Took these Images in Infrared, Showing the Moon’s Surface Features
Saturn's moon Titan is a very strange place. It's surrounded by a dense, opaque atmosphere, the only moon in the…
Titan First-Ever Detected Dust Storms Prove the Moon is More Earth-like than Ever
Based on Cassini data, an international team of scientists found evidence of dust storms on Titan, yet another thing it…
Titan Looks Cool in Infrared
Using 13 years of data obtained by Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), the Cassini imaging team has produced…
There’s Sand on Titan, Where Does it Come From?
A new study led by researchers from John Hopkins University tackles the question of where Titan's mysterious sand dunes come…
Just Like Earth, Titan Has a “Sea Level” for its Lakes and Seas
Based on Cassini data, two new studies have been produced that reveal some new and interesting things about Saturn's largest…
Yes Please! NASA is Considering a Helicopter Mission to Titan
NASA has chosen the Dragonfly mission concept as a finalist in its New Frontiers program. The double-quadcopter drone is designed…
Forecast for Titan: Cold, with a Chance of Noxious Ice Clouds
One of the many interesting finds made by the Cassini orbiter before it crashed into Saturn was evidence of a…