Titan

You Can Now Use Google Maps to Explore the Solar System

Thanks to the over 500,000 pictures taken by the Cassini mission, Google Maps has created a mapping tool that allows…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

Weekly Space Hangout – Oct 18, 2017: Weekly News Roundup

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…

7 years ago

Scientists Find Evidence of Extreme Methane Storms On Titan

A recent study by UCLA scientists has shown a link between extreme rainstorms on Titan and surface features detected by…

7 years ago

Ancient Hydrothermal Vents Found on Mars, Could Have Been a Cradle for Life

A new report by an international team of scientists has found evidence of hydrothermal activity in an ancient Mars sea,…

7 years ago

Astronomy Cast Ep. 458: The Science of Cassini

And now Cassini’s gone. Smashed up in the atmosphere of Saturn. But planetary scientists are going to be picking through…

7 years ago

Astronomy Cast Ep. 457: Why Did Cassini Have To Die? In Memoriam

It’s time to say goodbye to an old friend, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting within the Saturnian system…

7 years ago

Cassini Conducts a Final Flyby of Titan Before Crashing into Saturn

Before it makes its final plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, the Cassini spacecraft made one last flyby of Titan,…

7 years ago

Dragonfly Proposed to NASA as Daring New Frontiers Mission to Titan

The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab recently submitted a proposal to NASA for a robotic mission to Titan known…

7 years ago

NASA Detects More Chemicals on Titan that are Essential to Life

A recent study by a team of NASA researchers had detected that a chemical thought to be essential to life…

7 years ago