Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d ...
Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and its dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Despite its ...
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Saturn's moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there?Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface.
Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere which is comprised of thick hazes of 95 percent nitrogen ( | Space ...
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Tiny tube experiments simulate solar system’s only moon with an atmosphereTitan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...
Dr. Kelly Miller from the South West Research Institute and Lead author of a paper about Titan’s atmosphere said “While just ...
SwRI is studying how Saturn’s largest moon maintains its thick atmosphere. Scientists think Titan’s core is covered by several layers of ice and a subsurface liquid ocean. New experiments indicate ...
Few places in the solar system are better suited to a balloon than Titan. The combination of low gravity and high atmospheric density makes Saturn's largest moon ideal for a lighter than "air ...
Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...
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