The international Cassini-Huygens mission has made a surprising detection of a molecule that is instrumental in the production of complex organics within the hazy atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan.
You won’t need sunblock, but you’ll definitely want a blanket or two
A proposed eight-bladed drone could soar across Saturn’s moon Titan, exploring multiple sites over the course of decades.
“Titan’s extreme physical environment requires scientists to think differently about what we’ve learned of Earth’s granular dynamics,” said Josef Dufek, with the Georgia Institute of Technology. “Landforms are influenced by forces that aren’t intuitive to us because those forces aren’t so important on Earth. Titan is a strange, electrostatically sticky world.” Visually, Titan is the
Scientists studying the conditions on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, have found that the particles covering much of its surface are electrically charged. Not only that, but the particles tend to clump together and become immovable dunes climbing to as high as 300 feet.
After a two-and-a-half-hour descent, the metallic, saucer-shaped spacecraft came to rest with a thud on a dark floodplain covered in cobbles of water ice, in temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing.
Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, is probably the best option to sustain life for future generations.
An international team of researchers has found that Saturn’s largest moon Titan has deep canyons filled with liquid hydrocarbons, making the alien moon look a lot like Earth, but with rivers of methane instead of water.
NASA plans to have a submarine called the Kraken Mare to be deployed in the oceans of the moon Titan.
New close-up photos of Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, show its mysterious and massive dunes in more detail than ever before.
