Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only other planetary body in the solar system that currently hosts active rivers, lakes, and seas. These otherworldly river systems are thought to be filled with ...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures an infrared view of Saturn moon Titan during a November 2015 flyby in this composite image. - NASA / JPL / University of Arizona / University of Idaho Saturn’s ...
Scientists report definitive evidence of the presence of lakes filled with liquid methane on Saturn’s moon Titan in this week’s journal Nature cover story. Radar imaging data from a July 22, 2006, ...
There is no shortage of interest in Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere, surface lakes and seas, and cycles that mirror Earth’s in eerie, hydrocarbon-based forms have ...
A discovery about Saturn's moon Titan has challenged what scientists thought was a basic rule of chemistry. There, in the extreme cold, some supposedly fundamentally incompatible molecules may combine ...
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Using radar data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, recently published research presents a new scenario to explain why some methane-filled lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan are surrounded by steep rims that ...
There are only two objects in the solar system with sustained pools of liquid on their surface: Earth and Titan. On Earth, we have a well-understood water cycle that keeps liquid water flowing on the ...
Enormous lakes and seas filled with liquid methane on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan may have been crafted by the power of waves. Titan is Saturn's largest moon and the second-largest moon in our ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a surprise find, scientists say they have spotted hints of a methane-rich lake and several ponds near the equator of Saturn’s biggest moon. Lakes were previously spied near Titan ...
Titan has permanent bodies of liquid on the surface like Earth, but they're liquid hydrocarbon instead of water. That doesn't explain the perplexing "bathtub rings" around Titan's seas, though. New ...