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Could a methane crust be keeping Titan warm?
A six-mile-thick crust of methane trapped in water ice could explain many of the saturnian moon's weird properties ...
Could Life Be Hiding Beneath Titan’s Six-Mile-Thick Crust?
A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...
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OTD In Space - October. 26: Cassini Spacecraft Takes 1st Closeups Of Titan
On October 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the first close-up images of Saturn's largest moon Titan. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com The Cassini spacecraft would ...
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Science Museum
Exhibits in the Exploring Space galleries include the three-metre-high, 600kg Spacelab 2 X-ray telescope that was flown on British space missions and full-scale models of the Huygens Titan probe ...
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Goodbye to Saturn’s rings forever – they will disappear as of this date (in a few months)
People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Comes Back to Life with 1981 Technology, Reaches Earth from 15 Billion Miles Away
NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager 1, currently over 15 billion miles from Earth in interstellar space, reestablished contact after ...
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Good News in History, October 15
It was the first spacecraft to ever orbit Saturn. Cassini had its first flyby of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, a day after ... but also deploy the Huygens lander which collected 350 images ...
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The Icy Crust of Saturn’s Moon Titan Could Be Hiding Secrets to Our World and Life Beyond It
Arguably the most fascinating moon in the Solar System is the Saturn satellite Titan, which has the only known body with liquid seas and rivers (of methane) on its surface. A new study suggests ...