Titan, largest moon of Saturn, has always fascinated scientists regarding the chances of existence of extra-terristrial life due to its remarkable similarities with that of the Earth.
Data collected by Cassini spacecraft on its expedition to...
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Though their weather patterns are at great variance, distinct bands of clouds that form at the earth’s equator can explain the similar phenomenon at the mid-latitudes in Titan’s southern hemisphere. Their formation procedures are the same, as scientists...
Scientists have till now been looking for life forms that are similar to the forms of life that we find on Earth. Now scientists want to expand the search and try and look for life forms that are absolutely different from those found on...
One of the popular and the most scrutinized moon of Saturn, Titan, has once again got into limelight. After piercing-in the moon’s thick gaseous blanket, the space scientists are able to gather some key facts about Titan.
Titan is in...
Recently European Space Agency has made announcement about an unknown radio wave which is being detected on the largest moon of Saturn. It is pointing to a location where an ocean is concealed under the surface.
This great discovery has been made...
It is almost two and half years ago, Huygens of ESA made a historic landing on Titan. Titan is the largest moon of Saturn. According to the scientists, Huygens is going to reveal eye catching and astonishing surprises, as it has witnessed several...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has imaged seas that are likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn’s moon Titan.
The instruments aboard Titan have imaged several dark areas, which are much larger than any...
Scientists from all over the world are trying to find another Earth in the endless universe.
Researchers like Robert Zubrin have developed plans to make other planets like Mars inhabitable.
About Titan
Titan is the largest moon...
Spacecraft Cassini has now been in space for more than two and a half years and has already transmitted some of the best that the world can see of the distant planet.
This journey of Cassini will continue till June 30, 2008.
During the...
Titan that was earlier shadowed due to winter has not come out of it.
As this winter turns into spring a space craft named Cassini has taken the images of a cloud system that is engulfing whole of the north pole of this satellite of...
Titan has long been a place of interest to astrobiologists and it is the only thing in the solar system next to Mars of course, that has repeatedly raised the prospect that some habitable locales may indeed exist on Titan. However, what really make...
The Voyager spacecrafts were not able to penetrate the thick layers of clouds as it flew by in 1980, but they did reveal that Titan is one of the more interesting places in the solar system with more geologic features. Expecting an unusual world,...
The only moon in our solar system with its own atmosphere, it will surely grab scientist’s attention. Here, it is providing significant clues to support the nature of Earth's atmosphere billions of years ago when Earth may have been covered in a...
It is always said that new discoveries leads to new mysteries so is the case with Titan’s surface (Saturn’s largest moon). Scientists had long believed that Titan is covered by ethane gas but proving them wrong, dune structures are observed all over...
Following its latest flyby of the Ringed Planet, the Cassini spacecraft captured more stunning views of Saturn’s moons. The image of the tiny moon Janus in front of Saturn's rings with planet-sized Titan behind them is stunning. It is taken by the...
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