The Cassini mission offered us the opportunity to monitor the seasonal evolution of Titan’s atmosphere from 2004 to 2017, i.e. half a Titan year. The lower part of the stratosphere […]
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Evidence of Changing Seasons And Rain On Titan's North Pole
An image from the international Cassini spacecraft provides evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Titan, the largest of Saturn’s moons. The rainfall would be the first indication of […]
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Quantitative Estimates of Chemical Disequilibrium in Titan's Atmosphere
We apply previously introduced measures of chemical disequilibrium to Cassini mass spectroscopy data on the atmosphere of Titan. In the analysis presented here, we use an improved description, avoiding the […]
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Cutting Through The Mystery of Titan's Atmospheric Haze
A team including Berkeley Lab scientists homes in on a ‘missing link’ in Titan’s one-of-a-kind chemistry. Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is unique among all moons in our solar system for […]
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A possible deep CH4 reservoir in Titan, Super-Titan exoplanets and moons
We investigate the thermal equation of state, bulk modulus, thermal expansion coefficient, and heat capacity of MH-III (CH4 filled-ice Ih), needed for the study of CH4 transport and outgassing for […]
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Detection Opportunity For Aromatic Signature in Titan's Aerosols In The 4.1 to 5.3 Micron Range
The Cassini/Huygens mission provided new insights on the chemistry of the upper atmosphere of Titan. The presence of large molecules and ions (>100 s of amu) detected by Cassini at […]
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Possible Organic Precursors in Titan's Hydrocarbon
NASA researchers have confirmed the existence in Titan’s atmosphere of vinyl cyanide, which is an organic compound that could potentially provide the cellular membranes for microbial life to form in […]
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Building An Alien Ocean To Test Space Submarines
Building a submarine gets tricky when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit and the ocean is made of methane and ethane.
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Cassini Finds Titan Has A Sea Level Like Earth Does
Saturn’s moon Titan may be nearly a billion miles away from Earth, but a recently published paper based on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveals a new way this distant […]
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New Titan Topographic Map
Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn’s moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows […]