Titan, with its thick, nitrogen-dominated atmosphere, has been seen from satellite and terrestrial observations to harbour methane clouds. To investigate whether atmospheric features such as clouds could also be visible […]
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Structure of Titan's Evaporites
Numerous geological features that could be evaporitic in origin have been identified on the surface of Titan. Although they seem to be water-ice poor, their main properties -chemical composition, thickness, […]
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Early Titan Was a Cold, Hostile Place
Titan is a mysterious orange-socked moon of Saturn that is exciting to astrobiologists because it has some of the same kinds of chemicals that were precursors to life on Earth. […]
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Titan's Atmosphere Even More Earth-like than Previously Thought
Scientists at UCL have observed how a widespread polar wind is driving gas from the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan. The team analysed data gathered over seven years by the […]
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Simulations of Titan's Paleoclimate
We investigate the effects of varying Saturn’s orbit on the atmospheric circulation and surface methane distribution of Titan. Using a new general circulation model of Titan’s atmosphere, we simulate its […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Titan
NASA-led Study Sees Titan Glowing at Dusk and Dawn
New maps of Saturn’s moon Titan reveal large patches of trace gases shining brightly near the north and south poles. Image: High in the atmosphere of Titan, large patches of […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report, Titan
Ethyl Cyanide on Titan: Spectroscopic Detection and Mapping Using ALMA
We report the first spectroscopic detection of ethyl cyanide (C2H5CN) in Titan’s atmosphere, obtained using spectrally and spatially resolved observations of multiple emission lines with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter array […]
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Titan's Swirling Polar Cloud is Cold and Toxic
The international Cassini mission has revealed that a giant, toxic cloud is hovering over the south pole of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, after the atmosphere has cooled in a dramatic […]
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ALMA Measurements of the HNC and HC3N Distributions in Titan's atmosphere
We present spectrally and spatially-resolved maps of HNC and HC3N emission from Titan’s atmosphere, obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) on 2013 November 17. These maps show anisotropic […]
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Using Radio Waves to Detect Exomoons
Scientists hunting for life beyond Earth have discovered more than 1,800 planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, in recent years, but so far, no one has been able to […]