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OTD In Space – January 14: Huygens Probe Lands On Saturn's Moon Titan
The European Space Agency's Huygens probe hitched a ride on NASA's Cassini spacecraft to Saturn's largest moon Titan. It parted ways with the mothership about three weeks before touching down on ...
Scientists Unlock the Secrets of Titan’s Dense Atmosphere
Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and its dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Despite its ...
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How can Titan maintain its atmosphere
Dr. Kelly Miller from the South West Research Institute and Lead author of a paper about Titan’s atmosphere said “While just ...
Experiments corroborate theory about how Titan maintains its atmosphere
Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...
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Space photo of the week: Look into Titan's 'eye,' 20 years after the Huygens spacecraft's historic landing on Saturn's largest moon
Why it's so special: This picture was taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its historic parachute descent onto Titan's surface on Jan. 14, 2005. At the moment this image was ...
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Opinion: Saturn’s moon looked like a snowy Utah landscape in my mind. The reality is just as compelling
The scientists who built the Huygens probe that made Titan real were, in their way, doing the same. Both endeavors are examples of the rigors of curiosity born from awe. This is not, as critics of ...
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Dragonfly is going to Titan on a Falcon Heavy
Dragonfly will be the second craft to visit Titan, along with the Huygens probe and its short visit back in 2005. Titan is remarkable because it's the only body besides Earth with liquids on its ...
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Ti­tan: moon with an at­mo­sphere
In over 40 flybys of Titan, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft managed to 'see' the surface of the moon with its radar experiment and an infrared camera. By the end of the mission, the Cassini orbiter had ...
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Welcome To Titan, Saturn's 'Deranged' Earth-Like Moon Beginning To Show Signs Of Life
it jettisoned a small probe called Huygens. It made a spectacular film (above) of its 2.5-hour descent onto Titan, where it landed surrounded by rounded blocks of ice. Huygens ancient saw dry ...
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SwRI-designed experiments corroborate theory about how Titan maintains its atmosphere
Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...
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Saturn's moon looked like a snowy Utah landscape in my mind. The reality is just as compelling
What the Huygens probe revealed — a hazy, frigid, dusky-orange world — and what the ethereal painting promised could not be more different. The first color view of Titan's surface, which was ...
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Opinion: Saturn's moon looked like a snowy Utah landscape in my mind. The reality is just as compelling
What the Huygens probe revealed — a hazy, frigid, dusky-orange world — and what the ethereal painting promised could not be more different. The first color view of Titan's surface, which was ...