Saturn's Moon Titan Is Slushy Inside. News. By Remy Melina published 20 April 2010 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Inside of Titan, it's possible this combination would account for the nitrogen and methane that now reside in its atmosphere. Artist's conception of Huygens approaching Titan. (Image credit: NASA) ...

Saturn’s moon Titan is almost featureless when seen in visible light, ... with an atmospheric pressure about 1.5 times that of Earth. Inside that atmosphere you’ll find running rivers, lakes, ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, ... Subtle differences in Titan's pull on Cassini suggest that the materials inside the moon are a mix of ice and rock with no clearly defined rocky layers.

Visualization of sample return launch from Titan. Katherine Miller. Titan is weird. The only known moon with an atmosphere, Saturn’s largest moon has rain, lakes, oceans and ice comprised not of ...

Since its formation, Titan has lost about four miles in radius and 1% of its volume to this process. Known as contractional tectonics, it’s the exact opposite of what forms mountains on other ...

Now, even if the moon had volatiles, it wouldn’t hold them as well as Titan does. It’s a lot warmer, because it’s 10 times closer to the sun. So any atmosphere it had, it would lose it faster.

Saturn's moon Titan was once suggested to possibly contain hidden life inside its huge subsurface ocean, but these hopes may have been scuppered by a new discovery.

Warm gas inside that band, which fluctuates between 20 and 100 planetary radii from the infant planet, prevents farther-flung moons such as Titan from moving inward and becoming snacks for the ...

(SPACE.com) A NASA spacecraft has spied a vortex swirling in the atmosphere high above the south pole of the Saturn moon Titan, hinting that winter may be coming to the huge body's southern ...

Saturn’s moon Titan is almost featureless when seen in visible light, ... with an atmospheric pressure about 1.5 times that of Earth. Inside that atmosphere you’ll find running rivers, lakes, ...