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Solar System
Saturn
Titan
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| The Hazy History of Titan´s Air |
| Topic: Titan |
10/13/11 |
| What rocky moon has a nitrogen-rich atmosphere, Earth-like weather patterns and geology, liquid hydrocarbon seas and a relatively good chance to support life? The answer is Titan, the fascinating moon of Saturn. |
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| A Water Ocean on Titan? |
| Topic: Titan |
05/05/11 |
| Oddities in the rotation of Saturn's largest moon Titan might add to growing evidence that it harbors an underground ocean, researchers suggest. |
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| Counting Titan´s Craters |
| Topic: Titan |
04/22/10 |
| Impact craters found on Titan could help scientists determine the age of this Earth-like moon and its potential for life. |
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| Life Without Water? |
| Topic: Titan |
03/18/10 |
| On Saturn´s giant moon Titan, it is so cold that water is frozen as hard as granite. And yet there is a complete liquid cycle of methane and ethane. Scientists wonder whether there could also be life. |
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| Studying Titan´s Lakes on Earth |
| Topic: Titan |
01/28/10 |
| A new project aims to replicate the surface on the moon Titan in order to learn more about its hydrocarbon lakes. This study could also tell us about the chemistry that led to the origin of life on early Earth. |
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| Titan Triple Threat |
| Topic: Titan |
11/06/08 |
| The Cassini-Huygens mission has given us our best view yet of Titan, but this moon of Saturn still remains shrouded in mystery. A proposed future mission takes a three-tiered approach – using an orbiting spacecraft, a surface probe, and a hot air balloon -- to further explore the enigmatic moon. |
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| The Stuff of Life on Titan |
| Topic: Titan |
08/14/08 |
| Reactions between organic compounds in Titan´s atmosphere and water on the surface may create complex molecules similar to those on the early Earth. |
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| Earth's Hazy Past |
| Topic: Titan |
02/19/07 |
| Recent experiments suggest that early Earth may have been covered by a haze similar to Titan. |
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