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Plunge to Methane Lake?
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| Topic: Titan |
01/12/05 |
| Anthony Del Genio of the Cassini Imaging team takes a tour of the strange and perplexing world, Titan, where hurricane winds and supercold smog promise some of the most startling imagery in our solar system. The mission to descend towards Titan's surface will draw global attention in a few days, when a tiny space probe will test the limits of parachutes, cameras and communications. |
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Landing on Liquid?
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| Topic: Titan |
01/11/05 |
| After flying 2 billion miles, a probe to Saturn's moon will attempt what has never been tried before. The Huygens' probe will plunge into Titan and its mysterious atmosphere on Jan. 14, 2005. Whether it will crash or splash has become of extreme scientific interest to those watching the controlled collision. |
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Release Towards Titan Successful
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| Topic: Titan |
12/25/04 |
| The Huygens probe which will descend through Titan's thick, smoggy atmosphere on January 14, was successfully detached from its carrier ship, the Cassini probe now orbiting Saturn. The Christmas day release set Huygens on its ballistic trajectory towards an attempted landing on the mysterious moon. |
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Titan: The Moon That Howls Back
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| Topic: Titan |
12/22/04 |
| On Christmas Eve, the Cassini spacecraft will release its wok-shaped Huygens probe on the start of an intimate date with Saturn's moon, Titan. On Jan. 14, at 4 a.m. EST, Huygens will enter Titan's atmosphere at a speed of 12,000 mph, rapidly decelerate, then deploy its parachute at an altitude above 90 miles. |
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Titan: Peeling the Onion
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| Topic: Titan |
12/17/04 |
| The mystery of Titan's atmosphere has to do not only with its methane-rich smog, but also with its comparable pressure to Earth. Often called the Earth-like moon, Titan shows finely layered boundaries as the smog dissipates into space. |
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Titan Weather: Storm Trackers
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| Topic: Titan |
12/16/04 |
| The probe orbiting Saturn is not the only eye on Titan, the ringed planet's largest moon. Powerful ground telescopes have glimpsed storms travelling around the moon's mid-latitudes, not just near the south pole. One theory of how these storms arise relies on icy volcanoes beneath the thick haze and clouds. |
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Dione and Titan: Zooming Into View
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| Topic: Titan |
12/14/04 |
| The close approach of the Cassini probe, now flying by Saturn's moons, Dione and Titan, reveals a complex atmosphere with clouds hovering over what may prove next month to be continents and even oil-rich oceans. |
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On Top of Titan's Mountain
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| Topic: Titan |
12/08/04 |
| When Cassini flew by Saturn's moon Titan on October 26, scientists got a small taste of the discoveries to come. Athena Coustenis of the Paris-Meudon Observatory discusses a potential landscape of mountains and lakes on this strange, smog-filled world. |
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Countdown to Controlled Collision
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| Topic: Titan |
12/07/04 |
| For the mid-January descent to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, scientists look forward to measuring the atmospheric chemistry and listening in as the strong winds toss the probe. They hope to see the surface for a few brief, but precious minutes. No one knows today what the surface will offer. |
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Titan's Ghostly Arrowhead
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| Topic: Titan |
12/03/04 |
| Seeing straight lines on a planet or moon may point to faultlines or icy breaks. Jupiter's moon, Europa, is covered in ridges that fractured its icy crust. But scientists are intrigued by what appears on Saturn's largest moon, Titan--particularly when the lines seem to intersect like an arrowhead. |
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