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Misty Mornings in Xanadu
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| Topic: Titan |
10/12/07 |
| Astronomers have directly observed rain on Titan for the first time. Using near-infrared images, they've shown persistent morning drizzle over Titan's major continent, Xanadu. |
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Tropical Titan
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| Topic: Titan |
10/07/07 |
| Scientists are drawing unique comparisons between the climate of Saturn's moon Titan and the Earth. Titan has some of the same circulation processes that happen on Earth, only they occur with completely different substances and at much colder temperatures. |
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Building Titan
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| Topic: Titan |
06/06/07 |
| The Huygens probe landed on Titan two and a half years ago, but the data it collected is still yielding new scientific insights about Saturn's largest moon. |
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Making Tholins
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| Topic: Titan |
05/13/07 |
| Scientists have found that organic aerosols, or tholins, in the atmosphere of Titan form differently than previously thought. |
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Seeing Titan's Seas
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| Topic: Titan |
03/16/07 |
| Instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft have found evidence for seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan. |
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Earth's Hazy Past
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| 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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Titan's Winter Storm
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| Topic: Titan |
02/06/07 |
| Cassini has returned an image of a massive cloud made up of organics like methane and ethane on Saturn's moon Titan. The cloud may be responsible for material that fills the lakes discovered on Titan last year. |
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Starlight Meteorology
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| Topic: Titan |
01/26/07 |
| Observations of Saturn's moon Titan from earth-based telescopes played a vital role in the successful decent of the Huygens probe through Titan's thick atmosphere in January of 2005. Two years later, these are continuing to inform scientists about one of the most unique destinations in the Solar System. |
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Huygens's Second Landing Anniversary
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| Topic: Titan |
01/16/07 |
| Two years ago, scientists accomplished an amazing feat when the Huygens probe descended through the thick atmosphere of Titan to reveal the moon's unique surface. Today the mission continues to teach us many fascinating things about a world that may, in some ways, resemble the early Earth. |
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Titan's Liquid Lakes
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| Topic: Titan |
01/09/07 |
| Cassini scientists think there are liquid-filled lakes on Titan. Rather than water, these lakes on Saturn's largest moon are made of liquid methane. These lakes are the strongest evidence yet that Titan's surface and atmosphere have an active hydrological cycle. |
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