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Astrobiology Top 10: Getting to Know Titan
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| Topic: Titan |
01/01/07 |
| Summary: Astrobiology Magazine is looking back over 2006, highlighting the Top 10 astrobiology stories of the year. At number 7 is the Cassini spacecraft´s continuing investigations of Saturn's moon Titan. Scientists knew Titan would be interesting, perhaps containing organic compounds that are the building blocks of life. |
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Titanic Mountains
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| Topic: Titan |
12/19/06 |
| Summary: NASA has released images of mountains on Titan that are coated with layers of organic material and blanketed by clouds. The images reveal a number of additional geological features, including dunes and material that resembles a volcanic flow. |
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Ethane Flakes Into Methane Lakes
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| Topic: Titan |
09/17/06 |
| Summary: Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) has detected what appears to be a massive ethane cloud surrounding Titan's north pole. The cloud might be snowing ethane snowflakes into methane lakes below. |
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Saturn's Methane Moon
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| Topic: Titan |
09/01/06 |
| Summary: Scientists knew Saturn's giant moon Titan would be interesting, perhaps containing organic compounds that are the building blocks of life. But the discovery of methane lakes and a "methanosphere" raises a question: is a frozen moon orbiting a giant gas planet Earth's closest analog in the solar system? |
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How the World Watched Huygens
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| Topic: Titan |
08/05/06 |
| Summary: As Huygens parachuted to the surface of Titan in January 2005, a battery of telescopes around the world were watching or listening. |
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Painting Pictures with Radio Reflections
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| Topic: Titan |
08/02/06 |
| Summary: An unexpected radio reflection from the surface of Titan has allowed ESA scientists to deduce the average size of stones and pebbles close to the Huygens landing site. The technique could be used on other lander missions to analyse planetary surfaces for free. |
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Titan's Methane Cycle
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| Topic: Titan |
07/31/06 |
| Summary: The detailed exploration of Titan has revealed the presence of bright polar clouds and dry riverbeds. Ricardo Hueso and AgustÃn Sánchez Lavega propose that the clouds and dry beds are due to giant storms of methane that occur on this satellite of Saturn. |
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The Great Lakes of Titan
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| Topic: Titan |
07/29/06 |
| Summary: The Cassini spacecraft, using its radar system, has discovered very strong evidence for hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Dark patches, which resemble terrestrial lakes, seem to be sprinkled all over the high latitudes surrounding Titan's north pole. |
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Earth-like Xanadu
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| Topic: Titan |
07/20/06 |
| Summary: New radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed geological features similar to Earth on Xanadu, an Australia-sized, bright region on Saturn's moon Titan. |
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Is Titan Arrakis?
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| Topic: Titan |
05/07/06 |
| Summary: Radar images taken when the Cassini spacecraft flew by Titan last October show dunes 330 feet (100 meters) high that run parallel to each other for hundreds of miles at Titan's equator. |
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