Sunday, July 1, 2012

Titan moon

  • LOS ANGELES -- Scientists reported Thursday on the strongest sign yet that Saturns giant moon may have a salty ocean beneath its chilly surface.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • June 28, 2012: Data from NASAs Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturns moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell. The finding appears in todays edition of the journal Science.
  • (NASA)
  • Tavani › Full image and caption › Related animation PASADENA, Calif. -- Data from NASAs Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturns moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell.
  • (NASA)
  • Titan was discovered on March 25, 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens, making it one of the first non-terrestrial moons to be discovered. Titan is similar in bulk properties to Ganymede, Callisto, Triton and (probably) Pluto.
  • (Redorbit.com)
  • ScienceDaily (June 28, 2012) — Data from NASAs Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturns moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell. Researchers saw a large amount of squeezing and stretching as the moon orbited Saturn.
  • (Science Daily)
  • Tides stretching Saturns haze-shrouded moon, Titan, hint a global ocean hides under its crust, report Cassini spacecraft scientists.
  • (Argus Leader)
  • WASHINGTON, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Data from Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturns moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell, U.S. space agency NASA announced Thursday.
  • (Xinhua News Agency)
  • An oasis of liquid methane has unexpectedly been discovered amid the tropical dunes of Saturns moon Titan, researchers say.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Infrared imaging by JPL's Cassini spacecraft has shown the existence of large methane lakes near the equator of Saturn's moon Titan. One of them is about the size of Utah's Great Salt Lake at its lowest recorded level and is at least three feet deep.
  • (Newsoxy.com)
  • Saturns largest moon, Titan, is in the background of the image, and the moons north polar hood is clearly visible. See PIA08137 to learn more about that feature on Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across).
  • (Huffington Post)

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