NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Completes Final Flyby of Titan
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft has completed its final flyby of Saturn’s moon Titan and will now begin its final set of 22 orbits around Saturn. The…
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New NASA Research Shows Titan Lakes Fizz With Nitrogen
A newly published study details how the hydrocarbon lakes and seas of Saturn’s moon Titan might occasionally erupt with dramatic patches of bubbles. For the…
Video Shows Images of Titan’s Surface from Huygens Probe
On January 14, 2005, ESA’s Huygens probe made its descent to the surface of Saturn’s hazy moon, Titan. Carried to Saturn by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft,…
Astronomers Examine Dicyanoacetylene Ice in Titan’s Stratosphere
New research examines the appearance of a cloud of dicyanoacetylene ice in Titan’s stratosphere. The puzzling appearance of an ice cloud seemingly out of thin…
New Cassini Images Show Titan’s Dunes and Other Features
New images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft peer through the haze that surrounds Titan, revealing dunes and other interesting features. New scenes from a frigid alien…
New Cassini Image of Titan above Saturn’s Rings
NASA reveals another image of Titan and Saturn. Distant Titan, its northern hemisphere drenched in the sunlight of late spring, hangs above Saturn’s rings. What…
Cassini Measures Titan Surface Temperatures During Northern Winter and Spring
Newly published research details the varying surface temperatures on Saturn’s moon Titan at two-year intervals, from 2004 to 2016. The measurements were made by the…
Cassini Captures Infrared View of Saturn’s Moon Titan
This newly released composite image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows an infrared view of Saturn’s moon Titan. This new image was acquired during the mission’s…
Cassini Reveals Monstrous Ice Cloud in Titan’s South Polar Region
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft has detected a monstrous new cloud of frozen compounds in the Titan’s low- to mid-stratosphere – a stable atmospheric region above…
Cassini Views the Dunelands of Saturn’s Moon Titan
Taken this past July, this Cassini image shows the familiar features of Saturn’s moon Titan. Saturn’s frigid moon Titan has some characteristics that are oddly…
Cassini Views Pandora Appearing to Hover Over Titan
This Cassini image makes Pandora appear to be hovering over Titan, but a coincidence of viewing angle is responsible for this image. Little Pandora is…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Views a Cloudy Saturn and Titan
This newly released Cassini image shows Saturn and its moon Titan. Titan and Saturn have very few things in common, but a hazy appearance is…
Cassini Views Titan Looking “Not So Titanic” Next to Saturn
As this new image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows, Titan is a “large” moon but it is still dwarfed by Saturn. Although Titan (3200 miles…
Cassini Reveals Titan’s Atmosphere Even More Earth-like Than Previously Thought
New research reveals that Titan’s atmosphere is even more Earth-like than previously thought and provides evidence for why Titan’s atmosphere is losing about seven tonnes…
Dissolution is a Major Cause of Landscape Evolution on Titan, Possible Origin of Its Lakes
New research reveals that Titan’s surface dissolves in a similar process that creates sinkholes on Earth, finding that the dissolution process occurs on Titan some…
The Senkyo Region of Titan
This new Cassini image was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million miles and looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Titan. Named after a…
Life Possible on Saturn’s Moon Titan
In a new study, chemical engineers and astronomers from Cornell University reveal that Titan could harbor methane-based, oxygen-free cells that metabolize, reproduce and do everything…
Titan Exposed to the Full Force of the Solar Wind
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has observed Titan in the supersonic and super-Alfvénic solar wind, revealing that Titan’s interaction with the solar wind is in many ways…