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Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Titanic Methane Mystery Solved? Planetary scientists discovered dozens of lakes, some connected by river-like channels, at Titan's north pole. Researchers suggest that the lakes could hold enough liquid methane to resupply the Saturnian moon's atmosphere with methane gas.
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Titanic Methane Rivers Without evidence for methane-producing life, the leading hypothesis remains that Titan's visible volcanoes tap into an underground methane reservoir and bring it to the surface.
Scientific American April 2005 Mark Alpert	Strange New World Piercing the haze, Huygens gets a view of Titan's surface.
Geotimes October 2003	Hydrocarbon oceans on Titan Ground-based radar telescopes finally have penetrated the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon to yield the first reliable evidence that it might have hydrocarbon oceans.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc.
Geotimes August 2005 Megan Sever	Icy Methane Volcano on Titan New images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during a flyby of Saturn's largest satellite are now revealing what researchers think is evidence of a large volcano on Titan that could be erupting methane.
Geotimes July 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Titanic Lake? Cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently recorded a surface feature on Titan, Saturn's largest moon that looks remarkably lake-like.
Geotimes July 2004 Jay Chapman	Sliding into Saturn Late Wednesday night, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft silently slipped through the outermost rings of Saturn and entered into orbit. By early Thursday morning, Cassini began transmitting strikingly elegant close-up images of Saturn's rings.
Geotimes February 2007	Cassini Sees Lakes on Titan Radar imaging from the July 22, 2006, flyby of the Cassini spacecraft is providing what researchers call "convincing evidence" for large bodies of liquid.
Geotimes January 2005 Sara Pratt	Frozen Volcanism on Titan In late October, the synthetic aperture radar on the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft penetrated Titan's atmosphere of organic smog and captured images of the surface, revealing features that resemble lava domes and lava flows.
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Dunes on Titan Sand dunes discovered on Saturn's moon Titan are structurally similar to dunes in Earth's Namib desert in southern Africa. The dunes' various orientations are helping astronomers map Titan's wind patterns.
Geotimes February 2005	Touching Titan Little more than an hour after landing, the Huygens probe sent back its first shots of Saturn's largest moon.
Chemistry World March 12, 2014 Katia Moskvitch	Saturn's largest moon home to prebiotic 'soup' Scientists should expand their quest for life in other worlds by searching for any kind of liquid, not just water, say researchers.
Popular Mechanics September 2006	Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds.
Geotimes January 2005 Megan Sever	Huygens touches down on Titan Grins and thumbs-up signs began a press conference to announce that the Huygens probe had landed successfully on Saturn's largest moon.
Geotimes April 2006 Megan Sever	Undersea Methane Not to Blame New research is indicating that for at least three abrupt warming periods over the past 40,000 years, the warming was accompanied by, but not caused by, an increase in methane, and the methane increase was from the land, not the sea.
Geotimes April 2005 Sara Pratt	Listening to Titan As the Huygens probe descended through Titan's smoggy atmosphere, scientists on Earth were able to listen in on sounds from the moon's surface.
Chemistry World May 11, 2007 Michael Gross	The Atmosphere on Titan's Moon Using spectroscopic measurements made during flybys of the Cassini craft, researchers in the U.S. can now present first insights into the reactions that lead from methane and nitrogen to the formation of tholins, which are believed to make up the orange fog that veils Titan's surface.
Geotimes December 2004	A Saturnian One-Two Punch: Flybys of Titan and Dione On Monday, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft flew by Titan only 1,200 kilometers above the moon's surface. It was the second such flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, since the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn on June 30.
Geotimes May 2005 Laura Stafford	Saturn's New Moon In a small space between Saturn's rings, scientists discovered a previously unknown moon, currently known as S/2005 S1, from the images sent back to Earth from Cassini less than a year after the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn.
Chemistry World August 23, 2006 Tom Westgate	Frozen Fuel Find Rewrites Rule Book Earth scientists are revising their ideas about natural gas hydrates after discovering that large deposits of the water and methane mixture can form at surprisingly shallow depths below the sea floor.
Popular Mechanics December 18, 2008 Andrew Moseman	Findings on Saturn's Moon Titan: You Say Ice-Spewing Volcano, I Say Squiggly Lines Rosalyn Lopes of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory made the case at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco that icy volcanoes exist on Titan.
Geotimes November 2004 Dickens & Pinsker	Methane Hydrate and Abrupt Climate Change Conceivably, we live in a world with an enormous amount of gas hydrate and free gas that affects climate and global systems over time
Chemistry World September 16, 2009 Hayley Birch	Peering into Titan's haze A new study has thrown light on the processes that form organic molecules called polyynes in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
Chemistry World September 13, 2012 Laura Howes	Sponges to mop up marine methane It may seem like the story from a children's cartoon, but Chinese scientist's claim that their sponge could suck up methane from the oceans, helping fight climate change and providing a new energy source at the same time.
Smithsonian July 2007 Eric Jaffe	Life Beyond Earth An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we're not alone?
Popular Mechanics June 2006 Jennifer Bogo	Beholding Saturn This mosaic of 126 images from Cassini is the most detailed, natural-color view of Saturn ever made. NASA's imaging specialist explains the stunning view from the Cassini spacecraft.
Geotimes December 2006 Megan Sever	Methane Budget to Become Off-Balance Methane packs a big punch in the atmosphere. A team of climate scientists now says that it has better determined the primary controls over the methane budget over the past two decades, and the team offers a warning for the future: methane emissions will likely rise.
Wired December 2004 Patrick Di Justo	Mysteries of the Cosmos The top 13 places to explore in outer space.
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever	The Missing Methane Link Researchers working in Azerbaijan have quantified one of the missing methane emitters -- mud volcanoes.
Popular Mechanics November 2009	Methane Maps Step One for Energy Prospectors A recent discovery indicates there may be more of the gas being released and from deeper areas of the Arctic seabed than expected.
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Plant Methane Surprises Climate Scientists Atmospheric scientists have long blamed cattle and microbes for the production of significant amounts of methane on Earth. But the discovery of a new large source of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, is putting trees on the hot seat.
Popular Mechanics April 2006 Barbara Maynard	Fire in Ice Natural gas locked up in methane hydrates could be the world's next great energy source -- if engineers can figure out how to extract it safely.
Geotimes November 2004 Jay Chapman	Taking the Fossil Out of Fuels New research is expanding the range of the formation of fossil fuels.
Geotimes November 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Methane Burps Below the Ice Methane bubbles frozen in the ice of a Siberian lake offer a visible target to scientists seeking to estimate how much methane the lakes emit, now estimated at as much as five times higher than previously thought.
Chemistry World August 5, 2009 James Urquhart	Martian methane breaks the rules Variations in methane concentration across Mars defy our current understanding of methane photochemistry, say French scientists.
Chemistry World July 3, 2015 Rebecca Trager	New Horizons detects methane on Pluto The infrared spectrometer on board NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has detected frozen methane on the dwarf planet's surface.
Chemistry World October 8, 2009 Hayley Birch	Molecular Snapshots Show Hydrate Growth US researchers have gleaned new insights into the formation of methane-rich hydrates found in the deep ocean.
Chemistry World November 9, 2012 Laura Howes	No methane on Mars, says Curiosity The idea that there was life on Mars has been dealt a blow after analysis of the planet's atmosphere found little to no methane.
Chemistry World November 1, 2011 Rebecca Trager	Pilot Seeks to Thaw Methane Hydrate Promise The question of whether natural gas locked in ice, known as methane hydrates, can help the world keep pace with its growing demand for energy will soon become clearer.
Chemistry World July 29, 2010 Carol Stanier	Methane all lined up Swiss researchers have found that the way methane molecules vibrate when they hit a nickel surface can have a huge effect on their reactivity.
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	New View of a Saturnian Moon More than 250 years after astronomers first discovered Saturn's moon Hyperion, the odd celestial body is still presenting surprises. A closer-than-ever view of the moon revealed a heavily cratered surface, which looks remarkably like a sponge.
Chemistry World August 31, 2012 Simon Hadlington	'Ocean methane paradox' solved? Numerical simulation of methane production by methanogenic microorganisms suggests that up to 400 billion tonnes of methane could be sitting under the ice. If the ice sheet collapses due to a warming climate, this could release the gas, which in turn would increase warming, the researchers say.
Chemistry World April 23, 2009 Hayley Birch	Wetlands caused ancient methane belch Air trapped in ancient ice has revealed the likely source of the sudden spike in atmospheric methane concentrations that occurred at the end of the last ice age
Geotimes December 2005 Kevin E. Trenberth	A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing.
Chemistry World May 2010 Emma Davies	One extreme to another It takes a mix of ingenuity and engineering expertise to develop mass spectrometers for use in extreme environments.
Popular Mechanics May 1, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Ice Sculptures for Science: Chain Saws, Pickaxes, Methane Hydrates and Climate Change One of the greatest unknowns regarding the future pace of climate change involves a source of greenhouse gases we can't even see, let alone control.
Science News October 29, 2005	Spooky Sounds of Saturn These NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Web pages provide sound files based on magnetometer data from Cassini spacecraft observations of Saturn's moon Enceladus and more.
Chemistry World July 10, 2009 James Urquhart	Wider menu for methane-eating microbes Marine dwelling microbes that consume methane for energy and produce carbon dioxide may do so by using a larger array of oxidants than previously thought. This may offer insight into the possibility of extraterrestrial life on methane rich bodies like Mars.
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.