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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 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 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. |
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 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 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. |
Scientific American April 2005 Mark Alpert |
Strange New World Piercing the haze, Huygens gets a view of Titan's surface. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 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 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 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 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 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. |
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Titanic Methane Mystery Solved? The case of the elusive source of methane on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, could soon come to a close, some astronomers say. A new model suggests that instead of storage within surface lakes or an ocean, methane lies inside an icy crust and periodic changes release it into the atmosphere. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics November 19, 2009 Stephen Ornes |
This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System: Gallery What has changed in solar system imagery over the past few decades and what we can learn from it |
Scientific American November 2008 John Rennie |
Looking at Moons from Apollo 8 and Cassini When this world has you down, try looking at it from another one |
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. |
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 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. |
Geotimes January 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Saturn Surprises with Southern Storm Earth, Jupiter and Venus have all been observed to support giant, rotating storm masses. Now, astronomers have found that Saturn, too, boasts a hurricane-like structure at its south pole. |
Chemistry World July 22, 2009 James Urquhart |
Signs of water on Enceladus The idea that liquid water exists below the surface of one of Saturn's moons has been given a boost thanks to researchers in the US and China who have detected ammonia, various organic compounds, and possibly argon. |
Wired December 2004 Patrick Di Justo |
Mysteries of the Cosmos The top 13 places to explore in outer space. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 |
Cassini Camera Sees Into the Eye of a Storm on Saturn NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet-a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds. |
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Tiny Moon, Gigantic Geyser A tiny moon of Saturn, no larger than England, is changing researchers' notions about which celestial bodies can support geologic activity. |
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 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. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2004 |
Et Tu, E-Voting? Technical remedies for what ails electronic voting are in the laboratory... Engineering Ingenuity 1, Bureaucracy 0... |
Geotimes October 2007 |
Saturn's G Ring Understood After studying images taken by Cassini over the last two years, researchers may have identified the source of Saturn's G ring. |
Geotimes March 2005 Joseph Richard Gutheinz |
Marketing an Asteroid Threat NASA would prefer to market its successes, but with a mixed bag of successes and failures lately, they have opted for a new public relations ploy: fear -- whether it be fear of the environment or fear of asteroids. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Stephen Cass |
App Watch: The Final Frontier -- on Your Phone NASA brings its missions to the smallest screen |
Science News July 24, 2004 |
Wonders of Saturn As the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft begins its detailed exploration of Saturn, get up-to-date information about this fascinating planet and intriguing moons and rings. |
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever |
The Missing Methane Link Researchers working in Azerbaijan have quantified one of the missing methane emitters -- mud volcanoes. |
Geotimes April 2004 Ewert & Harpel |
In Harm's Way: Population and Volcanic Risk Knowing the number of people potentially at risk from volcanic activity allows non-volcanologists and emergency managers to gauge the potential adverse impact of volcanic unrest and plan accordingly. |
Geotimes May 2007 Jessica F. Larsen |
A Comment on... Volcanoes in a Changing Global Climate It is highly speculative at present to predict how global climate change will transform the science of volcanology. Yet it is important that we begin to anticipate how the impacts of volcanoes will change, as population and precipitation patterns adjust to climate change during the 21st century. |
Scientific American July 2008 Michelle Press |
Reviews: "A View of Science, Reason and Religion" Fossils in America, science and religion, and Saturn's giant moon are the topics of some new science books reviewed in this article. |