Posts Tagged ‘Saturn’
Odd eclipse reveals ‘Saturn on steroids’
U. ROCHESTER (US) — A team of astrophysicists has discovered a Saturn-like ring system in the constellation Centaurus. Continue…
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Top Stories - Jan 5, 2012 12:17 - 5 Comments
Computer model explains Titan mystery
CALTECH (US) — A new computer model may explain the mysterious polar lakes, rainstorms, and clouds on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 23, 2011 12:36 - 0 Comments
Is Saturn moon hiding a salty ocean?
U. COLORADO-BOULDER (US) — Samples of icy spray ejected from a Saturn moon and collected by the Cassini spacecraft make a strong case for the existence of a subterranean saltwater ocean. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 22, 2011 15:44 - 0 Comments
Saturn-moon connection: It’s electric
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — A northern lights-like aurora on Saturn is created by an electrical current between the ringed planet and one of its innermost moons. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 18, 2011 11:33 - 2 Comments
Spring showers on Saturn’s big moon
U. ARIZONA / JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Scientists for the first time have detected rain soaking Titan’s surface at low latitudes. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 15, 2010 18:19 - 0 Comments
Saturn moon mountains taller than Everest
JOHNS HOPKINS / WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — A strange mountain range girding the equator of Saturn’s third-largest moon may have been formed not by geological forces but rather by the explosive breakup of an orbiting mini-moon, scientists suggest. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 3, 2010 16:11 - 0 Comments
No moon rings around Saturn’s Rhea
CORNELL (US)—Something unknown is causing a strange, symmetrical structure in the charged-particle environment around Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon. But contrary to 2008 reports, it’s not a system of rings. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 22, 2010 14:49 - 0 Comments
Changing lake depths on Saturn’s Titan
CALTECH (US)—For the first time, scientists have found compelling evidence of lake-level changes on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, that are very similar to the rise and fall of Earth lake levels. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 13, 2010 13:25 - 0 Comments
Why track Saturn’s ‘propeller moons’?
CORNELL (US)—Researchers have been tracking what are likely dozens of small moons orbiting within the outer edge of Saturn’s A ring—the outermost of the planet’s large, dense rings—searching for new clues about how planets form and grow around stars in young solar systems. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 4, 2010 10:58 - 0 Comments
Early haze likely shaded Earth from UV
U. COLORADO (US)—A thick organic haze that enshrouded early Earth several billion years ago may have been similar to the haze now hovering above Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and would have protected primordial life on the planet from the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 18, 2009 18:27 - 0 Comments
Fog found on Titan
CALTECH (US)—Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system—aside from our home planet, Earth—with copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) sitting on its surface. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 30, 2009 14:21 - 4 Comments
Saturn’s oblong orbit linked to Titan’s lakes
CALTECH (US)—The eccentricity of Saturn’s orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet’s largest moon, Titan. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 20, 2009 11:00 - 0 Comments
Cassini reshapes view of solar system
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—It turns out that the solar system may look more like a basketball than a comet. Images from one of the sensors on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere—the region of our sun’s influence—may not have the comet-like shape predicted by existing models. (more…)
Uncategorized - Mar 6, 2009 12:27 - 0 Comments
Cassini maps weather on Saturn’s massive moon
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—The rippled sand dunes on Titan tell a story of wind and weather. After four years of data collection by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists have mapped the dune fields on Saturn’s largest moon. The results could prove significant for planning future Titan explorations that might involve balloon-borne experiments.
