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Why Titan is awesome #11
Titaaaaan! Here we go again. 😄 As has been reported, NASA has been interested in sending a robotic submarine to Saturn’s moon Titan to explore the hydrocarbon lakes near its north pole. Various dates have been mentioned and in all it seems … Continue reading
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Tagged borescope, Cassini, effervescence, ethane, gaseous nitrogen, hydrocarbons, Kraken Mare, Ligeia Mare, methane, NASA, nitrogen, nucleation, Saturn, Titan, Titan Submarine, Washington State University
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A problem worth its weight in salt
Pictures of Jupiter’s moon Europa taken by the Galileo space probe between 1995 and 2003 support the possibility that Europa’s surface has plate tectonics. In fact, scientists think it could be one of only two bodies in the Solar System … Continue reading
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Tagged Brown University, Cassini, cryomagma, density, ESA JUICE, Europa, eutectic, Galileo mission, ice salt, NASA Clipper, plate tectonics, porosity, salinity, subsurface ocean, tectonic activity
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Why Titan is awesome #10
Titaaaaan! How much I’ve missed writing these posts since Cassini passed away. Unsurprisingly, it’s after the probe’s demise that we’ve really begun to realise how much of Cassini’s images and data we were consuming on a daily basis, all of … Continue reading
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Tagged acetylene, atmospheric circulation, Cassini, cyanoacetylene, ethane, Hadley cells, hydrogen cyanide, polar subsidence, Saturn, Titan, trace gases
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The significance of Cassini’s end
Many generations of physicists, astronomers and astrobiologists are going to be fascinated by Saturn because of Cassini. I wrote this on The Wire on September 15. I lied. Truth is, I don’t care about Saturn. In fact, I’m fascinated with Cassini because of Saturn. We all … Continue reading
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Tagged Cassini, Hubble, NASA, Saturn
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Titan’s lakes might be fizzing with nitrogen bubbles
The results are relevant for future lander-probes to Titan – and to understand the surface chemistry of the only other body in the Solar System known to have liquids on its surface. Continue reading
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Tagged bubbles, Cassini, cryogenic, ethane, exsolution, flyby, Grand Finale, Kraken Mare, Ligeia Mare, liquid-liquid-vapour equilibrium, magic islands, methane, Michael Malaska, nitrogen, RADAR, Saturn, ternary system, Titan
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What you need to know about the Pluto flyby
The Wire July 14, 2015 In under seven hours, the NASA New Horizons space probe will flyby Pluto at 49,900 km per hour, from a distance of 12,500 km. It’s what the probe set out to do when it was launched in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cassini, Charon, LORRI, NASA New Horizons, Pluto
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