Tag Archives: hydrocarbons
A sanitised fuel
I debated myself for ten minutes as to whether I should criticise an article that appeared on the DD News website on this blog. The article is flawed in the way many science articles on the internet are, but at … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Op-eds, Science
Tagged carbon dioxide, DD News, Department of Science and Technology, draft EIA 2020, draft environmental impact assessment notification 2020, ecological security, fossil fiels, fugitive emissions, Godavari river, greenhouse warming potential, hydrocarbons, Krishna river, Krishna-Godavari basin, methane, methanol, ONGC
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A new map of Titan
It’s been a long time since I’ve obsessed over Titan, primarily because after the Cassini mission ended, the pace of updates about Titan died down, and because other moons of the Solar System (Europa, Io, Enceladus, Ganymede and our own) … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm, Science
Tagged Cassini mission, Chandrayaan 2, Chandrayaan 3, complex hydrocarbons, Enceladus, Europa, Ganymede, geomorphology, global map, habitability, hydrocarbons, Io, NASA Dragonfly, Saturn, sharp-edged depressions, synthetic aperture radar, Titan, topography
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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
Posted in Science
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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Titan’s chemical orgies
New studies of Saturn’s moon Titan should make it more familiar – but the more we learn about it, the more outlandish Titan gets. Continue reading
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Tagged asphalt, bimodal winds, biphenyl, Cassini Orbiter, Earth, Georgia Institute of Technology, geoscience, hydrocarbons, longitudinal dunes, methane, naphthalene, nitrogen, Qaidam Basin, Saturn, sediment cohesiveness, tar, Titan, triboelectric effect
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A submarine on Titan in 2040
Nothing bespeaks humankind’s potential more than the following statement: Around 2040, NASA plans to splash down a submarine to explore a liquid hydrocarbon lake on Titan. Fore more than a decade now, Titan has captivated astronomers not simply by being Saturn’s largest moon by … Continue reading
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Tagged Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, ethane, hydrocarbons, Kraken Mare, methane, Saturnian system, Titan Mare Explorer, Titan Submarine, USAF DARPA X-37
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What life on Earth tells us about life ‘elsewhere’
In 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi asked a question not many could forget for a long time: “Where is everybody?” He was referring to the notion that, given the age and size of the universe, advanced civilizations ought to have arisen in … Continue reading
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Tagged astrobiology, Carl Sagan, Enceladus, Enrico Fermi, exoplanets, extrasolar systems, hydrocarbons, life, Saturn, starstuff, Titan
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