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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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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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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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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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Life on Titan’s world of goo
In the August 8 issue of Science, an international team of scientists has a paper that submits evidence of life in an asphalt lake in Trinidad. Despite having a low water content of 13.5%, it still possesses methane-digesting microbes huddled up … Continue reading
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Tagged asphaltene, methane, methanogenic microbes, Neosartorya fischeri, organic chemistry, outgassing, Pitch Lake, Titan
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Life on Titan’s world of goo
In the August 8 issue of Science, an international team of scientists has a paper that submits evidence of life in an asphalt lake in Trinidad. Despite having a low water content of 13.5%, it still possesses methane-digesting microbes huddled up … Continue reading
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Tagged asphaltene, methane, methanogenic microbes, Neosartorya fischeri, organic chemistry, outgassing, Pitch Lake, Titan
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After less than 100 days, Curiosity renews interest in Martian methane
A version of this story, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on November 15, 2012. — In the last week of October, the Mars rover Curiosity announced that there was no methane on Mars. The rover’s conclusion is … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity rover, ESA, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, Mars, Mars Science Laboratory, methane, Roscosmos
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