Tag Archives: Saturn
The Hyperion dispute and chaos in space
I believe my blog’s subscribers did not receive email notifications of some recent posts. If you’re interested, I’ve listed the links to the last eight posts at the bottom of this edition. When reading around for my piece yesterday on … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm, Science
Tagged butterfly effect, classical chaos, decoherence, ensemble interpretation, Hyperion, Leslie Ballentine, Maximilian Schlosshauer, measurement problem, Nathan Wiebe, quantum chaos, Saturn, Titan, wavefunction, Wojciech Zurek
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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