Dione: Study in Contrasts
Crisp details on Dione contrast with the haziness of Titan in this image of a pair of Saturn’s moons taken in visible blue light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 20, 2010.
Smaller Dione is at the bottom of the image, and that moon’s wispy terrain is visible. Titan dominates the rest of the image, and that moon’s north polar hood is visible here. Lit terrain seen here is on the trailing hemisphere of Dione (1,123 kilometers across) and in the area between the trailing hemisphere and anti-Saturn side of Titan (5,150 kilometers across).
Image Credit: NASA JPL
EVIDENCE of life has been discovered on Saturn’s biggest moon, Titan. Analysis of data sent back by NASA’s Cassini probe suggests primitive aliens are breathing in Titan’s atmosphere and feeding on fuel at the surface.
– Scientists excited by signs of life on Saturn’s moon | News.com.au (via deltamualpha) Via Getting Away With It
Dione and Titan
The Cassini probe captured this picture of the moon Dione (1,123 km in diameter) on 12 March 2010 as it was passing in front of Titan, Saturn’s biggest natural satellite (5,150 km in diameter). This was purely a perspective effect, as the two moons were separated by 1.4 million kilometres at the time the picture was taken. The fuzzy halo that appears to surround Titan is caused by its thick atmosphere. And it is because of said atmosphere that this moon is one of the candidates for life in our solar system.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19
Used by NASA to launch all of the Gemini manned spaceflights. It was also used by unmanned Titan I and Titan II launch vehicles.
Huygens on Titan
In 2005 the robotic Huygens probe landed on Titan, Saturn’s enigmatic moon, and sent back the first ever images from beneath Titan’s thick cloud layers. This artist’s impression is based on those images. In the foreground, sits the car-sized lander that sent back images for more than 90 minutes before running out of battery power. The parachute that slowed Huygen’s re-entry is seen in the background, still attached to the lander. Smooth stones, possibly containing water-ice, are strewn about the landscape. Analyses of Huygen’s images and data show that Titan’s surface today has intriguing similarities to the surface of the early Earth.
Image Credit: ESA
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Is That Saturn’s Moon Titan or Utah?
Planetary scientists have been puzzling for years over the honeycomb patterns and flat valleys with squiggly edges evident in radar images of Saturn’s moon Titan. Now, working with a “volunteer researcher” who has put his own spin on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, they have found some recognizable analogies to a type of spectacular terrain on Earth known as karst topography. A poster session today, Thursday, March 4, at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, displays their work.
Is That Saturn’s Moon Titan or Utah?
Planetary scientists have been puzzling for years over the honeycomb patterns and flat valleys with squiggly edges evident in radar images of Saturn’s moon Titan. Now, working with a “volunteer researcher” who has put his own spin on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, they have found some recognizable analogies to a type of spectacular terrain on Earth known as karst topography. A poster session today, Thursday, March 4, at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, displays their work.
(via SpaceFellowship)
They Arrived on Titan just as Saturn was Setting
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Cassini Returns to Southern Hemisphere of Titan
Artist’s concept of Cassini’s Jan. 12, 2009, flyby of Titan. Image credit: NASA/JPL
Titan marque Saturne
La tache allongée visible sur la portion basse de Saturne sur ce cliché est en fait l’ombre projetée de Titan, la plus grande lune de cette planète. Une photographie de la sonde Cassini réalisée le 7 novembre 2009.
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Titan makes its mark on Saturn
The elongated spot that can be seen on the lower section of Saturn in this photograph is in fact the projected shadow of Titan, this planet’s biggest moon. This picture was taken by the Cassini probe on 7 November 2009.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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