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Cassini Sails into New Ocean Adventures on Titan

Nov 12, 2014 (JPL)

NASA's Cassini mission continues its adventures in extraterrestrial oceanography with new findings about the hydrocarbon seas on Saturn's moon Titan. During a f...

Cassini Sees Sunny Seas on Titan

Oct 31, 2014 (JPL)

As it soared past Saturn's large moon Titan recently, NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught a glimpse of bright sunlight reflecting off hydrocarbon seas. In the past...

NASA Identifies Ice Cloud Above Cruising Altitude on Titan

Oct 29, 2014 (JPL)

NASA scientists have identified an unexpected high-altitude methane ice cloud on Saturn's moon Titan that is similar to exotic clouds found far above Earth's po...

NASA-led study sees Titan glowing at dusk and dawn

Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)

New maps of Saturn's moon Titan reveal large patches of trace gases shining brightly near the north and south poles. These regions are curiously shifted off the...

Organic molecules in Titan's atmosphere are intriguingly skewed

Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)

While studying the atmosphere on Saturn's moon Titan, scientists discovered intriguing zones of organic molecules unexpectedly shifted away from its north and s...

Wobbling of a Saturn moon hints at what lies beneath

Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)

Using instruments aboard the Cassini spacecraft to measure the wobbles of Mimas, the closest of Saturn's regular moons, a Cornell University astronomer publishi...

Titan's Swirling Polar Cloud Is Cold And Toxic

Oct 06, 2014 (ESA)

Scientists analysing data from the mission found that this giant polar vortex contains frozen particles of the toxic compound hydrogen cyanide. "The discovery s...

Winter is coming ... to Titan's south pole

Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)

Titan is unique in our solar system because of its dense nitrogen-methane atmosphere, which is very similar to Earth's in some ways, but very different in other...

Cyanide fog marks winter's onset on Saturn moon Titan

Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)

A cyanide cloud formed over Titan's south pole as the strange moon of Saturn entered its seven-year winter in 2009, astronomers reported on Wednesday. An enigma...

Cassini Watches Mysterious Feature Evolve in Titan Sea

Sep 30, 2014 (JPL)

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a large hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan. The feature covers an area of a...

Bright Clumps in Saturn Ring Now Mysteriously Scarce

Sep 09, 2014 (JPL)

Compared to the age of the solar system -- about four-and-a-half billion years -- a couple of decades are next to nothing. Some planetary locales change little ...

Dot Against the Dark

Sep 08, 2014 (JPL)

As if trying to get our attention, Mimas is positioned against the shadow of Saturn's rings, bright on dark. As we near summer in Saturn's northern hemisphere, ...

Titan's subsurface reservoirs modify methane rainfall

Sep 03, 2014 (ESA)

The international Cassini mission has revealed hundreds of lakes and seas spread across the icy surface of Saturn's moon Titan, mostly in its polar regions. The...

Cassini Tracks Clouds Developing Over a Titan Sea

Aug 13, 2014 (JPL)

NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently captured images of clouds moving across the northern hydrocarbon seas of Saturn's moon Titan. This renewed weather activity, ...

Cassini Prepares For Its Biggest Remaining Burn

Aug 13, 2014 (JPL)

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will execute the largest planned maneuver of the spacecraft's remaining mission on Saturday, Aug. 9. The maneuver will target Cassini ...

Titan Offers Clues to Atmospheres of Hazy Planets

Jul 30, 2014 (NASA)

When hazy planets pass across the face of their star, a curious thing happens. Astronomers are not able to see any changes in the range of light coming from the...

MIPT-based researcher models Titan's atmosphere

Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)

A researcher from MIPT, Prof. Vladimir Krasnopolsky, who heads the Laboratory of High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Planetary Atmospheres, has published t...

Saturn's moon Titan has a very salty ocean

Jul 04, 2014 (JPL)

Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini mission have firm evidence of an ocean inside Saturn's largest moon, Titan, which might be as salty as the Earth's...

Cassini Names Final Mission Phase Its 'Grand Finale'

Jul 04, 2014 (JPL)

With input from more than 2,000 members of the public, team members on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn have chosen a name for the final phase of the mission: t...

Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Exploring Saturn

Jul 04, 2014 (JPL)

It has been a decade since a robotic traveler from Earth first soared over rings of ice and fired its engine to fall forever into the embrace of Saturn. On June...