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Yale researcher has a window seat for planning NASA's Dragonfly mission
Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)
That's when the real work will begin, he says. Finally, after long years of preparation and modeling, Lora and his colleagues on the scientific end of the NASA ...
SMU's 'Titans in a jar' could answer key questions ahead of NASA's space exploration
Jul 05, 2019 (SPX)
NASA announced in late June that its "Dragonfly" mission would launch toward Saturn's largest moon in 2026, expecting to arrive in 2034. The goal of the mission...
The mission of a lifetime: a drone on Titan in 2034
Jul 04, 2019 (AFP)
But the launch of "Dragonfly" won't happen until 2026 -- surely a frustrating detail, given she has been studying Titan for 15 years? "It's not going to feel li...
Dragonfly Mission to Study Titan for Origins, Signs of Life
Jul 02, 2019 (SPX)
The Dragonfly mission, part of NASA's New Frontiers program, will sample materials and determine surface composition to investigate Titan's organic chemistry an...
NASA's Dragonfly Will Fly Around Titan Looking for Origins, Signs of Life
Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)
Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and arrive in 2034. The rotorcraft will fly to dozens of promising locations on Titan looking for prebiotic chemical processes com...
Bathtub rings around Titan's lakes might be made of alien crystals
Jun 27, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists re-creating Titan-esque conditions in their laboratory have discovered new compounds and minerals not found on Earth, including a co-crystal made of ...
Cassini reveals new sculpting in Saturn rings
Jun 17, 2019 (JPL)
Although the mission ended in 2017, science continues to flow from the data collected. A new paper published June 13 in Science describes results from four Cass...
Researchers find ice feature on Saturn's giant moon
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
While trying to find the source of Titan's methane, University of Arizona researcher Caitlin Griffith and her team discovered something unexoldpected - a long i...
Giant planets and big data: What deep learning reveals about Saturn's storms
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
The new technique, called PlanetNet, identifies and maps the components and features in turbulent regions of Saturn's atmosphere, giving insights into the proce...
Deep learning takes Saturn by storm
Apr 30, 2019 (SPX)
The new technique, called PlanetNet, identifies and maps the components and features in turbulent regions of Saturn's atmosphere, giving insights into the proce...
NASA's Cassini Reveals Surprises with Titan's Lakes
Apr 16, 2019 (JPL)
The new findings, published April 15 in Nature Astronomy, are the first confirmation of just how deep some of Titan's lakes are (more than 300 feet, or 100 mete...
New close-ups of the mini-moons in Saturn's rings
Mar 29, 2019 (JPL)
"The daring, close flybys of these odd little moons let us peer into how they interact with Saturn's rings," said Bonnie Buratti of NASA's Jet Propulsion Labora...
Scientist sheds light on Titan's mysterious nitrogen atmosphere
Jan 24, 2019 (SPX)
"Titan is a very interesting moon because it has this very thick atmosphere, which makes it unique among moons in our solar system," said Dr. Kelly Miller, rese...
Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn
Jan 21, 2019 (SPX)
The figure has eluded planetary scientists for decades, because the gas giant has no solid surface with landmarks to track as it rotates, and it has an unusual ...
Waves in Saturn's rings give precise measurement of planet's rotation rate
Jan 21, 2019 (SPX)
The researchers studied wave patterns created within Saturn's rings by the planet's internal vibrations. In effect, the rings act as an extremely sensitive seis...
Cassini data show Saturn's Rings relatively new
Jan 18, 2019 (JPL)
The findings indicate that Saturn's rings formed between 10 million and 100 million years ago. From our planet's perspective, that means Saturn's rings may have...
Saturn hasn't always had rings
Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)
Precise measurements of Cassini's final trajectory have now allowed scientists to make the first accurate estimate of the amount of material in the planet's rin...
Evidence of Changing Seasons, Rain on Titan's North Pole
Jan 17, 2019 (SPX)
"The whole Titan community has been looking forward to seeing clouds and rains on Titan's north pole, indicating the start of the northern summer, but despite w...
NASA Research Reveals Saturn is Losing Its Rings at Worst-Case-Scenario Rate
Dec 18, 2018 (SPX)
"We estimate that this 'ring rain' drains an amount of water products that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn's rings in half an hour," said ...
Water on Saturn's Moon Phoebe Is Out of This World
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
The results, found in the Icarus paper "Isotopic Ratios of Saturn's Rings and Satellites: Implications for the Origin of Water and Phoebe" by Planetary Science ...
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