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The ominous Kraken Mare, Titan’s largest lake, is hiding something far deeper than scientists ever expected
There is no shortage of interest in Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere, surface lakes and seas ...
The researchers studied how Titan’s strongest gravitational harmonics, particularly J2 and J4, shape the motion of satellites at a wide range of distances from the surface. Below about ten Titan radii ...
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Titan’s slushy interior reveals new clues to alien habitability
Nobody was expecting very strong energy dissipation inside Titan,” says Flavio Petricca, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. That surprise signal, wrung from archival Cassini ...
Saturn’s moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what makes the depressions they lie in? A new study suggests that the moon’s surface dissolves in a similar process ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Wednesday, May 26 at 8 pm ET, discover what we hope to learn about Saturn’s fascinating moon Titan, featuring planetary scientist Zibi Turtle.
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