In 2004, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft first began orbiting Saturn and studying its moon Titan, Brigham
Young University planetary scientist Jani Radebaugh was puzzled.
Not exact matches
«There is an urgent need to determine the precise age and composition of the Moon's
youngest volcanism,» says James Head, a specialist in
planetary exploration at Brown
University in Providence, Rhode Island.
That's lightweight enough to be
young, says
planetary scientist Larry Esposito of the
University of Colorado Boulder, a longtime old rings proponent who wasn't involved in the new work.
According to Jani Radebaugh, a
planetary scientist at Brigham
Young University who was not involved in the study, these results are notable because they represent a big step forward in studying the Saturnian moon's surface.