Sentences with phrase «giant moon titan»

This six - image mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn, its rings and the planet's giant moon Titan.

She was there as Cassini discovered lakes of liquid methane and ethane dotting the poles of Saturn's giant moon Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury.

And planetary probes have uncovered organic molecules in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's giant moon Titan, as well as amino acids in meteorites.

At another extreme, Saturn's giant moon Titan seems more like a planet in its own right, larger than Mercury and cloaked in a dense atmosphere.

On Saturn's giant moon Titan, the seasons should now be turning, but summer in its southern hemisphere is defying predictions by refusing to end.

Not exact matches

The photos include close - ups of the gaseous giant, its famous rings, and its enigmatic moons — including Titan, which has its own atmosphere, and icy Enceladus, which has a subsurface ocean that could conceivably harbor microbial life.

New images from the Huygens probe reveal that Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, has giant sand - dune deserts that bear a striking resemblance to those found here on Earth.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — It's springtime on Titan, Saturn's giant and frigid moon, and the action on its hydrocarbon seas seems to be heating up.

Other possible targets for Falcon Heavy include Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus and the ice giants Neptune and Uranus.

Ground - based observations of Titan, the giant planet's largest moon, helped with preparations for the Huygens probe mission early in Cassini's exploration of the Saturn system.

-- to explore the Solar System beyond Mars to understand how giant planets and their moons form and evolve, to search for habitable environments on and within moons (like Enceladus, Europa and Titan), and to examine the farthest bodies in the solar system for clues to the early history of the solar system.

According to NASA, Cassini, which arrived in the Saturn system in mid-2004, obtained the images during a close flyby of Titan on July 25, when it came as close as 607 miles from the giant moon.

They range in size from giant Titan, which is larger than planets Mercury and Pluto, down to very tiny moons that orbit the planet in its rings.

Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini mission have discovered that a giant, toxic cloud is hovering over the south pole of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after the atmosphere there cooled dramatically.

Instead of heading to the stars and «terra - forming» planets for human occupation, why not modify humans so that they can occupy hostile habitats such as that offered by Saturn's giant moon, Titan?

Don't tell Exxon, but the January 29th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters contains new findings by the Cassini radar team about Titan, Saturn's moon:» [It] is just covered in carbon - bearing material — it's a giant factory of organic chemicals.