Sentences with phrase «largest moon titan»

Saturn's largest moon Titan is one of the most promising worlds in the solar system in the search for alien life.

Now a team has developed a concept mission called Dragonfly proposing a dual - quadcopter that could embark upon multiple missions on Saturn's largest moon Titan.

The hazy blue halo of Saturn's largest moon Titan is seen here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in an image captured on Nov. 3, 2013 and released on Dec. 23.

«New Cassini data from Saturn's largest moon Titan indicate a rigid, weathered ice shell.»

Another planetary body, Saturn's largest moon Titan, also routinely comes up in discussions of extraterrestrial biology.

The surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan might be covered, salt - like crystals that could be among the ingredients for nitrogen - based alien life

Not exact matches

Close encounters with Saturn's largest moon, Titan, have allowed navigators to use the moon's gravity to reorient the probe's orbit so that it could swing over Saturn's poles.

Update: NASA's selected two finalists: CAESAR, a probe to collect and return a sample of comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko, and Dragonfly, a helicopter - like drone that'd explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

A small scope also will show Titan, Saturn's largest and most intriguing moon.

Washington State University researchers are working with NASA to determine how a submarine might work on Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons and the second largest in the solar system.

This panorama was captured in 2005 as the Huygens probe plummeted through the thick nitrogen atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

These images show the south pole of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

In fact, only one moon in the entire solar system — Jupiter's Ganymede — is larger than Titan.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, dominates the view.

Titan, the largest of Saturn's more than 60 moons, is the other body in our solar system with a nitrogen - rich atmosphere that resembles ours.

Titan is Saturn's largest moon, a cryogenically cold world with a surface shaped by hydrocarbon rivers and seas fed by methane, ethane and complex organic compounds raining out of its thick, smoggy atmosphere.

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is bigger than the planet Mercury.

The hazy moon Titan is the largest in the Saturn system.

But another of Jupiter's satellites, icy Europa, is a contender, as are Enceladus and the largest of Saturn's moons, Titan.

This is the view on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, more than a billion kilometres away.

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is indeed the complex and captivating place that planetary scientists suspected.

These dunes are linear, or longitudinal, formed when winds blow in two predominant directions, varying seasonally — like the dunes on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

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.

The largest of Saturn's 30 satellites, Titan has the distinction of being the only gas - enshrouded moon in the solar system.

But for anything larger, Titan's gravity, which is one seventh that of the Earth and about the same as our Moon, dominates.

... If anything, the findings intensify interest in the possibility of life on Mars and large moons such as Titan and Europa, which are suspected of containing liquid water beneath their ice shells.»

DEEP DOWN One of the largest seas on Titan, Ligeia Mare, seen in this false - color radar image taken by the Cassini spacecraft, extends more than 200 meters below the moon's surface.

Scientists have lavished the most attention on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, a 3,200 - mile - wide world covered with a thick, hazy atmosphere.

So was the fate of many a meteorite that struck Saturn's largest moon, according to a new analysis of Titan's topography.

«Dragonfly» dual - quadcopter aims to explore Titan, Saturn's largest moon.»

As the planet coalesced during the birth of the solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago, the swirling disk of gas surrounding it included several moons about the size of Titan, Saturn's largest remaining satellite, which is about 50 % larger than Earth's moon.

And with good reason: The largest of those moons, 3,200 - mile - wide Titan, has an atmosphere that may be similar to that of our own planet in its younger days, and Enceladus, a 300 - mile - wide ball, has a geologically active surface.

This false - color mosaic, made from infrared data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveals the differences in the composition of surface materials around hydrocarbon lakes at Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

«Titan's tallest peaks: Towering mountain discovered on Saturn's largest moon.»

TITAN, Saturn's largest moon, may have its own Dead Sea.

That helps explain why Titan, Saturn's largest and most exotic moon, has planetary scientists so excited.

NASA has selected two missions to further explore past targets — Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and the comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko — as the final candidates for its next billion - dollar robotic spacecraft, the agency announced today.

Astronomers hoped the Huygens probe would reveal a global ocean of methane when it parachuted to the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, on January 14, 2005.

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.

Her fascination with the planets has proved even more durable: Schaller now uses NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea in Hawaii to monitor methane clouds on Titan, where bizarre weather patterns could explain the extraordinary lakes, streams, and channels observed on Saturn's largest moon.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has methane rivers and clouds, and mountains and valleys — so it superficially resembles Earth.

When Voyager 1 passed Titan in 1980, it couldn't see the surface of Saturn's largest moon: solar ultraviolet radiation drives reactions between nitrogen and methane molecules in its atmosphere that yield a thick, orange - brown gunk.

In December, Cassini pointed its radar straight down over Titan's largest lake, Ontario Lacus, which spans 235 kilometres at the moon's south pole.

But Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has lakes of ethane; smaller Enceladus may have a subsurface ocean of fizzy seawater.

They snake across the equatorial deserts of Titan, Saturn's largest moon — the only moon in our solar system with a substantial atmosphere.

The largest lake on Saturn's moon Titan is as smooth as a mirror, varying in height by less than 3 millimetres, a new study shows.

The environment on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, may seem surprisingly familiar: Clouds condense and rain down on the surface, feeding rivers that flow into oceans and lakes.

Cassini captured this image of Saturn with it's largest moon, Titan, in the foreground on August 29, 2012.

An analysis of gravity and topography data from Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has revealed unexpected features of the moon's outer ice shell.

A dynamical interplay between Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and its rings is captured in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Sept. 20, 2009 and released Dec. 23, 2013.