Sentences with phrase «liquid methane seas»

Additional unprocessed images gathered during Cassini's plunge are available online, along with hundreds of thousands collected by the probe during the more than 13 years it has spend studying Saturn and its moons — observations which resulted in the publication of more than 3,000 studies and such discoveries as liquid methane seas at Titan and hydrothermal activity on Enceladus.

Among the probe's major discoveries were Titan's liquid methane seas and a global ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus that showed evidence of hydrothermal activity.

Cassini, which began its journey over two decades ago, facilitated the publication of more than 3,000 scientific papers with the data it collected and is responsible for several major discoveries, including liquid methane seas on Titan and evidence of hydrothermal activity on Enceladus.

Solar heating could create currents in liquid methane seas on Saturn's largest moon — which could pose a challenge for proposed missions there

There's enough vinyl cyanide (C2H3CN) in the moon's liquid methane seas to make about 10 million cell - like balls per...

There's enough vinyl cyanide (C2H3CN) in the moon's liquid methane seas to make about 10 million cell - like balls per cubic centimeter of ocean, researchers calculate.

Not exact matches

Cassini also discovered that the moon has three large seas and a number of smaller lakes made of liquid methane.

A sea of liquid methane laps a shore of solid ice as the biggest rainstorm ever falls from an orange sky.

Titan is the only place in the solar system, besides Earth, that has large bodies of liquid on its surface, though its seas are composed of hydrocarbons such as methane rather than water.

With the sun now shining down over the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, a little luck with the weather, and trajectories that put the spacecraft into optimal viewing positions, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained new pictures of the liquid methane and ethane seas and lakes that reside near Titan's north pole.

And its seas are made of liquid methane, in which lipid membranes couldn't develop.

That doesn't mean it would be a good vacation spot, however; those dark lakes and seas, which mostly cluster around the north pole, are filled with liquid methane and ethane.

There are no jolly elves at Titan's north pole; liquid methane and ethane seas appear as splotchy features near the moon's poles.