Sentences with phrase «thick nitrogen atmosphere»

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

The thick nitrogen atmosphere holds fog, mist, smoggy haze and rain clouds.

Not exact matches

Saturn's moon Titan is the only moon in the solar system that has an atmosphere as thick as Earth's, consisting of more than 98 percent nitrogen, roughly 1.4 percent of methane, and smaller amounts of other gases.

Titan is a hazy moon with a thick, orange nitrogen atmosphere.

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.

Like Earth, it has a thick nitrogen - suffused atmosphere and rainwashed surfaces carved with rivers, canyons and seas.

Titan is the second largest moon in the solar system, after Jupiter's moon Ganymede, and it's sometimes called a planet - like moon: It's the only other world in our neighborhood to feature stable bodies of liquid on its surface, and it has a thick atmosphere made mostly of nitrogen.

This artist's conception shows Titan's surface with Saturn appearing dimly in the background through Titan's thick atmosphere of mostly nitrogen and methane.

Saturn is seen in the background through Titan's thick atmosphere of methane, ethane and (mostly) nitrogen.

If nitrogen gas, which makes up 80 % of the atmosphere, radiated «according to it's temperature», how would anyone be able to take an IR photograph that didn't look like a photo taken in a thick fog?