2019年7月19日 · Using observations from the international Cassini spacecraft, scientists have explored the ring-like mounds that wrap around some of the pools found at the poles of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The study reveals more about how these features formed.

2018年9月14日 · During NASA’s Cassini mission’s final distant encounter with Saturn’s giant moon Titan, the spacecraft captured the enigmatic moon’s north polar landscape of lakes and seas, which are filled with liquid methane and ethane. They were captured on 11 September 2017. Four days later, Cassini was deliberately plunged into the atmosphere of ...

The flyby marks the mission’s final opportunity for up-close observations of the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons that spread across the moon’s northern polar region, and the last chance to use its powerful radar to pierce the haze and make detailed images of the surface. Closest approach to Titan is planned for 06:08am UTC on 21 April.

2017年3月18日 · Lakes on the surface of Saturn moon, Titan, could fizz with nitrogen. Image credit: NASA A recent NASA-funded study has shown how the hydrocarbon lakes and seas of Saturn’s moon Titan might occasionally erupt with dramatic patches of bubbles.

2017年12月21日 · These two missions are both robotic missions, and one aims to sample a comet and return those samples. The other is a drone-like rotorcraft concept, which will explore the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. These concepts were announced on Wednesday 20 December 2017, after a thorough peer review process.

2017年4月5日 · During its time at Saturn, Cassini has made numerous dramatic discoveries, including a global ocean that showed indications of hydrothermal activity within the icy moon Enceladus, and liquid methane seas on its moon Titan. Now 20 years since launching from Earth, and after 13 years orbiting the ringed planet, Cassini is running low on fuel.

2016年1月7日 · Escape to Titan. When the Sun scorches the Earth, a tiny moon in orbit around the ringed giant Saturn is our next home. Frozen stellar giant + 10 of the weirdest stars in galaxy. Meet some of the Sun’s wackiest stellar cousins. Next-generation space planes. All About Space welcomes you aboard your future ride into space. Are we alone in the ...

A NASA project is working on a new way to slow down planetary spacecraft to enable an ingenious hopping dwarf planet mission

This theory was proved correct by Mariner 2 in 1962. He was also one of the first scientists to suggest that Saturn’s moon Titan might have liquids on its surface, and he helped study shifts in surface dust on Mars. Some of his most famous research concerned extraterrestrial life, which he was sure existed.

We take a look inside asteroids to discover what these massive space rocks are made of, we uncover plans to land boats on Saturn’s moon Titan and we show you how to see the Universe’s biggest explosions – supernovas – with your telescope.