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Titan’s seas look more and more like Earth’s — except they’re made of methane
These vast expanses of liquid, however, are not water but hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane, forming seas, lakes, and ...
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Saturn's moon Titan has insulating methane-rich crust up to six miles thick
Because of its extremely cold temperature, the liquids on Titan are made of hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, and the surface is made of solid water ice. A new study published in The Planetary ...
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Rolling boulders on Titan could threaten NASA's Dragonfly mission
The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put ...
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Titan and MOL Complete LNG and bio-LNG Bunkering
Titan Clean Fuels (Titan) and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) completed the first LNG and liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG) bunkering ...
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Cryovolcanism on Titan may replenish its thick atmosphere
“One of the many cool things about Titan is its very thick atmosphere, which is mostly nitrogen,” she says. “But it also has an important five percent or so of methane. And methane ...
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Life as we don't know it: Some aliens may need sulfuric acid like we need water
Titan's frigid lakes of methane have been a hotspot for speculation about life as we don't know it ever since NASA's Cassini Saturn orbiter sent home the first photos of them in 2005. Methane and ...
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Actual footage shows what it was like to land on Saturn's moon Titan
The video shows actual footage from the spacecraft's point of view as it passed through the hazy layers of Titan's atmosphere, spotted "drainage canals" that suggest rivers of liquid methane run ...