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Geotimes February 2005 |
Touching Titan Little more than an hour after landing, the Huygens probe sent back its first shots of Saturn's largest moon. |
Science News July 15, 2006 |
Science Safari: A Meteoroid Hits the Moon This NASA Web page describes observations of a recent meteoroid impact on the moon, which created a new crater. |
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Tiny Moon, Gigantic Geyser A tiny moon of Saturn, no larger than England, is changing researchers' notions about which celestial bodies can support geologic activity. |
Geotimes February 2007 |
Cassini Sees Lakes on Titan Radar imaging from the July 22, 2006, flyby of the Cassini spacecraft is providing what researchers call "convincing evidence" for large bodies of liquid. |
Geotimes December 2004 |
A Saturnian One-Two Punch: Flybys of Titan and Dione On Monday, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft flew by Titan only 1,200 kilometers above the moon's surface. It was the second such flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, since the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn on June 30. |
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
New View of a Saturnian Moon More than 250 years after astronomers first discovered Saturn's moon Hyperion, the odd celestial body is still presenting surprises. A closer-than-ever view of the moon revealed a heavily cratered surface, which looks remarkably like a sponge. |
Geotimes October 2003 |
Hydrocarbon oceans on Titan Ground-based radar telescopes finally have penetrated the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon to yield the first reliable evidence that it might have hydrocarbon oceans. |
Geotimes May 2005 Laura Stafford |
Saturn's New Moon In a small space between Saturn's rings, scientists discovered a previously unknown moon, currently known as S/2005 S1, from the images sent back to Earth from Cassini less than a year after the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn. |
Popular Mechanics December 18, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
Findings on Saturn's Moon Titan: You Say Ice-Spewing Volcano, I Say Squiggly Lines Rosalyn Lopes of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory made the case at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco that icy volcanoes exist on Titan. |
Geotimes July 2004 Jay Chapman |
Sliding into Saturn Late Wednesday night, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft silently slipped through the outermost rings of Saturn and entered into orbit. By early Thursday morning, Cassini began transmitting strikingly elegant close-up images of Saturn's rings. |
Popular Mechanics June 2006 Jennifer Bogo |
Beholding Saturn This mosaic of 126 images from Cassini is the most detailed, natural-color view of Saturn ever made. NASA's imaging specialist explains the stunning view from the Cassini spacecraft. |
Scientific American November 2008 John Rennie |
Looking at Moons from Apollo 8 and Cassini When this world has you down, try looking at it from another one |
Geotimes January 2005 Sara Pratt |
Frozen Volcanism on Titan In late October, the synthetic aperture radar on the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft penetrated Titan's atmosphere of organic smog and captured images of the surface, revealing features that resemble lava domes and lava flows. |
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
Geotimes August 2005 Megan Sever |
Icy Methane Volcano on Titan New images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during a flyby of Saturn's largest satellite are now revealing what researchers think is evidence of a large volcano on Titan that could be erupting methane. |
Geotimes July 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Titanic Lake? Cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently recorded a surface feature on Titan, Saturn's largest moon that looks remarkably lake-like. |
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Titanic Methane Mystery Solved? Planetary scientists discovered dozens of lakes, some connected by river-like channels, at Titan's north pole. Researchers suggest that the lakes could hold enough liquid methane to resupply the Saturnian moon's atmosphere with methane gas. |
Science News November 12, 2005 |
Moon Zoom A link to access software developed by NASA that allows you to interactively browse three-dimensional images of the moon. |
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Dunes on Titan Sand dunes discovered on Saturn's moon Titan are structurally similar to dunes in Earth's Namib desert in southern Africa. The dunes' various orientations are helping astronomers map Titan's wind patterns. |
Geotimes January 2005 Megan Sever |
Huygens touches down on Titan Grins and thumbs-up signs began a press conference to announce that the Huygens probe had landed successfully on Saturn's largest moon. |
Chemistry World July 22, 2009 James Urquhart |
Signs of water on Enceladus The idea that liquid water exists below the surface of one of Saturn's moons has been given a boost thanks to researchers in the US and China who have detected ammonia, various organic compounds, and possibly argon. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 |
Cassini Camera Sees Into the Eye of a Storm on Saturn NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet-a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds. |
Science News October 15, 2005 Ivars Peterson |
Chaotic Moon When the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft swung within 500 kilometers of Saturn's moon Hyperion last month, it snapped close-up photos that revealed a spectacularly cratered, craggy, splintered pile of rubble. With its spongy look, it bore little resemblance to any other satellite of Saturn. |
AskMen.com |
Water On The Moon NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water. |
Science News July 24, 2004 |
Wonders of Saturn As the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft begins its detailed exploration of Saturn, get up-to-date information about this fascinating planet and intriguing moons and rings. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 |
NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources NASA is using the unique optical capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope for a new class of scientific observations of the Earth's Moon. |
Geotimes April 2005 Sara Pratt |
Listening to Titan As the Huygens probe descended through Titan's smoggy atmosphere, scientists on Earth were able to listen in on sounds from the moon's surface. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 |
NASA Uses Graphics Software From Right Hemisphere NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) purchased Right Hemisphere's Deep Server software to use for product graphics management (PGM) across its facilities. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
NASA Considering Mars Drone For 2020 Rover The next NASA Mars rover may include a helper drone. |
Scientific American April 2005 Mark Alpert |
Strange New World Piercing the haze, Huygens gets a view of Titan's surface. |
Chemistry World September 16, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Peering into Titan's haze A new study has thrown light on the processes that form organic molecules called polyynes in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. |
Geotimes December 2006 |
Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc. |
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Titanic Methane Mystery Solved? The case of the elusive source of methane on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, could soon come to a close, some astronomers say. A new model suggests that instead of storage within surface lakes or an ocean, methane lies inside an icy crust and periodic changes release it into the atmosphere. |
Wired September 22, 2008 Vince Beiser |
Use Big Robots -- and Big Rockets Carolyn Porco has been criticizing the space program's shuttle-centric approach for years, and now the agency is finally listening to her. Here are points she would make if she were granted an audience with the president. |
Geotimes December 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Space: Alien Worlds Finding Earth Analogues in Space: Q&A with planetary scientist David Stevenson. |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Geotimes January 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Saturn Surprises with Southern Storm Earth, Jupiter and Venus have all been observed to support giant, rotating storm masses. Now, astronomers have found that Saturn, too, boasts a hurricane-like structure at its south pole. |
Wired December 2004 Patrick Di Justo |
Mysteries of the Cosmos The top 13 places to explore in outer space. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Toth & Turyshev |
Finding the Source of the Pioneer Anomaly Thirty years ago, the first spacecraft sent to explore the outer solar system started slowing unexpectedly. Now we finally know what happened |
CIO July 27, 2012 James Rinaldi |
NASA's New Innovation Mission This 2012 CIO 100 Award-winning strategy gets everyone in on space exploration |
AskMen.com |
Water On The Moon The moon isn't the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen. |
Popular Mechanics May 27, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Phoenix Lander Doesn't Crash, Snaps Pix of Mars (With Gallery!) NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down on Sunday night in an unexplored region near the Martian north pole. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Rhea |
Money for space Space exploration is becoming politically fashionable again, and advanced technology firms would be well advised to get on board while the getting is good. |
PC Magazine December 24, 2003 Jennifer Harsany |
Out of This World The Deep Space Network will be used to communicate with spacecrafts landing on Mars collecting comet dust, and probing the rings and moons of Saturn. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Rachel Courtland |
Curiosity's 1-Ton Touchdown The Mars rover will rely on dead reckoning and radar to land on the Red Planet |
Popular Mechanics April 2003 Paul Eisenstein |
Biggest Engine Ever Built It was the largest, most powerful rocket ever built and, having served as the launch platform for the Apollo manned moon mission, probably qualifies as the most famous rocket as well. |
Geotimes March 2005 Joseph Richard Gutheinz |
Marketing an Asteroid Threat NASA would prefer to market its successes, but with a mixed bag of successes and failures lately, they have opted for a new public relations ploy: fear -- whether it be fear of the environment or fear of asteroids. |
Chemistry World July 27, 2015 Katrina Kramer |
A space traveller's guide to the solar system Mark Thompson will take you on a holiday around our solar system in his new book, A space traveler's guide to the solar system -- a journey that promises to be both terrifying and awe-inspiring. |
Popular Mechanics December 23, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Ready for Its April Launch, but Will It Help the U.S. Return to the Moon? The orbiter is more than just another satellite looking at moon rocks -- this mission is one of the first steps in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon, and use the moon as a springboard to reach beyond. |
AskMen.com |
Europe Horns In On Mars By 2016, the U.S. may unite with the European Space Agency for future Mars trips - a move that would mark a significant shift for NASA. |