Saturn's Moon Titan: Prebiotic Laboratory
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by Harry Bortman    In this second and final part of the interview, Lunine explains how Huygens may help scientists understand the origin of life on Earth, even if it doesn't detect life on Titan.    Astrobiology Magazine -- Titan is the only moon in our solar system with an atmosphere, and it is the organic chemistry that has been detected in that atmosphere that has sparked the imagination of planetary scientists like Lunine...
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PASADENA, Calif. - After the Cassini spacecraft&#39;s close-up photography and radar imaging of Saturn&#39;s largest moon, the first parting of its veil of dense smog, scientists know this much for sure about Titan
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PASADENA, Calif. Scientists don&#39;t know what to make of new close-up images of Saturn&#39;s giant moon Titan. Pictures taken by the European-US Cassini spacecraft show distinct dark and bright areas -- but scientists
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UC Berkeley -- On Jan. 14, 2005, the Huygens probe will plow into the orange atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan, becoming the first spacecraft to attempt to land on a moon in our solar system since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 touched down on Earth's moon in 1976...
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The European Space Agency prepares to send its Huygens probe hurtling through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan. What the probe will find on the other side is anybody's guess. By Amit Asaravala.
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Description: Images of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan sent back by the Cassini spacecraft show the outlines of what could be continents, lakes or something else entirely.
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DARMSTADT, Germany -- The  first pictures revealing the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan, were shown from  Europe's Huygens probe, showing what look like drainage channels on the surface  of what until today has been a planet totally hidden from view.
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Whether formed on Earth or brought here by meteorites, -amino acids are widely assumed to have been present in the prebiotic chemical soup.
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Bigger than Lake Superior NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed giant lakes on Saturn's moon Titan, one of which - at 39,000 square miles - is bigger than Lake Superior.â¦
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The Cassini spacecraft is heading for its first close encounter with Saturn&#39;s moon Titan tomorrow. University of Arizona scientists on the mission say Cassini will get its first real glimpse of Titan surface
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Scientists now have their first direct evidence of changing weather patterns on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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Saturn's moon, Enceladus, was discovered two hundred and fifteen years ago today, but the Cassini probe has targeted this icy world for its lunar tour through the Saturnian system.    Astrobiology Magazine -- Two hundred and fifteen years ago today, Sir William Herschel discovered Saturn's moon Enceladus (499 kilometers, 310 miles across)...
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Is there really life out there?  Was a kinder, wetter Mars once dotted by bacterial blooms whose progeny now await our discovery?  Do unseen, alien microbes swim in the buried oceans of Europa, Callisto, or Ganymede?  What about Titan's sub-zero methane lakes?
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Snowing at the poles Scientists suspect that ethane falls as rain or snow on Saturn's moon Titan, after the Cassini spacecraft identified a huge cloud of the hydrocarbon in its atmosphere.â¦
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Early snapshots of Titan, the enigmatic moon of Saturn, show it may be dimpled with huge lakes. Its surface also seems to be etched with cracks or ridges - similar in signature to pressure ridges found in ice flows at the Earth&#39;s polar caps.
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The Cassini spacecraft has discovered three new lakes near the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan.  These strange bodies are filled not with water but liquid methane and ethane. Researchers are also studying a lake near Titan's north pole larger than Lake Superior.
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PASADENA, Calif. - The theory that Saturn&#39;s giant moon Titan has oceans or seas of liquid methane and ethane faced its best test yet Tuesday.