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Titan

Illustration of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft diving through the plume of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in 2015
Posted inFeatures

Marine Science Goes to Space

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 4 January 202325 September 2023

Space and ocean scientists take a splash course in multidisciplinary science to chart our solar system’s ocean worlds.

The orange moon Titan passes in front of the striped disk of the planet Saturn, with Saturn’s rings seen edge on, forming a thin line between the moon and planet.
Posted inNews

Long-Gone Moon Could Explain Birth of Saturn’s Rings

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 20 October 202224 May 2023

Named Chrysalis, the moon could have disintegrated during a close encounter with the gas giant roughly 100 million years ago.

Una ilustración de un artista de Titán como su fuera una portada de libro.
Posted inGeoFIZZ

El universo de Dune inspira la nomenclatura de Titán

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 27 July 202126 January 2022

En todo el sistema solar, la ciencia choca con la ciencia ficción en formas literarias.

A natural color image of Titan, which looks like a fuzzy orange ball set in a black background
Posted inNews

A Window into the Weather on Titan

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 22 March 20218 March 2022

Cassini’s final flybys of Saturn’s largest moon may have captured a temperature drop due to rainfall, one of the first observations of weather changes on Titan.

An artist’s rendering of Titan as a Dune-like book cover
Posted inGeoFIZZ

Dune Universe Inspires Titan’s Nomenclature

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 19 October 202013 March 2024

Across the solar system, science collides with science fiction in literary ways.

Ligeia Mare
Posted inNews

Scientists Search for Deltas on Saturn’s Largest Moon

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 31 January 202019 September 2023

Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers that empty into seas…but where are the deltas?

Posted inGeoFIZZ

Spirits Are Flying High for Dragonfly and Titan

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 28 June 201917 January 2023

We’re sending a mission back to Titan, and it’s time to celebrate.

Radar map of Titan’s lake distric
Posted inNews

Titan’s Northern Lake District Has Hidden Depths

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 24 April 201910 March 2023

Radar and infrared data from flybys reveal new details about Titan’s northern lakes.

Researchers peer through Titan’s atmosphere to understand its surface geology
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Peering Through Titan’s Haze to Better Understand Its Surface

by Terri Cook 5 June 201825 August 2022

Variations in grain size and water ice content detected on Saturn’s largest moon offer evidence of geologically related units that resemble the mountain-to-desert transition on Earth.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Cassini’s Legacy in Print

by Jenny Lunn, Michael W. Liemohn, Mark Moldwin and E. P. Turtle 20 September 201717 February 2023

With over 750 papers published in AGU journals based on Cassini-Huygens mission data, three editors select some of the most noteworthy.

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