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Twenty years ago, a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a billion mile trek to Saturn. The photos the probe ...
On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe made history by landing on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and sending back stunning data that gave us our first detailed look at this mysterious world. Now, on ...
As you watch the video, remember that this landing still marks the most remote alien surface ever visited by a human probe. Huygens had been dropped off 21 days prior by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), in collaboration with the ground-based Keck II telescope, has for the first time ...
For years, scientists have been intrigued by Titan as an alien world that might have the right conditions to host life, albeit in a very different form than on Earth. New research by NASA reveals that ...
New research shows how cell-like vesicles could form in Titan’s methane lakes, hinting at possible steps toward life - without water.
Cassini’s Huygens probe also dropped beneath Titan’s atmosphere and landed on its surface, giving astronomers an excellent view of it’s terrain. Burns ranks this as a critical discovery.
NASA's Cassini–Huygens spacecraft studied Titan between 2004 and 2017 and observed cloud convection during late summer months in the southern hemisphere, but this new study is the first to watch ...
This colorized view of an image returned Friday by the Huygens probe is processed to give a better indication of the actual hue of the surface of Saturn s moon Titan. Initially thought to be rocks ...