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Long-lived Titan lakes are boon to life

New Scientist - Being Human (Free subscription) | yesterday

A new study suggests that lakes on the Saturn moon may not be just a 'flash in the pan', giving potential life longer to develop

Scientists Explain Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Titan

LYRA and KAG (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009

News release: 2009-180 Nov. 30, 2009 Scientists Explain Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Titan The full version of this story with accompanying images is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm'release=2009-180&cid=release_2009-180 PASADENA, Calif. -- Researchers at the California Institute of Technology, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and other institutions suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's...

Saturn's Orbit Alters Titan's Topography

Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009

NASA says the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit might have produced the unusually uneven pattern of lakes over the polar regions of Saturn's largest moon, Titan....

U.S. scientists explain methane, ethane lakes on Titan

People Daily (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009

U.S. scientists said the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the Sun may be responsible for the uneven distribution of methane and ethane lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of Saturn's moon, Titan. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) described their theory in the Nov. 29 online edition of Nature Geoscience. Caltech researchers compared the situation with...

Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Titan Explained

Spacefellowship (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn’s orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet’s largest moon, Titan. A paper describing the theory appears in the November 29th advance online edition of [...]

The reason for the Titanian season

Bad Astronomy (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009

Last year, the Cassini spacecraft found solid (haha) evidence for the existence of lakes of liquid methane and ethane on the giant moon Titan. Of course, Titan is barely a moon at all — bigger than Mercury, it would be a planet in its own right if it weren’t orbiting Saturn. It has an atmosphere [...]

Food, Glorious Food

Marc Valdez Weblog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009

Of course, Julia Child never had to work with acetylene : Saturn's frigid moon Titan may be friendlier to life than previously thought. New calculations suggest Titan's hydrocarbon lakes are loaded with acetylene, a chemical some scientists say could serve as food for cold-resistant organisms. ...An estimate made in 1989 suggested bodies of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan would contain a few parts in...

Kenny Britt in place of Titan’s Justin Gage!

Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009

Monday night’s Titan-Texas football game will see the 21-year old Kenny Britt playing in place of Justin Gage. The match is scheduled to start at 7:30pm CT on Monday. Tennessee receiver Justin Gage is out for the Titans’ game against the Texans with broken bones in his lower back. He has not practiced since 8th Nov’09 [...] Related posts: Justin Timberlake: Justin Timberlake is America’s...

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NASA Cassini Mission: Take a Virtual Tour of Seven Saturn Moons

Death By 1000 Papercuts (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

NASA CASSINI MISSION SENDS BACK PIX FROM SATURN'S MANY MOONS Let's take a tour of some of the many moons of Saturn, courtesy of NASA's Cassini Mission. Some of the photos have been around for a couple months, while others are "hot off the press". Included in this virtual tour of Saturn's Moons are Janus, Rhea, Hyperion, Dione, Penelope, Titan and Enceladus. There are many more, but these...

Icy moon's lakes brim with hearty soup for life

New Scientist (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Lakes on Saturn's moon Titan are loaded with acetylene, a chemical some scientists say could serve as food for cold-resistant organisms, a new study suggests

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ANTI NEW WORLD ORDER (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

An early Italian god who presided over farming, his name coming from the word meaning "to sow." He most resembles Demeter of the Greek dieties, but was later identified or confounded with the Greek Kronos. According to the Greek myth Kronos the son of Uranos (heaven) and Gaea (earth) is the youngest of the Titans. He married Rhea by whom he had several children, all of whom he devoured at...

Extraterrestrial Rafting: Hunting Off-World Sea Life

Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

Sniffing out life on Titan (Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/SPL) From New Scientist: IF LIFE is to be found beyond our home planet, then our closest encounters with it may come in the dark abyss of some extraterrestrial sea. For Earth is certainly not the only ocean-girdled world in our solar system. As many as five moons of Jupiter and Saturn are now thought to hide seas beneath their icy crusts....

Book of the Day, Friedrich Hölderlin

[helix] (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

I used to collect pictures of clouds. Back when a photograph was something you could hold in the hand like a soda or a coin. I have a photo album comprised of nothing but cloud photos, in fact. A photo album of nothing but beds. A photo album of nothing but one summer in Southern France. A photo album of skating rinks. A photo album full of clouds. There was rare a cloud in the sky today. A halcyon...

Armada of Robots to Explore Saturn's Titan?

The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

Wolfgang Fink, visiting associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena says we are on the brink of a great paradigm shift in planetary exploration, and the next round of robotic explorers will be nothing like what...

Let's go sailing on lakes of Titan!

Skymania News | Space headlines (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009

Space scientists in the US and UK are planning an incredible mission to go sailing on an alien lake on the far side of the solar system. They are proposing a mission in NASA's low-cost Discovery series to launch an unmanned, nuclear-powered "boat" to Saturn's biggest moon Titan in 2015. It would bob about on a vast sea of liquid methane called Ligeia Mare, radioing home photos and other data...