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Scientists have known for a while that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has rivers and seas of liquid methane on its surface.
Chop Shop on Tuesday (April 8) began seeking fans of robotic satellites and interplanetary spacecraft to help ... of the 1970s and 1980s; the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and its moon Titan ...
The 20-year journey of the Cassini-Huygens ... Christiaan Huygens, after whom the mission was named. Let us see how exactly the latter, Huygens, whose name was used for the probe, was involved ...
Lunine and other Huygens team members are still poring over the 219 minutes' worth of Titan images, and expect to learn more from the Cassini orbiter, which dropped off the probe last December and ...
That spacecraft -- named the Huygens probe -- was sent from Earth by the European Space Agency along with the Cassini spacecraft to help humanity learn more about Saturn and its 53 known moons.
Scientists learned of Titan’s liquid bodies when the Cassini spacecraft flew by in 2006 ... For the study, Birch developed a numerical model to simulate what Cassini’s SAR would see if ...
On March 25, 1655, Saturn's moon Titan was discovered by the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens (a name that ... the European Space Agency sent a spacecraft to Titan and named it after him.
Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.