Tag: huygens
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Titan – A Place Like Home
BBC Horizon program, “Titan – A Place Like Home?” The largest moon of Saturn, Titan remained largely unknown due to its heavy cloud cover. Cassini-Huygens spacecraft launched in 1997, entered orbit around Saturn by 2004. “It [Huygens] reached Saturn’s moon Titan on January 14, 2005, when it entered Titan’s atmosphere and descended to the surface.…
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life in the outer solar system
Europa seems high on a short list of worlds to explore. The Jovian moon has a global-wide ocean underneath a surface of solid ice, the prospect of finding life seems promising. Mark Elowitz’s Europa Exobiology page provides excellent pictures and even suggests an explanation for the reddish spots, which may be warmer ice rising near…