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Mystery Feature Evolves in Titan’s Ligeia Mare
Credit: NASA These images from the Radar instrument aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show the evolution of a transient feature in the large hydrocarbon sea named Ligeia Mare on Saturn’s moon Titan....
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Cassini Spies Titan’s Tallest Peaks
The trio of ridges on Titan known as Mithrim Montes is home to the hazy Saturnian moon’s tallest peak. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI In a nod to extraterrestrial mountaineers of the future, scientists...
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Computer model explains sustained eruptions on icy moon of Saturn
Credit: NASA The Cassini spacecraft has observed geysers erupting on Saturn’s moon Enceladus since 2005, but the process that drives and sustains these eruptions has remained a mystery. Now scientists...
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Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan
Sunlight glints off of Titan’s northern seas this near-infrared, color mosaic from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Credits: NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona/Univ. Idaho Of the hundreds of moons in our solar system,...
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Enceladus Jets: Surprises in Starlight
The gravitational pull of Saturn changes the amount of particles spraying from the south pole of Saturn’s active moon Enceladus at different points in its orbit. More particles make the plume appear...
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Hydrogen cyanide on Titan key to possible prebiotic conditions
An image of Titan’s surface, as taken by the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe as it plunged through the moon’s thick, orange-brown atmosphere on Jan. 14, 2005. Today, Cornell scientists have...
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Cassini Finds Flooded Canyons on Titan
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft pinged the surface of Titan with microwaves, finding that some channels are deep, steep-sided canyons filled with liquid hydrocarbons. One such feature is Vid Flumina, the...
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Titan’s Dunes and Other Features Emerge in New Images
This synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) image was obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on July 25, 2016, during its “T-121” pass over Titan’s southern latitudes. Image Credit:...
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Cassini Begins Epic Final Year at Saturn
Since NASA’s Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, the planet’s appearance has changed greatly. This view shows Saturn’s northern hemisphere in 2016, as that part of the planet nears its northern...
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NASA Scientists Find ‘Impossible’ Cloud on Titan — Again
The hazy globe of Titan hangs in front of Saturn and its rings in this natural color view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute The puzzling appearance...
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