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Was Titan born from a crash? This moon merger may have created Saturn’s rings
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have formed in a collision with another moon, and ...
Scientists suggest Titan formed from a giant moon collision that also may explain Saturn’s rings and strange moon orbits.
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Saturn’s rings were born from a massive ancient moon merger
Behind the serene, glowing beauty of Saturn’s rings lies a story of cosmic chaos. Once thought to be as old as the planets themselves, these icy bands may actually be surprisingly young, and their ...
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Cascading collisions could explain Saturn’s rings, Titan’s atmosphere, and many other Saturnian mysteries
A single scenario could explain some of the odd features of Saturn's cosmic neighborhood. A project that set out to seek the ...
In a paper to be published in the Planetary Science Journal, scientists from SETI Institute, Southwest Research Institute, Caltech and the Observatoire de Paris argue that Saturn’s largest moon is not ...
Visible in the early-morning sky today, Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus reaches superior conjunction just 1.4′ due south of Saturn. The proximity makes the now-11th-magnitude moon easier to find, as ...
Recent data from the Cassini mission to Saturn have shed new light on the surface of the saturnian moon Iapetus, particularly the presence and movement of carbon dioxide. University of Arizona ...
Now, they can say just how large. It's the biggest in the solar system. In a study Wednesday in Nature, scientists concluded that the faint ring known as the Phoebe ring is 270 times the size of ...
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