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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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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 origin of the planet's rings and why Titan’s orbit is expanding may have ...
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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 ...
An international team of planetary scientists studied archival data from the Cassini spacecraft — designed to study Saturn and its satellites — which yielded new clues to three strange oceans on the ...
Saturn’s largest moon Titan has been thought to have a large ocean below its surface. This discovery was made in 2008 by the Cassini mission. However, the Jet Propulsion Lab as been analyzing that ...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan instead may hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth’s polar seas, with pockets of ...
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the only place other than Earth known to have an atmosphere and liquids in the form of rivers, lakes and seas on its surface. Because of its extremely cold temperature ...
For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay apart. But researchers from Chalmers University in Sweden and NASA’s Jet ...
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