Sep 14, 2018 · During NASA’s Cassini mission’s final distant encounter with Saturn’s giant moon Titan, the spacecraft captured the enigmatic moon’s north polar landscape of lakes and seas, which are filled with liquid methane and ethane. They were captured on 11 September 2017. Four days later, Cassini was deliberately plunged into the atmosphere of ...

The flyby marks the mission’s final opportunity for up-close observations of the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons that spread across the moon’s northern polar region, and the last chance to use its powerful radar to pierce the haze and make detailed images of the surface. Closest approach to Titan is planned for 06:08am UTC on 21 April.

Dec 21, 2017 · These two missions are both robotic missions, and one aims to sample a comet and return those samples. The other is a drone-like rotorcraft concept, which will explore the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. These concepts were announced on Wednesday 20 December 2017, after a thorough peer review process.

Apr 5, 2017 · During its time at Saturn, Cassini has made numerous dramatic discoveries, including a global ocean that showed indications of hydrothermal activity within the icy moon Enceladus, and liquid methane seas on its moon Titan. Now 20 years since launching from Earth, and after 13 years orbiting the ringed planet, Cassini is running low on fuel.

Jan 7, 2016 · Escape to Titan. When the Sun scorches the Earth, a tiny moon in orbit around the ringed giant Saturn is our next home. Frozen stellar giant + 10 of the weirdest stars in galaxy. Meet some of the Sun’s wackiest stellar cousins. Next-generation space planes. All About Space welcomes you aboard your future ride into space. Are we alone in the ...

This theory was proved correct by Mariner 2 in 1962. He was also one of the first scientists to suggest that Saturn’s moon Titan might have liquids on its surface, and he helped study shifts in surface dust on Mars. Some of his most famous research concerned extraterrestrial life, which he was sure existed.

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Titan and Enceladus are already known to hide global oceans beneath their icy crusts, but a new study suggests a large body of water exists on Dione as well News Possible water vapour plumes spotted erupting from Europa

Cassini captures Titan’s dunes and other surface features in new images New scenes from a frigid alien landscape are coming to light in recent radar images of Saturn’s largest moon News

This would be the first such mission ever attempted in the Jovian system. So far spacecraft have landed on Venus, the Moon, Mars and Saturn’s moon Titan; landing on Ganymede would mark the sixth body in the Solar System (including Earth) that humanity has left its mark upon. The Ganymede Lander is still in a concept stage at the moment.