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Raisin' Mountains On Saturn's Moon TitanPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 13, 2010 Saturn's moon Titan ripples with mountains, and scientists have been trying to figure out how they form. The best explanation, it turns out, is that Titan is shrinking as it cools, wrinkling up the moon's surface like a raisin. A new model developed by scientists working with radar data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that differing densities in the outermost layers of Titan can account for the unusual surface behavior. Titan is slowly cooling because it is releasing heat from its orig ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 23, 2010While orbiting Saturn for the last six years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has kept a close eye on the collisions and disturbances in the gas giant's rings. They provide the only nearby natural laboratory for scientists to see the processes that must have occurred in our early solar system, as planets and moons coalesced out of disks of debris. New images from Cassini show icy particles in Sa ... more  
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Jul 23, 2010Twelve-year-old Emily Boyce knows exactly what she wants to do in life. "I want to be the first woman on the moon and the first person on Mars," she said. Emily was one of 54 middle school children who, for one week, joined the Federation of Galaxy Explorers at Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy, one of Peterson Air Force Base's feeder schools at 4220 E. Pikes Peak Ave. The children and their ... more  
Boston, Massachusetts (AFP) July 20, 2010Two US men were charged Tuesday with stealing a customs document from Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, with the goal of selling the former astronaut's autograph. The pair, who were charged in Boston federal court, attempted to sell the form Armstrong filled out at the city's Logan International Airport on March 13, legal documents said. Defendant Thomas Chapman, a custo ... more |
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See Beautiful Ontario Lacus: Cassini's Guided TourPasadena CA (SPX) Jul 16, 2010 Ontario Lacus, the largest lake in the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan, turns out to be a perfect exotic vacation spot, provided you can handle the frosty, subzero temperatures and enjoy soaking in liquid hydrocarbon. Several recent papers by scientists working with NASA's Cassini spacecraft describe evidence of beaches for sunbathing in Titan's low light, sheltered bays for mooring boats, and pretty deltas for wading out in the shallows. They also describe seasonal changes in the ... read more |
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