The second largest moon in our Solar System has one of the supposed primary requirements for life: an active liquid cycle. But Titan’s liquid isn't water.
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minutes and 40 seconds, the movie shows what the probe 'saw' within the few hours of the descent and the landing. On approach, Titan appeared as just a little disk in the sky among the stars, but after landing, the probe’s camera resolved little grains of sand millions of times smaller than Tita...
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first the Huygens camera just saw haze over the distant surface. The haze started to clear only at about 60 kilometres altitude, making it possible to resolve surface features as large as 100 metres. Only after landing could the probe’s camera resolve little grains of sand millions and millions ...
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Titan Landscape http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050117.html APOD: 2005 January 17 - Titan Landscape "ESA's Huygens probe after a 2 1/2 hour descent through a thick atmosphere of nitrogen laced with methane. "
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from what we see as 'living', yet it was found to contain a rich cocktail of organic carbon-based chemicals, thought to be important as the precursors to life. Now visible beneath the impenetrable orange haze, Titan appears to look a lot like Earth. The images beamed back from over a billion kil...
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Titan's surface is like... Professor John Zarnecki explains the surprising answer, and exposes what went on behind the scenes of the Huygens probe. This is an extract from 'Fingers Crossed -- Fifty Years of Space Exploration'. You can watch the whole lecture here: http://www.open2.net/oulecture20...
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