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materials. It is found on Earth, the Moon, some asteroids, and other planets. ... The Moon's surface is almost entirely covered with regolith, ...

comparable in size to the Earth's moon. Of the inner planets, Mercury ... possibly further fragmented by collisions. The Earth-Moon ...

planets, and in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. ... In the case of Titan, it was once widely hypothesized that ethane ...

describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses the ... celestial bodies, such as a planet and a moon. The shadow cast by the object ...

century, is that the rings were once a moon of Saturn whose orbit decayed ... in the gap and that of a more massive moon further out; Mimas maintains ...

ləs/ Gk. Ἄτλας) was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens ... Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia ...

also discovered the presence of argon-40 on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. [http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMHB881Y3E_index_0.html Titan] ...

of the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan was measured as it blocked ... than everything in the night sky except the Moon) by July. The supernova was ...

Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, and Iapetus. ... Territory) and J. Herschel crater, on the Moon, are named after him. ...

Saturn and Saturn's largest satellite, Titan. He was the inventor of the ... Huygens discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and Saturn's ...

Earth or other planetary body, such as a moon. (The term cloud is also applied ... Within our Solar System, any planet or moon with an atmosphere also ...

astronauts before their flights to the Moon. Sagan also arranged experiments ... Sagan was also among the first to hypothesize that Saturn's moon ...

Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon ... ===Europa (moon)=== Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is a potential candidate ...

*Clementine - US Navy mission, orbited Moon, detected hydrogen at the poles ... *Luna 9 - first soft landing on the Moon *Luna 10 - first lunar orbiter ...

Liquid hydrocarbons are thought to be present on the surface of Titan, though it may be more accurate to describe them as "lakes" rather ...

filled with methane" on Saturn's moon Titan, as recorded by the ... [[Image:Titan North Pole Lakes PIA08630.jpg|thumb|Lakes on [[Titan ...

been observed in the equatorial regions of Titan by the Cassini probe's radar. Titan's dunes include large expanses with modal lengths of about ...

one-fifth the mass of the Earth's Moon, Pluto is composed primarily ... so Charon is currently regarded as a moon of Pluto. Two smaller moons ...

Many people think of space colonies on the Moon or Mars, but others ... Colonies on the Moon and Mars could use local materials, although ...

and the atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan. Methane absorption ... the giant planets of the solar system and Titan. CH4, H2O, and molecular ...

The Earth's Moon has no large volcanoes and no current volcanic ... However, the Moon does have many volcanic features such as maria ...

Neptune possesses 13 confirmed moons. Neptune's largest moon ... it was decided to make a close flyby of the moon Triton, regardless of the ...

:The tide is full, the moon lies fair :Upon the straits; -on the French ... :Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land, :Listen! you hear ...

termed "moons" after Earth's Moon, and each of the outer planets ... backdrop against which the more agile moon, and five visible planets—Mercury ...

of the Enlightenment even the Sun and Moon were considered candidates ... of Jupiter's natural satellites), and Titan (a moon of Saturn). The possibility ...

is the idea of launching a rocket to the moon and igniting a mass of flash ... the Soviet space probe Luna 2 impacted the Moon on September 14, 1959, though ...

marry to bear Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon), and Eos (Dawn). Kreios and ... . Due to his trickery, Zeus sentenced the Titan to a life of perpetual torment ...

huntress and twin of Apollo, who substituted for the Titan Selene as Goddess of the Moon. Of the Olympian goddesses who inherited aspects of the Great ...

of Jupiter, Ceres, Neptune, Pallas, and Titan are invisible to the naked ... are all moons except the Galileans and Titan, and the dwarf planets Pluto ...

It has been suggested that rainbows might exist on Saturn's moon ... y2005/25feb_titan2.htm Rainbows on Titan.] Science@NASA. Retrieved ...

various planets, but it is a major constituent of Titan, the planet Saturn's largest moon. Nitrogen is present in all living organisms, as ...

Exceptional circumstances do offer exceptional cases: Jupiter's ... The Earth's Moon appears to play a crucial role in moderating ...

Russian Far East) stole fire from the gods (stars, moon, and/or sun) and are more tricksters than culture heroes. This is primarily because of other ...

Rena A. Sowell, Stormy L. Koeniger, Stephen J. Valentine, Myeong Hee ... the Huygens probe through the atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of the ...

and consequent tidal friction of the Moon. As the Earth spins eastward ... Certainly there is no evidence that the moon has expanded in the past 3 ...

Later she became associated with the Moon and both deer and cypress ... of the moon (a position that she gradually usurped from Selene); and ...

sun (Sol) and the chasing wolf (Skoll), the moon (Mani) and its chasing wolf ... in Latin after the planets (e.g. Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus ...

and a biography: Carl Frederick Gauss: Titan of Science. This book was ... * Gauss crater on the Moon * Asteroid 1001 Gaussia. * The First German ...

Earth known to harbor lake-like bodies is Titan, Saturn's largest moon ... Press, 1991). ISBN 0804715696. The moon formed roughly 20 million ...

that investigated Reverend Sun Myung Moon's tax case, which concluded: and objectively reviewed this [Reverend Moon's tax] case from both ...

Shōjo manga such as Naoko Takeuchi's Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon ... like Naoko Takeuchi, creator of Sailor Moon, enter the field without being ...

who became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969. He was also a naval ... became the first people to land on the Moon, and the next day they spent ...

appearance of Eos (the Dawn), Selene (the Moon), and Helios (the Sun), and ... The Alastair Reynolds novel Absolution Gap features a moon under the ...

old fathers were made by their sons to the titan Cronus. ... [[File:Yoshitoshi - 100 Aspects of the Moon - 97.jpg|thumb|300px|Ubasute ...

and in M-type stars. Rocks brought back from the moon during the Apollo 17 mission are composed of 12.1% TiO2. Titanium is also found in coal ash, plants ...

Huygens (1629–1695) discovered Saturn's moon Titan and invented the pendulum clock. In the Dutch Golden Age, literature flowered as well ...

went instead to Penelope Lively's novel Moon Tiger. ... html?_r=0 Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82] The New York ...