Search results for "Titan (moon)" - New World Encyclopedia
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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, ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 03:04, 8 December 2022
- comparable in size to the Earth's moon. Of the inner planets, Mercury ... possibly further fragmented by collisions. The Earth-Moon ...19 KB (2,647 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- planets, and in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. ... In the case of Titan, it was once widely hypothesized that ethane ...16 KB (2,309 words) - 01:40, 19 March 2022
- 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 ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...26 KB (3,935 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- ləs/ Gk. Ἄτλας) was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens ... Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- also discovered the presence of argon-40 on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. [http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMHB881Y3E_index_0.html Titan] ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 06:25, 12 August 2023
- 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 ...23 KB (3,450 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, and Iapetus. ... Territory) and J. Herschel crater, on the Moon, are named after him. ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 05:56, 3 August 2022
- Saturn and Saturn's largest satellite, Titan. He was the inventor of the ... Huygens discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and Saturn's ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,628 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- astronauts before their flights to the Moon. Sagan also arranged experiments ... Sagan was also among the first to hypothesize that Saturn's moon ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon ... ===Europa (moon)=== Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is a potential candidate ...32 KB (4,766 words) - 14:58, 30 April 2023
- *Clementine - US Navy mission, orbited Moon, detected hydrogen at the poles ... *Luna 9 - first soft landing on the Moon *Luna 10 - first lunar orbiter ...18 KB (2,454 words) - 19:05, 7 February 2023
- Liquid hydrocarbons are thought to be present on the surface of Titan, though it may be more accurate to describe them as "lakes" rather ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- filled with methane" on Saturn's moon Titan, as recorded by the ... [[Image:Titan North Pole Lakes PIA08630.jpg|thumb|Lakes on [[Titan ...31 KB (4,835 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...42 KB (6,097 words) - 17:02, 26 September 2023
- Many people think of space colonies on the Moon or Mars, but others ... Colonies on the Moon and Mars could use local materials, although ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- and the atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan. Methane absorption ... the giant planets of the solar system and Titan. CH4, H2O, and molecular ...26 KB (3,884 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023