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, ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • also discovered the presence of argon-40 on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. [http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMHB881Y3E_index_0.html Titan] ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Liquid hydrocarbons are thought to be present on the surface of Titan, though it may be more accurate to describe them as "lakes" rather ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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

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