“When I was looking at the data, at first, I was thinking I had to be wrong. It was just so shocking to detect a water plume more than 20 times the size of the moon”
Saturn
Scientists collated archival observations of Saturn to discover that the planet’s rings are heating its upper atmosphere, an unknown phenomenon until now
Titan is big, 40% the size of Earth, in fact. But there might be even more to Titan than we already know...
On the surface, the landscape is cut by flowing rivers of liquid methane, and the land itself is made up of hydrocarbons
Astronomers gear up to watch solar system’s two largest planets side by side in night sky, but don't worry, the end is not nigh...
"Organics are very important for the possibility of life on Titan, which many of us think likely would have evolved in the liquid water ocean under Titan's icy crust"
NASA: "Titan is the only world outside the Earth where we see bodies of liquid on the surface"
Titan similar to a young Earth
The spacecraft Cassini captured its final images of Saturn before plunging into the planet
Each pixel of the image equals roughly 2 miles!