There is no shortage of interest in Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere, surface lakes and seas ...
The researchers studied how Titan’s strongest gravitational harmonics, particularly J2 and J4, shape the motion of satellites at a wide range of distances from the surface. Below about ten Titan radii ...
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, represents one of the most intriguing bodies in the Solar System, with its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere intermingled with significant quantities of methane and complex ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Wednesday, May 26 at 8 pm ET, discover what we hope to learn about Saturn’s fascinating moon Titan, featuring planetary scientist Zibi Turtle.
Nobody was expecting very strong energy dissipation inside Titan,” says Flavio Petricca, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. That surprise signal, wrung from archival Cassini ...