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A group of scientists announces the development of a new material, to be used in filters that separate closely-related components of natural gas. If applied, this technique has the potential to drastically reduce the massive energy resources currently required for this task. The team, which includes experts from the... |
30 March 2012
03:50 GMT |
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Portions of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may not experience rains for periods of time spanning up to 1,000 years, the results of a new study indicate. Other areas may receive more constant precipitations.
This discovery is very interesting because the moon is crisscrossed by rivers and lakes, all of which are... |
27 March 2012
08:42 GMT |
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Given the tremendous similarities that exist between Earth and Saturn's largest moon, Titan, experts are comparing the two in order to determine how the environment on extrasolar planets may look like. They are also trying to understand what ingredients are necessary for the development of life.
While they a... |
5 September 2011
07:15 GMT |
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Despite missing liquid water, the atmosphere surrounding Saturn's largest moon, Titan, seems to be perfectly capable of producing DNA molecules, or at least some of the chemical precursors leading to these molecules. Scientists say that the “chain of life” may have already appeared high above the moo... |
25 August 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Methane and ethane are the most basic hydrocarbons, but at the same time chemicals capable of arranging themselves into the most complex structures. Experts believe that, on Titan, these two elements have already set the foundation for the development of life.This proposal takes into account the moon's chemistry... |
18 May 2011
05:00 GMT |
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Planetary scientists now believe that the atmosphere surrounding Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have what it takes to allow for the creation of basic molecules that make up DNA. The process may be going on regardless of the fact that there is no liquid water on the moon. For a very long time, experts have bee... |
29 April 2011
04:54 GMT |
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Experts were recently able to determine that the largest lake in the southern hemisphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan is in fact very shallow, and that its surface is not disturbed by any waves.
Given that the space body has an average temperature of nearly minus 180 degrees Celsius, it stands to reason th... |
18 December 2010
03:29 GMT |
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The largest moon around Saturn is renowned for the fact that its polar regions contain many liquid hydrocarbon lakes. But astronomers were recently able to determine that the object also features at least one ice volcano. According to the team that conducted the investigation, the contents of the volcano's eject... |
15 December 2010
02:41 GMT |
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An innovative research has demonstrated for the first time in many years that life can indeed survive nearly 1,400 meters underneath the oceanic crust. This layer of the ground was until now one of the few ares on our planet where only limited numbers of studies were carried out.The microbes uncovered in this unlikel... |
3 December 2010
08:46 GMT |
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A group of experts analyzing the area around the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill site discovered a massive underwater hydrocarbon plume lurking below the waves. The work, which was funded by US National Science Foundation (NSF) and was affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), discovered the plu... |
20 August 2010
05:16 GMT |
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Throughout the Universe, astronomers at the American space agency observed a very peculiar occurrence. Certain stars, regardless of their distance from Earth, tended to emit an interesting glow in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. For several decades, NASA has been hypothesizing that the glows come... |
3 August 2010
02:25 GMT |
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Recently, two research teams working in the Gulf of Mexico, near and around the Deepwater Horizon accident site, managed to find an underwater plume of oil each. Low concentrations of hydrocarbons and other toxic chemical compounds have been found at various locations, and at multiple depths. Although the scale of th... |
10 June 2010
08:21 GMT |
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Between May 22-28, the University of South Florida (USF) dispatched its R/V Weatherbird II to the Gulf of Mexico, in order to follow up on the devastation produced by the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The investigators there collected samples from three locations across the Gulf, including 4... |
9 June 2010
04:13 GMT |
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Scientists operating the NASA Cassini spacecraft announced recently the conclusions of a new flight the space probe took around Saturn's largest and most interesting moon, Titan. The scientific instrument has been orbiting the gas giant, collecting data about its surface, rings and moons, for about six years. It... |
9 June 2010
03:09 GMT |
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Scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, announce that the American space agency's Cassini space probe will carry out a new flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest and most interesting moon. The spacecraft will find itself at the point of closest approach to the cosmic body S... |
4 June 2010
06:12 GMT |
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According to astrobiologists, the asphalt lakes that can be found at several locations on our planet are the closest accessible equivalent to the liquid hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. This is one of the main reasons why they are oftentimes used as proxies in conducting various types of research associated with the Satur... |
7 May 2010
03:01 GMT |
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For many years, astronomers have said that the primary goal of exploring space is discovering a habitable world. That's all well and good, until you stop to think about what the concept actually means. Over the decades, the definition has changed constantly, and experts say that it is most likely to continue doi... |
23 March 2010
09:31 GMT |
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All humans are intimately familiar with our planet's atmosphere. Regardless of where you live, you've looked at the sky at least once, and realized that, without this thin protective layers of perfectly-balanced chemicals, life wouldn't be possible here. Thought it can, at times, unleash its savage fur... |
22 March 2010
07:57 GMT |
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Recently, flybys that the NASA/ESA spacecraft Cassini made of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have uncovered the existence of giant lakes at the space rock's north and south poles. In addition to the fact that these features appear to be moving with each season, they are also filled with something, and resear... |
29 January 2010
02:45 GMT |
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Though the NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft did a number of flybys around Titan, its advanced instruments were not able to penetrate the cloud layers on the moon, so researchers only had to rely on incomplete data collected by non-visual instruments. Regardless, they were able to infer the existence of lakes of liquid hyd... |
18 December 2009
17:11 GMT |
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Images taken by the Cassini space probe have indicated over the years that there are numerous liquid hydrocarbon lakes on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. With more research came the knowledge that the distribution of lakes between the two poles was highly uneven. In fact, the North Pole appears to be hosting about... |
14 December 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Ever since the Cassini spacecraft made it into Saturn's orbit, back in 2004, it has observed that one of the gas giant's moons, Titan, features numerous and extensive lakes at its North Pole. The structures do not contain water, as temperatures there are simply too low to allow for that. Rather, liquid hydr... |
2 December 2009
04:48 GMT |
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Saturn's moon Titan has captured for a long time the imagination of scientists, who currently even envision a nuclear-powered mission for the satellite, including several components. All the interest stems from the fact that observations of the celestial body, performed by the Cassini spacecraft, have revealed p... |
23 November 2009
16:01 GMT |
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In the majority of climate models, soot – the impure carbon particles that result from the incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon, such as those in fuel – is considered to be a chemically inert substance that does not react with other compounds in the atmosphere. However, a recent investigation disproves... |
1 September 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Astronomers were puzzled to discover fog on Titan, one of Saturn's most intriguing moons. In spite of the fact that they knew it supported an active methane hydrological cycle, the team had absolutely no idea that surface-atmosphere exchanges appeared as well. The find is the first ever to reveal the fact that t... |
1 September 2009
06:05 GMT |
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Until recently, geologists and scientists believed that hydrocarbons (oil and natural gas) were formed only from living microorganisms that were compressed in the upper layers of the Earth's crust, and heated with high temperatures from the upper mantle. Now, a new research comes to show that it may be, indeed, ... |
27 July 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Saturn's moon Titan is perhaps the best bet in the solar system of finding life, researchers have hypothesized since evidence of liquids was found on its surface. With its thick atmosphere, albeit made of gases that would kill humans almost instantly, the natural satellite is 80 times more massive than the Moon,... |
26 June 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Oil spills are among the most devastating disasters brought about by humans that can appear on the surface of the planet, as evidenced by the catastrophic wreak of the Exxon Valdez carrier, which affected thousands of square miles, and killed an impressive number of marine animals and birds. Decades after the acciden... |
12 June 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Researchers at the Stanford University have come up with a new study, which sets forth the idea that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may host a series of underground hydrocarbon oceans, as well as mountains whose tops are below the average height of the planet. The paper detailing the finds will be published in an... |
7 April 2009
05:40 GMT |
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In one of its most recent transmissions, the Cassini space probe relayed back information confirming the existence of liquid hydrocarbon lakes on the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan. The probe was only able to identify the existence of the lakes by analyzing the changes in landscapes over periods of time, which ... |
30 January 2009
08:49 GMT |
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Observations carried out with the Cassini spacecraft have once again confirmed the theory that Saturn's moon Titan has lakes on its surface, after picturing Ontario Lacus located in the south pole of the body, an accumulation of liquid methane and ethane with a size larger than that of the Lake Ontario in the No... |
31 July 2008
05:26 GMT |
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