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NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean
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A key discovery from NASA’s Cassini mission in 2008 was that Saturn’s largest moon Titan may have a vast water ocean below its hydrocarbon-rich surface. But reanalysis of mission data suggests a more complicated picture: Titan’s interior is more likely…
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NASA Cassini Study Finds Organics ‘Fresh’ From Ocean of Enceladus
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Researchers dove deep into information gathered from the ice grains that were collected during a close and super-fast flyby through a plume of Saturn’s icy moon. A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission found evidence of previously undetected…
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NASA Study Finds Life-Sparking Energy Source and Molecule at Enceladus
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A study zooms in on data that NASA’s Cassini gathered at Saturn’s icy moon and finds evidence of a key ingredient for life and a supercharged source of energy to fuel it. Scientists have known that the giant plume of…
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