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The Solar System Loses an Ocean World
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may not have a subsurface ocean after all. That’s according to a re-examination of data captured by NASA’s Cassini mission, which flew by Titan dozens of times starting in 2004. By 2008, all the evidence suggested a subsurface ocean of liquid water waited beneath Titan’s geologically complex crust. But the latest analysis says the interior is more likely to be made of ice and slush, albeit with pockets of warm water…
Saturn’s Largest Moon Could Hide a Habitable World Under a Muddy Ice Layer, According to a New Study
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, could house under its frozen surface a potentially habitable environment composed of ice, semi-detached material tunnels and water bags, instead of a fully liquid underground ocean, as had been proposed for years.
Does a vast underground ocean exist on Titan, Saturn's largest moon? NASA's latest study denies its existence. The article, "Is Titan's vast underground ocean a myth? In reality, it's just an ocean of mud," comes from the website Everything That Matters.
Europa Clipper: NASA's mission to a Jupiter moon in search of living conditionsThe proliferation of satellites threatens the observation of the sky with a telescope, warns NASAA new look at data from more than a decade ago has indicated that Titan, Saturn's largest moon, might not count on a vast ocean under its icy surface, as previously thought.
Long imagined as a world housing a vast ocean of liquid water under its ice crust, Titan, Saturn's largest moon, sees its interior portrait radically redesigned. A new analysis of the data collected years ago suggests a much more complex reality, and perhaps even more fascinating for the search for life.
Saturn’s moon Titan may not have a buried ocean as long suspected, new study suggests - WXXV News 25
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Saturn’s giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan instead may hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth’s polar seas, with pockets of melted water where life could possibly survive and even thrive, scientists reported Wednesday. The team led by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory challenged the decade-long assumption of a buried global ocean at Tit…
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