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Titan's Atmosphere
Is Titan's atmosphere being continually regenerated? What is the current thinking on the origins and maintenance of Titan's atmosphere after the landing of the Huygens probe.
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Extraterrestrial snow?
What do we know about extraterrestrial snow? On which (exo)planets or (exo)moons do we have direct hints for its existance? This is indeed a children's question, but I struggle to answer it ...
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Have auroras on Titan been observed yet?
After reading the very insightful introduction to auroras on other planets I started digging and found various questions and some answers here on the same topic, see below.
What I did not figure out ...
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Why doesn't Titan have a carbon dioxide atmosphere?
Earth's primitive atmosphere had large amounts of carbon dioxide, as did the ancient Martian atmosphere. Venus's current atmosphere is no exception either. So why does Titan have next to none of this ...
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What if the atmosphere of Titan were like the one on Venus?
The current mean temperature in Titan is −180 ºC (93 K), the same as in Saturn.
But I was wondering what would be the case if the atmosphere of Titan would be like the Venus atmosphere, whose ...
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What causes Titan a moon to have a denser atmosphere than that of a Mars?
I'm wondering about Mars and Titan. If Mars is larger than Titan how come it lost most of its atmosphere? Mars also has a magnetic field while Titan doesn't. Yet Titans atmospheric pressure on the ...
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Is Titan Better or Mars? [closed]
Isn't Titan better to colonize than Mars? It has a thick atmosphere which is made up of nitrogen like our planet's. It doesn't have a magnetic field, but it does get a type of protection from Saturn. ...
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Is it possible to see Saturn from Titan's surface, day and night?
Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a thick atmosphere, similar to what our Earth's atmosphere was before life "appeared". It also orbits Saturn close enough to actually see it beautifully ...
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Say we were to bring Titan to Earth's orbit. How much would its atmospheric pressure change?
I've heard one of the reason why Titan has such a thick atmosphere is because of its really low temperature. So say that were were to magically bring Titan to the Same orbit as Earth, and the moon ...
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Energetics of Titans Tholin haze
So, I've googled and wiki'd on this, but no clue, so I turn my question to the community:
Given Titan's nice orange haze that is supposedly composed of Tholins and strangely coincides with its ...
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Can we hear something on Venus, Mars and Titan?
Mars, Venus and Titan have an atmosphere and we can theoretically step on them (and die quickly).
So, as an example, let's say we can survive on these objects without a space suit. I say: “Hi” on any ...
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Why do rocks on other solar system bodies that have an atmosphere seem to be flat?
Images taken by landers on Titan and Venus and Mars show landscapes where rocks, to me at least, are surprisingly flat. Being used to walking around in forests with roundish meter sized boulders, I'd ...
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What is the current accepted theory as to why Titan has retained its atmosphere?
Titan (moon of Saturn) is unique in that it possesses a very thick atmosphere. However, Titan is certainly is not the largest of the moons - Ganymede being larger.
What is the current accepted ...
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