Questions tagged [titan]
Questions about Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
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What would Saturn's seasons look like from Titan?
I've read several articles on Saturn's seasons and the reasons why we know about them thanks to Voyager 1 and Cassini. Those observations, to my limited understanding, seem to be based mainly on ...
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What would happen to the Galilean moons and Titan if Jupiter and Saturn disappeared?
The Moon reportedly doesn't "need" the Earth to revolve around the Sun. If the Earth wasn't there, the Moon would continue its current path from a heliocentric reference frame around the Sun. My ...
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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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What happened to Titan's magnetic field?
From Wikipedia - Titan's atmosphere:
Titan's internal magnetic field is negligible, and perhaps even nonexistent, although studies in 2008 showed that Titan retains remnants of Saturn's magnetic ...
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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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How do we know the hydrocarbon lakes on Titan are actually liquid?
Cassini failed to detect any waves in the seas/lakes it observed, despite winds of 72 km/h (45 mph) being present on Titan which are able to create "sand" dunes from frozen particles, and ...
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Why would a freezing liquid layer accelerate a rocky body's rotation?
Titan, whose orbital period is 382 hours, is tidally locked, like all round moons in the Solar System. But Jonathan I. Lunine said of Titan:
One thing that Titan could not have done during its ...
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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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What color does Titan turn in a lunar eclipse?
To my understanding, Earth’s Moon’s surface turns red in a lunar eclipse due to refraction of light through Earth’s atmosphere. When Saturn has a lunar eclipse with Titan (so Saturn rests between ...
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Is it possible for a septuple eclipse to happen on Saturn considering there are 7 moons capable of eclipsing the Sun?
The reason quadruple eclipses can never happen on Jupiter is because of the 1:2:4 orbital resonance between Io, Europa, and Ganymede. As far as I know this isn't a problem for Saturn's moons.
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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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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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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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For colonization purposes, what is so good about Titan? [closed]
I have read that Titan is the best candidate for humans to colonize in our Solar System.
However it has no water, it's atmosphere is not breathable and it is -290° F on the surface. It doesn't sound ...
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Why does Titan have lower surface gravity than the Moon when Titan is more massive?
Reading on Wikipedia I saw that Titan is 80% more massive than the earth's moon but has only 85% the surface gravity. Why is this?
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