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NEWS ABOUT: Titan

Titan stories: 4 news summaries

Hidden Ocean Found on
Saturn Moon

Watery Titan and salty Mars could have evidence of life

Mar 21, 08 4:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - NASA has unlocked two more of the solar system's secrets, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The Cassini orbiter discovered evidence of an underground ocean churning deep below the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and the Mars Odyssey spacecraft has found ancient salt deposits on the red planet. Both discoveries have... More »

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NASA • Mars • space • extraterrestrial life • Saturn • Titan • Cassini

Want Oil? Try Saturn's Titan

Moon has hundreds of times more oil and natural gas than Earth

Feb 14, 08 5:09 PM CST
(Newser) - Titan, one of Saturn's dozens of moons, has supplies of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons hundreds of times greater than Earth’s oil reserves, Space.com reports. The unmanned Cassini spacecraft has mapped only 20% of Titan’s surface with radar, and has already discovered dozens of bodies of hydrocarbon... More »

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NASA • oil • space exploration • hydrocarbon • Earth • Saturn • Titan • Cassini • organic chemistry

Iraqis Fleeing to US Hindered

Workers' lives are in danger, but exit routes are clogged

Aug 29, 07 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqis who have worked with the occupation forces, endangering their own lives, face overwhelming obstacles if they want to enter the US as refugees. Tens of thousands of locals work for contractors, but because they're not directly employed by the US government, they're not eligible for special immigration status. The... More »

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Iraq • United Nations • Syria • United States • Titan • refugee • DynCorp International • Parsons Corporation

(Newser) - NASA's radar detected evidence of huge seas—one of them larger than any of the Great Lakes—on the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan. Although the spacecraft, Cassini, cannot confirm that the dark images are liquid until passing over the area again as scheduled in May, scientists believe they are... More »

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NASA • space exploration • space • Saturn • Titan • Cassini

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