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Milestones in space: Five years ago the European Huygens space probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan
14 January 2010
Five years ago, on 14 January 2005, the Huygens probe flew through the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan and landed gently on the surface, which is at a temperature of minus 180 degrees Celsius. The results of the Huygens landing and the first four years of the Cassini spacecraft’s mission to the Saturn system have now been documented in two books in which scientists from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have had significant involvement. |
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Kraken Mare: a reflecting surface of a lake on Saturn's moon Titan
17 December 2009
There are more and more signs that lakes exist on Saturn's moon Titan, filled with liquid hydrocarbons. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have made another important discovery. With a spectrometer onboard the planetary space probe Cassini, they found glints that have their origin in reflections of the Sun’s radiation from the surface of a large lake near Titan's North Pole.
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Saturn’s moon Titan: streams and lakes of liquid hydrocarbons
30 July 2008
Until now, the Earth was considered to be the only place in the solar system where it rains and where precipitation feeds streams which eventually drain into standing bodies of water. But using the Cassini space probe, a group of researchers which includes scientists of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have now discovered a lake on Saturn’s moon Titan. |
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DLR scientists produce an atlas of Saturn's moon Dione
20 May 2008
Like the cartographers of old, scientists working with images from the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn’s icy airless moons have carefully crafted detailed maps that one day may guide future explorers across the surfaces of these remote bodies. A team of DLR scientists alongside colleagues from the Freie Universität Berlin has produced an atlas of Dione, a moon of Saturn released today, 20 May 2008, by NASA. |
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