2019年6月27日 · Advancing our search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn’s icy moon. Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and arrive in 2034. The rotorcraft will fly to dozens of promising locations on Titan looking for prebiotic chemical processes common on both Titan and Earth.

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an icy world whose surface is completely obscured by a golden hazy atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. Only Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger, by just 2 percent. Titan is bigger than Earth's moon, and larger than even the planet Mercury.

2010年6月2日 · On Titan, where temperatures are around 90 Kelvin (minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit), a methane-based organism would have to use a substance that is liquid as its medium for living processes, but not water itself. Water is frozen solid on Titan's surface and much too cold to support life as we know it.

2022年9月14日 · Learn about how Saturn’s moon, Titan, is expanding our understanding of the chemical complexity of the solar system and the potential for life in the universe.

2025年1月9日 · The colorful globe of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, passes in front of the planet and its rings in this true color snapshot from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

2015年6月18日 · Saturn's moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what forms the depressions on the surface? A new study using data from the joint NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) Cassini mission suggests the moon's surface dissolves in a process that's similar to the creation of sinkholes on Earth.

2006年2月28日 · The presence of methane in Titan's atmosphere is one of the major enigmas that the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn's system is trying to resolve, they noted. Scientists have long known that Titan's atmosphere contains methane, ethane, acetylene and many other hydrocarbon compounds.

2010年3月30日 · water on the surface of Titan… Are the reactions between Titan aerosols and water fast enough to produce oxygen-containing, prebiotic molecules in solidifying pools of water on Titan? In addition…

The Huygens probe successfully landed on Saturn's largest moon Titan at about 11:30 UTC on January 14, 2005. The descent lasted two hours and 27 minutes. The probe survived another 72 minutes on the surface of Titan. This was the first - and, so far, the only - …

2013年4月14日 · Cassini scientists have peered into the lakes of Titan and seen that the fascinating active methane chemistry of Titan may be just a temporary anomaly, geologically speaking.