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Titan Mountains
Published on 12 Dec 2006 at 8:10 pm.
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Today, the Cassini spacecraft flew by Titan, Saturn’s largest moon (and the second largest moon in the Solar System). Each flyby shows something new about this interesting moon. Titan is the only moon in the Solar System with an appreciable atmosphere (a little thicker than Earth’s atmosphere, in fact). I don’t know what they found […]
Moons and Planets: Large Moons or Small Planets?
Published on 18 Aug 2006 at 12:54 am.
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For the last couple of days, I have been posting about the proposed new definition of “planet.” Personally, I think that with a whole year to work on a definition, they could have come up with a better one. But, this sounds like something that they got together and decided the night before the meeting […]
