May 2009
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #214, #101.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.658
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The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in July 2004 and has since carried out numerous observations of Saturn and its rings and moons. The mission is a cooperative project of NASA, The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency. Cassini consists of an orbiter and the Huygens probe, which landed on Titan on January 14, 2005. The orbiter has now completed its prime mission and is halfway through its additional two-year Equinox mission. During the last five years, the Cassini Orbiter's major results included the discovery of active volcanic plumes at Enceladus which are the source of the E-ring, intricate features in Saturn's atmosphere, a previously undiscovered inner radiation belt, several new moons of Saturn, the remarkably complex structure of the rings, and a methane cycle on Titan. The Huygens probe revealed that the surface of Titan has dendritic channels thought to have been carved by liquid methane, and provided data on nitrogen and noble gases that suggest that, in the past, ammonia was converted to the molecular nitrogen found in the atmosphere today. This talk will focus on Titan's surface, including the discovery of lakes and seas of liquid methane, vast fields of dunes, cryovolcanic features and possible active cryovolcanism, and a surface that is more Earth-like than that of any other body in the solar system.
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