The surface of Titan. Simulations by MIT geologists indicate that the lakes and seas on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, were formed by wave-induced erosion. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Researchers find that wave activity on Saturn’s largest moon could be strong enough to erode the shorelines of lakes and seas. MIT researchers have used simulations to suggest that … Read more
Enlarge / Ligeia Mare, the second largest amount of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan. During its T85 Titan flight on July 24, 2012, the Cassini spacecraft recorded an unexpectedly bright reflection on the surface of Lake Kivu Lacus. The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) data was interpreted as a roughness on the methane-ethane lake, which … Read more
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters around the world Sign up for our free Morning Headlines email The man who co-founded the company behind the Titan underwater disaster believes he can ‘safely’ send people to Venus. Guillermo Söhnlein, 58, made the revelation in a blog post in April in which … Read more
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters around the world Sign up for our free Morning Headlines email The man who co-founded the company behind the Titan underwater disaster believes he can ‘safely’ send people to Venus. Guillermo Söhnlein, 58, made the revelation in a blog post in April in which … Read more
The grieving daughter of the French explorer who died on the doomed Titan submarine says she hasn’t heard from OceanGate in the year after the disaster. Sidonie Nargeolet’s 77-year-old father Paul-Henri Nergeolet – known as ‘Mr Titanic’ – was one of five people killed when a submarine catastrophically imploded during its journey to the wreck … Read more
MIke Lynch sat in a packed, wood-paneled courtroom, staring holes into the back of a U.S. prosecutor who, standing just ten feet in front of him, called him a criminal. It was Monday and time for the closing arguments in the 11-week fraud trial of the British tech mogul, held in a courthouse in downtown … Read more