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  Titan - Wikipedia
Titan was discovered in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens, making it one of the first non-terrestrial moons to be discovered.
Titan is the only known moon with a fully developed atmosphere that consists of more than just trace gases; in fact, Titan's atmosphere is denser than Earth's, with a surface pressure more than one and a half times that of Earth.
These hydrocarbons are thought to form in Titan's upper atmosphere in reactions resulting from the breakup of methane by the Sun's ultraviolet light, producing a thick orange smog, and Titan's surface may be coated in a tar-like layer of organic precipitate.
nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Titan   (566 words)

  
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Titan Titan, in Greek religion and mythology, one of 12 primeval deities.
Tethys Tethys, in Greek religion and mythology, a Titan, daughter of Gaea and Uranus.
Kronos Kronos or Cronusboth: krō´nes, in Greek religion and mythology, the youngest Titan, son of Uranus and Gaea.
www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Tethys+(titan)   (488 words)

  
 Tethys (mythology) : Tethys (titan)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In Greek mythology, Tethys was a Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus.
During the war against the Titans, Tethys raised Rhea, her god-child.
Tethys, a marine goddess, cursed the constellations to forever circle the sky and never drop below the horizon, hence explaining why they are circumpolar.
www.termsdefined.net /te/tethys-(titan).html   (291 words)

  
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He was the father of Gaea's children, the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Hundred-handed Ones (the Hecatoncheires).
Atlas Atlasăt´les, in Greek mythology, a Titan; son of Iapetus and Clymene and the brother of Prometheus.
When the Titans were defeated, Atlas was condemned to hold the sky on his shoulders for all eternity—a mythical explanation of why the sky does not fall.
www.encyclopedia.com /search.asp?target=Tethys+titan&rc=10&fh=16&fr=11   (362 words)

  
 Saturn's Moon Titan
Titan [TY-tun] is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in the solar system, rivaled only by Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
Titan's methane, through continuing photochemistry, is converted to ethane, acetylene, ethylene, and (when combined with nitrogen) hydrogen cyanide.
This image of Titan was taken by the Pioneer 11 spacecraft on September 3, 1979 from a range of 3.6 million km.
www.solarviews.com /eng/titan.htm   (3083 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Tethys (mythology)
Tethys (mythology), in Greek mythology, a Titan, daughter of Uranus, god of heaven, and Gaea, goddess of earth.
Oceanus, in Greek mythology, one of the Titans, the son of Uranus and Gaea.
Tethys is the ninth known satellite from the planet.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Tethys_(mythology).html   (116 words)

  
 Tethys Sea @AryanaSite.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tethys Sea, name given to the ocean that separated the southern continental mass of Gondwanaland from the northern continental mass of Laurasia within the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea.
In Greek mythology, Tethys, a Titan, was the daughter of Uranus, god of Heaven, and Gaea, goddess of Earth, and wife of her brother, Oceanus.
Tethys functioned as a collecting basin, or geosyncline, for sediments derived from the erosion of the rocks of Gondwanaland and Laurasia.
www.aryanasite.com /afghanistan/relatedarticles/tethyssea.htm   (402 words)

  
 The Satellites of Saturn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Titan, once thought to be the largest moon in the solar system, turned out to be slightly smaller than Ganymede when photographed by Voyager 1.
The surface of Titan is obscured by a dense atmosphere of nitrogen and methane, which made the moon appear larger in telescopic observations.
The abundance of carbon components may make Titan a natural laboratory to study the most primitive organic chemical reactions that were present on Earth some 4 billion years ago.
cirs.gsfc.nasa.gov /satellites_titan.htm   (204 words)

  
 Saturn
By increasing proximity to Saturn, the middle moons are Iapetus, Hyperion, Titan, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Enceladus, and Mimas.
Tethys, Dione, and Rhea are around 1,000 to 1,500 km (620 to 930 miles) in diameter, while Enceladus and Mimas are 500 and 390 km (310 and 242 miles) across, respectively.
Hence, Titan is thought to have an abundance of the organic molecules that are thought to be the precursors of life on Earth.
www.solstation.com /stars/saturn.htm   (1986 words)

  
 Tethys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tethys is co-orbital with two other moons; that is, they orbit Saturn at the same distance as Tethys but precede (Telesto) and follow (Calypso) Tethys by about 60°.
TETHYS was the TITANIS goddess of the nursing the young and of the underground flow of fresh water.
Tethys was depicted as a woman usually accompanied (as the mother of so many offspring) by Eileithyia the goddess of childbirth.
www.dashper.nzl.com /hosts/Wingmakers/Tethys.html   (1737 words)

  
 The Cassini Mission to Saturn and its Moon Titan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The mass of the Titan probe, which has a diameter of 2.7 meters, is roughly 350 kilograms.
The Titan probe is named in honor of the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Titan in 1655, then announced four years later that the strange Saturn "moons" seen by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610 were actually a system of rings surrounding the planet.
Hidden below Titan's atmosphere is a frigid surface that may contain lakes of liquid ethane over a thin layer of frozen methane and ammonia, below which is probably a mantle of frozen water ice.
www.teacherlink.usu.edu /tlnasa/pictures/litho/cassini/cassini.html   (567 words)

  
 Pictures of Mimas,Tethys and Titan - moons of Saturn
Tethys has much more craters at the upper half of this picture than at the lower half.
A dark cloud band is visible near Titan's north pole, the equator has a wide band of clouds as well.
Titan's atmosphere might even be thicker than the atmosphere of Earth.
www.the-planet-saturn.com /tethys-titan-pictures.html   (296 words)

  
 NASA - Cassini Shows Grandeur of Two Saturn Moons
New views of two of Saturn's moons, Titan and Tethys, represent the most detailed look at these moons to date and show a sharp contrast between them -- one is foggy and one is cratered.
Titan's lack of obvious craters is a hint of a young surface.
Tethys is known to have a density very close to that of water, indicating that it is likely composed mainly of water ice.
www.nasa.gov /mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-112304.html   (580 words)

  
 Cassini-Huygens: Multimedia-Images
Tethys (at the bottom) has been battered by impacts over the eons, and some of its many craters are visible in this image.
Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665 miles across) is one of Saturn's major icy moons, having a density close to that of water.
In this scene, Tethys is the closest object to Cassini, at 1.2 million kilometers (700,000 miles) away.
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov /multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=1561   (458 words)

  
 Tethys (luna)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cassini nombró las cuatro lunas que él descubrió que (Tethys, Dione, Rhea e Iapetus) Lodicea Sidera ("las estrellas de Louis") a los astrónomos de rey Louis XIV del honor bajó en el hábito de referir les y a Titan como Saturno 1 a Saturno 5.
Tethys es un cuerpo helado similar en naturaleza a Dione y a Rhea.
La segunda característica principal considerada en Tethys es un valle enorme llamado Ithaca Chasma, 100 kilómetros de ancho y 3 a 5 kilómetros de profundo.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/te/Tethys%20%28luna%29.htm   (634 words)

  
 Tethys (moon) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tethys (tee'-this or teth'-is, Greek Τηθύς) is a moon of Saturn that was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684.
Earlier craters from before Tethys solidified were probably all erased by geological activity before then.
The Cassini orbiter performed a flyby of Tethys on September 23, 2005.
www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Tethys_%28moon%29   (731 words)

  
 Birds Online - My Budgies - Tethys
The breeder in whose aviary the cute bird was born, sold Tethys to a budgie fan who wanted to give her a good home even though she is handicapped.
Young Tethys became very sad, so her keeper decided to give her to another home where disabled budgies would take care of the sweet hen.
In Greek mythology, Tethys was the powerful godess of the sea who was the sister and wife of Oceanus, both.
www.birds-online.de /meine_sittiche/verstorbene/tethys_en.htm   (317 words)

  
 Destination: Titan- news @ nature.com - science news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Larger than the planet Mercury, it has a dense atmosphere filled with photochemical smog that shrouds the moon's surface in mystery.
Titan reveals methane rain and rocks of water
The first scientific data, relayed through the probe's mother ship Cassini, arrived at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, at 16:19 GMT on 14 January.
www.nature.com /news/specials/titan   (416 words)

  
 First Close Encounter Of Saturn's Hazy Moon Titan
This is one of 45 planned flybys of Titan during the four-year tour.
One important goal of this flyby is to confirm scientists' model of Titan's atmosphere to prepare for the Huygens probe descent.
Titan is a cold place thought to be inhospitable to life at 95 degrees Kelvin (minus 289 degrees Fahrenheit).
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/10/041026121715.htm   (957 words)

  
 Universe Today - Best Views of Titan and Tethys
The picture of fog enshrouded Titan is actually a mosaic of 9 individual images stitched together that were taken as Cassini approached.
Tethys has a density similar to water, so scientists believe the moon is mainly composed of water ice.
The Cassini spacecraft captured the puzzle pieces for the full-disc view of the mysterious Titan during its first close encounter on Oct. 26, 2004.
www.universetoday.com /am/publish/best_views_titan_tethys.html?24112004   (682 words)

  
 Palaeos Earth: Geography: The Tethys Sea
The Tethys was named in 1893 by the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess after the Titan Tethys, the daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and the sister and consort of Oceanus, the ancient Greek god of the ocean.
The Tethys Sea also expanded westward, splitting Pangaea into the supercontinents of Gondwana (in the South) and Laurasia (in the North).
By Late Triassic and Jurassic times, the Tethys extended a long, shallow arm through what is now Central Asia and Southern Europe, known as the Tethys Seaway (yet a third "Tethys").
www.palaeos.com /Earth/Geography/Tethys.htm   (512 words)

  
 Tethys (titan) Definition / Tethys (titan) Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Our surviving sources of mythology are literary reworkings of this oral tradition, supplemented by interpretations of iconic imagery, sometimes modern ones, sometimes ancient ones, as myth was a means for later Greeks themselves to throw light on cult practices and traditions that were no longer explicable.
[click for more], Tethys was a Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus.
Each of the nymphs was the patron of a particular spring, river, lake or pond....
www.elresearch.com /Tethys_(titan)   (303 words)

  
 Huygens Lands on Titan
Because Titan has a thick atmosphere, able to carry sound waves, the moon is a noisy place.
A view of Titan from the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument on the Cassini orbiter.
It was taken from an altitude of 16.2 kilometers with a resolution of approximately 40 meters per pixel.
www.solarviews.com /eng/huygens.htm   (1317 words)

  
 * Telesto - (Astronomy): Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In Greek mythology Telesto was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys...
Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, Phoebe, 1995-S3,...
Saturn's F ring Ring diagram montage of Helene, Epimetheus, Calypso, Janus, Telesto, Pandora and Prometheus Montage of all the satellites HST view of the...
www.mimihu.com /astronomy/telesto.html   (369 words)

  
 Cassini's Cameras View Titan In A Different Light   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cassini's third close approach to Titan on Tuesday, Feb. 15, yielded intriguing new views of the planet-sized moon, as the spacecraft's powerful cameras looked at and through the orange murk of its thick atmosphere.
Cassini's Radar Spots Giant Crater On Titan (March 5, 2005) -- A giant impact crater the size of Iowa was spotted on Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during Tuesday's Titan...
Images taken in the clear filter between Titan flybys are used primarily to navigate the spacecraft.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/02/050218160543.htm   (798 words)

  
 Die Blinde Kuh: Weltall - Der Saturnmond Tethys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tethys scheint ein riesiger Wassereisball zu sein, wie auch die Monde Dione und Rhea.
Dies ist wahrscheinlich dann entstanden, als Tethy abkühlte und völlig vereiste.
Die Raumsonde Cassini soll nebst Titan auch die Monde Tethys, Rhea und Dione besuchen und erforschen.
www.blinde-kuh.de /weltall/tethys.html   (184 words)

  
 Die Blinde Kuh: Weltall - Der Saturnmond Titan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Der Saturnmond Titan ist der zweit-größte Mond in unserem Sonnensystem.
Titan besteht scheinbar halb aus Wassereis und halb aus Gestein.
Wahrscheinlich hat Titan einen Kern aus Gestein umringt von mehreren Schichten aus verschiedenen Eis- und Gesteinsmischungen.
www.blinde-kuh.de /weltall/titan.html   (374 words)

  
 Birds Online - Meine Wellensittiche - Titan
Titan war ein violett gefärbter Wellensittich mit der Farbschlag-Bezeichnung "normal".
Einer der oben genannten Umwege führte Titan zu meinen Eltern, mit deren Wellidame Mausi er ursprünglich vergesellschaftet werden sollte.
Titan ist ein im Durchmesser 5150 km großer Mond, der zusammen mit Rhea und einigen anderen Trabanten den Saturn umkreist.
www.birds-online.de /meine_sittiche/verstorbene/titan.htm   (230 words)

  
 Stargate SG-1_La Sexta Raza/ Similitudes/Tethys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A consecuencia de esta separación entre ambos supercontinentes, apareció el mar de Tethys que se amntuvo durante todo el mesozoico y del que hoy día queda un vestigio: el mar Mediterraneo.
El mar de Tethys desapareció por culpa de un cierre tectónico de placas en el oligoceno, hace treinta millones de años cuando las placas africana y euroasiática entraron en colisión.
El segundo accidente geográfico mayor de Tethys es un gran valle que lleva el nombre de Ithaca Chasma de cien jilómetros de ancho con una profundidad de tres a cinco kilómetros y que se extiende a lo largo de dos mil kilómetros, casi las tres cuartas partes de la circunferencia de Tethys.
www.stargatesg1-lasextaraza.com /Sites/La%20Sexta%20Raza/Similitudes/Primera%20Temporada/Similitudes_briefcandle_thethys.htm   (493 words)

  
 Ciencia y Tecnología   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cassini, una sonda estadounidense, orbitará Saturno durante cuatro años para estudiar la atmósfera del gigantesco planeta, sus anillos y sobrevolar 7 de sus más de 30 satélites naturales: Titán, Tethys, Hyperion, Dione, Rhea, Mimas y Epimetheus, y estudiar a la distancia otros como el enigmático Japetus.
El viernes a las 10h30 GMT Cassini estará a unos 246.000 km de Tethys.
Este satélite, de poco más de 1.000 km de diámetro, es -de acuerdo con las mediciones de densidad- una esfera de hielo y que exhibe en uno de sus hemisferios un gigantesco cráter de 240 km, llamado Odiseo, con una elevación central que semeja a un gigantesco forúnculo.
www.dlh.lahora.com.ec /paginas/ciencia/titan.htm   (438 words)

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