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NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Delivers More Striking Pictures From Saturn

by Eric Limer | 12:10 pm, December 23rd

NASA spacecraft Cassini has been chilling out in the area around Saturn just taking some pictures of the sights, and they are beautiful. It’s been focused primarily on Titan and Dione, but given the quality of the shots, it seems like that’s the right choice. More pretty pictures after the break.

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Blizzard’s Rumored 5-Year Plan Leak Looking Less Rumor-y Now That People Are Resigning

by Susana Polo | 12:50 pm, December 10th

On November 29th, a great secret was revealed… or at least, it certainly looked like it. It seemed as Blizzard China had allowed the internet to get a hold of a list of all of Blizzard Entertainment‘s proposed product releases for the next five years, and which yearly quarter they were expected to be released in. This included heretofore unknown projects like the fourth and fifth expansions to World of Warcraft, three different additions to StarCraft II, two expansions for the unreleased Diablo III, the World of Warcraft movie, and a project going by the name Titan that is likely a codename for Blizzard’s long-secret second MMO.

Well, that weeks old leak is starting to receive some legitimate, if indirect, confirmation in the form of the resignation (or firing, depending on who you ask) of the general manager of Blizzard China.

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The Primordial “Soup” May Have Been Gas

by Susana Polo | 4:02 pm, October 10th

A new experiment that simulates the atmosphere of Titan has demonstrated that amino acids and nucleotide bases could be formed in the interactions between ultraviolet rays (like those from the sun) and methane and nitrogen (which make up Titan’s atmosphere). Amino acids and nucleotides are the necessary proto-molecules that you need to get DNA and RNA.

There are a number of likely ways in which the basic elements of live arose on Earth, like being formed by hydrothermal vents in the ocean, aquifers, lakes, or even brought here by comets. Scientists believe that modern Titan is in a state much like an ancient Earth, and so to say that these compounds are possible on Titan is to say that they may have occurred on Earth, too.

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Saturn’s Moon Titan is Slushy All the Way Down

by Susana Polo | 4:03 pm, March 14th

A new look at Saturn‘s satellite reveals that beneath its icy crust and lakes of liquid methane is a slushy mixture of ice and rock.

This new data is suggested by readings of Titan‘s gravity field made by very precise measurements of its effect on the movements of NASA‘s Cassini Orbiter. Scientists say this means that Titan “never got hot enough to separate out into a core, mantle, and crust.”

We only have one question. Blue-Raspberry?

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