Titan

This week the world was glued to coverage of the disaster of the Titan, the missing tourist submersible meant to explore the wreck of the Titanic. After a frantic, multinational search operation, an underwater drone today located a “debris field” on the ocean floor in the search zone. Sadly, it was soon confined that the…

OceanGate is a private research and ocean tourism company founded by CEO Stockton Rush. The company has attracted renewed scrutiny since its submersible vessel, Titan, went missing Sunday. The five passengers in the vessel, including Rush, were embarking on a Titanic tour. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in…

Right now, five people are possibly trapped in a private submersible somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. They have less than 20 hours of air left as of this writing—assuming they’re still alive. The U.S. Coast Guard, Navy, and Canada’s military are in the midst of a large-scale effort to locate and retrieve the vessel, dubbed…

Attack on Titan, an anime about towering humanoid creatures that terrorize the last vestiges of the human race (or are they?), has been captivating fans for more than a decade with an intricate and twist-filled story. That epic tale entered its endgame with the final third of its last season, which started on Friday. The show,…

Google has another major legal headache: on Tuesday, the US Justice Department and eight states sued the search giant, arguing it abused its position at the center of the online advertising industry to lock out competitors and claim profits for itself that should have gone to advertisers and publishers.The case concerns a part of Google's…

Saturn is an unusual planet in some obvious ways, most notably its extensive ring system. But it's also strange in some less obvious ways: The rings appear to be far, far younger than the planet, and they stay stably in the plane of Saturn's orbit while the planet's axis of rotation wobbles around dramatically. A…

Enlarge / Pluto's atmosphere is fairly hazy. Saturn’s moon Titan is distinctive, in part for its orange-ish and hazy atmosphere. It’s virtually impossible to see surface features because the haze is so opaque in the visible portion of the spectrum; what we know of it comes from things like radar imagery, instead. The haze is…

Enlarge / The map, as viewed from the poles. (Color key shown below.) Saturn’s moon Titan is one of the most wonderfully weird worlds in our Solar System. In the way that Earth has a water cycle of rain and evaporation, frigid Titan has a methane cycle and lakes of the liquid stuff. Unfortunately, its…

There are few places in the Solar System which are as fascinating as Saturn’s moon Titan. It’s a world with a thicker atmosphere than Earth. Where it’s so cold that it rains ammonia, forming lakes, rivers and seas. Where water ice forms mountains.  Like Europa and Encleadus, Titan could have an interior ocean of liquid…

There are few places in the Solar System which are as fascinating as Saturn’s moon Titan. It’s a world with a thicker atmosphere than Earth. Where it’s so cold that it rains ammonia, forming lakes, rivers and seas. Where water ice forms mountains.  Like Europa and Encleadus, Titan could have an interior ocean of liquid…