Titan, Saturn’s Moon Drifting Off Into Space – NASA
TITAN – NASA recently said that Saturn’s moon, Titan, is escaping at a hundred times the pace than they’d previously thought.
Acording to Futurism, this is a discovery that would urge astronomers to make a sharp adjustment to their understanding the solar system.
Not only would this give scientists a better understanding of planets and their moons, this also rewrites the history of the famed ringed planet. Scientis were still unsure when the planet’s rings and moons were formed.
“This result brings an important new piece of the puzzle for the highly debated question of the age of the Saturn system and how its moons formed,”
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher Valéry Lainey
Based on the report, despite the hundred-fold increase, the agency calculating that the moon is drifting away from Saturn at around four inches per year. As for the Eart’s moon, it travels another 1.5 inches from the Earth every year.
“The new measurements imply that these kind of planet-moon interactions can be more prominent than prior expectations and that they can apply to many systems, such as other planetary moon systems, exoplanets — those outside our solar system — and even binary star systems, where stars orbit each other,”
Caltech researcher Jim Fuller
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