How many hamburgers could future generations of outer-planet explorers grill using Titans atmospheric propane?
“A dozen at a time, that’s two trillion hamburgers,” said Cassini’s Nixon, “assuming you stop at medium-well.” Nixon is the lead author on a paper about propane on Titan to be published in an upcoming issue of Planetary and Space Science. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. JPL manages the mission for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Cassini’s Composite Infrared Spectrometer team is based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. More information about the Cassini mission is available at http://www.nasa.gov/cassini or http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov .
