Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2017
Last adventure ahead for NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft faces one last perilous adventure around Saturn.
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Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2017
What does the abundance of water in the solar system mean for life?
There was much excitement when NASA recently revealed new details about the oceans that lurk beneath the surface of Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus and Jupiter's Europa.
Space Exploration
Apr 4, 2017
Image: Sliver of Saturn
Although only a sliver of Saturn's sunlit face is visible in this view, the mighty gas giant planet still dominates the view.
Space Exploration
Mar 27, 2017
What about a mission to Titan?
As you probably know, NASA recently announced plans to send a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa. If all goes well, the Europa Clipper will blast off for the world in the 2020s, and orbit the icy moon to discover all its secrets.
Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2017
Image: Saturn's B-ring close-up
This image shows the incredible detail at which the international Cassini spacecraft is observing Saturn's rings of icy debris as part of its dedicated close 'ring grazing' orbits.
Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2017
Enceladus' south pole is warm under the frost
Over the past decade, the international Cassini mission has revealed intense activity at the southern pole of Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, with warm fractures venting water-rich jets that hint at an underground sea. A new ...
Space Exploration
Jan 13, 2017
Video: Huygens' descent to Titan
On December 25, 2004, the piggybacking Huygens probe was released from the 'mothership' Cassini spacecraft and it arrived at Titan on January 14, 2005. The probe began transmitting data to Cassini four minutes into its descent ...
Space Exploration
Jan 13, 2017
Catching Cassini's call
This week, ESA deep-space radio dishes on two continents are listening for signals from the international Cassini spacecraft, now on its final tour of Saturn.
Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2017
Huygens: 'Ground truth' from an alien moon—2005 historic descent to Titan revisited
After a two-and-a-half-hour descent, the metallic, saucer-shaped spacecraft came to rest with a thud on a dark floodplain covered in cobbles of water ice, in temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing. The alien probe ...
Space Exploration
Jan 4, 2017
Image: Cloud activity returns to Titan's northern latitudes
Floating high above the hydrocarbon lakes, wispy clouds have finally started to return to Titan's northern latitudes.
