News tagged with cassini mission
Cassini Getting the Lowdown on Titan This Weekend
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take its lowest dip through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan in the early morning of June 21 UTC, which is the evening of June 20 Pacific time. This ...
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Jun 18, 2010 |
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The Magical Mystery Tour
Cassini, the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn, has revealed intricate details of the gas giant planet and its moons -- but many mysteries remain.
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May 05, 2010 |
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Life on Titan: stand well back and hold your nose!
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by astrobiologist William Bains suggests that if life has evolved on the frozen surface of Saturn's moon, Titan, it would be strange, smelly and explosive compared to life on Earth. ...
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Apr 14, 2010 |
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Land Ho! Huygens Plunged to Titan Surface 5 Years Ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Huygens probe parachuted down to the surface of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan exactly five years ago on Jan. 14, 2005, providing data that scientists on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn ...
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Jan 14, 2010 |
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Cassini Returns to Southern Hemisphere of Titan
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA'S Cassini spacecraft will return to Titan's southern hemisphere on a flyby tomorrow, Jan. 12, plunging to within about 1,050 kilometers (about 670 miles) of the hazy moon's surface.
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Jan 12, 2010 |
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Deep heat powers once-in-a-billion-year volcanoes on icy moon
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Macquarie University planetary scientist Dr Craig O’Neill and US colleague Francis Nimmo has found the answer to an apparent cosmic contradiction.
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Jan 11, 2010 |
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Titan's lakes could be explored by boat
(PhysOrg.com) -- If a suggestion to be made to NASA comes to fruition, vast lakes thought to be filled with liquid hydrocarbons near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, may one day be explored by boat.
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Dec 22, 2009 |
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A Hazy View of Early Earth
Haze in the early Earth atmosphere could have played a crucial role in the origin of life. By forming a protective shield, the haze would have safeguarded organic substances from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Saturn has small moon hidden in ring
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found within Saturn's G ring an embedded moonlet that appears as a faint, moving pinprick of light. Scientists believe it is a main source of the G ring and its ...
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Mar 03, 2009 |
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