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Cassini and Amateurs Chase Storm on Saturn
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the help of amateur astronomers, the composite infrared spectrometer instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken its first look at a massive blizzard in Saturn's atmosphere. ...
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Apr 29, 2010 |
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Cassini Measures Tug of Enceladus
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be gliding low over Saturn's moon Enceladus for a gravity experiment designed to probe the moon's interior composition.
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Apr 26, 2010 |
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Cassini Saturnalia
Six years ago, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft began orbiting Saturn. Scientists are celebrating the data and detailed images the mission has provided of the planet, its famous ring, and its many moons.
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Apr 26, 2010 |
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Counting Titan's Craters
Impact craters found on Titan could help scientists determine the age of this Earth-like moon and its potential for life.
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Apr 22, 2010 |
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Circling Saturn: Carolyn Porco on her Celestial Trip
(PhysOrg.com) -- Carolyn Porco is on a mission. As she explained to an audience of several hundred gathered at the Radcliffe Gymnasium earlier this month, in a lecture titled “At Saturn: Tripping the Light ...
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Apr 19, 2010 |
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Enceladus leaves plasma bubbles in its wake
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations of how Saturn’s moon Enceladus interacts with its environment show it leaves a complex pattern of ripples and bubbles in its wake. Sheila Kanani will be presenting the results ...
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Apr 15, 2010 |
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Cassini Sees Lightening on Saturn
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of lightning on Saturn. The images have allowed scientists to create the first movie showing lightning flashing on another planet.
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Apr 14, 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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Cassini Finishes Saturnian Doubleheader
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft completed its double flyby this week, swinging by Saturn's moons Titan and Dione with no maneuver in between. The spacecraft has beamed back stunning raw images of ...
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Apr 12, 2010 |
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Looking for life beyond Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientist Carolyn Porco explored the deeper regions of the solar system and her work with the Cassini mission to Saturn during a talk at Radcliffe.
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Apr 07, 2010 |
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Cassini Doubleheader: Flying By Titan and Dione
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a special double flyby early next week, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will visit Saturn's moons Titan and Dione within a period of about a day and a half, with no maneuvers in between. A fortuitous ...
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Apr 05, 2010 |
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1980s Video Icon Glows on Saturn Moon
The highest-resolution-yet temperature map and images of Saturn's icy moon Mimas obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal surprising patterns on the surface of the small moon, including unexpected hot ...
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Mar 29, 2010 |
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Snowblower on Enceladus: Scientists discover how ice jets on the moon feed Saturn's E ring
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cassini's nose dives through Saturn's E ring have yielded insights on the give and take of ice particles between Enceladus and the ring. Some of the moon's jets are successful in shooting ...
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Mar 23, 2010 |
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Life Without Water?
On Saturn’s giant moon Titan, it is so cold that water is frozen as hard as granite. And yet there is a complete liquid cycle of methane and ethane. Scientists wonder whether there could also be life.
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Mar 18, 2010 |
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Cassini Shows Saturnian Roller Derby, Strange Weather
(PhysOrg.com) -- The seemingly serene orb of Saturn is in fact a gas giant with extraordinary patterns of charged particles and rough and tumble roller derbies for rings. Such are the findings of NASA's Cassini ...
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Mar 18, 2010 |
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