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Cassini spots tiny moon, begins to tilt orbit

(Phys.org) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn's tiny moon Methone as part of a trajectory that will take it on a close flyby of another of Saturn's moons, Titan. The Titan flyby ...

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created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Cassini spies wave rattling jet stream on Jupiter

(PhysOrg.com) -- New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the ...

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created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cassini finds Enceladus is a powerhouse

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heat output from the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus is much greater than was previously thought possible, according to a new analysis of data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ...

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created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (20) | comments 38 | with audio podcast

A water ocean on Titan?

Oddities in the rotation of Saturn's largest moon Titan might add to growing evidence that it harbors an underground ocean, researchers suggest.

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created May 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 57 | with audio podcast

Cassini's last flyby of Enceladus until 2015

On May 2, the Cassini spacecraft will be swooping past the moon we all love to love — Enceladus — and coming within 74 kilometers (46 miles) of its fractured, jet-spewing surface.

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created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Strongest evidence yet indicates Enceladus hiding saltwater ocean

(PhysOrg.com) -- Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, subterranean saltwater ...

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created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Cassini finds Saturn moon Phoebe has planet-like qualities

(Phys.org) -- Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought.

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created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Looking deep into a violent storm on Saturn

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has teamed up with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to study a rare storm in the atmosphere of the planet Saturn in more detail than has ever been possible ...

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created May 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Clocking Neptune's spin

(PhysOrg.com) -- By tracking atmospheric features on Neptune, a UA planetary scientist has accurately determined the planet's rotation, a feat that had not been previously achieved for any of the gas planets ...

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created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Beams of electrons link Saturn with its moon Enceladus

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed that Enceladus, one of Saturn's diminutive moons, is linked to Saturn by powerful electrical currents - beams of electrons that flow back ...

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created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Recalculating the distance to interstellar space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists analyzing recent data from NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecraft have calculated that Voyager 1 could cross over into the frontier of interstellar space at any time and much earlier ...

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created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Spacecrafts reveal mysteries of Jupiter and Saturn rings

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a celestial forensic exercise, scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini, Galileo and New Horizons missions have traced telltale ripples in Saturn and Jupiter's rings to specific collisions ...

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created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cassini sees seasonal methane rains transform Titan's surface (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- As spring continues to unfold at Saturn, April showers on the planet's largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA's Cassini ...

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created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Cassini successfully flies over Enceladus

These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus and Tethys were taken on April 14, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

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created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

What is Consuming Hydrogen and Acetylene on Titan?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two new papers based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft scrutinize the complex chemical activity on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. While non-biological chemistry offers one possible ...

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created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (35) | comments 19 | with audio podcast