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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Cassini finds warm cracks on Enceladus

New images and data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft give scientists a unique Saturn-lit view of active fissures through the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. They reveal a more complicated web ...

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created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Blowing in the Wind: Cassini Helps with Dune Whodunit

(PhysOrg.com) -- The answer to the mystery of dune patterns on Saturn's moon Titan did turn out to be blowing in the wind. It just wasn't from the direction many scientists expected.

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created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Formation of Saturn's ring moons explained

(PhysOrg.com) -- New computer simulations based on data collected by the Cassini spacecraft mission suggest five of Saturn's moons may have been formed only 10 million years ago, and researchers in France ...

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created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

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

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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created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast