Cassini finishes sleigh ride by icy moons
On the heels of a successful close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is returning images of Enceladus and the nearby moon Dione.
Dec 22, 2010
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Dec 22, 2010
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Cassini returns images of bright jets at Enceladus
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully dipped near the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Nov. 30.
Dec 02, 2010
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Saturn's icy moon Enceladus may keep oceans liquid with wobble
(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn's icy moon Enceladus should not be one of the most promising places in our solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. Instead, it should have frozen solid billions of years ago. ...
Oct 07, 2010
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Saturn System Moves Oxygen From Enceladus to Titan
(PhysOrg.com) -- Complex interactions between Saturn and its satellites have led scientists using NASA's Cassini spacecraft to a comprehensive model that could explain how oxygen may end up on the surface ...
Jul 02, 2010
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Cassini Returning Enceladus Gravity Data
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its 26-hour gravity observation at Saturn's moon Enceladus this week, sending back data scientists will use to understand the moon's interior ...
May 03, 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 ...
Apr 15, 2010
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Cassini Finds Plethora of Plumes, Hotspots at Enceladus
(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly released images from last November's swoop over Saturn's icy moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal a forest of new jets spraying from prominent fractures crossing the south ...
Feb 23, 2010
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Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. ...
Dec 15, 2009
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Evidence for ocean on Enceladus: Tiny Saturn Moon Could Be Targeted in Search for Extraterrestrial Life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Plumes spewing from a tiny moon of Saturn - a moon roughly the width of Arizona - are filled with molecules that suggest that the moon, Enceladus, is likely another place in the solar system ...
Jul 22, 2009
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Bacterium from Canadian High Arctic and life on Mars
(Phys.org) —The temperature in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic is nearly as cold as that of the surface of Mars. So the recent discovery by a McGill University led team of ...
May 23, 2013
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Swirling vortex and mini moons: Spectacular views of the little things around Saturn
With wild storms and a vast ring system, nothing seems small around Saturn. But as NASA's Cassini spacecraft loops high over Saturn's poles, scientists are taking time to explore the little things including ...
Nov 13, 2012
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Developing miniaturized spectrometer-on-a-chip
(Phys.org) -- The Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) is big. It's powerful and it discovered, among other things, that Saturn's mysterious moon Enceladus was one of the very few worlds in the solar system ...
Aug 03, 2012
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Cassini to make closest pass yet over Enceladus South Pole
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where icy particles and water vapor spray out in glittering jets. ...
Mar 27, 2012
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Image: Saturn's Northern storm
(PhysOrg.com) -- This false-color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the tail of Saturn's huge northern storm. In mid-September 2004, the Cassini spacecraft chronicled a similar, but smaller, storm ...
Nov 21, 2011
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Cassini flyby focuses on Saturn's moon Enceladus
(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn's moon Enceladus shows its icy face and famous plumes in raw, unprocessed images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its successful flyby on Nov. 6, 2011.
Nov 08, 2011
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