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Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Emerges from Winter Darkness
(PhysOrg.com) -- After waiting years for the sun to illuminate Saturn's north pole again, cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft have captured the most detailed images yet of the intriguing hexagon shape ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane ...
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Nov 29, 2009 |
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Image: Prometheus Plays Tug of War with One of Saturn's Rings
(PhysOrg.com) -- The diminutive moon Prometheus whips gossamer ice particles out of Saturn's F ring in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 21, 2009.
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Nov 25, 2009 |
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Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn's Northern Lights (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known "northern lights" in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Ghostly 'Spokes' Puff Out From Saturn's Ring's (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Massive, bright clouds of tiny ice particles hover above the darkened rings of Saturn in an image captured by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 22, 2009, around the time of Saturn's equinox. ...
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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A long night falls over Saturn's rings
As Saturn's rings orbit the planet, a section is typically in the planet's shadow, experiencing a brief night lasting from 6 to 14 hours. However, once approximately every 15 years, night falls over the entire ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 24, 2009 |
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Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team unveils its new set of wheels
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Penn State engineering students recently took delivery of a 2009 Saturn Vue that will be used in an advanced vehicle technology engineering contest sponsored by the Department of Energy and General ...
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Largest Ring Around Saturn Discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn -- by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Cassini Reveals New Ring Quirks, Shadows During Saturn Equinox
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists are marveling over the extent of ruffles and dust clouds revealed in the rings of Saturn during the planet's equinox last month. Scientists once thought the rings were almost ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Exotic life beyond Earth? Looking for life as we don't know it
Scientists at a new interdisciplinary research institute in Austria are working to uncover how life might evolve with "exotic" biochemistry and solvents, such as sulphuric acid instead of water. Their research ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Scientists unravel the chemistry of Titan's hazy atmosphere
A team of University of Hawai'i at Mānoa researchers led by Ralf Kaiser, physical chemist at UH Mānoa, unraveled the chemical evolution of the orange-brownish colored atmosphere of Saturn's moon ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Longest lightning storm on Saturn breaks Solar System record
A powerful lightning storm in Saturn’s atmosphere that began in mid-January 2009 has become the Solar System’s longest continuously observed thunderstorm. It broke the record duration of 7.5 months set by ...
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Sep 15, 2009 |
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New Transient Radiation Belt Discovered at Saturn
Scientists using the Cassini spacecraft's Magnetospheric Imaging instrument (MIMI) have detected a new, temporary radiation belt at Saturn, located around the orbit of its moon Dione at about 377 000 km ...
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Sep 14, 2009 |
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Saturn Moon Could Power 150 Billion Labor Day Barbecues
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since its discovery by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens in 1655, Saturn's most massive moon, Titan, has been known as a place of mystery and intrigue. The large, cloud-enshrouded moon is ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Scientist finds alternate explanation for dune formation on Titan
A new and likely controversial paper has just been published online in Nature Geoscience by LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology Chair Patrick Hesp and United States Geological Survey scientist David ...
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Aug 25, 2009 |
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