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Sep 19, 2005

Cassini Radar Images Show Dramatic Shoreline on Titan

Images returned during Cassini's recent flyby of Titan show captivating evidence of what appears to be a large shoreline cutting across the smoggy moon's southern hemisphere. Hints that this area was once wet, or currently ...

Sep 16, 2005

Ghostly spokes in Saturn's rings spotted by Cassini

Delighted scientists on the Cassini imaging team will be breaking out the champagne in celebration of the first Cassini sighting of spokes, the ghostly radial markings discovered in Saturn's rings by NASA's Voyager spacecraft ...

Sep 14, 2005

Like fireflies and pendulum clocks, nano-oscillators synchronize their behavior

Like the flashing of fireflies and ticking of pendulum clocks, the signals emitted by multiple nanoscale oscillators can naturally synchronize under certain conditions, greatly amplifying their output power and stabilizing ...

Sep 12, 2005

Scientists: Methane may be Titan's 'water'

Scientists say methane might serve the same purpose on Saturn's moon Titan that water does on Earth, the BBC reported Monday.

Aug 17, 2005

Saturn’s rings have own atmosphere

Data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft indicate that Saturn's majestic ring system has its own atmosphere - separate from that of the planet itself.

Aug 4, 2005

New Cassini Images Show "Northern Lights" Of Saturn

New images of Saturn obtained by a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team on June 21 using an instrument on the Cassini spacecraft show auroral emissions at its poles similar to Earth's Northern Lights.

Aug 1, 2005

Cassini Finds an Active, Watery World at Saturn's Enceladus

Saturn's tiny icy moon Enceladus, which ought to be cold and dead, instead displays evidence for active ice volcanism.

Jul 25, 2005

Cassini Reveals Saturn's Eerie-Sounding Radio Emissions

Saturn's radio emissions could be mistaken for a Halloween sound track. That's how two researchers describe their recent findings, published in the July 23 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters. Their paper is based ...

Jun 28, 2005

Cassini Reveals Lake-Like Feature on Titan

Scientists are fascinated by a dark, lake-like feature recently observed on Saturn's moon Titan. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a series of images showing a marking, darker than anything else around it. It is remarkably ...

Jun 28, 2005

Revealing Pan's Influence

Saturn's moon Pan is seen here orbiting within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A ring in two differently processed versions of the same Cassini image. The little moon is responsible for clearing and maintaining this gap, named ...

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