Image: Jupiter's south polar region
This image from NASA's Juno spacecraft provides a never-before-seen perspective on Jupiter's south pole.
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35 years on, Voyager's legacy continues at Saturn
Saturn, with its alluring rings and numerous moons, has long fascinated stargazers and scientists. After an initial flyby of Pioneer 11 in 1979, humanity got a second, much closer look at this complex planetary system in ...
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Aug 25, 2016
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Cassini image: Criss-crossed rings
At first glance, Saturn's rings appear to be intersecting themselves in an impossible way. In actuality, this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the rings in front of the planet, upon which the shadow of the rings ...
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Apr 29, 2016
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Saturn spacecraft samples interstellar dust
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system. The research, led by a team of Cassini scientists primarily from Europe, is published this week in the journal ...
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Apr 14, 2016
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Saturn spacecraft not affected by hypothetical Planet 9
Contrary to recent reports, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is not experiencing unexplained deviations in its orbit around Saturn, according to mission managers and orbit determination experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
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Apr 9, 2016
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Preparing for Cassini's last act
SETI Institute researcher Matt Tiscareno will continue to be on the front lines as the famed Cassini spacecraft embarks on its final mission. NASA has announced that Tiscareno will be a Participating Scientist as Cassini ...
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Mar 28, 2016
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Cassini spies Titan's tallest peaks
In a nod to extraterrestrial mountaineers of the future, scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission have identified the highest point on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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Mar 24, 2016
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Saturn and Enceladus produce the same amount of plasma
The first evidence that Saturn's upper atmosphere may, when buffeted by the solar wind, emit the same total amount of mass per second into its magnetosphere as its moon, Enceladus, has been found by UCL scientists working ...
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Feb 12, 2016
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Researchers weigh the central parts of Saturn's most massive ring for the first time
It seems intuitive that an opaque material should contain more stuff than a more translucent substance. For example, muddier water has more suspended particles of dirt in it than clearer water. Likewise, you might think that, ...
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Feb 3, 2016
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Cassini heads for 'higher ground' at Saturn
NASA's Cassini mission is entering its next chapter with an orbital choreography meant to tilt the spacecraft's orbit out of Saturn's ringplane.
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Jan 26, 2016
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