Image: Saturn's past and present moons
Saturn's beautiful rings form a striking feature, cutting across this image of two of the planet's most intriguing moons.
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News tagged with cassini spacecraft
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 ...
Space Exploration
Apr 9, 2016
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Fog on Titan detected by Huygens lander
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, with its thick, dense atmosphere, is of special interest for scientists studying atmospheric features on other worlds. While the presence of fog on Titan was revealed in 2009 thanks to data ...
Climate of Jupiter and Saturn may yield clues to Earth's weather
What can the climates of other planets tell us about the Earth's weather? According to a researcher at the University of Houston, data being collected from Jupiter, Saturn and Saturn's largest moon, Titan, can offer clues ...
Space Exploration
Feb 24, 2016
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Search narrows for Planet Nine
US astronomers announced last month they may have found a ninth planet beyond Neptune, but conceded they had no idea where on an estimated 10,000-20,000-year orbit it might be.
Astronomy
Feb 23, 2016
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Image: Cassini captures group photo of Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas
Three of Saturn's moons—Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas—are captured in this group photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Feb 23, 2016
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Image: Saturn's rings dividing Dione
Dione appears cut in two by Saturn's razor-thin rings, seen nearly edge-on in a view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This scene was captured from just 0.02 degrees above the ring plane.
Space Exploration
Feb 17, 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 ...
Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2016
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Image: Saturn's moonlets disrupting a core ring
Saturn has the most extensive ring system in the Solar System. Sitting in the region of space spanning 7000 to 80 000 km above the planet's equator, these rings are mostly composed of particles of water ice contaminated with ...
Space Exploration
Feb 9, 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.
Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2016
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