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May 19, 2013

'Tis the Season -- for Plasma Changes at Saturn
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 06, 2013
Researchers working with data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have discovered one way the bubble of charged particles around Saturn - known as the magnetosphere - changes with the planet's seasons. The finding provides an important clue for solving a riddle about the planet's naturally occurring radio signal. The results might also help scientists better understand variations in Earth's magnetosphere and Van Allen radiation belts, which affect a variety of activities at Earth, ranging from space ... read more

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See Saturn at its Best and Brightest The Solar System is a beautiful place filled with wonders that NASA space probes are only beginning to discover. There's a tendency, though, for people to become indifferent; every year Hubble, Cass ... more		Cassini Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, sc ... more		Saturn's youthful appearance explained As planets age they become darker and cooler. Saturn however is much brighter than expected for a planet of its age - a question that has puzzled scientists since the late sixties. New research publ ... more
				Apollo-Era Test Stand Being Prepared for SLS Core Stage Testing Before NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) flies to space on its inaugural mission in 2017, it will fly in place at the agency's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The B-2 Test Stand at Ste ... more		Spacecraft returns dramatic images of massive hurricane on Saturn NASA says the Cassini spacecraft has sent back the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding with Saturn's Rings NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings. These observations make Saturn's rings th ... more		Herschel links water in Jupiter's stratosphere to 1994 comet impact Astronomers have finally found direct proof that almost all water present in Jupiter's stratosphere was delivered by comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which struck the planet in 1994. The result is based on n ... more		US Navy And Lockheed Martin Deliver Secure Communications Satellite For Mobile Users Second Generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System Intercepts Ballistic Missile Target Northrop Grumman Proves Concept for New B-2 Satellite Communication System Making frequency-hopping radios practical F-35A Completes High Angle Of Attack Testing Carrier-based unmanned jet launch set to open new markets Gunmen kill two NATO drivers in Pakistan: officials		Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone? By tracking a part of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan over several years, NASA's Cassini mission has found a remarkable longevity to the hydrocarbon lakes on the moon's surface. A team led ... more
				Ice Cloud Heralds Fall at Titan's South Pole An ice cloud taking shape over Titan's south pole is the latest sign that the change of seasons is setting off a cascade of radical changes in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon. Made from an u ... more		Blame it on the Rain (from Saturn's Rings) A new study tracks the "rain" of charged water particles into the atmosphere of Saturn and finds there is more of it and it falls across larger areas of the planet than previously thought. The ... more

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NASA Team Investigates Complex Chemistry At Titan A laboratory experiment at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., simulating the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan suggests complex organic chemistry that could eventually lead to the b ... more		Sun block for the "Big Dog" An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and from the University of Cologne, successfully identified two titanium oxides in the e ... more		Research into carbon storage in Arctic tundra reveals unexpected insight into ecosystem resiliency World's melting glaciers making large contribution to sea rise H1N1 discovered in marine mammals TD Alvin Marks Starts Of US Hurricane Season Sea level: One-third of its rise comes from melting mountain glaciers Corals turn to algae for stored food when times get tough Tropical air circulation drives fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula		Saturn is Like an Antiques Shop, Cassini Suggests A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that Saturn's moons and rings are gently worn vintage goods from around the time of our solar system's birth. Though they are tin ... more
				'Hot Spots' Ride a Merry-Go-Round on Jupiter In the swirling canopy of Jupiter's atmosphere, cloudless patches are so exceptional that the big ones get the special name "hot spots." Exactly how these clearings form and why they're only found n ... more		Rhea Rev 183 Raw Preview NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured these raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moon Rhea during a close flyby on March 9, 2013. This flyby marks the mission's last targeted encounter with Rhea and onl ... more

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'Tis the Season -- for Plasma Changes at Saturn

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Cassini Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn

China launches communications satellite

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	Cassini Makes Last Close Flyby of Saturnian Moon Rhea NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be swooping close to Saturn's moon Rhea on Saturday, March 9, the last close flyby of Rhea in Cassini's mission. The primary purpose will be to probe the interna ... more		Cassini Spies Bright Venus From Saturn Orbit A distant world gleaming in sunlight, Earth's twin planet, Venus, shines like a bright beacon in images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. One special image of Venus an ... more		Modeling Jupiter and Saturn's possible origins New theoretical modeling by Carnegie's Alan Boss provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system-Jupiter and Saturn-might have formed and evolved. His work was published recently by ... more		A Window into Europa's Ocean Right at the Surface If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of the ocean beneath. A new paper by Mike Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technol ... more

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Groundwater unaffected by shale gas production in Arkansas

Stacking 2-D materials produces surprising results

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Stanford Engineers' New Metamaterial Doubles Up on Invisibility

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Cassini Still Going Strong Investigating Saturn's Moons		Cassini Sheds Light On Cosmic Particle Accelerators		Cassini Sees Titan Cooking up Smog		NASA's Cassini Watches Storm Choke on Its Own Tail		NASA Engineers Resurrect And Test Mighty F-1 Engine Gas Generator
Titan Gets a Dune "Makeover"		NASA Engineers Resurrect And Test Mighty F-1 Engine Gas Generator		Cassini Suggests Icing On A Lake		Frozen hydrocarbon ice on Titan's oceans?		Cassini Instrument Learns New Tricks

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Cassini Halloween Treat: Titan Glows in the Dark

Saturn's giant storm reveals the planet's churning atmosphere

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What's Baking on Titan?

A Long and Winding Road: Cassini Celebrates 15 Years

Bouncing on Titan

Navigating the Seas of Titan

Titan Shows Surprising Seasonal Changes

Does Triton Have a Subsurface Ocean?

Saturn and its Largest Moon Reflect Their True Colors

NASA Goddard Team to Demonstrate Miniaturized Spectrometer-on-a-Chip

Mars Landing Sky Show

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