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Saturn spacecraft toting CU Boulder instrument starts swan song
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
These include in-depth studies that date and even weigh the astonishing rings; the discovery of methane lakes on the icy moon Titan; hot water plumes found squi...
Cassini makes first dive through Saturn's rings
Apr 26, 2017 (UPI)
On Wednesday, the space probe began its first dive through a 1,500-mile-wide gap separating Saturn and its rings. During Cassini's "grand finale" phase, the pro...
Cassini completes final Titan flyby
Apr 25, 2017 (JPL)
The spacecraft made its 127th and final close approach to Titan on April 21 at 11:08 p.m. PDT (2:08 a.m. EDT [06:08 UTC] on April 22), passing at an altitude of...
Cassini Heads Toward Final Close Encounter with Titan
Apr 20, 2017 (JPL)
Closest approach to Titan is planned for 11:08 p.m. PDT on April 21 (2:08 a.m. EDT April 22). During the encounter, Cassini will pass as close as 608 miles (979...
Saturn moon has necessary conditions to harbor life: NASA
Apr 13, 2017 (AFP)
Cassini has detected hydrogen molecules in vapor plumes emanating from cracks in the surface of Enceladus, a small ocean moon coated in a thick layer of ice, th...
Cassini Mission Prepares for 'Grand Finale' at Saturn
Apr 10, 2017 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, is about to begin the final chapter of its remarkable story. On Wednesday, April 26, the spacecraf...
NASA's Cassini probe of Saturn prepares for last plunge
Apr 05, 2017 (AFP)
NASA's unmanned Cassini spacecraft is preparing for its final plunge into Saturn later this year, after two decades of helping Earth-bound scientists make new d...
Checking in on Bleriot
Mar 30, 2017 (JPL)
What appears as a pair of bright dashes at the center of this image is one of the features rings scientists have dubbed "propellers." This particular propeller,...
The electric sands of Titan
Mar 29, 2017 (SPX)
Experiments led by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggest the particles that cover the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, are "electri...
Titan is covered by electrically charged sand grains, experiments suggest
Mar 27, 2017 (UPI)
New research suggests the sand grains on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, behave similar to the packing peanuts used in shipping boxes. Lab experiments suggest the...
Experiments Show Titan Lakes May Fizz with Nitrogen
Mar 17, 2017 (JPL)
A recent NASA-funded study has shown how the hydrocarbon lakes and seas of Saturn's moon Titan might occasionally erupt with dramatic patches of bubbles. For th...
Enceladus' south pole is warm under the frost
Mar 16, 2017 (SPX)
Over the past decade, the international Cassini mission has revealed intense activity at the southern pole of Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, with warm fractures ...
Farewell to Mimas
Mar 15, 2017 (JPL)
In its season of "lasts," NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its final close approach to Saturn's moon Mimas on January 30, 2017. At closest approach, Cassini passe...
Cassini Sees Heat Below the Icy Surface of Enceladus
Mar 15, 2017 (JPL)
A new study in the journal Nature Astronomy reports that the south polar region of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is warmer than expected just a few feet below its...
An Ice World...With an Ocean
Feb 22, 2017 (JPL)
On Feb. 17, 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft was making the first-ever close pass over Saturn's moon Enceladus as it worked through its detailed survey of the pl...
Close views show Saturn's Rings in unprecedented detail
Jan 31, 2017 (JPL)
Newly released images showcase the incredible closeness with which NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now in its "Ring-Grazing" orbits phase, is observing Saturn's dazz...
Cassini captures stunning view of Saturn moon Daphnis
Jan 23, 2017 (JPL)
The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is featured in this view, taken as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made one of its ring-grazing passes over the outer edges of Saturn's r...
Catching Cassini's call
Jan 17, 2017 (ESA)
This week, ESA deep-space radio dishes on two continents are listening for signals from the international Cassini spacecraft, now on its final tour of Saturn. E...
Huygens: 'Ground Truth' From an Alien Moon
Jan 13, 2017 (JPL)
After a two-and-a-half-hour descent, the metallic, saucer-shaped spacecraft came to rest with a thud on a dark floodplain covered in cobbles of water ice, in te...
NASA image showcases Saturn's sun-soaked north pole
Dec 29, 2016 (UPI)
Cassini is now ring-grazing, but its orbital path earlier this year sent the NASA probe high above Saturn's north pole. In late September, the vantage revealed ...
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