SATURNDAILY

439 articles

Cassini goes up and over for final mission tour of Saturn
May 24, 2016 (JPL)
Cassini orbited in Saturn's ring plane - around the planet's equator - for most of 2015. This enabled a season of flybys of the planet's icy moons, but did not ...
The hard knock life of Saturn's Epimetheus
May 12, 2016 (JPL)
Life is hard for a little moon. Epimetheus, seen here with Saturn in the background, is lumpy and misshapen, thanks in part to its size and formation process. E...
Enceladus jets: surprises in starlight
May 10, 2016 (JPL)
During a recent stargazing session, NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched a bright star pass behind the plume of gas and dust that spews from Saturn's icy moon Ence...
Discovering the bath scum on Titan
Apr 29, 2016 (The Conversation)
It's not everyday that you get to discover something new. But when you do it is a rather strange and quite brilliant feeling. You don't really cry out 'Eureka' ...
Profile of a methane sea on Titan
Apr 28, 2016 (ESA)
Saturn's largest moon is covered in seas and lakes of liquid hydrocarbons - and one sea has now been found to be filled with pure methane, with a seabed covered...
Y Marks the Spot
Apr 19, 2016 (SPX)
A sinuous feature snakes northward from Enceladus' south pole like a giant tentacle. This feature, which stretches from the terminator near center, toward upper...
Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust
Apr 15, 2016 (JPL)
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 scie...
Saturn spacecraft not affected by hypothetical Planet 9
Apr 11, 2016 (JPL)
Contrary to recent reports, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is not experiencing unexplained deviations in its orbit around Saturn, according to mission managers and o...
Computer model explains sustained eruptions on icy moon of Saturn
Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)
The Cassini spacecraft has observed geysers erupting on Saturn's moon Enceladus since 2005, but the process that drives and sustains these eruptions has remaine...
Cassini Spies Titan's Tallest Peaks
Mar 28, 2016 (JPL)
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...
Working Toward 'Seamless' Infrared Maps of Titan
Mar 28, 2016 (SPX)
Each of these two montages shows four synthetic views of Titan created using data acquired by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIMS) on board NASA'...
Moons of Saturn may be younger than the dinosaurs
Mar 28, 2016 (SPX)
New research suggests that some of Saturn's icy moons, as well as its famous rings, might be modern adornments. Their dramatic birth may have taken place a mere...
The Tilted Terminator Of Enceladus
Mar 17, 2016 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn's moon Enceladus that shows wrinkled plains that are remarkably youthful in appearance, being generally f...
The Saturnian Sisters
Mar 17, 2016 (JPL)
Similar in many ways, Saturn's moons Tethys and Rhea (left and right, respectively) even share a discoverer: Giovanni Cassini, namesake of the NASA spacecraft t...
Tethys, Janus pose with Saturn's rings in new NASA photo
Mar 01, 2016 (UPI)
A newly shared image from NASA showcases the orbital mecca that is Saturn. In addition to the thick bands of gas and dust that constantly orbit the gas giant, f...
Titan Temperature Lag Maps and Animation
Feb 23, 2016 (JPL)
This sequence of maps shows varying surface temperatures on Saturn's moon Titan at two-year intervals, from 2004 to 2016. The measurements were made by the Comp...
Ices and shadows above Saturn
Feb 09, 2016 (JPL)
Saturn's moon Tethys appears to float between two sets of rings in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but it's just a trick of geometry. The rings, which...
Saturn's rings: less than meets the eye
Feb 03, 2016 (JPL)
It seems intuitive that an opaque material should contain more stuff than a more translucent substance. For example, muddier water has more suspended particles ...
Cassini Heads for 'Higher Ground' at Saturn
Jan 26, 2016 (JPL)
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. The second of f...
A Triple Play Out Saturn Way
Jan 05, 2016 (JPL)
What looks like a pair of Saturnian satellites is actually a trio upon close inspection. Here, Cassini has captured Enceladus (313 miles or 504 kilometers acros...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.