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At Saturn, One of These Rings is not like the Others
Sep 03, 2015 (JPL)
When the sun set on Saturn's rings in August 2009, scientists on NASA's Cassini mission were watching closely. It was the equinox - one of two times in the Satu...
Discovery of the Origin of Saturn's F Ring and Its Shepherd Satellites
Aug 26, 2015 (SPX)
Hyodo Ryuki, a second-year student in the Doctoral Program, and Professor Ohtsuki Keiji of the Graduate School of Science at Kobe University have revealed that ...
Cassini's Final Breathtaking Close Views of Dione
Aug 21, 2015 (JPL)
A pockmarked, icy landscape looms beneath NASA's Cassini spacecraft in new images of Saturn's moon Dione taken during the mission's last close approach to the s...
Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione
Aug 14, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Aug. 17 - the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the spacecraft's long missio...
Saturn's rings in a supercomputer
Aug 10, 2015 (SPX)
Why some planets, like Saturn or Jupiter, have their rings, while others like, the Earth or Mars do not? It turned out that "the size does not matter" - not onl...
Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon
Jul 30, 2015 (JPL)
Like graffiti sprayed by an unknown artist, unexplained arc-shaped, reddish streaks are visible on the surface of Saturn's icy moon Tethys in new, enhanced-colo...
'Bathtub Rings' Suggest Titan's Dynamic Seas
Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)
Saturn's moon, Titan, is the only object in the Solar System other than Earth known to have liquid on its surface. While most of the lakes are found around the ...
Bright Basin on Tethys
Jul 29, 2015 (JPL)
With the expanded range of colors visible to Cassini's cameras, differences in materials and their textures become apparent that are subtle or unseen in natural...
Titan's atmosphere even more Earth-like than previously thought
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at UCL have observed how a widespread polar wind is driving gas from the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. The team analysed data gathered over seve...
Dissolving Titan
Jun 22, 2015 (ESA)
Saturn's moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what makes the depressions they lie in? A new study suggests that the moon's ...
Small thunderstorms may add up to massive cyclones on Saturn
Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)
For the last decade, astronomers have observed curious "hotspots" on Saturn's poles. In 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft beamed back close-up images of these hot...
Tethys 'Eyes' Saturn
Jun 17, 2015 (JPL)
The two large craters on Tethys, near the line where day fades to night, almost resemble two giant eyes observing Saturn. The location of these craters on Tethy...
Saturn's Invisible Ring is Much Larger Than Scientists First Thought
Jun 16, 2015 (Sputnik)
Scientists have discovered that Saturn's Phoebe ring - the largest planetary ring known to mankind - is even larger than they once suspected, although they stil...
Saturn Spacecraft to Buzz Icy Moon Dione June 16
Jun 16, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make a close flyby of Saturn's moon Dione on June 16, coming within 321 miles (516 kilometers) of the moon's surface. The spacecr...
Cassini Sends Final Close Views of Odd Moon Hyperion
Jun 04, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has returned images from its final close approach to Saturn's oddball moon Hyperion, upholding the moon's reputation as one of the mos...
Cassini to make final pass by Saturn's odd-shaped Hyperion moon
May 30, 2015 (UPI)
Launched from Earth nearly 20 years ago, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its final close proximity flyby of Saturn's moon Hyperion on Sunday -- coming withi...
Cassini Prepares for Last Up-close Look at Hyperion
May 29, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its final close approach to Saturn's large, irregularly shaped moon Hyperion on Sunday, May 31. The Saturn-orbiting spacecra...
Geochemical process on Saturn's moon linked to life's origin
May 09, 2015 (SPX)
New work from a team including Carnegie's Christopher Glein has revealed the pH of water spewing from a geyser-like plume on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Their find...
Saturn Moon's Activity Could Be 'Curtain Eruptions'
May 09, 2015 (JPL)
New research using data from NASA's Cassini mission suggests most of the eruptions from Saturn's moon Enceladus might be diffuse curtains rather than discrete j...
Saturn's Faint D Ring
Apr 28, 2015 (JPL)
Not all of Saturn's rings are created equal: here the C and D rings appear side-by-side, but the C ring, which occupies the bottom half of this image, clearly o...
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