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Mysterious 'Magic Island' appears on Saturn moon
Jun 30, 2014 (SPX)
Now you don't see it. Now, you do. And now you don't see it again. Astronomers have discovered a bright, mysterious geologic object - where one never existed - ...
Titan Flybys Test the Talents of NASA's Cassini Team
Jun 23, 2014 (JPL)
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft zooms toward Saturn's smoggy moon Titan for a targeted flyby on June 18, mission scientists are excitedly hoping to repeat a scient...
NASA considers sending quadcopter drone to look for life on Titan
Jun 23, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
While one NASA probe whizzes by Saturn's moon Titan on Thursday to analyze its atmosphere, the American space agency is also considering a plan to send a quadco...
NASA Experiments Recreate Aromatic Flavors of Titan
Jun 16, 2014 (SPX)
NASA scientists have created a new recipe that captures key flavors of the brownish-orange atmosphere around Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The recipe is used fo...
Arrival and Departure at Phoebe
Jun 12, 2014 (JPL)
As it entered the Saturn system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft performed its first targeted flyby of one of the planet's moons. On June 11, 2004, Cassini passed Pho...
Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets
May 28, 2014 (JPL)
Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have developed a new way to understand the atmospheres of exoplanets by using Saturn's smog-enshrouded ...
'Smoking gun' evidence for theory that Saturn's collapsing magnetic tail causes auroras
May 21, 2014 (SPX)
University of Leicester researchers have captured stunning images of Saturn's auroras as the planet's magnetic field is battered by charged particles from the S...
Saturn's rings reveal how to make a moon
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
Writing in the journal Icarus this week, Professor Carl Murray from Queen Mary's Astronomy Unit reports that recently discovered disturbances at the very edge o...
Saturn's hexagon: An amazing phenomenon
Apr 15, 2014 (SPX)
In 1980 and 1981 NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 space probes passed for the first time over the planet Saturn, located 1,500 million km from the Sun. Among their numero...
NASA Cassini Images May Reveal Birth of a Saturn Moon
Apr 15, 2014 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has documented the formation of a small icy object within the rings of Saturn that may be a new moon, and may also provide clues to th...
Join in the Cassini Name Game
Apr 11, 2014 (JPL)
As NASA's Cassini mission approaches its 10th anniversary at Saturn, its team members back here on Earth are already looking ahead to an upcoming phase. Startin...
Cassini reports sub-surface ocean on Enceladus
Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)
Enceladus-one of Saturn's smaller satellites-has joined the ranks of Titan and Europa as a moon that appears to have liquid water splashing around inside of it,...
Gravity measurements confirm subsurface ocean on Enceladus
Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)
In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sent pictures back to Earth depicting an icy Saturnian moon spewing water vapor and ice from fractures, known as "tiger strip...
Four Moons About Saturn's Rings
Mar 27, 2014 (JPL)
Two pairs of moons make a rare joint appearance. The F ring's shepherd moons, Prometheus and Pandora, appear just inside and outside of the F ring (the thin fai...
Surface of Titan Sea is mirror smooth, Stanford scientists find
Mar 21, 2014 (SPX)
New radar measurements of an enormous sea on Titan offer insights into the weather patterns and landscape composition of the Saturnian moon. The measurements, m...
Your 15 Minutes of 'Frame' - from NASA's Cassini
Mar 18, 2014 (JPL)
Arguably the most photogenic planet in the solar system, Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest planet after Jupiter. With its luminous ...
Cassini Nears 100th Titan Flyby with a Look Back
Mar 09, 2014 (JPL)
Ten years ago, we knew Titan as a fuzzy orange ball about the size of Mercury. We knew it had a nitrogen atmosphere -- the only known world with a thick nitroge...
The Wisps of Dione
Feb 20, 2014 (JPL)
Although the crack-like features seen here on Dione's surface appear wispy and faded, they are in reality a series of geologically fresh fractures! Lit terrain ...
NASA Spacecraft Get a 360-Degree View of Saturn's Auroras
Feb 13, 2014 (JPL)
NASA trained several pairs of eyes on Saturn as the planet put on a dancing light show at its poles. While NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting around Earth,...
Cassini's View of Weird and Wonderful Saturn
Jan 31, 2014 (SPX)
Since Cassini entered orbit around Saturn in 2004, it has sent back a wealth of information about the planet and its moons. On Wednesday, December 4, NASA and t...
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