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Cassini Finds Hints of Activity at Saturn Moon Dione
May 30, 2013 (JPL)
From a distance, most of the Saturnian moon Dione resembles a bland cueball. Thanks to close-up images of a 500-mile-long (800-kilometer-long) mountain on the m...
Wild Weather Could Be Ahead on Titan
May 24, 2013 (JPL)
Saturn's moon Titan might be in for some wild weather as it heads into its spring and summer, if two new models are correct. Scientists think that as the season...
Cassini Shapes First Global Topographic Map of Titan
May 20, 2013 (JPL)
Scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Eart...
Saturn returns to evening sky this weekend
May 06, 2013 (UPI)
This weekend, Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, will be the closest it will be to Earth this year as it goes into opposition with the sun. Opposition occur...
'Tis the Season -- for Plasma Changes at Saturn
May 06, 2013 (JPL)
Researchers working with data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have discovered one way the bubble of charged particles around Saturn -- known as the magnetosphere...
See Saturn at its Best and Brightest
May 03, 2013 (SPX)
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 becom...
Cassini Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn
May 02, 2013 (JPL)
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-r...
Saturn's youthful appearance explained
May 01, 2013 (SPX)
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 sin...
Spacecraft returns dramatic images of massive hurricane on Saturn
Apr 29, 2013 (UPI)
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. High-resolut...
NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding with Saturn's Rings
Apr 29, 2013 (JPL)
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 obs...
Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone?
Apr 17, 2013 (JPL)
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...
Ice Cloud Heralds Fall at Titan's South Pole
Apr 15, 2013 (SPX)
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...
Blame it on the Rain (from Saturn's Rings)
Apr 12, 2013 (JPL)
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 pla...
NASA Team Investigates Complex Chemistry At Titan
Apr 04, 2013 (JPL)
A laboratory experiment at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., simulating the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan suggests complex organic chemist...
Saturn is Like an Antiques Shop, Cassini Suggests
Mar 28, 2013 (JPL)
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 sys...
'Hot Spots' Ride a Merry-Go-Round on Jupiter
Mar 19, 2013 (SPX)
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 clear...
Rhea Rev 183 Raw Preview
Mar 12, 2013 (JPL)
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 las...
Cassini Makes Last Close Flyby of Saturnian Moon Rhea
Mar 11, 2013 (JPL)
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 purp...
A Window into Europa's Ocean Right at the Surface
Mar 06, 2013 (JPL)
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 ...
Cassini Still Going Strong Investigating Saturn's Moons
Feb 25, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's longstanding Cassini mission to Saturn continues to provide scientists with exciting new insights on moons Titan and Enceladus as well as the planet's st...
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