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Navigating the Seas of Titan
Oct 01, 2012 (SPX)
Humanity has landed a rover on Mars. Now, say scientists, it's time to land a boat on Titan. This outlandish scenario could become reality, according to enginee...
Does Triton Have a Subsurface Ocean?
Sep 07, 2012 (SPX)
Triton was discovered in 1846 by the British astronomer William Lassell, but much about Neptune's largest moon still remains a mystery. A Voyager 2 flyby in 198...
Saturn and its Largest Moon Reflect Their True Colors
Aug 30, 2012 (SPX)
Posing for portraits for NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, show spectacular colors in a quartet of images being released. One image...
Giant Ice Avalanches On Iapetus Provide Clue To Extreme Slippage Elsewhere In The Solar System
Jul 30, 2012 (SPX)
"We see landslides everywhere in the solar system," says Kelsi Singer, graduate student in Earth and planetary sciences in Arts and Sciences at Washington Unive...
River networks on Titan point to a puzzling geologic history
Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)
For many years, Titan's thick, methane- and nitrogen-rich atmosphere kept astronomers from seeing what lies beneath. Saturn's largest moon appeared through tele...
Cassini Spots Daytime Lightning on Saturn
Jul 20, 2012 (JPL)
Saturn was playing the lightning storm blues. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of last year's storm on Saturn, the largest storm seen up-close at t...
Saturn's Rings are Back
Jul 12, 2012 (JPL)
It's been nearly two years since NASA's Cassini spacecraft has had views like these of Saturn's glorious rings. These views are possible again because Cassini h...
Cassini Flies High to View Saturn's Rings Again
Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)
It's been nearly two years since NASA's Cassini spacecraft has had views like those it is now enjoying of Saturn's glorious rings. These views are possible agai...
The Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn
Jul 11, 2012 (JPL)
Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, signs that...
Titan's tides point to hidden ocean
Jul 03, 2012 (ESA)
Nothing like it has been seen before beyond our own planet: large tides have been found on Saturn's moon Titan that point to a liquid ocean - most likely water ...
Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn
Jun 27, 2012 (JPL)
Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for ye...
Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon
Jun 18, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in the "tropics" of Saturn's moon Titan. One of the tropical lakes appears to be ab...
Enceladus Plume is a New Kind of Plasma Laboratory
Jun 01, 2012 (JPL)
Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or...
Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit
May 22, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn's tiny moon Methone as part of a trajectory that will take it on a close flyby of another of Satur...
Cassini, Saturn Moon Photographer
May 04, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Saturn's moons Enceladus and Dione during close flybys on May 2, 2012, capturing these raw images. The flybys wer...
Cassini to Probe Enceladus Gravity, Take Pictures
May 02, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be flying within about 46 miles (74 kilometers) of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, May 2, aiming primarily to learn more ab...
NASA Research Estimates How Long Titan's Chemical Factory Has Been in Business
Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)
Saturn's giant moon Titan hides within a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well-known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar ...
Cassini Finds Saturn Moon has Planet-Like Qualities
Apr 27, 2012 (JPL)
Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought. Scientists had their first close-up look at...
SwRI Scientists Assess Age Of Titan's Organic Atmosphere
Apr 26, 2012 (SPX)
Shrouded in a thick, complex, organic haze, Saturn's giant moon Titan is proving to be one of the most scientifically interesting destinations in the solar syst...
Cassini Sees Objects Blazing Trails in Saturn Ring
Apr 24, 2012 (JPL)
Scientists working with images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have discovered strange half-mile-sized (kilometer-sized) objects punching through parts of Saturn...
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