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Cassini Finds Titan Lake is Like a Namibia Mudflat
Apr 23, 2012 (JPL)
A new study analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that the lake, known as Ontario Lacus, behaves most similarly to what we call a salt pan on E...
Cassini Successfully Flies over Enceladus
Apr 17, 2012 (JPL)
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus and Tethys were taken on April 14, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini flew by Enceladus at an...
Cassini makes simultaneous measurements of Saturn's nightside aurora and electric current system
Apr 05, 2012 (SPX)
Since the NASA / ESA Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, astronomers and space scientists have been able to study the ringed planet and its mo...
How the Equatorial Ridge on Saturn's Moon Iapetus Formed
Apr 02, 2012 (JPL)
Saturn's moon Iapetus is one of the most unusual moons in our solar system. Perhaps the most bizarre feature of Iapetus is its equatorial ridge, a 20-km (12.4-m...
Icy Moons through Cassini's Eyes
Apr 02, 2012 (JPL)
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione were taken on March 27 and 28, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini passed Enc...
Enceladus, Janus and Dione Rev 163 Raw Preview
Mar 30, 2012 (JPL)
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione were taken on March 27 and 28, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini passed Enc...
Is it Snowing Microbes on Enceladus?
Mar 29, 2012 (SPX)
There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe - just maybe - microbes. In a series of tantalizingly close flybys to the m...
Happy Birthday Titan!
Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)
On March 25, 1655, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, using a telescope he built himself, observed a small bright dot suspiciously close to the planet Saturn....
Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet over Enceladus South Pole
Mar 28, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where icy particles and water vapor s...
Cassini Sees Saturn Stressing out Enceladus
Mar 21, 2012 (JPL)
Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have, for the first time, enabled scientists to correlate the spraying of jets of water vapor from fissures on Saturn's mo...
Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
Mar 19, 2012 (JPL)
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's...
Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon
Mar 15, 2012 (JPL)
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, were taken on March 10, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This was a relatively distant f...
Cassini Detects Hint of Fresh Air at Dione
Mar 07, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has "sniffed" molecular oxygen ions around Saturn's icy moon Dione for the first time, confirming the presence of a very tenuous atmos...
New Research Points to Erosional Origin of Linear Dunes
Feb 28, 2012 (SPX)
Linear dunes, widespread on Earth and Saturn's moon, Titan, are generally considered to have been formed by deposits of windblown sand. It has been speculated f...
Rhea Before Titan
Feb 27, 2012 (JPL)
Craters appear well defined on icy Rhea in front of the hazy orb of the much larger moon Titan in this Cassini spacecraft view of these two Saturn moons. Lit te...
The Many Moods of Titan
Feb 24, 2012 (JPL)
A set of recent papers, many of which draw on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveal new details in the emerging picture of how Saturn's moon Titan shifts ...
Searching for life in the depths of Enceladus
Feb 23, 2012 (SPX)
Is there life under the icy crust of Enceladus? The Cassini spacecraft has confirmed the existence of active ice-spewing fissures on the surface of Enceladus. G...
Sailing on an Extraterrestrial Sea
Feb 16, 2012 (SPX)
Many of us have sailed the Earth's lakes, bays and rivers. But, imagine sailing on an extraterrestrial sea of liquid methane-ethane a billion miles from Earth. ...
The Rings of Saturn and Enceladus
Feb 13, 2012 (JPL)
A crescent Enceladus appears with Saturn's rings in this Cassini spacecraft view of the moon. The famed jets of water ice emanating from the south polar region ...
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