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Saturn makes waves in its own rings
Aug 18, 2021 (SPX)
In a new study accepted in the journal Nature Astronomy, two Caltech astronomers have analyzed those rippling rings to reveal new information about the core of ...
Dragonfly mission to Titan announces big science goals
Aug 11, 2021 (SPX)
NASA's Dragonfly mission, which will send a rotorcraft relocatable lander to Titan's surface in the mid-2030s, will be the first mission to explore the surface ...
Icequakes likely rumble along geyser-spitting fractures in Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
Jul 12, 2021 (SPX)
Enceladus is about 500 kilometers in diameter and almost entirely covered in ice. The moon is nearly 10 times as far away from the Sun as Earth and its bright s...
Methane in the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus: Possible signs of life?
Jul 07, 2021 (SPX)
Giant water plumes erupting from Enceladus have long fascinated scientists and the public alike, inspiring research and speculation about the vast ocean that is...
Glenn researchers study new, futuristic concept to explore Titan
May 13, 2021 (SPX)
The team's futuristic idea was selected for a $125,000 NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program grant to begin studying the concept's feasibility. "NI...
Johns Hopkins Scientists Model Saturn's Interior
May 07, 2021 (SPX)
The models, published this week in AGU Advances, also indicate that Saturn's interior may feature higher temperatures at the equatorial region, with lower tempe...
Ocean currents predicted on Enceladus
Mar 26, 2021 (SPX)
The theory, derived from the shape of Enceladus's ice shell, challenges the current thinking that the moon's global ocean is homogenous, apart from some vertica...
Hubble Sees Changing Seasons on Saturn
Mar 19, 2021 (SPX)
"These small year-to-year changes in Saturn's color bands are fascinating," said Amy Simon, planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbe...
Saturn's Tilt Caused By Its Moons
Jan 22, 2021 (SPX)
Recent observations have shown that Titan and the other moons are gradually moving away from Saturn much faster than astronomers had previously estimated. By in...
Astronomers estimate Titan's largest sea is 1,000 feet deep
Jan 21, 2021 (SPX)
After sifting through data from one of the final Titan flybys of the Cassini mission, the researchers detailed their findings in "The Bathymetry of Moray Sinus ...
SwRI models point to a potentially diverse metabolic menu at Enceladus
Dec 17, 2020 (SPX)
Prior to its deorbit in September of 2017, Cassini sampled the plume of ice grains and water vapor erupting from cracks on the icy surface of Enceladus, discove...
Impact craters reveal details of Titan's dynamic surface weathering
Oct 30, 2020 (JPL)
Like Earth, Titan has a thick atmosphere that acts as a protective shield from meteoroids; meanwhile, erosion and other geologic processes efficiently erase cra...
NASA Scientists Discover 'Weird' Molecule in Titan's Atmosphere
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers found C3H2 by using a radio telescope observatory in northern Chile known as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). They noticed C...
ALMA shows volcanic impact on Io's atmosphere
Oct 22, 2020 (SPX)
Io is the most volcanically active moon in our solar system. It hosts more than 400 active volcanoes, spewing out sulfur gases that give Io its yellow-white-ora...
Interplanetary storm chasing
Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)
One of Saturn's mysteries involves the massive storm in the shape of a hexagon at its north pole. The six-sided vortex is an atmospheric phenomenon that has bee...
Titan's lakes can stratify like those on Earth
Sep 30, 2020 (SPX)
Stratification occurs when different parts of a lake have different densities, with the less dense layer floating atop the denser layer. On Earth, lakes in temp...
New chronology of the Saturn System
Sep 24, 2020 (SPX)
"Most studies dating surfaces on the Moon or Mars rely on counting how many impact craters have formed and knowing the cratering rate, but on the moons of Satur...
Evidence for Volcanic Craters on Saturn's Moon Titan
Jun 16, 2020 (SPX)
Morphological features such as nested collapses, elevated ramparts, halos, and islands indicate that some of the abundant small depressions in the north polar r...
Saturn's Moon Titan drifting away faster than previously thought
Jun 09, 2020 (JPL)
Over time, the energy created by the bulging and subsiding transfers from the planet to the moon, nudging it farther and farther out. Our Moon drifts 1.5 inches...
Discovered a multilayer haze system on Saturn's Hexagon
May 11, 2020 (SPX)
Featuring among them due to its uniqueness is the well-known "hexagon", an amazing wave structure that surrounds the planet's polar region and whose shape looks...
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