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Data from NASA's Cassini may explain Saturn's atmospheric mystery
Apr 07, 2020 (JPL)
New analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds a viable explanation for what's keeping the upper layers of Saturn, and possibly the other gas giants,...
Why is NASA Sending Dragonfly to Titan
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan in 1655, calling it simply "Luna Saturni," or Saturn's moon. It was later renamed after a group of mytholog...
New SwRI models reveal inner complexity of Saturn moon
Jan 23, 2020 (SPX)
"By understanding the composition of the plume, we can learn about what the ocean is like, how it got to be this way and whether it provides environments where ...
Huygens landing spin mystery solved
Jan 17, 2020 (ESA)
Launched in 1997, the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission remains iconic and has contributed an enormous amount to our understanding of Saturn and its moon Tit...
Final images from Cassini spacecraft
Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)
For the last leg of its journey, Cassini was put on a particularly daring orbit passing between Saturn and its rings which brought it closer to Saturn than ever...
How Enceladus got its stripes
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
"First seen by the Cassini mission to Saturn, these stripes are like nothing else known in our Solar System," lead author Hemingway explained. "They are paralle...
A study of Saturn's largest moon may offer insights for earth
Dec 04, 2019 (SPX)
The findings, reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, could lead to new insights about climate on Earth. Titan is the only body in the solar syste...
The first global geologic map of Titan completed
Nov 19, 2019 (JPL)
Titan is the only planetary body in our solar system other than Earth known to have stable liquid on its surface. But instead of water raining down from clouds ...
Numerous polar storms on Saturn analyzed by the UPV/EHU's Planetary Sciences Group
Oct 30, 2019 (SPX)
It was an amateur Brazilian astronomer who on 29 March, 2018, captured on telescope a brilliant white spot on the disc of the planet Saturn close to its north p...
University of Hawaii team unravels origin, chemical makeup of Titan's dunes
Oct 19, 2019 (SPX)
Physical chemist Ralf I. Kaiser and fellow researchers examined remote sensing data regarding NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Titan - the only solar system bo...
Saturn most moon-rich planet in solar system after discovery of 20 new moons
Oct 09, 2019 (UPI)
"Using some of the largest telescopes in the world, we are now completing the inventory of small moons around the giant planets," lead researcher Scott S. Shepp...
Saturn surpasses Jupiter after the discovery of 20 new moons
Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)
Each of the newly discovered moons is about five kilometers, or three miles, in diameter. Seventeen of them orbit the planet backwards, or in a retrograde direc...
New organic compounds found in Enceladus ice grains
Oct 03, 2019 (JPL)
Powerful hydrothermal vents eject material from Enceladus' core, which mixes with water from the moon's massive subsurface ocean before it is released into spac...
'Snow-Cannon' Enceladus shines up Saturn's super-reflective moons
Sep 19, 2019 (SPX)
Dr. Le Gall and a team of researchers from France and the US have analysed 60 radar observations of Saturn's inner moons, drawing from the full database of obse...
Age-old debate on Saturn's rings reignited
Sep 17, 2019 (SPX)
In an article published in Nature Astronomy and presented at the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019 in Geneva, the authors suggest that processes that preferentially e...
Saturn's Rings Shine in New Hubble Portrait
Sep 13, 2019 (SPX)
The latest view of Saturn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system - which looks like a phonograph record with grooves t...
Nitrogen explosions created craters on Saturn moon Titan
Sep 11, 2019 (SPX)
"Titan has very distinctive topography. Its lakes show different kinds of shapes and in some cases sharp ridges," said paper co-author Jonathan Lunine, professo...
New models suggest Titan lakes are explosion craters
Sep 10, 2019 (JPL)
Titan is the only planetary body in our solar system other than Earth known to have stable liquid on its surface. But instead of water raining down from clouds ...
Methane-filled lakes on Saturn's moon Titan are explosion craters
Sep 09, 2019 (UPI)
Outside of Earth, Titan is the only planetary body in the solar system known to host stable liquid on its surface. While Earth hosts bodies of water, Titan's la...
A brief astronomical history of Saturn's amazing rings
Aug 15, 2019 (The Conversation)
Whether our time-traveling astronomer would be able to observe Saturn's rings is debatable. Have the rings, in some shape or form, existed since the beginnings ...
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