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Pondering the Saturn Mission's Legacy After Cassini
Sep 11, 2017 (JPL)
"Cassini has transformed our thinking in so many ways, but especially with regard to surprising places in the solar system where life could potentially gain a f...
Europe's Science Highlights With Cassini
Sep 11, 2017 (ESA)
Nineteen nations contributed to building the spacecraft, and international science teams across the world have gained a better understanding of Saturn and its e...
Cassini's 21st dive is over
Sep 05, 2017 (JPL)
Cassini has monitored Enceladus (313 miles or 504 kilometers across) with a particular interest in the plumes and the geology of the south polar region for many...
Saturn Plunge Nears for Cassini Spacecraft
Aug 30, 2017 (JPL)
"The Cassini mission has been packed full of scientific firsts, and our unique planetary revelations will continue to the very end of the mission as Cassini bec...
NASA Announces Cassini End-of-Mission Activities
Aug 28, 2017 (JPL)
NASA also will hold a media teleconference Tuesday, Aug. 29 to preview activities for Cassini during its final two weeks. Launched in 1997, Cassini arrived in o...
Cassini Prepares to Say Goodbye to a True Titan
Aug 14, 2017 (JPL)
Titan will be waiting once again when the road runs out in September. A last, distant encounter with the moon on Sept. 11 will usher Cassini to its fate, with t...
Cassini to begin final five orbits around Saturn
Aug 14, 2017 (JPL)
Cassini will make the first of these five passes over Saturn at 9:22 p.m. PDT Sunday, Aug. 13 (12:22 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 14). The spacecraft's point of closes...
NASA finds moon of Saturn has chemical that could form 'membranes'
Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)
On Earth, acrylonitrile, also known as vinyl cyanide, is useful in the manufacture of plastics. Under the harsh conditions of Saturn's largest moon, this chemic...
ALMA confirms complex chemistry in Titan's atmosphere
Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)
The conditions on Titan, however, are not conducive to the formation of life as we know it; it's simply too cold. At ten times the distance from the Earth to th...
Saturn surprises as Cassini continues its Grand Finale
Jul 25, 2017 (JPL)
Other recent science highlights include promising hints about the structure and composition of the icy rings, along with high-resolution images of the rings and...
Titan's calm lakes offer space probes a smooth landing
Jul 05, 2017 (UPI)
The findings -- detailed in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters -- present Titan as an ideal place for future probe landings. "There's a lot of inte...
Methanol Points to Evolving Story of Enceladus's Plumes
Jul 04, 2017 (SPX)
Enceladus's plumes are thought to originate in water escaping from a subsurface ocean through cracks in the moon's icy surface. Eventually these plumes feed int...
In a Cosmic Hit-and-Run, Icy Saturn Moon May Have Flipped
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
While combing through data collected by NASA's Cassini mission during flybys of Enceladus, astronomers from Cornell University, the University of Texas and NASA...
Cassini Finds Saturn Moon May Have Tipped Over
May 31, 2017 (JPL)
Examining the moon's features, the team showed that Enceladus appears to have tipped away from its original axis by about 55 degrees - more than halfway toward ...
Cassini Looks On as Solstice Arrives at Saturn
May 26, 2017 (JPL)
Reaching the solstice, and observing seasonal changes in the Saturn system along the way, was a primary goal of Cassini's Solstice Mission - the name of Cassini...
Scientists describe origins of topographic relief on Titan
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
Titan's landscapes look similar to Earth's in many ways. But is this similarity only superficial? Scientists from CUNY, MIT, and other institutions have found t...
History of Titan's Landscape Resembles Mars's, not Earth's
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
Now MIT scientists have found that despite these similarities, the origins of topography, or surface elevations, on Mars and Titan are very different from that ...
New Movie Shows Cassini's First Dive over Saturn
May 04, 2017 (JPL)
The movie comprises one hour of observations as the spacecraft moved southward over Saturn. It begins with a view of the swirling vortex at the planet's north p...
Cassini Finds 'The Big Empty' Close to Saturn
May 02, 2017 (JPL)
With this information in hand, the Cassini team will now move forward with its preferred plan of science observations. "The region between the rings and Saturn ...
NASA Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings
Apr 28, 2017 (JPL)
The DSN acquired Cassini's signal at 11:56 p.m. PDT on April 26, 2017 (2:56 a.m. EDT on April 27) and data began flowing at 12:01 a.m. PDT (3:01 a.m. EDT) on Ap...
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