Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

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Nov 23, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sailed seamlessly through the Nov. 21 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and started transmitting uncalibrated temperature data and images of the rippling terrain. ...

Before Darkness Falls: Cassini to Scan Enceladus on Winter's Cusp

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Nov 20, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft will fly by Saturn's moon Enceladus this weekend for a last peek at the intriguing "tiger stripes" before winter darkness blankets the area for several years.

Image: Prometheus Plays Tug of War with One of Saturn's Rings

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Nov 25, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The diminutive moon Prometheus whips gossamer ice particles out of Saturn's F ring in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 21, 2009.

Magnetic Dance of Titan and Saturn To Be Main Attraction during Flyby

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Dec 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it flies by Saturn's largest moon, Titan, this weekend, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will study the interactions between the magnetic field of Saturn and Titan. The flyby will take place ...

Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan

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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, ...

Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn's Northern Lights (w/ Video)

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Nov 24, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (10) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known "northern lights" in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness ...

Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System

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Nov 20, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (15) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system.

Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Emerges from Winter Darkness

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Dec 09, 2009 | 5 / 5 (23) | 21

(PhysOrg.com) -- After waiting years for the sun to illuminate Saturn's north pole again, cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft have captured the most detailed images yet of the intriguing hexagon shape ...

Cassini closes in on the centuries-old mystery of Saturn's moon Iapetus

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Dec 10, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 0

Extensive analyses and modeling of Cassini imaging and heat-mapping data have confirmed and extended previous ideas that migrating ice, triggered by infalling reddish dust that darkens and warms the surface, ...

Scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan

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Nov 29, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (14) | 0

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane ...

Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life

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Dec 15, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (15) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. ...