Journey to Saturn From Your Computer

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Feb 01, 2008 | 4.1 / 5 (11) | 0

Want a peek at Saturn as seen from space? A new interactive 3-D viewer that uses a game engine and allows users to travel to Saturn and see it the way the Cassini spacecraft sees it is now online at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/CASSIE ...

Saturn images to be displayed in New York

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Apr 21, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says some of the best images from Saturn and the planet's rings and moons will be displayed in New York.

Longest lightning storm on Saturn breaks Solar System record

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Sep 15, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

A powerful lightning storm in Saturn’s atmosphere that began in mid-January 2009 has become the Solar System’s longest continuously observed thunderstorm.  It broke the record duration of 7.5 months set by ...

Wind estimate 'shortens Saturn's day by five minutes'

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Jul 29, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (10) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way of detecting how fast large gaseous planets are rotating suggests Saturn’s day lasts 10 hours, 34 minutes and 13 seconds - over five minutes shorter than previous estimates that ...

NASA to stage student science competition

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Apr 07, 2008 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is giving U.S. students the chance to see what it's like to be a NASA scientist.

Four of Saturn's moons parade by their parent

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Mar 17, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

On 24 February 2009, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. The moons, from far left to right, are the white icy moons ...

Helium rains inside Jovian planets

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Jan 26, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (11) | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look.

New Transient Radiation Belt Discovered at Saturn

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Sep 14, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

Scientists using the Cassini spacecraft's  Magnetospheric Imaging instrument (MIMI) have detected a new, temporary radiation belt  at Saturn, located around the orbit of its moon Dione at about 377 000 km ...

Saturn's Crazy Christmas Tilt

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Dec 22, 2008 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

You look through the telescope. Blink. Shake your head and look again. The planet you expected to see in the eyepiece is not the one that's actually there. Too much eggnog? No, it's just Saturn's crazy Christmas ...

Spectacular Photo-op on Saturn

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Feb 19, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (7) | 0

Something is about to happen on Saturn that's so pretty, even Hubble will pause to take a look.

Cassini Finds Mysterious New Aurora on Saturn

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Nov 12, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (33) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. This odd aurora revealed itself to one of the infrared ...

Moist Convection Can Drive Jet Streams on All Four Giant Planets

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Oct 13, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Turbulence generated by thunderstorms can drive the multiple east-west jet streams on the giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune – and explain a long-standing conundrum concerning ...

Cassini Mission to Saturn Celebrates 10 Years Since Launch

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Oct 12, 2007 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its launch from Cape Canaveral, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is once again at the center of scientific attention. Its latest discoveries about the ringed planet ...

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 ...

Saturn Does the Wave in Its Atmosphere

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May 07, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (11) | 0

Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years.