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

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

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 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, ...


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

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

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 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.


The Stars My Destination

The Stars My Destination

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 2

The Voyager spacecraft are now in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, traveling toward interstellar space - the first man-made spacecraft to travel such a vast distance from Earth.


Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 3

By travelling to the outer solar system, the two Voyager spacecraft allowed us to see amazing details of far-distant planets and moons.


Scientists explain mystery of observed turbulent density fluctuations in interplanetary space

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have developed a three-dimensional simulation model to understand behavior of interplanetary charged particles in space.


Scientists complete first geological global map of Jupiter's satellite Ganymede

Scientists complete first geological global map of Jupiter's satellite Ganymede

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists have assembled the first global geological map of the Solar System’s largest moon - and in doing so have gathered new evidence into the formation of the large, icy satellite.


Longest lightning storm on Saturn breaks Solar System record

Longest lightning storm on Saturn breaks Solar System record

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 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 ...


Titan

Saturn Moon Could Power 150 Billion Labor Day Barbecues

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since its discovery by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens in 1655, Saturn's most massive moon, Titan, has been known as a place of mystery and intrigue. The large, cloud-enshrouded moon is ...


The lost voyage: First English-led expedition to North America

The lost voyage: First English-led expedition to North America

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence of a previously unknown voyage to North America in 1499, led by a Bristol explorer, is to be published this week in the academic journal Historical Research.


Flashback to Neptune's Moon Triton

Flashback to Neptune's Moon Triton (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly released images commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the Voyager flyby of Neptune's moon Triton on Aug. 24, 2009.


Helioshpere

MIT instrument studies edge of sun's bubble

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 08, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2

The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have traveled beyond the edges of the bubble in space where the sun's constant outward wind of particles and radiation slams into the interstellar medium that pervades our galaxy. ...