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Cassini to Dive Into Water Plume of Saturn Moon
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12.
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Saturn's Moon Rhea Also May Have Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon.
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Cassini Finds Mingling Moons May Share a Dark Past
Despite the incredible diversity of Saturn's icy moons, theirs is a story of great interaction.
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Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth
Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Saturn's Giant Sponge
One of Saturn's rings soaks up material gushing from the fountains on the tiny ice-moon, Enceladus, according to new Cassini observations.
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Journey to Saturn From Your Computer
Want a peek at Saturn as seen from space? A new interactive allows users to travel to Saturn and see it the way the Cassini spacecraft sees it is now online.
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Planetary Scientists Close in on Saturn's Elusive Rotation
Deep below Saturn's cloud tops, the planet rotates at a constant speed. Determining this interior period of rotation has proven complicated, but thanks to new Cassini results, European scientists have taken an important step forward.
› European Space Agency release →
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Saturn's Rings May be Old Timers
New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was still under construction.
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Cassini Spots Mini Nile River on Saturn Moon
Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted what appears to be a miniature, extraterrestrial likeness of the Nile River.
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A Long and Winding Road: Cassini Celebrates 15 Years
It's been 3.8 billion miles and a trunk full of memories for NASA's Cassini spacecraft, launched 15 years ago today.
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Cassini Spots Daytime Lightning on Saturn
Saturn was playing the lightning storm blues. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured images of last year’s storm on Saturn, the largest storm seen up-close at the planet, with bluish spots in the middle of swirling clouds.
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Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere.
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Blowing in the Wind: Cassini Helps with Dune Whodunit
The answer to the mystery of dune patterns on Saturn's moon Titan did turn out to be blowing in the wind.
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Cassini to Dive Low through Titan Atmosphere
As American schoolchildren head out to pools for a summer splash, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be taking its own deep plunge through the Titan atmosphere this week.
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NASA Image Makes Time's 'Year in Pictures'
Cassini's view during Saturn's equinox opened up a new perspective on the planet's famed rings.
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Cassini Captures Best View Yet of Saturn's Ring Current
Scientists have gotten their best "look" ever at the invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in Saturn's giant magnetic field.
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Saturn's Small Moons Tell Story of Origins
Imaging scientists on NASA's Cassini mission are telling a tale of how the small moons orbiting near the outer rings of Saturn came to be.
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Cassini Team Recruits Next Generation of Scientists
NASA's Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn has some young new participants. A 10th-grade student in Delaware, a high school senior in California, and an 8th-grade American student in France are the winners of this year's Cassini Scientist-for-a-Day contest.
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Be A Cassini Scientist For A Day
The Ph.D. can wait for a few years! Students can have the fun of being a NASA scientist exploring the universe even before they've finished secondary school by participating in the Cassini Scientist-for-a-Day contest.
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Inspiring Views Celebrate Cassini's Diamond Anniversary
Ten years ago today, NASA's Cassini spacecraft departed planet Earth from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and embarked on a seven-year long, circuitous journey of several billion miles across the solar system to the planet Saturn.