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Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Since Launch
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.
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New Views of Titan's Land of Lakes and Seas
Newly assembled radar images from the Cassini spacecraft provide the best view of the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, while a new radar image reveals that Titan's south polar region also has lakes.
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Hot Sources of Jets on Enceladus
A recent analysis of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides conclusive evidence that the jets of fine, icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus originate from the hottest spots on the moon's "tiger stripe" fractures that straddle the moon's south polar region.
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Cassini on the Trail of a Runaway Mystery
NASA scientists are on the trail of Iapetus' mysterious dark side, which seems to be home to a bizarre "runaway" process that is transporting vaporized water ice from the dark areas to the white areas of the Saturnian moon.
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Saturn's Iapetus: Solar System's Yin-and-Yang
Scientists on the Cassini mission to Saturn are poring through hundreds of images returned from the Sept. 10 flyby of Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus.
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Cassini Flies by Iapetus
Cassini completed its closest flyby of the odd moon Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007.
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Cassini Prepares to Fly by Walnut-Shaped Moon
Cassini will make its only close flyby of Saturn's odd, two-toned, walnut-shaped moon Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007, at about 1,640 kilometers (1,000 miles) from the surface.
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Turbulence Ahead - Lessons From Titan
Ever spilled your drink on an airline due to turbulence? Researchers are finding new ways to understand the phenomenon - both in Earth's atmosphere and in that of Saturn's moon, Titan, aided by Huygens probe data.
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Saturn's Old Moon Retains Its Youthful Figure
Saturn's distinctive moon Iapetus is cryogenically frozen in the equivalent of its teenage years.
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NASA Finds Hydrocarbons on Saturn's Moon Hyperion
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed for the first time surface details of Saturn's moon Hyperion, including cup-like craters filled with hydrocarbons that may indicate more widespread presence in our solar system of basic chemicals necessary for life.
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Cassini Finds Saturn Moons Are Active
Saturn's moons Tethys and Dione are flinging great streams of particles into space, according to data from the Cassini mission to Saturn.
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Cassini 'Cat Scan' Maps Clumps In Saturn's Rings
Saturn's largest and most densely packed ring is composed of tightly packed clumps of particles separated by nearly empty gaps, according to new findings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Frictional Heating Explains Plumes on Enceladus
Rubbing your hands together on a cold day generates a bit of heat, and the same process of frictional heating may be what powers the geysers jetting out from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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Cracks on Enceladus Open and Close under Saturn's Pull
Saturn may be a giant gravitational clock, controlling the timing of eruptions on Enceladus.
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Saturn Stars in Three Hubble Movies
Photogenic Saturn has now become a movie star. Astronomers have woven NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Saturn, its rings, and several of its moons into three movies.
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Storms Power Saturn's Jet Streams
New Cassini research suggests eddies, or giant rotating storms, are the "engine" powering Saturn's jet stream winds.
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Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission.
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Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission.
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Enceladus Geysers Mask the Length of Saturn's Day
In a David and Goliath story of Saturnian proportions, the little moon Enceladus is weighing down giant Saturn's magnetic field so much that the field is rotating slower than the planet.
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Cassini Sees Seas on Titan
Instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft have found evidence for seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan.
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