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Cassini-Huygens Team Receives Space Award
The Cassini-Huygens mission team, which has captured the most detailed views ever of Saturn and its myriad of moons, was honored with an Aerospace Laurel award by the editors of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine.
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Cassini Finds 'Missing Link' Moonlet Evidence in Saturn's Rings
Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have found evidence that a new class of small moonlets resides within Saturn's rings. There may be as many as 10 million of these objects within one of Saturn's rings alone.
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NASA's Cassini Discovers Potential Liquid Water on Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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Does Titan's methane originate from underground?
Data from ESA's Huygens probe have been used to validate a new model of the evolution of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, showing that its methane supply may be locked away in a kind of methane-rich ice.
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Scientists Solve the Mystery of Methane in Titan's Atmosphere
An international team of planetary scientists may have solved the mystery of why the atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan, is rich in methane.
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Volunteers Help NASA Track Return of the Dragon
Amateur astronomers are helping NASA scientists on the Cassini mission track the most powerful storm yet observed on Saturn.
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Cassini's Photo Album From a Season of Icy Moons
Wrapping up a phenomenally successful year of observing Saturn's icy moons, the Cassini mission is releasing a flood of new views of the moons Enceladus, Dione, Rhea, Hyperion and Iapetus.
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NASA's Cassini Images Reveal Spectacular Evidence of an Active Moon
Jets of fine, icy particles streaming from Saturn's moon Enceladus were captured in recent images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Cassini Views Dione, a Frigid Ice World
Sitting in the tranquility of space is the pale moon Dione, looking as if it's posing for a painter.
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Cassini's Doubleheader Flybys Score Home Run
Cassini performed back-to-back flybys of Saturn moons Tethys and Hyperion last weekend, coming closer than ever before to each of them.
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Cassini Radar Images Show Dramatic Shoreline on Titan
Images returned during Cassini's recent flyby of Titan show captivating evidence of what appears to be a large shoreline cutting across the smoggy moon's southern hemisphere.
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Ghostly Spokes in Saturn's Rings Spotted by Cassini
Scientists are celebrating the first Cassini spacecraft sighting of spokes, the ghostly radial markings discovered in Saturn's rings by NASA's Voyager spacecraft 25 years ago.
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Cassini Finds Enceladus Tiger Stripes Are Really Cubs
The Cassini spacecraft has discovered the long, cracked features dubbed "tiger stripes" on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are very young -- between 10 and 1,000 years young.
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Cassini Flies By Saturn's Tortured Moon Mimas
On its recent close flyby of Mimas, the Cassini spacecraft found the Saturnian moon looking battered and bruised, with a surface that may be the most heavily cratered in the Saturn system.
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Cassini Finds an Active, Watery World at Saturn's Enceladus
Saturn's tiny icy moon Enceladus, which ought to be cold and dead, instead displays evidence for active ice volcanism.
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Cassini Finds Recent and Unusual Geology on Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained new, detailed images of the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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Cassini Reveals Saturn's Eerie-Sounding Radio Emissions
Saturn's radio emissions could be mistaken for a Halloween sound track.
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Spongy-Looking Hyperion Tumbles Into View
Two new Cassini views of Saturn's tumbling moon Hyperion offer the best looks yet at one of the icy, irregularly-shaped moons that orbit the giant, ringed planet.
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NASA's Cassini Reveals Lake-Like Feature on Titan
Scientists are fascinated by a dark, lake-like feature recently observed on Saturn's moon Titan.
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Scientists Discover Possible Titan Volcano
A recent flyby of Saturn's hazy moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft has revealed evidence of a possible volcano, which could be a source of methane in Titan's atmosphere.