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Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sailed seamlessly through the Nov. 21 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and started transmitting uncalibrated temperature data and images of the rippling terrain.
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Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System
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.
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Before Darkness Falls: Cassini to Scan Enceladus on Winter's Cusp
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will fly by Saturn's moon Enceladus this weekend for a last peek at the intriguing "tiger stripes" before winter darkness blankets the area for several years.
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Ghostly "Spokes" Puff Out From Saturn's Rings
Massive, bright clouds of tiny ice particles hover above the darkened rings of Saturn in an image captured by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 22, 2009, around the time of Saturn's equinox.
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Successful Flight Through Enceladus Plume
Cassini has started sending data back from its Nov. 2 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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Cassini Data Help Redraw Shape of Solar System
Images from the Ion and Neutral Camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the region of the sun's influence, may not have the comet-like shape predicted by existing models.
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Cassini Reveals New Ring Quirks, Shadows
NASA scientists are marveling over the extent of ruffles and dust clouds revealed in the rings of Saturn during the planet's equinox last month.
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Saturn's Turbulent 'Storm Alley' Sets Another Record
The longest continuously observed thunderstorm in the solar system has been roiling Saturn's atmosphere since mid-January and is still churning now, according to a presentation by a Cassini team scientist at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, Germany.
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Scientists Discover New Radiation Belt at Saturn
Scientists using the Cassini spacecraft's Magnetospheric Imaging instrument have detected a new, temporary radiation belt at Saturn, located around the orbit of its moon Dione at about 377,000 kilometers (234,000 miles) from the center of the planet.
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Saturn Moon Could Power 150 Billion Labor Day Barbecues
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.
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Cassini's Last Earthly Date Was 10 Years Ago Today
A decade ago today, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew past Earth at a distance of 1,171 kilometers (727 miles) on its way to an appointment with the solar system's second largest occupant - Saturn.
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Tropics of Saturn's Moon No Tropical Paradise
Astronomers have identified a storm cell on Titan the size of the country of India.
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Saturn to Pull Celestial Houdini on August 11
In 1918, magician Harry Houdini created a sensation when he made a 10,000 pound elephant disappear before a mystified audience at New York's famed Hippodrome theatre.
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Revelations in Saturn's Rings Continue as Equinox Approaches
Thanks to a special play of sunlight and shadow as Saturn continues its march towards its August 11 equinox, recent images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft are revealing new three-dimensional objects and structures in the planet's otherwise flat rings.
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New Spin On Saturn's Rotation
New meteorological data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicates the value for Saturn's rotation period could be more than 5 minutes shorter than previously believed.
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Saturnian Moon Shows Evidence of Ammonia
Data collected during two close flybys of Saturn's moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft add more fuel to the fire about the Saturnian ice world containing sub-surface liquid water.
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Five Years Ago, Cassini Began Orbiting Saturn
NASA's Cassini mission has been orbiting Saturn for five Earth years as of June 30, 2009.
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Shaken and Stirred: Lab Studies Ice From Frigid Worlds
The most exotic frozen cocktails on Earth won’t be found in a chic restaurant or trendy bar. Scientists are mixing up icy concoctions in a laboratory not much bigger than a janitor’s closet.
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Cassini Captures Changes in Titan's Lakes
A region on Saturn's moon Titan's southern latitudes appears to have been flooded by a summer cloudburst of hydrocarbon rain, as seen in images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken before and after a large storm system was observed.
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Enceladus Jets: Are They Wet or Just Wild?
Scientists continue to search for the cause of the geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus.