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Cassini to Fly by Titan
09.05.06 - After revealing a land of bountiful lakes on Cassini's last flyby of Saturn's moon Titan, the journey continues during a flyby on Sept. 7, 2006.
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Enceladus Exudes an Air of Mystery
06.29.06 - Just as perfume lingering in the air of an empty room offers hints about a previous occupant, the cloud of oxygen the Cassini spacecraft encountered as it first approached Saturn turned out to be a calling card from another celestial presence, the tiny moon Enceladus.
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Collaboration Finds a Rolling Moon
06.05.06 - Bob Pappalardo gets by with a little help from his friends. Pappalardo is a newly hired JPL planetary scientist who credits a collaborative effort with colleagues for a recent unusual discovery based on images from Cassini.
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Saturn's Storms Run Rings Around Earth's
04.19.06 - On Saturn, it may be a very long wait for the calm after a storm.
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Saturn, the Moon and a Swarm of Stars
02.09.06 - A celestial swarm of stars will hover near a honey-colored Saturn for the next several months.
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Cassini Scientist for a Day
02.01.06 - This fall a group of fourth and fifth graders got to put themselves in the scientists’ place and select where to point Cassini's cameras.
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Ringside Seats for Saturn
01.25.06 - Saturn reaches opposition -- the closest it comes to Earth -- on Jan. 27, 2006.
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Huygens Landing: One Year Later
01.14.06 - A year ago the Huygens probe landed on Titan after being ferried there by the Cassini spacecraft.
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Cassini Discovers Saturn's Dynamic Clouds Run Deep
09.05.05 - Cassini scientists have discovered an unexpected menagerie of clouds lurking in the depths of Saturn's complicated atmosphere.
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Cassini Shows Saturn Rings in New Detail
09.05.05 - Cassini scientists studying Saturn's rings have made several new findings that further our knowledge of how this beautiful and dynamic system continues to evolve before our eyes.
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Cassini-Huygens Top 10 Science Highlights
07.20.05 - A year after entering orbit around Saturn, the Cassini-Huygens team is looking back at a string of remarkable discoveries.
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First Full Mosaics of Titan's Surface
05.13.05 - As the large amount of data collected by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its descent onto Titan is being processed, new views of this fascinating world become available
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Ring Watch
04.29.05 - After concentrating on flybys of the stately planet's moons since arriving last year, Cassini will begin five months of extensive study of Saturn's magnificent rings.
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Blue Skies on Saturn
02.17.05 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered another world with blue skies: Saturn.
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Sights and Sounds of Titan
01.16.05 - The European Space Agency's Huygens probe has landed on Saturn's giant moon Titan.
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Parachuting to Titan
01.04.04 - On January 14, 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe will descend to the surface of Saturn's largest moon.
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Saturn's Moon Titan: Planet Wannabe
08.20.04 - Jonathan Lunine, U.S. participant on the Huygens Probe interdisciplinary science team, explains what makes Saturn's moon Titan such an interesting destination.
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Phoebe Science Highlights
06.10.04 - This will be the only flyby of an outer satellite of Saturn and is the first close flyby of an irregularly shaped satellite.
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Why Cassini? A Closer Look
05.25.04 - The mission has many science goals, from understanding the planet itself, to probing the magnetosphere, rings and icy satellites.
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A Gas Giant with Super-Fast Winds
05.26.04 - The solar system's second largest planet is made up mainly of hydrogen and helium gases, with a rocky core much like the size of Earth.