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Cassini Halloween Treat: Titan Glows in the Dark
10.31.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft sees dim, unexplained light diffusing up through the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon.
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Saturn Burps After Large Storm
10.25.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has tracked the aftermath of a rare massive storm on Saturn, one more forceful than scientists previously thought.
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What's Baking on Titan?
10.16.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft spots curious surface features on Saturn's largest moon, including a "hot-cross bun" and outlines of vast southern seas.
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A Long and Winding Road: Cassini Celebrates 15 Years
10.15.12 - 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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Bounce, Skid, Wobble - How Huygens Landed on Titan
10.11.12 - New analysis of data from the Huygens probe shows a complex surface.
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Saturn and its Largest Moon Reflect Their True Colors
08.29.12 - Posing for portraits for NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, show spectacular colors in a quartet of images being released today.
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Cassini Spots Daytime Lightning on Saturn
07.18.12 - 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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The Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn
07.10.12 - A concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan provide signs that the seasons are changing.
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Saturn's Rings are Back
07.09.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has changed its orbit so it can see Saturn's rings again. How did it do this?
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Cassini Finds Likely Subsurface Ocean on Saturn Moon
06.28.12 - Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturn's moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell.
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Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn
06.25.12 - Scientists studying images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have found that heat from within the planet powers the jet streams.
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Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon
06.13.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in the "tropics" of Saturn's moon Titan.
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Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Turns Off
06.06.12 - The Cassini plasma spectrometer instrument (CAPS) aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft was turned off between Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2, when a circuit breaker tripped off after the instrument experienced some unexpected voltage shifts.
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Enceladus Plume is a New Kind of Plasma Laboratory
05.31.12 - Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas.
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Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit
05.21.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft beams back closest images of Methone as it approaches Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
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Cassini, Saturn Moon Photographer
05.02.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flies by Saturn's moons Enceladus and Dione.
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Cassini to Probe Enceladus Gravity, Take Pictures
05.01.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be making a close flyby of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on May 2.
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Cassini Finds Saturn Moon has Planet-Like Qualities
04.26.12 - Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought.
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Cassini Sees Objects Blazing Trails in Saturn Ring
04.23.12 - Scientists working with images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have discovered strange half-mile-sized (kilometer-sized) objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails behind them.
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NASA Research Estimates How Long Titan's Chemical Factory Has Been in Business
04.24.12 - Titan's atmosphere is a complex factory that covers the moon's icy surface in soot and rains down lakes of liquid methane and ethane. However, its critical resource -- methane -- should not last long.