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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.
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Cassini Finds Titan Lake is Like a Namibia Mudflat
04.19.12 - Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission find that a lake on Saturn's moon Titan most resembles Etosha Pan in Namibia.
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Cassini Successfully Flies over Enceladus
04.16.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft beams back images of the icy moons Enceladus and Tethys during its course through the Saturn system.
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Cassini to Dip into Enceladus Spray Again
04.13.12 - Less than three weeks after its last swoop over the Saturn moon, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft returns for an encore.
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Icy Moons through Cassini's Eyes
03.28.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flies by Saturnian moons.
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Cassini to Make Closest Pass of Enceladus South Pole
03.26.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft will fly about 46 miles (74 kilometers) above the surface of the Saturnian moon Enceladus.
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Cassini Mission Receives Air and Space Museum Award
03.22.12 - The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has bestowed its highest group honor on NASA's Cassini mission.
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Cassini Sees Saturn Stressing out Enceladus
03.19.12 - Direct observations linking the tidal pull of Saturn to jets on the moon Enceladus are among the highlights of NASA's Cassini mission discussed at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
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Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Resumes Operations
03.19.12 - Cassini mission managers have received confirmation that the plasma spectrometer instrument was successfully turned on.
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Cassini Garners Top Honor From Air and Space Museum
03.14.12 - NASA's Cassini mission received the Trophy for Current Achievement, the top group honor from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
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Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
03.13.12 - New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere.
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Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon
03.12.12 - Saturn's moon Rhea appears in glorious detail in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft
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Cassini Detects Hint of Fresh Air at Dione
03.02.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has "sniffed" molecular oxygen ions around Saturn's icy moon Dione, confirming the presence of a tenuous atmosphere.
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The Many Moods of Titan
02.23.12 - Recent data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a shifting, Earth-like environment at Saturn's moon Titan.
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Cassini Sees the Two Faces of Titan's Dunes
01.23.12 - A new analysis of radar data reveals patterns tied to altitude and latitude.
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Cassini Testing Part of Its Radio System
01.12.12 - The spacecraft has been communicating with Earth using an auxiliary oscillator.
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NASA's Cassini Delivers Holiday Treats From Saturn
12.22.11 - No team of reindeer, but radio signals flying clear across the solar system from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have delivered a holiday package of glorious images.
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Portraits of Moons Captured by Cassini
12.12.11 - NASA’s Cassini spacecraft finishes close flyby of the Saturnian moon Dione on the way to Titan.
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Cassini to Make a Double Play
12.09.11 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be collecting images and data during close flybys of Saturn's moons Dione and Titan.
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What's That Sparkle in Cassini's Eye?
12.01.11 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtains the first-ever synthetic aperture radar images of Saturn's moon Enceladus