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NASA Extends Cassini's Tour of Saturn
02.03.10 - NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons to 2017.
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Prometheus: Over Easy
01.28.10 - Looking for all intents and purposes like a celestial egg after a session in Saturn's skillet, Prometheus displayed its pockmarked, irregular surface for NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 27, 2010.
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Route 66: Cassini's Next Look at Titan
01.27.10 - Sixteen days after last visiting Saturn's largest moon, NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns for another look-see of the cloud-shrouded moon - this time from on high.
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Land Ho! Huygens Plunged to Titan Surface 5 Years Ago
01.14.10 - The Huygens probe parachuted down to the surface of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan exactly five years ago on Jan. 14, 2005.
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Cassini Returns to Southern Hemisphere of Titan
01.11.10 - NASA'S Cassini spacecraft will return to Titan's southern hemisphere on a flyby tomorrow, Jan. 12, plunging to within about 1,050 kilometers (about 670 miles) of the hazy moon's surface.
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NASA Image Makes Time's 'Year in Pictures'
12.30.09 - Cassini's view during Saturn's equinox opened up a new perspective on the planet's famed rings.
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Cassini Spacecraft to Monitor North Pole on Titan
12.24.09 - Though there are no plans to investigate whether Saturn's moon Titan has a Santa Claus, NASA's Cassini will zoom close to Titan's north pole this weekend.
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Cassini Holiday Movies Showcase Dance of Saturn's Moons
12.23.09 - Like sugar plum fairies in "The Nutcracker," the moons of Saturn performed a celestial ballet before the eyes of NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Sunlight Glint Confirms Liquid in Titan Lake Zone
12.17.09 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid in that area.
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The Magnetic Dance of Titan and Saturn
12.11.09 - When it flies by Saturn's largest moon, Titan, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will study the interactions between the magnetic field of Saturn and Titan.
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Reddish Dust and Ice Migration Darken Saturn's Moon
12.10.09 - New views of Saturn's moon Iapetus accompany papers that detail how reddish dust swept up on the moon's orbit around Saturn and migrating ice can explain the bizarre, yin-yang-patterned surface.
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Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Emerges from Winter Darkness
12.09.09 - After waiting years for the sun to illuminate Saturn's north pole again, cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft have captured the most detailed images yet of the intriguing hexagon shape crowning the planet.
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Prometheus Plays Tug of War with One of Saturn's Rings
11.25.09 - The diminutive moon Prometheus whips gossamer ice particles out of Saturn's F ring in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 21, 2009.
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Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears
11.21.09 - 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
11.19.09 - 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
11.19.09 - 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
11.13.09 - 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
11.03.09 - 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
10.15.09 - 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
09.21.09 - 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.