Cassini Completes Primary Mission to Saturn
	Exactly four years ago the Cassini-Huygens mission reached the Saturnian system and entered orbit around the ringed planet, in order to make a series of observations that would astonish the world. It is probably one of the most successful robotic missions to one of the gas giants conducted by NASA and the ESA and was concluded yesterday, as the US space agency stated that the spacecraft had accomplished its primary objective and would emba ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 03:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Perturbations in Saturnian F Ring Caused by Moonlet Collisions
	A team of researchers from the UK states that Saturn's F ring is the most dynamic of all other rings, since it can change its features either in only a few hours or in a couple of years, probably due to large scale collisions taking place inside it. If this is truly the case, then the further study of the processes taking place inside it could help astronomers understand the key interactions taking place during the early planet format ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 02:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cassini to Whiz Around Saturn Until 2010
	NASA announced, in a recent statement, that the Cassini mission was extended by at least two years, in order to conduct more detailed studies of Saturn's exotic moons. The Cassini spacecraft along with the Huygens probe was launched into space in October 1997 and arrived at the Saturnian system in June 2004. Its original mission was scheduled to span over a period of four years, meaning that it will officially end in the mon ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 04:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NASA: Cassini Out of Our Control
	Don't worry. The famous probe is not out of control, however NASA will turn over control of the spacecraft to students during June 10, in a contest with the role of raising the interest of the youth in science. The contest will be attended by students from the 5th to 12th grades, that will write essays to NASA in order to determine which of the three science targets will be photographed by the orbiter on June 10. Usually, engineer ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cassini Finds Precursors for Life on Enceladus
	The results of the fly-by made by the Cassini orbiter around Saturn's moon Enceladus reveal that the plume of water vapor above its surface is rich in primitive organic molecules necessary for the appearance and evolution of life as we know it. On 12 March the probe was sent in a fly-by at an altitude of 50 kilometers above the surface, to make detailed measurements of the watery plume regarding composition, density and particles size ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 04:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cassini Takes a Plunge Over Enceladus
	In the outcome of previous observations showing that Saturn's moon Enceladus ejects matter out of the geysers on its surface, the Cassini spacecraft executed, on Wednesday, a fly-by through the water ice plume hovering above it. During the swing, Cassini took numerous pictures of the surface of the moon and made several measurements related to it characteristics, such as composition, density, speed, size and others. Alth ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2008, 05:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cassini to Explore Enceladus' Water Plume
	The Cassini spacecraft is scheduled tomorrow for a unique fly-by around Saturn's moon Enceladus, to probe in detail the nature of the water plume originating from geysers on the surface in regions around the south pole of the moon. During the fly-by, Cassini will reach an altitude of only 50 kilometers above the surface, while the plume can extend as much as 200 kilometers into space. In the outcome of the discovery of water ... [read more >>]
	11 March 2008, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Star Trek to Get Scientific Support
	If SciFi movies haven't given a boost to science and technology, then I don't know what could have. Remember the Alcubierre warp drive? Yep, you guessed it, Star Trek warp drives were already working by the time Alcubierre calculated the physical theory on how to make such a devices work in 1994; not only that but they also imply the same principle. Teleportation? "Beam me Scotty!" The same theoretical principle on how ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 09:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Do You Like Old Maps?
	Google Maps has been added a very interesting layer, powered by GeoGarage, representing an 18th century map of France, created by Cassini. It took the cartographer over thirty years to complete his work, the drawing of the 182 sheets of the map. The layer is fully functional and you can zoom in and out as you please, as you would with a regular Google Map. The interesting part is that it has been added as an overlay on top of ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Saturn's Moon Reveals the Presence of Organic Substances
	Data collected by the Cassini spacecraft shows the presence of heavy negative ions in the upper regions of the second largest moon in the solar system, Saturn's Titan. Launched in 1997, the Cassini spacecraft reached Saturn in 2004; it had several missions, amongst which the study of the surface of Titan, and of its dense atmosphere. The discovery of these electrically charged ions reveals the existence of organic substances [ADM ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 05:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cassini Images of Sea and Islands on Saturn's Moon, Titan
	The spacecraft Cassini has just sent in clear photos of a sea on Saturn's moon, Titan, captured during the latest flyby. Also visible in the images are various features characteristic of a coastline, like channels, islands and bays. Cassini-Huygens is a space mission consisting of two main elements: the NASA Cassini orbiter, named after the Italian-French astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini and the ESA Huygens probe, named after ... [read more >>]
	25 May 2007, 03:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia