The Cassini-Huygens mission is, at this point, one of the most abundant sources of information about celestial bodies in the solar system, alongside the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and the rovers Spirit and Opportunity. A decade ago, the space probe was last seen orbiting the Earth, as it made a fly-by to boos... |
19 August 2009
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Based on data relayed back by the Huygens probe, part of the Cassini-Huygens mission carried out by NASA in collaboration with the European Space Agency, researchers from the University of Granada and the University of Valencia have proven for the first time that the dense atmosphere around Saturn's largest moon... |
30 July 2008
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A surprising new finding of the Cassini-Huygens probe reveals that Saturn presents spinning hot spots at each pole, that can resist even to the toughest polar winters, but whatever causes them seems to surpass scientific explanations so far. Saturn's hotspots, located in its gaseous atmosphere hovering over th... |
4 January 2008
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Saturn's rings are one of its most distinct features, and although other planets in the solar system present rings of particles, they are not so obvious. They where first predicted to exist in the middle of the 17th century by Christian Huygens and viewed for the first time by Galileo Galilei with his telescope.... |
13 December 2007
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