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The Cassini spacecraft has just sent back the latest pictures that it made of Saturn's moon Enceladus, during the last planned flyby it made of the celestial body as part of its mission. For the next eight years, the moon will enter the “shadows” of winter, as the planet begins its long, cold season.... |
23 November 2009
04:31 GMT |
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This Saturday, November 21, the Cassini spacecraft will perform its last flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, before the planet enters its winter season. Once that happens, darkness will blanket the moon for several years, and its doubtful that the space probe, already in its mission-extension period, will last unt... |
20 November 2009
05:58 GMT |
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The joint NASA/ESA mission Cassini-Huygens, currently in orbit around Saturn, has recently beamed back some amazing photos of a beautiful geyser eruption that took place on the moon Enceladus. The experts who investigated the images say that the emissions consisted mainly of water vapors, bringing further proof that ... |
5 November 2009
02:23 GMT |
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Since the Cassini spacecraft sent back images showing the freezing moon Enceladus, around Saturn, spewing out vapors of water, the international astronomical community has entered a frenzy, and also a heated scientific debate. Some scientists argue that the observations prove there is an ocean of liquid water under t... |
13 October 2009
09:44 GMT |
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Methane is a rather unstable gas when exposed to sunlight, and it is easily broken up into its organic constituents after moderate exposure times, chemists say. Finding it on other planets is an equally difficult task for the same reasons, and that is why astronomers could not believe their eyes when it was clearly e... |
6 August 2009
19:11 GMT |
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According to recent reports, it may be that the thing keeping the liquid water and vapors on the icy Saturn moon Enceladus from freezing is nothing else than a natural form of antifreeze. The most important chemical in such a cocktail is ammonia, which has the ability to significantly alter the temperature points at ... |
23 July 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Saturn's moon Enceladus is, in many aspects, one of the most peculiar celestial bodies in the solar system. Once regarded as nothing more than a ball of frozen ice and dust, it revealed itself in 2006 to be still active, and potentially even harboring liquid water underneath the surface. Additionally, its weird ... |
21 July 2009
06:39 GMT |
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The Cassini-Huygens space probe is arguably one of the most important missions NASA ever sent out into the solar system, in terms of return benefits and information accuracy. The craft has thus far managed to discover new moons around Saturn, and to offer invaluable scientific data on interesting natural satellites s... |
25 June 2009
03:39 GMT |
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced on Tuesday that the international Cassini spacecraft had found another moon around Saturn, this one measuring a little over a third of a mile in width. The tiny body was orbiting the giant planet in between some of the dust rings, and was therefore impossible to no... |
4 March 2009
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With the innovation recently made in spaceflight capabilities, the question arises whether we should stick to developing orbital stations and bases of operations, or whether we should continue to send robotic probes to explore the surrounding planets, to get as much data of our surrounding solar system as humanly pos... |
23 January 2009
09:24 GMT |
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Mounting evidence gathered by the Cassini space probe over the last few months seems to indicate the fact that there is certainly water underneath Enceladus' icy surfaces, NASA experts say. The geysers that erupt on the moon's surface daily throw water vapors and some organic-laced ice in the air, as demons... |
19 December 2008
05:27 GMT |
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Two months ago, On October the 5th, NASA's Cassini probe came as close as 25 km from the surface of Saturn's small moon, allowing it to capture a new set of images that sparked new interest in Earth's scientists. These photos indicated that the southern polar surface of the geologically active moon fea... |
16 December 2008
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The thought of a cold ocean covered by an extremely thick crust of ice (some scientific theories even estimate it to measure over 100 km in thickness) doesn't really do much for the idea of the moon's supporting even the most elementary forms of life. But a new study suggests that the premises of this theor... |
11 December 2008
13:39 GMT |
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The Cassini probe, which has been orbiting Saturn for more than four years now, has repeatedly provided series of images of one of its more interesting moons, Enceladus, which has been appointed as its new main target during the extended Equinox Mission. While looking at the geysers depicted in the photos and analyzi... |
27 November 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Enceladus, the geyser moon of Saturn, will be passed by twice this October, first on the 9th and a second time on the 31st, in an attempt to prove the hypothetical existence of an ocean hiding on its surface. The first flyby will see Cassini performing the closest such maneuver from the surface of any of Saturn&... |
8 October 2008
05:24 GMT |
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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... |
2 July 2008
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Jupiter's Europa moon is covered by an icy outer shell believed to be housing a global ocean beneath it, where life could exist. New observations on the moon's surface reveal that the icy shell might have shifted as much as 80 degrees in a matter of only 60 million years, supporting the idea that an ocean m... |
15 May 2008
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While looking for evidence of life on other bodies in the solar system, researchers often evaluate the degree of habitability relying on the presence of water, sunlight, oxygen and so on. However, in the last decades, we came to learn that none of these three basic ingredients is absolutely required in order to susta... |
21 April 2008
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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... |
16 April 2008
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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 i... |
5 April 2008
04:22 GMT |
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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 kilo... |
27 March 2008
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What is now a massive ball of ice around Saturn, the moon Tethys had an ocean at some point in its past, say researchers at the University of California present at a major science conference in Houston. Tethys is only one of the 60 or so natural satellites orbiting around Saturn, has a medium size and an average dens... |
15 March 2008
08:12 GMT |
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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... |
14 March 2008
05:42 GMT |
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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... |
11 March 2008
05:35 GMT |
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It is a well known fact that Saturn's ring E is interacting with the moon Enceladus, and might have been created by drawing material ejected through cryo-volcanism phenomenons taking place of the surface of the moon. However, new observations conducted by NASA's Cassini orbiter reveal that icy plumes of mat... |
7 February 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Images of one of Saturn's moon, brought back by NASA's Cassini orbiter, have recently spawn some of the most fierce debates regarding the solar system exploration program. German astrophysicists argue that there is conclusive evidence that Enceladus, a small moon measuring only 504 kilometers in diameter, m... |
7 February 2008
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It seems that the spacecraft Cassini-Huygens has been rather busy lately, as scientists are now flooding us with new information regarding planet Saturn. The spacecraft, designed in a collaboration between the European Space Agency and NASA, is currently being operated by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and has r... |
13 December 2007
08:44 GMT |
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Well, there is evidence of water on Enceladus' surface but the real question is still whether there are any life forms present there or not. While doing a survey of Saturn's tiny moon, the Cassini-Huygens probe detected a hot spot on the old moon's surface, which usually has a temperature lower than th... |
11 December 2007
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Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, is a gas giant and the second largest in the solar system. Its weird properties, its rings and its large number of moons - the precise figure is uncertain - make the Saturnian system a freak show, attracting the attention of amateur and professional astronomers worldwide.First ... |
2 June 2007
07:12 GMT |
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A small leak will sink a great ship...Enceladus, one of the Saturn's small moons, is slowing down the giant planet's magnetic field so much that the field rotates at a lower pace than the planet, making it nearly impossible to determine Saturn's day length employing methods used for other giant planets... |
23 March 2007
04:57 GMT |
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Ancient radioactivity is suspected to have fired billions of years ago the forces that fuel geysers on Saturn's moon, Enceladus. "Deep inside Enceladus, our model indicates we've got an organic brew, a heat source and liquid water, all key ingredients for life," said Dr. Dennis Matson, Cassini project scien... |
13 March 2007
03:54 GMT |
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