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The NASA Cassini spacecraft has recently carried out a flyby of the small Saturnine moon Methone, as it was positioning itself for its last pass over the large moon Titan. The orbiter is currently getting ready to shift from an equatorial to a polar orbit, which will enable it to observe Saturn's poles in detail... |
22 May 2012
03:25 GMT |
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Since mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory are planning to move the Cassini spacecraft from an equatorial to a polar orbit around Saturn, most of the gas giant's moons will no longer cross paths with the orbiter for around three years.
As such, the new color-composite photo of the largest ... |
15 May 2012
11:08 GMT |
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Yesterday, May 2, marked the last time for the next three years when the NASA Cassini spacecraft conducted a close flyby of Enceladus, one of Saturn's most interesting moons. During the same mission, the orbiter flew relatively close to another Saturnine moon, Dione.
The flight plan developed by mission contro... |
3 May 2012
07:57 GMT |
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New investigations of the Saturnine moon Phoebe indicate that the celestial body is in fact a planetesimal, a planetary embryo that may have grown to the size of Mars or Earth, early on in the history of the solar system.
The object is similar to Vesta, the largest asteroid in the solar system, which lies in the Inn... |
27 April 2012
03:37 GMT |
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The conclusions of a new study conducted using the NASA Cassini spacecraft appears to indicate that a large number of objects are making their way through the F Ring around Saturn. These snowballs are created by moons such as Prometheus, the analysis also revealed.
The strange objects can be up to a half-mile in si... |
24 April 2012
02:42 GMT |
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A landscape feature similar to the Etosha Pan in Namibia, Africa, was found on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and one of the most interesting celestial bodies in the solar system, experts say.
Both features are now cataloged as ephemeral lakes, meaning that they only fill with liquid once in a whi... |
19 April 2012
09:41 GMT |
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One of the most interesting bodies in the solar system is Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons. Its main feature is a 20-kilometer (12.4-mile) high ridge that spans the length of its Equator, and which managed to defy explanation until now. A new study proposes an interesting hypothesis for how it came to be.
What i... |
9 April 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Recent flybys of the icy Saturnine moon Enceladus have revealed the presence of salt in the icy particles spewed by geysers at its south pole. The discovery led scientists to calculate that the salinity of these jets is roughly the same as that in Earth's oceans, producing a hotspot for life.
The flight maneuve... |
29 March 2012
09:11 GMT |
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The NASA Cassini space probe will fly extremely close to the Saturnine moon Enceladus later today. In fact, this particular flyby will be the closest the spacecraft has ever made to this particular moon, at an altitude of only 46 miles (74 kilometers).
The flight will occur later today, March 27, at 11:30 am PDT (2:... |
27 March 2012
08:00 GMT |
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Scientists analyzing data from the NASA Cassini spacecraft announce the discovery of traces of avalanches on the surface of the icy Saturnine moon Iapetus. They explain that the phenomenon is not at all unusual throughout the solar system. Previous studies found similar occurrences on Mars.
However, discovering tha... |
22 March 2012
04:14 GMT |
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One of the most important instruments aboard the NASA Cassini orbiter has just been brought back online, mission managers from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announced on Friday, March 16. The plasma spectrometer instrument (CAPS) was shut down after a series of short-circuits led ... |
20 March 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, the most remarkable things about the icy Saturnine moon Enceladus are its geysers. These originate in fissures located at the south pole, which blast large amounts of water vapor and organic particle into space. Scientists now say the gas giant is driving these eruptions.
Using data collected by the NAS... |
20 March 2012
06:57 GMT |
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Iapetus, one of the many moons orbiting Saturn, is unusual even among the gas giant's peculiar satellites. When viewed through telescopes, it appears as if it has two colors, and astronomers have been trying to figure out why that is for years. The answer may lie within Earth's ice sheets. Scientists beli... |
16 March 2012
19:01 GMT |
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While this image may appear to contain nothing but darkness at first, it is in fact extremely important for astronomers seeking to find out more about the frozen geysers at Enceladus' south pole.
This Saturnine moon is most likely one of the most interesting celestial bodies in the solar system, experts say. Ma... |
15 March 2012
09:25 GMT |
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Talk about David and Goliath! In this image from the NASA Cassini orbiter, we see the enormous moon Titan to the right of the gas giant Saturn. Though it's 50 percent larger than our Moon, and 80 percent heavier, the object appears as nothing more than a tiny spec when compared to its host planet.
Titan is abou... |
6 March 2012
03:58 GMT |
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A new investigation conducted with the NASA Cassini orbiter revealed the existence of molecular oxygen in the atmosphere surrounding the Saturnine moon Dione. This chemical is absolutely essential for making air on Earth breathable, and able to support complex life.
The spacecraft did not identify quantities large ... |
3 March 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Investigators at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, in Germany, are currently working on an instrument called IceMole, which they say could be used to pierce the thick ice crust covering the Saturnine moon Enceladus.
This particular celestial body is one of the most promising in the entire solar system, in... |
28 February 2012
08:42 GMT |
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Experts from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have just released one of the latest images collected by the American space agency's Cassini spacecraft. In orbit around the gas giant Saturn, the satellite constantly snaps incredible views of the planet's moons, in various arrangements. In the latest... |
15 February 2012
09:59 GMT |
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As an avid (for some reason) fan of Saturn, I constantly keep track of the images the NASA/ESA Cassini orbiter sends back to Earth. Therefore, I couldn't resist the temptation of sharing the latest image the spacecraft snapped of Enceladus, while the ice-covered moon was at its crescent.
Backdropped by the rin... |
8 February 2012
11:04 GMT |
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With each new image the NASA Cassini orbiter sends back, I appreciate the spacecraft more and more. For almost 8 years now, the probe has been conducting various experiments around Saturn, its rings and it moons, and the latest view it captured of Dione proves its worth yet again.
This time, the small moon was captu... |
2 February 2012
10:49 GMT |
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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is of great interest to astronomers because it's the most Earth-like object in the solar system. One of the most recent studies conducted on the body was aimed at surveying its dunes using radars, and experts say that this allowed them to learn more about the moon's past c... |
24 January 2012
02:58 GMT |
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A view of the Saturnine moons Titan and Tethys taken from aboard the NASA Cassini orbiter appeared obscured when researchers decoded it. The photos was snapped just as one of the gas giant's rings was interposed between the spacecraft and the two moons.
In this view, Titan is seen to the left of the image, the ... |
13 January 2012
09:00 GMT |
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A failure in the radio system aboard the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has its mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, on the edge. The probe is fairly old, and is now communicating with Earth by using a backup system.
The orbiter has been studying Saturn, its m... |
13 January 2012
03:58 GMT |
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Among astronomers, Saturn's largest moon Titan is primarily known for being the only object in the solar system other than Earth to have liquid chemicals on its surface. A group of investigators in the United States finally provides an explanation of where these chemicals originate. Both of Titan's poles ... |
5 January 2012
03:40 GMT |
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A group of scientists and engineers recently presented the Aerial Vehicle for In-situ and Airborne Titan Reconnaissance (AVIATR) concept to the world. The aircraft is designed specifically to be able to fly in the dense atmosphere surrounding Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn.
Previous proposals saw researche... |
3 January 2012
05:22 GMT |
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A new photograph of Ligeia Mare depicts the landscape feature in beautiful colors that remind us of Earth. Yet, the sea is located on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and is filled with liquid hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane, rather than water.
Even so, Titan and Earth are not that different. Granted, atm... |
30 December 2011
03:23 GMT |
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The American space agency is celebrating Christmas in its own way, by having some of its spacecraft send back new images of targets such as stellar nurseries and gas giants. The NASA/ESA Cassini mission and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) are the most important such probes.
Cassini is without a doubt... |
23 December 2011
09:28 GMT |
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The NASA Cassini spacecraft carried out a new flyby of Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, December 12. While the main science data obtained during the maneuver have yet to be compiled, researchers say that the flyby did provide some interesting new views of the Saturnine moon system.
Experts at the NASA Jet Propul... |
13 December 2011
02:57 GMT |
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Officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the Cassini spacecraft will be carrying out a double flyby over the course of 36 hours, starting on December 12. Within this time frame, the probe will see both Dione and Titan.
The Dione flyby will occur first, and will... |
10 December 2011
06:22 GMT |
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For nearly an entire Earth year, a massive storm devastated the atmosphere above Saturn, baffling experts with its unusual intensity. Data collected by the NASA Cassini orbiter as the storm took place have now been centralized in a series of images and animations of what went on.
Researchers hope to use these data t... |
18 November 2011
06:21 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the Cassini spacecraft will carry out a new flyby over the Saturnine moon Enceladus. The maneuver will be special because the probe will use its radar instruments to map the ice-covered space rock.
This is the first time that... |
4 November 2011
06:07 GMT |
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The NASA Cassini orbiter carried out a new flyby of the Saturnine moon Enceladus on October 19. The spacecraft was able to collect a series of new images of the object, which is of interest to scientists because it may contain an ocean of liquid water under miles of ice crust.
During the new flight, the space probe... |
21 October 2011
06:25 GMT |
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One of the things that made astrobiologists so interested in Saturn's largest moon is the fact that it shares many similarities to our own planet, in terms of atmospheres, atmospheric chemical cycles and so on. However, how Titan got to its current configuration is still a matter of debate. At this point, scient... |
19 October 2011
08:48 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that the Saturnine moon Enceladus experiences constant snow fall. Researchers have determined that large amounts of frozen precipitations fall to the space object's surface from its wispy-thin atmosphere. The phenomenon was discovered throug... |
19 October 2011
06:36 GMT |
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Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the Cassini spacecraft will carry out a new flyby of the Saturnine moon Enceladus today, October 19. As it will attempt to image the object's geysers, the probe will use light from stars in Orion's Belt.A... |
19 October 2011
04:37 GMT |
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This September 13 image snapped by the NASA Cassini spacecraft shows a part of Saturn's impressive rings, with the moons Enceladus and Tethys in the foreground. The image is taken from a great distance, which explains how the two moons were caught in the same frame.
At the time the image was taken, the orbit... |
11 October 2011
06:34 GMT |
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Astronomers say that a large comet impacted Saturn's beautiful rings back in the 1300s. While this has been known for quite some time, a new study indicates that the tracks are still visible today. The announcement was made on October 4, at a science meeting.
Essam Marouf, who is a professor of electrical en... |
10 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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A set of newly-released images showing the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in color indicates that the celestial body may be a lot more similar to Earth than first believed. Granted, its surface is covered by a thick, yellow, unbreathable atmosphere, but many similarities still remain.
This image was... |
6 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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On Saturday, October 1, the NASA Cassini space probe completed its latest flyby of the Saturnine moon Enceladus. The mission was to focus the spacecraft's sensitive instruments on the geysers at the south pole of the celestial body, and observe as they are spewing out water particles and organic matter.
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4 October 2011
02:48 GMT |
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Thanks to the most advanced space telescope ever built, researchers managed to establish that the influence the icy moon Enceladus exerts on Saturn is a lot more significant than originally thought. Apparently, the smaller body is the source of water vapors in the gas giant's atmosphere.
This was established... |
22 September 2011
05:04 GMT |
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Given the tremendous similarities that exist between Earth and Saturn's largest moon, Titan, experts are comparing the two in order to determine how the environment on extrasolar planets may look like. They are also trying to understand what ingredients are necessary for the development of life.
While they a... |
5 September 2011
07:15 GMT |
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Despite missing liquid water, the atmosphere surrounding Saturn's largest moon, Titan, seems to be perfectly capable of producing DNA molecules, or at least some of the chemical precursors leading to these molecules. Scientists say that the “chain of life” may have already appeared high above the moo... |
25 August 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Since the Sun first formed, about 4.6 billion years ago, the planets in our solar system have been shifting their positions non-stop. At this time, the trend is less obvious, but in the earliest days gas giants such as Jupiter ran wild. Now, a study looks at how the planet influences the solar system.Jupiter is the l... |
25 August 2011
06:35 GMT |
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Experts investigating Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn, recently discovered a white arrow on the object's surface. About the size of Texas, this structure went unexplained for quite some time. Now, scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles propose an explanation for its existence.The UCLA ... |
16 August 2011
04:42 GMT |
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After several weeks of relative inactivity, the NASA Cassini orbiter managed to snap a new set of pictures covering a large portion of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The image reveals a large number of dunes and craters, as well as the enigmatic bright feature called Xanadu.The latter is located on the leading ed... |
9 August 2011
03:18 GMT |
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A group of astronomers has recently determined that the water vapor spacecraft were detecting the in upper atmosphere of Saturn come from the ice-covered moon Enceladus. The source of these vapors has been sought-for for many years, but to no avail.Recently, experts managed to get a breakthrough when they used the Eu... |
26 July 2011
10:31 GMT |
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In a new scientific investigation, astronomers were finally able to get more insight into the phenomena and processes that lead to the Saturnine moon Iapetus taking on the odd yin-yang look that it does. Apparently, what it all comes down to is the presence of dust in the orbit the moon takes. Iapetus' external ... |
13 July 2011
03:36 GMT |
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A tremendous thunderstorm that formed in the atmosphere of the gas giant Saturn is wider than our entire planet, the results of a new study show. The investigation also determined why the storm formed now, when experts were expecting it later on.
Called the Great White Spot, the massive storm has been imaged in e... |
7 July 2011
02:53 GMT |
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Studies conducted using a NASA orbiter are showing that the radio waves emanating from both the north and south pole on Saturn are different in their variations. Researchers say that these variations also change with seasons, and that the wave characteristics were even exchanged between the poles. At one point in tim... |
29 June 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the plasma spectrometer instrument on the Cassini spacecraft has just been taken offline, due to a series of malfunctions affecting its operations.At this point, there is no clear schedule to indicate when the sensitive instrument will be brought back online, but N... |
16 June 2011
11:51 GMT |
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