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Clay-Like Minerals Found on Icy Crust of Europa
Dec 16, 2013 (JPL)
A new analysis of data from NASA's Galileo mission has revealed clay-type minerals at the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa that appear to have been delivere...
Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon
Dec 06, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn's north pole. This...
Model Suggests Ocean Currents Shape Europa's Icy Shell in Ways Critical for Potential Habitats
Dec 05, 2013 (SPX)
In a finding of relevance to the search for life in our solar system, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics, the Georgia I...
The Bright Vortex Off Saturn Way
Dec 04, 2013 (JPL)
The sunlit edge of Titan's south polar vortex stands out distinctly against the darkness of the moon's unilluminated hazy atmosphere. The Cassini spacecraft ima...
Amidst and Beyond the Rings
Nov 29, 2013 (JPL)
While the moon Epimetheus passes by, beyond the edge of Saturn's main rings, the tiny moon Daphnis carries on its orbit within the Keeler gap of the A ring. Alt...
NASA Cassini Spacecraft Provides New View of Saturn and Earth
Nov 13, 2013 (SPX)
NASA has released a natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible. The ne...
Cassini Swings Above Saturn to Compose a Portrait
Oct 31, 2013 (JPL)
It's a view as good as gold. A loop high above Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed this stately view of the golden-hued planet and its main rings. The ...
UI Researchers Help Decode New View of Saturn's Moon Titan, Contribute to Cassini Mission
Oct 29, 2013 (SPX)
A team of NASA researchers around the nation, including scientists at the University of Idaho, revealed this week a new view of Saturn's moon Titan. With the su...
Cassini Gets New Views of Titan's Land of Lakes
Oct 24, 2013 (JPL)
With the sun now shining down over the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, a little luck with the weather, and trajectories that put the spacecraft into optimal ...
The active Sun boosts Titan's outer atmosphere
Oct 17, 2013 (ESA)
The NASA-ESA-ASI Cassini spacecraft has been observing the Saturn system, including the giant satellite Titan, for more than 9 years. A detailed analysis of Cas...
Cassini Finds Ingredient of Household Plastic in Space
Oct 07, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on Saturn's moon Tit...
Cassini finds ingredient of household plastic on Saturn moon
Sep 30, 2013 (UPI)
The Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, an ingredient in household plastics, on Saturn's moon, Titan, the U.S. space said Monday. The detection of the ch...
Long-Stressed Europa Likely Off-Kilter at One Time
Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)
By analyzing the distinctive cracks lining the icy face of Europa, NASA scientists found evidence that this moon of Jupiter likely spun around a tilted axis at ...
Massive storm pulls water and ammonia ices from Saturn's depths
Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)
Once every 30 years or so, or roughly one Saturnian year, a monster storm rips across the northern hemisphere of the ringed planet. In 2010, the most recent and...
New Cassini data from Titan indicate a rigid, weathered ice shell
Sep 03, 2013 (SPX)
An analysis of gravity and topography data from Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has revealed unexpected features of the moon's outer ice shell. The best explanati...
Massive storm on Saturn throws water ice high in atmosphere
Sep 03, 2013 (UPI)
Water ice dredged up from deep in Saturn's atmosphere by a monster storm marks the first time such ice has been detected so high, U.S. scientists say. In a pape...
Gravitational tide the secret of Saturn's weird moon
Jul 31, 2013 (AFP)
Enceladus, a white moon of Saturn with ice-spewing volcanoes, owes its strangeness to tides of gravitational forces exerted by its mother, a study said on Wedne...
Mystery of the Missing Waves on Titan
Jul 23, 2013 (SPX)
One of the most shocking discoveries of the past 10 years is how much the landscape of Saturn's moon Titan resembles Earth. Like our own blue planet, the surfac...
Revealed - the mystery of the gigantic storm on Saturn
Jun 25, 2013 (SPX)
We now understand the nature of the giant storms on Saturn. Through the analysis of images sent from the Cassini space probe belonging to the North American and...
Submarine for Saturn's moon Titan picked for NASA's 'dream fund'
Jun 09, 2013 (UPI)
NASA has granted seed money to 12 zany ideas as part of its Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC). Each concept will be granted $100,000 for a nine-month ...
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