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Cassini Sheds Light On Cosmic Particle Accelerators
Feb 21, 2013 (JPL)
During a chance encounter with an unusually strong blast of solar wind arriving at Saturn, the international Cassini spacecraft detected particles being acceler...
Cassini Sees Titan Cooking up Smog
Feb 06, 2013 (ESA)
A paper published this week using data from NASA's Cassini mission describes in more detail than ever before how aerosols in the highest part of the atmosphere ...
NASA's Cassini Watches Storm Choke on Its Own Tail
Feb 01, 2013 (JPL)
Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet about the life and ...
Titan Gets a Dune Makeover
Jan 21, 2013 (SPX)
Titan's siblings must be jealous. While most of Saturn's moons display their ancient faces pockmarked by thousands of craters, Titan - Saturn's largest moon - m...
Cassini Suggests Icing On A Lake
Jan 11, 2013 (JPL)
It's not exactly icing on a cake, but it could be icing on a lake. A new paper by scientists on NASA's Cassini mission finds that blocks of hydrocarbon ice migh...
Frozen hydrocarbon ice on Titan's oceans?
Jan 08, 2013 (UPI)
Blocks of hydrocarbon ice might be floating on the surface of existing lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbon on Saturn's moon Titan, U.S. researchers say. The pr...
Cassini Instrument Learns New Tricks
Dec 24, 2012 (JPL)
For seven years, a mini-fridge-sized instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft reliably investigated weather patterns swirling around Saturn; the hydrocarbon ...
From Cassini for the Holidays: A Splendor Seldom Seen
Dec 19, 2012 (JPL)
Just in time for the holidays, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for more than eight years now, has delivered another glorious, backlit view of ...
Cassini Spots Mini Nile River on Saturn Moon
Dec 13, 2012 (JPL)
Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted what appears to be a miniature, extraterrestrial likeness of Earth's Nile River: a river valley on Saturn's ...
Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon, Icier than Scientists Thought
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have long suspected that a vast ocean of liquid water lies under the crusty exterior of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New analysis suggests that the ...
NASA's Cassini Sees Abrupt Turn in Titan's Atmosphere
Dec 03, 2012 (JPL)
Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft tie a shift in seasonal sunlight to a wholesale reversal, at unexpected altitudes, in the circulation of the atmosphere of S...
Cassini Finds a Video Gamers' Paradise at Saturn
Nov 27, 2012 (JPL)
You could call this "Pac-Man, the Sequel." Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted a second feature shaped like the 1980s video game icon in the Sat...
Cassini Halloween Treat: Titan Glows in the Dark
Nov 01, 2012 (JPL)
A literal shot in the dark by imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has yielded an image of a visible glow from Titan, emanating not just from the top of...
Saturn's giant storm reveals the planet's churning atmosphere
Oct 26, 2012 (ESA)
A recent study of the giant storm whirling on Saturn for the past two years, which became known as the "Great Springtime Storm", has given planetary scientists ...
Giant impact scenario may explain the unusual moons of Saturn
Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)
Among the oddities of the outer solar system are the middle-sized moons of Saturn, a half-dozen icy bodies dwarfed by Saturn's massive moon Titan. According to ...
The sound in Saturn's rings: RUB-Physicists explain nonlinear dust acoustic waves in dusty plasmas
Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)
Dusty plasmas can be found in many places both in space and in the laboratory. Due to their special properties, dust acoustic waves can propagate inside these p...
What's Baking on Titan?
Oct 17, 2012 (JPL)
Radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal some new curiosities on the surface of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan, including a nearly circular feature th...
A Long and Winding Road: Cassini Celebrates 15 Years
Oct 16, 2012 (JPL)
Today, NASA's Cassini spacecraft celebrates 15 years of uninterrupted drive time, earning it a place among the ultimate interplanetary road warriors. Since laun...
Bouncing on Titan
Oct 12, 2012 (ESA)
ESA's Huygens probe bounced, slid and wobbled its way to rest in the 10 seconds after touching down on Saturn's moon, Titan, in January 2005, a new analysis rev...
Titan Shows Surprising Seasonal Changes
Oct 01, 2012 (SPX)
Detailed observations of Saturn's moon Titan have now spanned 30 years, covering an entire solar orbit for this distant world. Dr. Athena Coustenis from the Par...
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