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A new way to create Saturn's radiation belts
Nov 30, 2018 (SPX)
Around Saturn, and other planets including the Earth, energetic charged particles are trapped in the magnetic field. Here they form doughnut-shaped zones near t...
Saturn's Moon Dione Covered by Mysterious Stripes
Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)
The origins of these linear virgae (virgae meaning a stripe or streak of color) are most likely caused by the draping of surface materials like material from Sa...
Surprising chemical complexity of Saturn's rings changing planet's upper atmosphere
Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)
Well, there's no luggage, it turns out. But a new study appearing in Science based on data from the final orbits last year of NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows th...
Cutting through the mystery of Titan's atmospheric haze
Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)
Now, a research collaboration involving scientists in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkel...
In its final days, Cassini bathed in 'ring rain'
Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)
In research publishedin Science, CU Boulder's Hsiang-Wen (Sean) Hsu and his colleagues report that they successfully collected microscopic material streaming fr...
Latest insights into Saturn's weird magnetic field only make things weirder
Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)
NASA's Cassini mission - with Imperial kit on board - took a series of daring dives between the planet and its inmost ring in September 2017 before burning up i...
SwRI scientists study Saturn's rings to discover downpour
Oct 05, 2018 (SPX)
"For its final adventure, Cassini dove into the unknown region between Saturn's rings and its atmosphere," said SwRI's Dr. Kelly Miller, who coauthored the pape...
New Radiation Belt Discovered at Saturn
Oct 05, 2018 (SPX)
On Friday, 5 October 2018, the journal Science is releasing a total of six articles describing first results from this mission phase. In one of these papers a r...
Groundbreaking Science Emerges from Ultra-Close Orbits of Saturn
Oct 05, 2018 (JPL)
Six teams of researchers are publishing their work Oct. 5 in the journal Science, based on findings from Cassini's Grand Finale. That's when, as the spacecraft ...
Dust storms on Titan spotted by Cassini for the first time
Sep 25, 2018 (ESA)
The discovery, described in a paper published in Nature Geoscience, makes Titan the third body in the Solar System where dust storms have been observed - the ot...
Cassini's final view of Titan's northern lakes and seas
Sep 17, 2018 (JPL)
They were captured on Sept. 11, 2017. Four days later, Cassini was deliberately plunged into the atmosphere of Saturn. Punga Mare (240 miles, or 390 kilometers,...
Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds
Sep 05, 2018 (ESA)
When Cassini arrived at the Saturnian system in 2004, the southern hemisphere was enjoying summertime, while the northern was in the midst of winter. The spacec...
Hubble observes energetic light show at Saturn's north pole
Aug 31, 2018 (SPX)
In 2017, over a period of seven months, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope took images of auroras above Saturn's north pole region using the Space Telescope Im...
Cassini data yields super sharp infrared images of Titan
Jul 19, 2018 (UPI)
This week, NASA shared a series of super sharp infrared images of Saturn's moon Titan, compiled using 13 years of data collected by the probe's Visual and Infra...
Listen: Sound of Electromagnetic Energy Moving Between Saturn, Enceladus
Jul 10, 2018 (JPL)
The observations show for the first time that the waves travel on magnetic field lines connecting Saturn directly to Enceladus. The field lines are like an elec...
Complex organics bubble up from ocean-world Enceladus
Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)
Powerful hydrothermal vents mix up material from the moon's water-filled, porous core with water from the moon's massive subsurface ocean - and it is released i...
Signatures of complex organic molecules spotted on Saturn's moon Enceladus
Jun 27, 2018 (UPI)
"We are, yet again, blown away by Enceladus," Christopher Glein, a space scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, said in a news release. "Previously we'd...
Surprising magnetic reconnection spotted on Saturn's dayside
Jun 11, 2018 (ESA)
Reconnection happens when two magnetic fields collide - for example when the Earth's magnetic field is hit by the stream of charged particles released by the Su...
Cosmic Ravioli And Spaetzle
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
When Martin Rubin, astrophysicist at the University of Bern, saw the images of Saturn's moons Pan and Atlas on the internet, he was puzzled. The close-ups taken...
Titan topographic map unearths cookie-cutter holes in moon's surface
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student Paul Corlies, first author on "Titan's Topography and Shape at the End of the Cassini Mission....
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