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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....
Giant Storms Cause Palpitations in Saturn's Atmospheric Heartbeat
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
This effect is also seen in Earth's atmosphere, suggesting the two planets are more alike than previously thought. Despite their considerable differences, the a...
Electrical and Chemical Coupling Between Saturn and Its Ring
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
In April the American space agency NASA put the Cassini spacecraft into an orbit that took it right through the narrow gap between the innermost visible ring (t...
Cassini Image Mosaic: A Farewell to Saturn
Nov 22, 2017 (JPL)
Cassini's wide-angle camera acquired 42 red, green and blue images, covering the planet and its main rings from one end to the other, on Sept. 13, 2017. Imaging...
Unexpected atmospheric vortex behavior on Saturn's moon Titan
Nov 22, 2017 (SPX)
Titan's polar atmosphere recently experiences and unexpected and significant cooling, contrary to all model predictions and differing from the behaviour of all ...
Unique atmospheric chemistry explains cold vortex on Saturn's moon Titan
Nov 21, 2017 (UPI)
Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and is the only moon in the solar system with a sizable atmosphere. Recent observations suggest that atmosphere hasn't been beha...
Heating ocean moon Enceladus for billions of years
Nov 08, 2017 (ESA)
A paper published in Nature Astronomy presents the first concept that explains the key characteristics of 500 km-diameter Enceladus as observed by the internati...
Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon
Nov 07, 2017 (JPL)
The study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, helps resolve a question scientists have grappled with for a decade:Where does the energy to power the ext...
ASA Advances Instrument to Study the Plumes of Enceladus
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
The team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently received support to advance technologies needed for the Submillimeter Enceladus ...
Saturn's Radiation Belts: A Stranger to the Solar Wind
Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)
In the case of the Earth, the solar wind, a current of charged particles from the Sun varying in strength, controls the intensity of the radiation belt both dir...
To keep Saturn's A ring contained, its moons stand united
Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)
Without forces to hold the A ring in check, the ring would keep spreading out and ultimately disappear. "Cassini provided detail on the mass of Saturn's moons a...
NASA team finds noxious ice cloud on Saturn's moon Titan
Oct 19, 2017 (SPX)
The finding is a new demonstration of the complex chemistry occurring in Titan's atmosphere - in this case, cloud formation in the giant moon's stratosphere - a...
Reconstructing Cassini's Plunge into Saturn
Oct 17, 2017 (JPL)
Chief among these engineering data, or telemetry, are measurements indicating the performance of the spacecraft's small attitude-control thrusters. Each thruste...
Intense storms batter Saturn's largest moon, UCLA scientists report
Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)
"I would have thought these would be once-a-millennium events, if even that," said Jonathan Mitchell, UCLA associate professor of planetary science and a senior...
Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion guides Cassini to its Grand Finale at Saturn
Sep 19, 2017 (SPX)
"The success of this mission is a testament to the reliability of our thrusters," said Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO and President Eileen Drake. "They traveled more th...
Cassini Spacecraft Demise Is Bittersweet for PSI's Hansen
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
Hansen, a Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, began working on the Cassini mission to Saturn in 1990 with the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph ...
NASA's $3.9 bn Cassini spacecraft makes death plunge into Saturn
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
Cassini, an international project that cost $3.9 billion and included scientists from 27 nations, disintegrated as it dove into Saturn's atmosphere at a speed o...
CU Boulder Scientists Ready for Cassini Mission to Saturn Grand Finale
Sep 14, 2017 (SPX)
He followed that up with observations of Jupiter's and Saturn's rings from the Voyager and Galileo spacecraft, which carried instruments designed and built at C...
Cassini readies final plunge into Saturn
Sep 13, 2017 (AFP)
While orbiting Saturn nearly 300 times, Cassini made major discoveries, such as the liquid methane seas of the planet's giant moon Titan and the sprawling subsu...
Cassini Makes its 'Goodbye Kiss' Flyby of Titan
Sep 12, 2017 (JPL)
The spacecraft made its closest approach to Titan Sep 10 at 12:04 p.m. PDT (3:04 p.m. EDT), at an altitude of 73,974 miles (119,049 kilometers) above the moon's...
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