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Cassini To Earth: 'Mission Accomplished, But New Questions Await!'
NASA's Cassini mission is
closing one chapter of its
journey at Saturn and
embarking on a new one with
a two-year mission that will
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Cassini Sees Collisions Of Moonlets On Saturn's Ring
A team of scientists has
discovered that the rapid
changes in Saturn's F ring
can be attributed to small
moonlets causing
perturbations. Their results
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NASA Spacecraft Tracks Raging Saturn Storm
As a powerful electrical
storm rages on Saturn with
lightning bolts 10,000 times
more powerful than those
found on Earth, the Cassini
spacecraft continues its
five-month watch over the
... > full story
NASA Extends Cassini's Grand Tour Of Saturn Two More Years
NASA is extending the
international
Cassini-Huygens mission by
two years. The historic
spacecraft's stunning
discoveries and images have
... > full story
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Cassini Tastes Organic Material At Saturn's Geyser Moon
March 27, 2008 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion from Saturn's moon Enceladus during a close flyby on March 12. Scientists are amazed that this ... > full story -
Ocean May Exist Beneath Titan's Crust, Cassini Spacecraft Finds
March 21, 2008 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings made using radar measurements of ... > full story -
Cassini Flies Through Watery Plumes Of Saturn's Moon Enceladus
March 14, 2008 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft performed a daring flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on March 12, flying about 15 kilometers per second (32,000 mph) through icy water geyser-like jets. The spacecraft ... > full story -
Cassini Spacecraft To Dive Into Water Plume Of Saturn Moon
March 11, 2008 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12. The spacecraft, orchestrating its closest approach to date, will skirt along ... > full story -
Ringed Moon Circles Ringed Planet: Saturn's Moon Rhea Also May Have Rings
March 7, 2008 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This is the first time rings may have been found around a moon. A broad debris disk and at least ... > full story -
Saturn May Be Surrounded By Undiscovered Near-Invisible Partial Rings
February 25, 2008 — Gaps in the soup of high energy particles near the orbits of two of Saturn's tiny moons indicate that Saturn may be surrounded by undiscovered, near-invisible partial rings. And, the larger Saturnian ... > full story -
How Saturn's Moon Enceladus Violently Spurts Dust And Water Plume Into Space: New Theory
February 23, 2008 — An enormous plume of dust and water spurts violently into space from the south pole of Enceladus, Saturn's sixth-largest moon. This raging eruption has intrigued scientists ever since the Cassini ... > full story -
Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves On Earth
February 21, 2008 — Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The ... > full story -
Saturn's Mingling Moons May Share A Dark Past
February 21, 2008 — Despite the incredible diversity of Saturn's icy moons, theirs is a story of great interaction. Some of them are pock-marked, some seemingly dirty, others pristine, one spongy, one two-faced, some ... > full story -
Saturn's Giant Sponge: One Of Saturn's Rings Does The Housecleaning
February 17, 2008 — One of Saturn's rings does housecleaning, soaking up material gushing from the fountains on Saturn's tiny ice moon Enceladus, according to new observations from the Cassini spacecraft. This is the ... > full story
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