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NASA Extends Cassini's Grand Tour Of Saturn Two More Years
April 15, 2008 NASA is extending the international Cassini-Huygens mission by two years. The historic spacecraft's stunning discoveries and images have revolutionized our knowledge of Saturn and its moons. ... > full story -
Cassini Tastes Organic Material At Saturn's Geyser Moon
March 26, 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 20, 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 13, 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 10, 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 6, 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 -
How Saturn's Moon Enceladus Violently Spurts Dust And Water Plume Into Space: New Theory
February 22, 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 20, 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 May Be Surrounded By Undiscovered Near-Invisible Partial Rings
February 20, 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 -
Saturn's Mingling Moons May Share A Dark Past
February 19, 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
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