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Scientists Discover New Ring And Other Features At Saturn
September 20, 2006 Saturn sports a new ring in an image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sunday, Sept. 17, during a one-of-a-kind observation. Other spectacular sights captured by Cassini's cameras include wispy ... > full story -
Cassini Detects Vast Polar Ethane Cloud On Titan
September 14, 2006 Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) has detected what appears to be a massive ethane cloud surrounding Titan's north pole. The cloud might be snowing ethane into methane lakes ... > full story -
Cassini Finds Lakes On Titan's Arctic Region
July 28, 2006 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found lakes on Saturn's moon Titan. The lakes are most likely the source of hydrocarbon smog in the frigid moon's atmosphere. Finding the source of the complex soup of ... > full story -
Cassini Reveals Titan's Xanadu Region To Be An Earth-Like Land
July 21, 2006 New radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed geological features similar to Earth on Xanadu, an Australia-sized, bright region on Saturn's moon ... > full story -
Saturn's Faint Rings Share Some Of Their Secrets
July 5, 2006 Dramatic Cassini images of Saturn's diaphanous G and E rings are yielding new clues about their structure and formation, namely that Enceladus' geysers are the main supply for the E ring, and that a ... > full story -
NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Marks Mission Halfway Point
June 27, 2006 As the Cassini spacecraft reaches the halfway mark in its four-year tour of the Saturn system, discoveries made during the first half of the mission have scientists revved up to find out what's in ... > full story -
NASA'S Cassini Spacecraft Captures Saturnian Moon Ballet
June 22, 2006 The cold, icy orbs of the Saturn system come to life in a slew of new movie clips showing the ringed planet's moons in ... > full story -
Study Says Saturn's Moon Enceladus Rolled Over
June 1, 2006 Saturn's moon Enceladus -- an active, icy world with an unusually warm south pole -- may have performed an unusual trick for a planetary body. New research shows Enceladus rolled over, literally, ... > full story -
Titan's Seas Are Sand, Cassini's Images Of Saturn's Moon Show
May 8, 2006 Until a couple of years ago, scientists thought the dark equatorial regions of Titan might be liquid oceans. New radar evidence shows they are seas -- but seas of sand dunes like those in the Arabian ... > full story -
Cassini Flies By Saturn's Moon Titan, Sees More Craters
May 4, 2006 Saturn's moon Titan continued to surprise scientists during a flyby that took Cassini into regions previously unexplored by radar. Two very noticeable circular features, possible impact craters or ... > full story
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