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Lightning Sprites Are out-of-This-World: 'Sprites' Predicted in Atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus
November 21, 2011 — Lightning storms on planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars may also produce "sprites," bursts of electric energy. Scientists have re-created the atmospheres of these planets to produce artificial ... > full story -
Orion's Belt Lights Up Cassini's View of Enceladus
October 19, 2011 — NASA's Cassini mission will take advantage of the position of two of the three stars in Orion's belt when the spacecraft flies by Saturn's moon Enceladus on Oct. 19. As the hot, bright stars pass ... > full story -
Titanic Jigsaw Challenge: Piecing Together a Global Color Map of Saturn's Largest Moon
October 4, 2011 — An international team has pieced together images gathered over six years by the Cassini mission to create a global mosaic of the surface of ... > full story -
Saturn's Geyser Moon Enceladus Shows Off for NASA's Cassini
October 3, 2011 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its Oct. 1 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its jets of water vapor and ice. At its closest approach, the spacecraft flew approximately 62 miles ... > full story -
Saturn's Moon Enceladus Spreads Its Influence
September 22, 2011 — Chalk up one more feat for Saturn's intriguing moon Enceladus. The small, dynamic moon spews out dramatic plumes of water vapor and ice -- first seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. It ... > full story -
Cassini Presents Saturn Moon Quintet
September 19, 2011 — With the artistry of a magazine cover shoot, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a new portrait of five of Saturn's moons poised along the planet's ... > full story -
Cassini Closes in on Saturn's Tumbling Moon Hyperion
August 27, 2011 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured new views of Saturn's oddly shaped moon Hyperion during its encounter with a cratered body on Aug. 25. Raw images were acquired as the spacecraft flew past the moon ... > full story -
What Caused a Giant Arrow-Shaped Cloud on Saturn's Moon Titan?
August 15, 2011 — Why does Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have what looks like an enormous white arrow about the size of Texas on its surface? A research group has answered this question by using a global circulation ... > full story -
Putting It All Together on Saturn's Moon Titan
August 8, 2011 — Three of the major surface features on Saturn's moon Titan -- dunes, craters and the enigmatic Xanadu -- appear in a new radar image from NASA's Cassini ... > full story -
Enceladus Rains Water Onto Saturn
July 26, 2011 — The Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapor around Saturn. The discovery solves a 14-year mystery by identifying the source ... > full story -
Cassini Captures Images and Sounds of Saturn Storm
July 6, 2011 — Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of ... > full story -
Cassini Samples the Icy Spray of Enceladus Water Plumes
June 23, 2011 — The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission has directly sampled the water plumes jetting into space from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The findings from these fly-throughs are the strongest evidence ... > full story
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