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From Cassini for the Holidays: Backlit View of Saturn and Its Rings
December 18, 2012 — Just in time for the holidays, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for more than eight years now, has delivered another glorious, backlit view of the planet Saturn and its ... > full story -
Cassini Spots Mini Nile River on Saturn's Moon Titan
December 12, 2012 — Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted what appears to be a miniature, extraterrestrial likeness of Earth's Nile River: a river valley on Saturn's moon Titan that stretches more than 200 ... > full story -
Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon, Icier Than Thought
December 4, 2012 — Scientists have long suspected that a vast ocean of liquid water lies under the crusty exterior of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New analysis suggests that the internally generated heat that keeps ... > full story -
Planet Rings Could Be Behind the Formation of Solar System Satellites
December 4, 2012 — Two researchers have recently proposed the first ever model explaining how the great majority of regular satellites in our solar system were formed out of planet rings. The model, the only one of its ... > full story -
Swirling Storms on Saturn
December 3, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been traveling the Saturnian system in a set of inclined, or tilted, orbits that give mission scientists a vertigo-inducing view of Saturn's polar regions. This ... > full story -
Autumn Sets in Rapidly on Saturn's Giant Moon
November 28, 2012 — As leaves fall and winter approaches in Earth's Northern Hemisphere, a change of seasons is also rapidly becoming noticeable in the southern hemisphere of Saturn's giant moon, ... > full story -
'Pac-Man' Moons: Cassini Finds a Video Gamers' Paradise at Saturn
November 26, 2012 — You could call it "Pac-Man, the Sequel." Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted a second feature shaped like the 1980s video game icon in the Saturn system, this time on the moon Tethys. ... > full story -
Cassini Halloween Treat: Titan Glows in the Dark
October 31, 2012 — A literal shot in the dark by imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has yielded an image of a visible glow from Titan, emanating not just from the top of Titan's atmosphere, but also -- ... > full story -
NASA Spacecraft Sees Huge Burp at Saturn After Large Storm
October 25, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has tracked the aftermath of a rare massive storm on Saturn. Data reveal record-setting disturbances in the planet's upper atmosphere long after the visible signs of the ... > full story -
Giant Impact Scenario May Explain the Unusual Moons of Saturn
October 17, 2012 — Among the oddities of the outer solar system are the middle-sized moons of Saturn, a half-dozen icy bodies dwarfed by Saturn's massive moon Titan. According to a new model for the origin of the ... > full story
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