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Saturn's Largest Moon Titan Gets a Dune 'Makeover'
January 17, 2013 — Titan's siblings must be jealous. While most of Saturn's moons display their ancient faces pockmarked by thousands of craters, Titan -- Saturn's largest moon -- may look much younger than it really ... > full story -
Icing on a Lake: Blocks of Hydrocarbon Ice Might Decorate Surface of Lakes and Seas on Saturn's Moon Titan
January 8, 2013 — It's not exactly icing on a cake, but it could be icing on a lake. A new paper by scientists on NASA's Cassini mission finds that blocks of hydrocarbon ice might decorate the surface of existing ... > full story -
Saturn Mission: Cassini Instrument Learns New Tricks
December 20, 2012 — For seven years, a mini-fridge-sized instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft reliably investigated weather patterns swirling around Saturn; the hydrocarbon composition of the surface of Saturn's ... > full story -
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
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