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  New Cassini Images Show 'Northern Lights' Of Saturn

  August 5, 2005 — New images of Saturn obtained by a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team on June 21 using an instrument on the Cassini spacecraft show auroral emissions at its poles similar to Earth's Northern ... > full story
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  Cassini Finds An Active, Watery World At Saturn's Enceladus

  August 2, 2005 — Saturn's tiny icy moon Enceladus, which ought to be cold and dead, instead displays evidence for active ice volcanism. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found a huge cloud of water vapor over the moon's ... > full story
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  Cassini Finds Recent And Unusual Geology On Enceladus

  July 28, 2005 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained new, detailed images of the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data reveal distinctive geological features and the most youthful terrain seen on ... > full story
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  Cassini Reveals Saturn's Eerie-Sounding Radio Emissions

  July 26, 2005 — University of Iowa researchers Bill Kurth and Don Gurnett say that Saturn's radio emissions could be mistaken for a Halloween sound track. Their paper on the eerie-sounding radio emissions was ... > full story
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  Spongy-Looking Hyperion Tumbles Into View

  July 12, 2005 — Two new Cassini views of Saturn's tumbling moon Hyperion offer the best looks yet at one of the icy, irregularly-shaped moons that orbit the giant, ringed planet. Preliminary estimates of its density ... > full story
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  NASA's Cassini Reveals Lake-Like Feature On Titan

  June 29, 2005 — Scientists are fascinated by a dark, lake-like feature recently observed on Saturn's moon Titan. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a series of images showing a marking, darker than anything else ... > full story
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  Scientists Discover Possible Titan Volcano

  June 11, 2005 — A recent flyby of Saturn's hazy moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft has revealed evidence of a possible volcano, which could be a source of methane in Titan's atmosphere. Images taken in infrared ... > full story
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  Odd Spot On Titan Baffles Scientists

  May 25, 2005 — Saturn's moon Titan shows an unusual bright spot that has scientists mystified. The spot, approximately the size and shape of West Virginia, is just southeast of the bright region called Xanadu and ... > full story
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  Cassini Radio Signals Decipher Saturn Ring Structure

  May 23, 2005 — The Cassini spacecraft has obtained the most detailed look ever at Saturn's rings, including the B ring, which has eluded previous robotic explorers. Its structure seems remarkably different from its ... > full story
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  Huygens Team Releases First Enhanced Mosaics Of Titan

  May 16, 2005 — Scientists on Huygens' Descent Imager Spectral Radiometer (DISR) experiment have generated new views of Saturn's giant moon, Titan. In the new stereographic 'fish-eye' view of Titan's surface, the ... > full story

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