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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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  Cassini Observations Present Glimpse Into Titan's Relationship With Earth

  May 13, 2005 — Observations of Titan's atmosphere offer a unique look at how Saturn's giant moon compares to Earth. The organic chemistry that occurs in Titan's atmosphere is an analog of the processes that may ... > full story
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  New Moon Making Waves

  May 12, 2005 — The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft has confirmed earlier suspicions of an unseen moon hidden in a gap in Saturn's outer A ring. A new image shows the new moon and the waves it raises in the ... > full story
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  Scientists Discover Pluto Kin Is A Member Of Saturn Family

  May 7, 2005 — Saturn's battered little moon Phoebe is an interloper to the Saturn system from the deep outer solar system, scientists have concluded. Phoebe was left behind from the solar nebula, the cloud of ... > full story
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  Organic Materials Spotted High Above Titan's Surface

  April 29, 2005 — During its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on April 16, the Cassini spacecraft came within 1,027 kilometers (638 miles) of the moon's surface and found that the outer layer of the thick, ... > full story
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  Cassini Captures Swiss-Cheese Look Of Saturn Moon

  April 28, 2005 — An image of Saturn's small moon, Epimetheus, was captured by the Cassini spacecraft in the closest view ever taken of the pockmarked ... > full story
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  Cassini Finds Particles Near Saturn's Moon Enceladus

  April 26, 2005 — An instrument designed and built at the University of Chicago for the Cassini space probe has discovered dust particles around Enceladus, an ice-covered moon of Saturn that has the distinction of ... > full story

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