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  Saturn's Moon Iapetus Shows A Bulging Waistline

  January 10, 2005 — Images returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft cameras during a New Year's Eve flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh- tuss) show startling surface features that are fueling heated ... > full story
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  Huygens Begins Its Final Journey Into The Unknown

  December 27, 2004 — The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe was successfully released by NASA’s Cassini orbiter and is now on a controlled collision course toward Saturn’s largest and most mysterious ... > full story
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  European Space Agency's Huygens Probe Set To Detach From Cassini Orbiter

  December 22, 2004 — The highlights of the first year of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn can be broken into two chapters: first, the arrival of the Cassini orbiter at Saturn in June, and second, the release of the ... > full story
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  Researchers Present Saturn Lightning Findings

  December 19, 2004 — As NASA's Cassini spacecraft approached Saturn last July, it found evidence that lightning on Saturn is roughly one million times stronger than lightning on ... > full story
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  Rings Around The Planets: Recycling Of Material May Extend Ring Lifetimes

  December 19, 2004 — Although rings around planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are relatively short-lived, new evidence implies that the recycling of orbiting debris can lengthen the lifetime of such rings, ... > full story
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  Saturn System Driven By Ice, Says University Of Colorado Researcher

  December 19, 2004 — Ice particles are key players in the ever-changing panorama at Saturn, according to a new study led by a University of Colorado at Boulder professor using an instrument on the Cassini-Huygens ... > full story
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  Cassini Scientist Sees Evidence That Saturn's Outer Rings Could Be Disappearing

  December 19, 2004 — A massive eruption of atomic oxygen from Saturn's outer rings, seen by Cassini's ultraviolet camera as the spacecraft neared its destination, may be an indication that the planet's wispy ... > full story
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  Cassini Shows Before And After Look At Saturn's Moon Titan

  December 19, 2004 — Cassini's second close flyby of Titan completes a 'before' and 'after' look at the fuzzy moon and provides the first direct evidence of changing weather patterns in the skies over ... > full story
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  Cassini Captures Saturn Moon Red-Handed

  December 8, 2004 — Stealing is a crime on Earth, but at Saturn, apparently it is routine. The Cassini spacecraft has witnessed Saturn's moon Prometheus snatching particles from one of Saturn's ... > full story
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  Huygens To Begin Its Final Journey To Titan

  December 8, 2004 — At 1.25 billion km from Earth, after a 7-year journey through the Solar system, ESA’s Huygens probe is about to separate from the Cassini orbiter to enter a ballistic trajectory toward Titan, ... > full story

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