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Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn: Atmospheric Changes on Saturn's Moon
July 11, 2012 — Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, signs that the seasons are turning on Saturn's ... > full story -
Cassini Views Saturn's Rings Again
July 10, 2012 — It's been nearly two years since NASA's Cassini spacecraft has had views like these of Saturn's glorious rings. These views are possible again because Cassini has changed the angle at which it orbits ... > full story -
Cassini Finds Likely Subsurface Ocean on Saturn's Moon Titan
June 28, 2012 — Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturn's moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell. Researchers saw a large amount of squeezing and stretching as the ... > full story -
Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn
June 25, 2012 — Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these ... > full story -
Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn's Moon Titan
June 14, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in the "tropics" of Saturn's moon Titan. One of the tropical lakes appears to be about half the size of Utah's Great Salt ... > full story -
Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Turns Off
June 6, 2012 — The Cassini plasma spectrometer instrument (CAPS) aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft was turned off between Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2, when a circuit breaker tripped off after the instrument ... > full story -
Saturn's Geyser Moon Enceladus Provides a New Kind of Plasma Laboratory
June 1, 2012 — Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent ... > full story -
Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit
May 21, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn's tiny moon Methone as part of a trajectory that will take it on a close flyby of another of Saturn's moons, Titan. The Titan flyby will ... > full story -
Cassini to Probe Enceladus Gravity, Take Pictures
May 1, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be flying within about 46 miles (74 kilometers) of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, May 2, aiming primarily to learn more about the moon's internal structure. The ... > full story -
Cassini, Saturn Moon Photographer
May 3, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Saturn's moons Enceladus and Dione during close flybys on May 2, 2012, capturing these raw images. The flybys were the last close encounters of these ... > full story
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