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Saturn's Giant Moon: How Long Has Titan's Chemical Factory Been in Business?
April 25, 2012 — Saturn's giant moon Titan hides within a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well-known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. It's a productive "factory" ... > full story -
Cassini Sees New Objects Blazing Trails in Saturn Ring
April 24, 2012 — Scientists have discovered strange half-mile-sized objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails behind them. These trails in the rings, which scientists are calling ... > full story -
Cassini Finds Titan Lake Is Like a Namibia Mudflat
April 20, 2012 — A new study analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that the lake, known as Ontario Lacus, behaves most similarly to what we call a salt pan on ... > full story -
Cassini Successfully Flies Over Enceladus
April 16, 2012 — New raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus and Tethys were taken on April 14, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini flew by Enceladus at an altitude of about 46 miles (74 ... > full story -
Icy Moons Through Cassini's Eyes
March 28, 2012 — New raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione were taken on March 27 and 28, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini passed Enceladus first on March 27, coming within ... > full story -
Cassini Makes Simultaneous Measurements of Saturn's Nightside Aurora and Associated Electric Current System
March 27, 2012 — Since the NASA / ESA Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, astronomers and space scientists have been able to study the ringed planet and its moons in great detail. Now, for the first ... > full story -
Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet Over Enceladus South Pole
March 26, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where icy particles and water vapor spray out in glittering jets. The ... > full story -
Cassini Sees Saturn Stressing out Enceladus
March 20, 2012 — Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have, for the first time, enabled scientists to correlate the spraying of jets of water vapor from fissures on Saturn's moon Enceladus with the way Saturn's ... > full story -
Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon
March 13, 2012 — New raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, were taken on March 10, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This was a relatively distant flyby with a close-approach distance of ... > full story -
Oxygen Detected in Atmosphere of Saturn's Moon Dione: Discovery Could Mean Ingredients for Life Are Abundant on Icy Space Bodies
March 2, 2012 — An international research team has discovered molecular oxygen ions (O2+) in the upper-most atmosphere of Dione, one of the 62 known moons orbiting the ringed planet. The research was made ... > full storyMore:
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