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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 -
Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has Planet-Like Qualities
April 27, 2012 — Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought. Scientists had their first close-up look at Phoebe when Cassini began exploring ... > full story -
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
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