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Putting It All Together on Saturn's Moon Titan
August 8, 2011 Three of the major surface features on Saturn's moon Titan -- dunes, craters and the enigmatic Xanadu -- appear in a new radar image from NASA's Cassini ... > full story -
Enceladus Rains Water Onto Saturn
July 26, 2011 The Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapor around Saturn. The discovery solves a 14-year mystery by identifying the source ... > full story -
Cassini Captures Images and Sounds of Saturn Storm
July 6, 2011 Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of ... > full story -
Cassini Samples the Icy Spray of Enceladus Water Plumes
June 23, 2011 The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission has directly sampled the water plumes jetting into space from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The findings from these fly-throughs are the strongest evidence ... > full story -
Strongest Evidence Yet Indicates Icy Saturn Moon Hiding Saltwater Ocean
June 22, 2011 Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, subterranean saltwater ocean, ... > full story -
Is Enceladus Hiding Saltwater Ocean? Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn's Moon
June 22, 2011 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct ... > full story -
Cassini Captures Saturn's Icy Moon Helene
June 22, 2011 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its second-closest encounter with Saturn's icy moon Helene, beaming down raw images of the small moon. At closest approach, on June 18, Cassini ... > full story -
Looking Deep Into a Huge Storm on Saturn
May 19, 2011 The atmosphere of the planet Saturn normally appears placid and calm. But about once per Saturn year (about thirty Earth years), as spring comes to the northern hemisphere of the giant planet, ... > full story -
Beams of Electrons Link Saturn With Its Moon Enceladus
April 20, 2011 Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed that Enceladus, one of Saturn's diminutive moons, is linked to Saturn by powerful electrical currents -- beams of electrons that flow back and forth ... > full story -
Saturn's Moon Titan Shaped by Weather, Not Ice Volcanoes?
April 8, 2011 Have the surface and belly of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon, Titan, recently simmered like a chilly, bubbling cauldron with ice volcanoes, or has this distant moon gone cold? In a newly published ... > full story
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