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05 September 2008
Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Two of Saturn's Moons
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has imaged a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon. This is further evidence that most of the planet's small, inner moons orbit within partial or complete rings. Recent Cassini images show material, called ring [...]
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14 August 2008
Cassini Pinpoints Source of Jets on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Cassini scientists have been "bee-busy" poring over the images from the August 11 flyby of Saturn's geyser-spewing moon Enceladus, says Carolyn Porco, the lead for the imaging team. And quickly, they have found exactly what they were looking for: Cassini has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the moon's geologically active [...]
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12 August 2008
Cassini "Skeet Shoot" of Enceladus a Success
Scientists for the Cassini mission called their flyby of Saturn's small moon Enceladus on August 11 a "skeet shoot" – partially in honor of the current Olympic games underway, but mostly because the spacecraft would be trying to shoot rapidly at the moon with its array of cameras and scientific instruments. As the images [...]
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07 August 2008
Could Jupiter and Saturn Contain Liquid Metal Helium?
The interiors of the two gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, are pretty extreme places. With atmospheric pressures of around 70 million Earth atmospheres, the phases of material become a bit difficult to understand. Usually when we think of a liquid metal, we have thoughts about liquid mercury at room temperature (or the reassembling liquid metal [...]
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07 August 2008
Cassini Prepares For Close Flyby of Saturn's Geyser-Spewing Moon
Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus is of big interest to planetary scientists trying to understand the dynamics of the moon's geysers and fissures. On August 11, the Cassini spacecraft will swoop by Enceladus for a close flyby, just 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the surface, with the fractures, or "tiger stripes" near the moon's south [...]
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31 July 2008
Project Lucifer: Will Cassini Turn Saturn into a Second Sun? (Part 2)
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/24/project-lucifer-will-cassini-turn-saturn-into-a-second-sun-part-1/ Project Lucifer: Will Cassini Turn Saturn into a Second Sun? (Part 2) The story: The Lucifer Project is allegedly the biggest conspiracy theory NASA could possibly be involved in. First, back in 2003, the space agency (in co-operation with secret and powerful organizations) dropped the Galileo probe deep into Jupiter's atmosphere. On board, was a significant [...]
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24 July 2008
Project Lucifer: Will Cassini Turn Saturn into a Second Sun? (Part 1)
The story: On October 15th 1997, the Cassini-Huygens mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to explore Saturn and its moons. It continues to study the ringed gas giant today and its mission has been extended till 2010. Cassini is is powered by 32.8 kg (72 lbs) of plutonium fuel. A radioactive power [...]
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27 June 2008
Cassini Primary Mission Complete; Ready to Tackle New Assignments
Saturn’s gorgeous rings. Geysers on Enceladus. Methane lakes on Titan. These are just a few of the images that stand out from the Cassini mission’s four year survey of Saturn and its remarkable system of rings and moons. On June 30 the Cassini spacecraft completes its primary mission at the [...]
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21 May 2008
Get Your Free Dione Atlas Here!
Every year my car insurance company provides a free road atlas that helps me get where I need to go. Now, the imaging team from the Cassini spacecraft is ensuring that future travelers will be able to find their way around Saturn's icy moons by providing detailed atlases of the surface features of these [...]
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08 May 2008
Long-term Observations Reveal Patterns in Saturn's Atmosphere
Reading something like this makes me hopeful that we're no longer in the infant stage of our understanding of our solar system: we've been patient and observant while growing in our knowledge. Scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. This discovery [...]
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29 April 2008
Cassini Watches Five-Month-Long Lightning Storm Rage on Saturn
Cassini scientists know for sure their spacecraft isn’t in Kansas anymore. Cassini’s been keeping an eye on a powerful electrical storm that’s been raging on Saturn for five months now, with lightning bolts 10,000 times more powerful than those found on Earth. But Cassini has also been busy flying by moons like [...]
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15 April 2008
Astrosphere for April 15, 2008
Don't just look inward, look outward. There's a whole astrosphere out there. Your picture for the day is Saturn (of course), captured by Stargazer 7000. Astronomy Picture of the Day has a beautiful shot of the night sky over Sweden. PZ Myers has spoken and I must obey. Here's all you need to know about expelled. And here's [...]
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26 March 2008
Cassini Sniffs Organic Chemicals Leaking into Space from Saturn Moon, Enceladus
During a flyby of the small moon on March 12th, the Cassini probe detected significant amounts of organic chemicals as it flew through powerful geyser-like jets of ice blasting into space. This active moon appears to be generating organic chemicals much like the substances found in comets. As Cassini bravely travelled through the plume at a speed [...]
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18 March 2008
Why are Saturn's Rings Disappearing?
Astronomers have noticed a change on Saturn. The planet's rings are getting thinner and thinner and the details in the dark bands are getting harder to observe. What's more, at this rate, Saturn's rings will have completely vanished by Sept. 4, 2009! But don't pack up your telescopes quite yet, there's no reason to be alarmed. This phenomenon [...]
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14 March 2008
Cassini Survives Close Flyby of Enceladus
The Cassini spacecraft’s audacious flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on March 12 has provided scientists more information about the geyser-like jets of ice shooting from the moon’s southern hemisphere. It also highlighted the drastic geologic differences between the moon’s north and south pole. While the data collected from the geysers is still being [...]
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