Saturn News
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Saturn’s moon Mimas is already an oddity, being the most cratered object in the Solar System and likened to the Death Star of Star Wars fame. But new research this week points to Mimas being even weirder than previously thought.
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In a rare moment of celestial fun, the sixth planet from the sun decided to drop in for a photobomb of Earth's moon on Monday night.
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Mountains at the equator on Iapetus, a moon of the planet Saturn, may have come from space rather than being formed on the surface of the satellite.
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A body of liquid water has been discovered beneath the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. The tiny moon is a potentially hospitable home for extraterrestrial life.
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US scientists have calculated that diamonds big enough for celebrities to wear could be raining down on Jupiter and Saturn.
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Saturn may be defying science's classification of the planet as a gas giant. A storm in 2010 and 2011 revealed for the first time that water exists on Saturn.
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The Blue Marble becomes a tiny dot in the immensity of the vast space when seen from Saturn's orbit at a distance of 1,440 kilometers.
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Though NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft landed on Saturn's moons in 2005, the general public can soon see hundreds of thousands of images the spacecraft took in an upcoming film.
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NASA has released some of the most breathtaking images yet from the Cassini-Huygens Saturn orbiter, showing a gigantic hurricane gyrating around Saturn’s north pole.
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Stargazers are preparing for the first eclipse of the 2013 season because Saturn will be also be visible tonight. The eclipse will be the most visible from the Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa, and Western Australia tonight.
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NASA scientists report that the Cassini mission has sighted a remarkable likeness to Egypt’s river Nile on Saturn’s large moon Titan. The river valley runs more than 200 miles (about 320 kilometres) from its source to what appears to be a large sea.
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NASA's Cassini spacecrat has captured images of lightning on Saturn during a storm that raged for 200 days on the planet. The storm was the largest ever seen up-close on the planet. Cassini captured the lightning in daylight on the ringed planet.
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The journal "Science" reported on June 28, 2012, that NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered layers of liquid water under the ice shell of Saturn's moon Titan.
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A triple conjunction of the Moon, the planet Saturn and the bright star Spica will occur on Thursday night (May 3) about an hour after sunset. The rare beautiful sight may be seen looking toward the southeast.
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A video was created from images of the Saturn and Jupiter systems taken by NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecrafts. Sander van den Berg used the images to create a two minute montage of spectacular images.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's latest flyby of Enceladus, in orbit of Saturn, was its lowest pass yet of the moon's gushing south poles. New data is being analyzed, adding to the idea that this moon may even be capable of harbouring life.
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NASA displayed new raw, unedited images of Saturn's moon Rhea, captured by the Cassini spacecraft on a close-approach of 42,000 kilometers (26,000 miles), a relatively distant pass suitable for geologic mapping.
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Pasadena -
NASA says its Cassini spacecraft will soon be making its closest pass over Saturn's moon Dione, and observing the atmosphere of Titan, the largest Saturnian moon. Cassini's closest approach to Dione would be about 61 miles above the surface.
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Pasadena -
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Cassini spacecraft garnered photos of Saturn's largest satellite, Titan, changing seasons. The images captured darkened clouds raining methane on its equatorial deserts.
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Boulder -
Saturn's rings – made up of rock, dust and ice – make it distinctive in our solar system. How did the rings get there? A new study suggests that they could be fragments from a collision with a moon the size of Titan.
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A new model developed by scientists working with radar data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that differing densities in the outermost layers of Saturn's moon Titan could explain unusual surface behaviour leading to formation of mountains.
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One of the tiniest moons ever found orbiting the gas giant planet Saturn, Daphnis, has been caught creating rippling waves inside of the planet's rings, which proves it still can cause disruption in Saturn's belt of ice and rocky debris.
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During the fourth of July weekend, Americans will be able to see the planets Mars, Saturn and Venus make a celestial line. Towards the end of the month, they will form an isosceles triangle. Even Mercury will make a brief appearance.
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Images from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft lead scientists to believe the two tone coloration of Iapetus is the result of a dust coating from giant ring of debris nearby.
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The existence of a massive planetary ring, thought to be the largest known ring in the solar system, has been discovered by the Spitzer Space Telescope around Saturn.
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GM will discontinue its Saturn brand after deal with Penske fell through. Penske's board of directors rejected an initial agreement with GM that was reached in June.
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Saturn's G ring has one more moon Scientific American announced on Tuesday.
Recent images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have shown a moonlet in the G ring.
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Cassini has discovered that Saturn has a giant aurora at its pole, based on different physics to others on Jupiter and Earth. Speculation is doing more than science at this point, but once again the universe has come up with a puzzle.
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NASA has extended the hugely successful Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn another two years and sixty orbits. The mission, originally due to end Jul. 2008, has already run for over a decade.
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In a paper appearing in the Mar. 21 issue of [i]Science[/i], Cassini scientists speculate there may be a layer of liquid water and ammonia some 100 kilometers (62 miles) below the surface of Titan.
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Artist's conception of the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn. NASA
General Motors' recall of 1.6 million vehicles including the Saturn Ion may have been ordered earlier, resulting if fewer incidents and personal injuries. General Motors
A hydrocarbon river near the north pole of Saturn moon Titan, photo taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 26, 2012. The river valley stretches more than 200 miles from its ‘source’ to a large hydrocarbon sea. NASA/JPL
NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicles the change of seasons as it captures clouds concentrated near the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan NASA
General Motors' recall of 1.6 million vehicles including the Saturn Sky may have been ordered earlier, resulting if fewer incidents and personal injuries. General Motors
A screenshot from the trailer for In Saturn's Rings In Saturn's Rings movie
In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn's rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame NASA/JPL-Caltech
This mosaic, made from radar images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows mountainous terrain on Saturn's moon Titan in the moon's northern hemisphere, north of the Aaru region NASA/JPL-Caltech
Viewed at 261,000 miles (419,000 kilometers) from Saturn, the vortex of a massive polar hurricane around Saturn's north pole. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
An artist's impression of one of Saturn's rings close up PD-NASA; PD-USGOV-NASA.
Saturn makes its way out from behind the moon on Aug. 4, 2014. SLOOH SPACE TELESCOPE
Saturn's rings and moons from 2013 space probe NASA
Artist's rendition of the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn. NASA, JPL-Caltex
Schematic showing the odd Pac-Man like pattern of daytime temperatures found on Saturn's smallest moon Mimas. The heat map was compiled from data recorded by the Cassini spacecraft during a Feb. 13, 2010 flyby of Mimas. Credit: NASA/JPL/GSFC/SWRI/SSI
A huge arrow-shaped storm blows across the equatorial region of Titan in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, chronicling the seasonal weather changes on Saturn's largest moon. NASA
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