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Gateway to the Ring-Grazing Orbits: Cassini Conducts New Flybys of Titan and Enceladus
As reported earlier this week, the Cassini spacecraft is now preparing to make a series of very close passes by the edges of Saturn’s rings, known as Ring-Grazing Orbits. Yesterday, Cassini conducted a close flyby of Saturn’s largest moon Titan; this is the second-to-last ever flyby of Titan before Cassini enters the Grand Finale phase […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Cassini, astronomy, Exploration, Saturn, Solar System, Research, Super EarthsCassini Data May Help Locate ‘Planet Nine’ and Reveals Methane Fog on Titan
The Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn for many years now, studying the massive planet and its moons in unprecedented detail. Now, Cassini might be able to help shed light on another Solar System mystery: the possible existence of a ninth planet in the outer Solar System far past Pluto, or “Planet Nine” as it has […] More
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in News, Tech, NASA, Space, Science, JPL, ESA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Cassini, press release, Earth, Technology, Exploration, Astrobiology, Europa, Saturn, Solar System, Research, News Release, habitability, EnceladusCassini Completes Epic Flyby Through Geysers of Enceladus, Sends Back Stunning New Images
The Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its deepest dive through the water vapor geysers of Enceladus and is now sending back some fantastic images of the event. These and subsequent images, as well as science data still to come, will help scientists better understand the incredible active geology occurring on this tiny, cold moon of […] More
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This coming Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, the Cassini spacecraft will make a historic close flyby (dubbed “E21”) of Saturn’s tiny icy moon Enceladus, not only passing very close to the surface, but also making the deepest dive yet through the water vapor geysers which erupt from the south pole. These plumes are connected to a global […] More
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‘Life Not As We Know It’: New Research Shows How Exotic Biology May Be Possible on Titan
The search for life elsewhere has long focused on what we are most familiar with on Earth—in other words, “life as we know it,” or organisms which are carbon-based and require water to survive. However, a growing number of scientists are now thinking that alternative forms of life are possible, ones which have never been […] More
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New Technique Provides Better, Clearer Radar Images of Titan’s Amazing Surface
Saturn’s largest moon Titan is a fascinating world, uniquely alien yet eerily Earth-like in many ways, with its rain, rivers, lakes, seas, and massive sand dunes. But in this extremely cold environment, it is liquid methane and ethane which act as “water,” mimicking the hydrological cycle on Earth. Also, due to the perpetual and global […] More
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Strong Winds Explain Titan’s Immense Dunes, According to New Study
Saturn’s largest moon Titan is one of the most Earth-like places in the Solar System, as least in terms of appearances, with its seas, lakes, and rivers (of liquid methane/ethane). But it is similar in another way as well, with vast stretches of huge wind-blown dunes in its equatorial regions. Only Earth, Venus, and Mars […] More
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Cassini at Saturn: 10 Years of Amazing Planetary Science and More to Come
The Cassini mission to Saturn has been one of the most successful and exciting in all of space exploration history. That amazing spacecraft is now celebrating its 10th anniversary today orbiting the ringed planet, after having revolutionized our understanding of the Saturnian system, which is like another entire smaller-scale solar system. But there is still much […] More
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Cassini Image May Reveal Historic Birth of Icy Saturn Moon
The Cassini spacecraft, a flagship-class mission that is a cooperative project between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), may have uncovered the birth of an icy moon from within Saturn’s rings. This object was shown in an image Cassini took from its narrow angle camera (part of its Imaging […] More
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Cassini Spacecraft Discovers Plastic Ingredients on Saturn’s Moon Titan
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been exploring Saturn and its many moons (roughly 60 discovered so far) since 2004, recently discovered an ingredient on the moon Titan that is very common here on Earth, one which is probably in your kitchen right now. Propylene, which is used in making food-storage containers and other plastic consumer […] More
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Missions to the Icy Moons
Far from the warm inner regions of the solar system, in orbit around the great gas giants are moons full of surprises. One has a riot of active volcanoes and a surface that is red, yellow, and brown because its blanket of sulfur compounds. Another has a thick atmosphere of nitrogen and lakes of methane. […] More
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NASA Laboratory Investigators Explore Atmospheric Chemistry of Titan
Ever since the Voyagers beheld its strange, orange-hued veil of hydrocarbon smog, more than three decades ago, Titan has exerted a tantalizing pull on the human psyche. The largest moon of Saturn—and the second-largest-known natural satellite in the Solar System—was thought to closely resemble what Earth may have been like billions of years ago, long […] More
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