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Saturn Today - Saturn News as it Happens
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Cassini Provides Insights into Saturn's RIngs, with More to Come
Cassini Provides Insights into Saturn's RIngs, with More to Come
Cassini Shows Saturnian Roller Derby, Strange Weather
From our vantage point on Earth, Saturn may look like a peaceful orb with rings worthy of a carefully raked Zen garden, but NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been shadowing the gas giant long enough to see that the rings are a rough and tumble roller derby.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 03/03/10 - 03/09/10
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Mar. 9 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Madrid, Spain. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
Cassini Data Show Ice and Rock Mixture Inside Titan
By precisely tracking NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its low swoops over Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have determined the distribution of materials in the moon's interior.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 02/24/10 - 03/02/10
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Mar. 2 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Canberra, Australia. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
Is That Saturn's Moon Titan or Utah?
Planetary scientists have been puzzling for years over the honeycomb patterns and flat valleys with squiggly edges evident in radar images of Saturn's moon Titan.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 02/17/10 - 02/23/10
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Feb. 23 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Canberra, Australia. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
Cassini Finds Plethora of Plumes, Hotspots at Enceladus
Newly released images from last November's swoop over Enceladus by Cassini reveal a forest of new jets spraying from prominent fractures crossing the south polar region and yield the most detailed temperature map to date of one fracture.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 02/10/10 - 02/16/10
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Feb. 16 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Madrid, Spain. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 02/03/10 - 02/09/10
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Feb. 9 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Madrid, Spain. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally
Saturn's aurorae offer stunning double show
An enormous and grand ringed planet, Saturn is certainly one of the most intriguing bodies orbiting the Sun. Hubble has now taken a fresh look at the fluttering aurorae that light up both of Saturn's poles.
Negative Ions a Positive Sign for Liquid Water in Enceladus
In dives through the water ice plume of Enceladus, the Cassini plasma spectrometer has found unexpected populations of charged molecules and dust that strengthen arguments for the presence of liquid water and the ingredients for life inside the moon.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 01/27/10 - 02/02/10
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Feb. 1 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Madrid, Spain. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
NASA Extends Cassini's Tour of Saturn
NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its planets to 2017. The agency's fiscal year 2011 budget provides a $60 million per year extension for continued study of the ringed planet.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 01/20/10 - 01/26/10
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Jan. 26 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Madrid, Spain. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 01/13/10 - 01/19/10
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Jan. 19 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Madrid, Spain. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
New Wrinkles on Titan
In this image from Titan, two generally similar features, upper center and lower right, appear to be low mountains with grooves running roughly in the up-down direction. A set of straight lines are also visible at lower left. But what made the grooves?
NASA Cassini Significant Events 01/06/10 - 01/12/10
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Jan. 12 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Madrid, Spain. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
Land Ho! Huygens Plunged to Titan Surface 5 Years Ago
The Huygens probe parachuted down to the surface of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan exactly five years ago on Jan. 14, 2005, providing data that scientists on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn are still building upon today.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 12/23/09 - 01/05/10
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Jan. 5 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Madrid, Spain. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
