Science news articles about 'Cassini imaging'

  • Cassini sees collisions of moonlets on Saturn's ring

    ... of Queen Mary, University of London and member of the Cassini Imaging Team led the analysis. He ... say that these collisions are responsible for the changing features we observe there." The Cassini images also show new features (called ...
  • Observatory: Activity in Saturn Ring May Provide Clues to Birth of Solar System

    A new study of Cassini images shows there is a lot going on within Saturn’s F ring.
  • Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons

    ... PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small ...
  • Newfound Moon May Be Source Of Outer Saturn Ring

    ... and its single ring arc. Cassini imaging scientists analyzing images acquired over the course of about 600 ... within a partial ring, or ring arc, previously found by Cassini in Saturn's tenuous G ring ...
  • Cassini closes in on the centuries-old mystery of Saturn's moon Iapetus

    Extensive analyses and modeling of Cassini imaging and heat-mapping data have confirmed and extended previous ... ät in Berlin describes findings made by Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) cameras ...
  • Cassini shows Saturnian roller derby

    ... at Queen Mary, University of London, is a member of the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem Team and a co ... of gravity and impacts from nearby objects. Each Cassini image gives us another piece ...
  • 1980s video icon glows on Saturn moon

    ... from the flyby paint a picture of surprising contrasts. Cassini imaging team scientists didn't ... the surface of Mimas ages, said Paul Helfenstein, a Cassini imaging team associate based at Cornell ...
  • Cassini images rule out rings around Rhea

    (PhysOrg.com) -- Something unknown is causing a strange, symmetrical structure in the charged-particle environment around Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon. But contrary to 2008 reports, it's not a ...
  • Cassini spacecraft observes seasonal rains on Titan

    ... on a distant, icy satellite," said Elizabeth Turtle, a Cassini imaging team associate at the Johns Hopkins ... , how it is similar to, or differs from, the Earth's," said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at the Space Science ...
  • Latest Cassini Images of Enceladus on View

    These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moon and its jets were taken on Oct. 19, 2011.
  • Space image: Dione flyby

    Saturn's moon Mimas peeks out from behind the night side of the larger moon Dione in this Cassini image captured during the spacecraft's Dec. 12, 2011, flyby of Dione.
  • Is It Snowing Microbes on Enceladus?

    ... of different sizes can be seen in this image captured during a flyby from NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 21, 2009. NASA/Cassini Imaging Science Team Aside from ancient ... - and the latter would be an easy one to check, as it turns out. The Cassini orbiter just flew through them ...
  • Cassini sees new objects blazing trails in Saturn ring

    ... ring, so they went back through the Cassini image catalogue to see if the phenomenon was frequent ... of time and serendipity to find," said Nick Attree, a Cassini imaging associate at Queen Mary. "We combed ...
  • Cassini spots tiny moon, begins to tilt orbit

    NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn's tiny moon Methone as part ... ,200 miles (1,900 kilometers). It was Cassini's closest flyby of the 2-mile-wide ... -kilometer-wide) moon. The best previous Cassini images were taken on June 8, 2005 ...
  • Cassini shows why jet streams cross-cut Saturn

    ... .Y., the lead author of the paper and a member of the Cassini imaging team. The new study was possible ... the movements and speeds of clouds seen in hundreds of Cassini images from 2005 through 2012. "With our improved ...

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