NASA's Cassini spacecraft tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion from Saturn's moon Enceladus during a close flyby on March 12.
NASA's Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn has some young new participants. A 10th-grade student ... 8th-grade American student in France are the winners of this year's Cassini Scientist-for-a-Day contest. ...
... a powerful electrical storm rages on Saturn with lightning bolts 10,000 times more powerful than those found on Earth, the Cassini spacecraft continues its five-month watch over the dramatic events...
... study. We can now say that these collisions are responsible for the changing features we observe there."
The Cassini images also show new features (called "fans") which result from the gravitational ...
Four students have won the Cassini Scientist for a Day contest, with
most choosing Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, as the best place
for scientists to study using NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
NASA's Cassini mission is closing one chapter of its journey at Saturn and embarking on a new one with a two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most ...
Cassini gets a two-year extended tour to examine Saturn and its moons.
... for exciting future lake discoveries by the infrared spectrometer," Soderblom, an interdisciplinary Cassini scientist, said.
The ubiquitous hydrocarbon haze in Titan's atmosphere hinders the view to ...
Fractures, or "tiger stripes," where icy jets erupt on Saturn's
moon Enceladus will be the target of a close flyby by the Cassini
spacecraft on Monday, Aug. 11.
Cassini's mission continues to uncover secrets of the ringed planet. Credit: NASA/JPL
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected 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 ...
... place," Gombosi said. "This encounter is expected to provide some of those puzzle pieces."
This will be Cassini's fifth encounter with Enceladus. A sixth encounter, during which it will approach ...
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The Cassini orbiter survives its closest-ever encounter with a Saturnian moon and sends back a fresh crop of pictures and data.
... of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. This odd aurora revealed itself to one of the infrared instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Data collected during several recent flybys of Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have put another arrow in the quiver of scientists who think the Saturnian moon contains active ...
