IOWA CITY, Iowa, April 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its Cassini spacecraft is monitoring a Saturn storm that has lightning bolts 10,000 times more powerful than those on Earth.
A selection of the best images from Saturn, its rings and moons will appear in an exhibition opening on April 26 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
The historic spacecraft, whose stunning discoveries and images have revolutionized our knowledge of Saturn and its moons, gets two more years at the ringed planet.
Art students have literally left their mark at JPL with a gigantic, multi-wall mural of the Cassini spacecraft's latest discoveries about Saturn and its moons.
Despite more than a decade of winter darkness, Saturn's north pole is home
to an unexpected hot spot remarkably similar to one at the planet's sunny
south pole.
... scrutinising Saturn in the infrared are finally paying off, as scientists unearth a wave pattern in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from the Earth every 15 years. A 22-year observing campaign, the ...
... led from the UK has discovered that the rapid changes in Saturn's F ring can be attributed to small moonlets ... reported in Nature (5th June 2008). Saturn's F ring has long been of interest to scientists ...
A team of scientists led from the UK has discovered that the rapid changes in Saturn's F ring can be attributed to small moonlets causing perturbations. Their results are reported in Nature...
The Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft crossed the orbit of Saturn on June 8.
It may be hard to keep water from freezing on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Researchers have discovered a secondary aurora sparkling on Saturn and also started to unravel the mechanisms that drive the process. Their results show that Saturn's secondary aurora is much more ...
A UK team of researchers have discovered a secondary aurora sparkling on Saturn and also started to unravel the mechanisms that drive the process. Their results are published in Nature (19 June 2008) ...
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.
... great outdoors.
Ticks that carry the Lyme disease infection, which causes a rash that looks similar to Saturn rings, is a very complex disease to spot, prevent, and cure. Lyme disease associations ...
