Cassini In Saturn

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  Enceladus' Geysers May Not Come from Underground Ocean, Study Suggests

  Enceladus, one of Saturn’s most intriguing moons, has long been thought to have water plumes erupting from its underground ocean. However, a recent study proposes an alternative explanation, suggesting the plumes may originate from a semi-liquid layer within the moon’s ice shell. Researchers believe shear heating along fractures creates slushy,...

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  Scientists Say Saturn Moon's Liquid Lakes Have Waves and Currents

  A new paper published in Nature Communications provides more insights into Titan's unusual bodies of water, including waves, currents, estuaries, and straits.

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  NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Captures Stunning Pic Of Saturn, Earth And Moon Appear As Little Dots

  Mars, Earth, and Earth's Moon are also visible in the picture as small dots of light.

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  NASA Shares Old Pic Showing Saturn's Glorious Rings In Natural Colour

  NASA recently shared an old mesmerising picture of Saturn showing the gas giant's golden north hemisphere and its main rings in natural colour.

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  NASA Shares Stunning Image of Saturn’s Moon Dione in Transit

  NASA has shared an image of Saturn's moon Dione. The image was said to be captured from a distance of about 2.3 million km. Scientists say transits play a vital role in understanding the relationship between the planet and its moons. When the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, during transit, it leads to the solar eclipse.

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  NASA Shares Image of Earth Captured by Its Probe Very Close to Saturn

  While Saturn is about 1.61 billion kilometres away from Earth, the image was captured from nearly 1.4 billion km away from us.

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  NASA Says Data From Cassini Probe May Help Explain Saturn's Atmospheric Mystery

  The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants -- Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune -- are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the high temperatures. Their heat source has been one of the great mysteries of planetary science.

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  New Close-Ups of the Mini-Moons in Saturn's Rings

  Nestled between Saturn's rings are a collection of mini-moons that NASA's Cassini spacecraft skimmed past in 2017.

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  Scientists Finally Know How Long A Day Is On Saturn

  NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed that a day on Saturn is just over 10 and-a-half-hours-long, a finding that solved a long-standing mystery of solar system science.

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  NASA's Cassini Probe Finds Complex Organic Molecules From Saturn Moon Enceladus

  NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected much larger and heavier complex organic molecules originating from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.

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  NASA Shares Stunning "Farewell Image" As Cassini Concludes Saturn Mission

  NASA has released a stunning view of Saturn and its splendid rings and moons, captured by the Cassini spacecraft during the final leg of its 20-year-long epic journey in space.

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  After 13 Years In Orbit, Cassini Spacecraft Crashes Into Saturn

  NASA scientists just received their last-ever message from the Cassini spacecraft, which plunged into Saturn early Friday morning. Those final bits of data signal the end of one of the most successful planetary science missions in history.

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  $3.9 Billion Spacecraft, Launched 20 Years Ago, Runs Out Of Fuel

  Global astronomers bid farewell Friday to NASA's famed Cassini spacecraft, which launched 20 years ago to circle Saturn and transformed the way we think about life elsewhere in the solar system.

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  NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Will Crash Into Saturn - Its Final Screaming Success

  In 10 days, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will nose-dive into Saturn and burn up in the planet's atmosphere. It's the final, suicidal step of a months-long dance through Saturn's rings that has given scientists an unprecedented view of the sixth planet from the sun.

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  US Spacecraft Readies For Fiery Plunge Into Saturn After 13-Year Mission

  The US space agency's Cassini spacecraft will end its 13-year mission to Saturn in mid-September by transmitting data until the final moment before it plunges into the ringed planet's atmosphere, officials said on Tuesday.