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1. Prometheus: the Michelangelo of Saturn

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   Saturn's moon Prometheus creates streamer channels in the planet's rings. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute I've frequently said the Cassini spacecraft is an artist, so when Carolyn Porco, ... Monday, 26 July 2010

2. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: July 9-11, 2010

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   ...  Be sure to keep an eye on Saturn and Mars as they draw closer together and look for bright Jupiter in the morning skies! Whenever you're ready? Grab your optics and I'll see you in the backyard… ... Friday, 09 July 2010

3. Mini Moons Are Buzzing Through Saturn's Rings

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   Scientists for NASA's Cassini mission noticed some weird-looking propeller-like shapes in the outer edge of Saturn's A ring. What could be creating these unusual contours? A closer look revealed ... Friday, 09 July 2010

4. Small Moon Makes Big Waves

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   A Cassini image of the moon Daphnis making waves in Saturn's rings. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Saturn's moon Daphnis is only 8 kilometers wide, but it has a fairly substantial effect ... Tuesday, 06 July 2010

5. Icy Triton

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   ... satellite of Neptune and is one of the few bodies in the solar system known to have a nitrogen-dominated atmosphere. The others are Earth and Saturn's giant moon, Titan. Triton is so cold that most of ... Monday, 05 July 2010

6. Zapping Titan-Like Atmosphere with UV Creates Life Precursors

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   This image taken by the Cassini orbiter on Oct. 15, 2007, shows Saturn's A and F rings, the small moon Epimetheus and smog-enshrouded Titan, the planet's largest moon. The image is colorized to approximate ... Tuesday, 29 June 2010

7. Ghostly Encounter

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   The surface of Saturn's moon Dione is rendered in crisp detail against a hazy, ghostly Titan. Visible in this image are hints of atmospheric banding around Titan's north pole. T The image was taken in ... Monday, 28 June 2010

8. Titan + Dione = New Desktop

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   ... or click here for a large 1.125 MB version. This is Saturn's moon Dione, in crisp detail, against a hazy, ghostly Titan. Simply stunning. The "wispy" terrain on Dione is visible, and on ... Monday, 21 June 2010

9. Titan + Dione = New Desktop

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   ... or click here for a large 1.125 MB version. This is Saturn's moon Dione, in crisp detail, against a hazy, ghostly Titan. Simply stunning. The "wispy" terrain on Dione is visible, and on ... Monday, 21 June 2010

10. Shooting for the Moon

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    This image from 1967 shows the S-II stage of the Saturn V rocket as it was hoisted onto the A-2 test stand at the Mississippi Test Facility (now the Stennis Space Center). This was the second stage of ... Monday, 14 June 2010

11. Weird Collection of Worlds in the Latest Cache of CoRoT Expoplanets

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    ... recently found six new extrasolar planets, which contain an odd assortment of new worlds. They include shrunken-Saturns to bloated hot Jupiters, as well a rare brown dwarf with 60 times the mass of Jupiter. ... Monday, 14 June 2010

12. Exoplanet Confirms Gas Giants Can Form Quickly

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    ... as close to its parent star as Saturn is to the Sun. The star, beta Pictoris is only 12 million years old, and so this exoplanet confirms that gas giant planets can form very rapidly—in only a few million ... Thursday, 10 June 2010

13. Latest Wall Art from Cassini

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    Rhea poses with Saturn's rings; Janus and Prometheus are off in the distance. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. Click for larger version Oh, wow — what a gorgeous image! Just the latest ... Thursday, 10 June 2010

14. Needed: Plutonium-238

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    Cassini orbiting Saturn. Credit: NASA Sometimes people ask me what they, as a regular citizen can do to help NASA. Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog posted this today, and this is definitely ... Wednesday, 09 June 2010

15. Alien Life on Titan? Hang on Just a Minute…

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    ... 'jumping to conclusions' meter, and following media reports of NASA finding alien life on Saturn's hazy moon, scientists are now trying to put a little reality back into the news. "Everyone: ... Monday, 07 June 2010

16. Rhapsody in Black

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    This silhouette of Saturn was taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 13, 2010. Although the sun is eclipsed by Saturn in this dramatic image, some sunlight scatters through the uppermost part of the atmosphere ... Sunday, 06 June 2010

17. Early Faint Sun Paradox Explained?

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    ... planet was warm enough for early life to emerge. A new study and a look at Saturn's moon Titan has provided clues for how the Sun could have kept the early Earth warm enough. Scientists say a thick ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

18. Water, Water Everywhere, But Not All Drops Have Life

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    ... thought to lie beneath the icy crusts of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. And it may help characterize exoplanets for which a reasonable phase diagram can be estimated. "It may show ... Sunday, 23 May 2010

19. Cassini Heading To Titan After Tagging Enceladus

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    Pasadena CA (JPL) May 21, 2010 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on its way to a flyby of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after capturing some stunning images of Enceladus. One view shows the hazy outline ... Friday, 21 May 2010

20. Incredible Images of Enceladus From Cassini's Latest Flyby

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    Titan, Saturn's rings and Enceladus. Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI Wow. Cassini the artist has struck again, this time with amazing images from the close flyby of Enceladus that we wrote a preview about earlier ... Wednesday, 19 May 2010