OTD In Space - October. 25: Giovanni Cassini Discovers Saturn's Moon Iapetus
On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...
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Student deciphers Saturn's ring transparency using old Cassini data
A Ph.D. student from Lancaster University has used historical data from the Cassini spacecraft to calculate the optical depth of Saturn's rings. To avoid doubt, "optical depth" is a measure of the ...
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NASA's Cassini probe just got closer to Saturn than ever before - here's what its death spiral is revealing
The first of the probe's final five orbits took ... clouds and hazes in its atmosphere — that Cassini has revealed. Gravity from Titan, Saturn's planet-sized moon, plays a key role in Cassini's ...
7 Incredible images of Saturn from NASA's Cassini orbiter
The Cassini orbiter, a collaborative mission by NASA, ESA, and ASI, provided us with a stunning legacy of Saturn and its intricate system of rings and moons.
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NASA is about to crash a nuclear-powered robot into Saturn - here's when and how Cassini's final moments will go down in history
Cassini will be destroyed in Saturn's clouds around 6:32 a.m. EDT on Friday. The end is nigh for Cassini, a spacecraft that launched in 1997 and has explored Saturn and its moons for 13 years.
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Goodbye to Saturn’s rings forever – they will disappear as of this date (in a few months)
People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...
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NASA PROBE TO SATURN
The electrical instruments aboard the Cassini probe require plutonium 238 to power ... circles Earth to increase its velocity for the long journey to Saturn. If a miscalculation brings the vessel ...
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Saturn News
Feb. 7, 2024 — Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit by Cassini spacecraft data. This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ...
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Saturn's moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there?
A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...
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Planet Saturn
Michael Benson created the image using data returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. Saturn usually appears golden in images, as its thick clouds are predominantly yellow. So scientists were ...
The Icy Crust of Saturn’s Moon Titan Could Be Hiding Secrets to Our World and Life Beyond It
A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...
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A combined mission to explore Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus would be a good place to start. The last signals from Cassini space probe before it burns up in Saturn’s atmosphere will ...