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Cassini Finds Lakes On Titan's Arctic Region (July 28, 2006) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found lakes on Saturn's moon Titan. The lakes are most likely the source of hydrocarbon smog in the frigid moon's atmosphere. Finding the source of the complex soup of ... > full story

Cassini Reveals Titan's Xanadu Region To Be An Earth-Like Land (July 23, 2006) -- New radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed geological features similar to Earth on Xanadu, an Australia-sized, bright region on Saturn's moon ... > full story

Saturn's Faint Rings Share Some Of Their Secrets (July 5, 2006) -- Dramatic Cassini images of Saturn's diaphanous G and E rings are yielding new clues about their structure and formation, namely that Enceladus' geysers are the main supply for the E ring, and that a ... > full story

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Marks Mission Halfway Point (June 27, 2006) -- As the Cassini spacecraft reaches the halfway mark in its four-year tour of the Saturn system, discoveries made during the first half of the mission have scientists revved up to find out what's in ... > full story

NASA'S Cassini Spacecraft Captures Saturnian Moon Ballet (June 22, 2006) -- The cold, icy orbs of the Saturn system come to life in a slew of new movie clips showing the ringed planet's moons in ... > full story

Study Says Saturn's Moon Enceladus Rolled Over (June 1, 2006) -- Saturn's moon Enceladus -- an active, icy world with an unusually warm south pole -- may have performed an unusual trick for a planetary body. New research shows Enceladus rolled over, literally, ... > full story

Titan's Seas Are Sand, Cassini's Images of Saturn's Moon Show (May 8, 2006) -- Until a couple of years ago, scientists thought the dark equatorial regions of Titan might be liquid oceans. New radar evidence shows they are seas -- but seas of sand dunes like those in the ... > full story

Cassini Flies By Saturn's Moon Titan, Sees More Craters (May 4, 2006) -- Saturn's moon Titan continued to surprise scientists during a flyby that took Cassini into regions previously unexplored by radar. Two very noticeable circular features, possible impact craters or ... > full story

How Long Is A Day On Saturn? (May 3, 2006) -- Measuring the rotation period of a rocky planet like the Earth is easy, but similar measurements for planets made of gas, such as Saturn, pose problems. Researchers from JPL, Imperial College London ... > full story

New Cassini Image Shows 'A' Ring Contains More Debris Than Once Thought (April 11, 2006) -- Views of Saturn's stunning ring system from above by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft now orbiting the planet indicate the prominent A ring contains more debris than once thought, according to a new ... > full story

Blue Ring Discovered Around Uranus (April 7, 2006) -- The outermost ring of the planet Uranus turns out to have a bright blue color, according to a report in the April 7 issue of the journal Science. That makes it only the second blue ring to be found ... > full story

Cassini Finds 'Missing Link' Moonlet Evidence In Saturn's Rings (March 30, 2006) -- Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have found evidence that a new class of small moonlets resides within Saturn's rings. There may be as many as 10 million of these objects within one of Saturn's ... > full story

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