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Saturn May Be Surrounded By Undiscovered Near-Invisible Partial Rings
Gaps in the soup of high
energy particles near the
orbits of two of Saturn's
tiny moons indicate that
Saturn may be surrounded by
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How Saturn's Moon Enceladus Violently Spurts Dust And Water Plume Into Space: New Theory
An enormous plume of dust
and water spurts violently
into space from the south
pole of Enceladus, Saturn's
sixth-largest moon. This
... > full story
Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves On Earth
Saturn's orange moon Titan
has hundreds of times more
liquid hydrocarbons than all
the known oil and natural
gas reserves on Earth,
according to new data from
... > full story
Saturn's Mingling Moons May Share A Dark Past
Despite the incredible
diversity of Saturn's icy
moons, theirs is a story of
great interaction. Some of
them are pock-marked, some
seemingly dirty, others
... > full story
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Saturn's Giant Sponge: One Of Saturn's Rings Does The Housecleaning
February 17, 2008 — One of Saturn's rings does housecleaning, soaking up material gushing from the fountains on Saturn's tiny ice moon Enceladus, according to new observations from the Cassini spacecraft. This is the ... > full story -
Mountains Discovered On Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon
December 21, 2007 — Astronomers have discovered and analyzed mountains on Saturn's largest moon, additional evidence that it has some of the most earthlike processes of any celestial body in the solar system. Titan's ... > full story -
Hot Spot On Saturn's Tiny Moon Enceladus Causes Icy Plumes
December 20, 2007 — Enceladus, the tiny satellite of Saturn, is colder than ice, but data gathered by the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan has detected a hot spot that could mean there is life in the old moon ... > full story -
Saturn's Rings May Be As Old As Solar System
December 13, 2007 — New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago ... > full story -
Organic 'Building Blocks' Of Life Discovered In Titan's Atmosphere
November 29, 2007 — Scientists analyzing data gathered by the Cassini spacecraft have confirmed the presence of heavy negative ions in the upper regions of Titan's atmosphere. These particles may act as organic building ... > full story -
First Known Belt Of Moonlets In Saturn's Rings Detected
October 25, 2007 — A narrow belt harboring moonlets as large as football stadiums discovered in Saturn's outermost ring probably resulted when a larger moon was shattered by a wayward asteroid or comet eons ago, ... > full story -
Cassini Is On The Trail Of A Runaway Mystery
October 9, 2007 — NASA scientists are on the trail of Iapetus' mysterious dark side, which seems to be home to a bizarre "runaway" process that is transporting vaporized water ice from the dark areas to the white ... > full story -
Though Colder Than Earth, Saturn's Moon Titan Is Tropical In Nature
October 3, 2007 — If space travelers ever visit Saturn's largest moon, they will find a 'tropical' world where temperatures plunge to minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit, methane rains from the sky and dunes of ice or tar ... > full story -
Saturn's Skewed Ring Current
August 26, 2007 — Images taken by Cassini's Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI) show that Saturn's ring current is a warped disc that balloons out of the equatorial plane on the planet's dayside and remains a ... > full story -
Cassini Finds Possible Origin Of One Of Saturn's Rings
August 6, 2007 — Cassini scientists may have identified the source of one of Saturn's more mysterious rings. Saturn's G ring likely is produced by relatively large, icy particles that reside within a bright arc on ... > full story
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