Cassini

Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus has fresh ice in unexpected place 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 22, 2020
Enceladus may be even more interesting than we thought.

By David Aragorn
The rings of Saturn are ‘ringing’ like a bell 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 9, 2020
Gravity waves from inside Saturn are ringing the planet’s rings

By David Aragorn
Saturn’s weird hexagon has ‘sandwich-like’ layers of hazy mists 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2020
It’s hazy days for this hexagon.

By David Aragorn
‘Possibility of life’: scientists map Saturn’s exotic moon Titan 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 26, 2019
Scientists on Monday unveiled the first global geological map of Saturn’s moon Titan including vast plains and dunes of frozen organic material and lakes of liquid methane, illuminating an exotic world considered a strong candidate in the search for life beyond Earth.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Cassini reveals New Sculpting in Saturn Rings 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 18, 2019
As NASA’s Cassini dove close to Saturn in its final year, the spacecraft provided intricate detail on the workings of Saturn’s complex rings, new analysis shows.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Cassini reveals surprises with Titan’s lakes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2019
On its final flyby of Saturn’s largest moon in 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft gathered radar data revealing that the small liquid lakes in Titan’s northern hemisphere are surprisingly deep, perched atop hills and filled with methane.

By David Aragorn
Cassini Team Finds Evidence of Summer Rainfall at Titan’s North Pole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2019
Observations from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provide evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Saturn’s moon Titan. The rainfall would be the first indication of the start of a summer season in the northern hemisphere of the hazy moon.

By David Aragorn
2018 was a busy year in space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 5, 2019
We said hello to some spacecraft and good-bye to a few favorites

By David Aragorn
Saturn’s ‘ring rain’ is a surprising cocktail of chemicals 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 5, 2018
A new analysis of Cassini data could shed light on the origins of the massive belts

By David Aragorn
Cassini’s final view of Titan’s northern lakes and seas 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 14, 2018
During NASA’s Cassini mission’s final distant encounter with Saturn’s giant moon Titan, the spacecraft captured the enigmatic moon’s north polar landscape of lakes and seas, which are filled with liquid methane and ethane.

By David Aragorn