Professor's Saturn Experiment Forgotten
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David Atkinson spent 18 years designing an experiment for the unmanned space mission to Saturn. Now some pieces of it are lost in space. Someone forgot to turn on the instrument Atkinson needed to measure the winds on Saturn's largest moon.
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A massive eruption of atomic oxygen from Saturnâs outer rings, seen by Cassiniâs ultraviolet camera as the spacecraft neared its destination, may be an indication that the planetâs wispy E ring is eroding so fast that it could disappear within 100
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Andy Cheng has seen it all. The scientist from Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Lab has worked on the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Cassini mission to Saturn, the NEAR mission to asteroid 433 Eros and many others during his decades-long career.
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An international team of astronomers has suceeded solving the 100 yearl old mystery about the origin of the cosmic rays by producing the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays.
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Titan, the largest of Saturn&#39;s 31 moons, has always been a source of wonder for scientists since it was discovered in 1655 by Christian Huygens, a Dutch astronomer.
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Scientists are no closer to discovering what happened to the ill-fated space probe Beagle 2, which vanished while attempting to land on Mars, according to an investigation released Tuesday.
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Paris, France, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has detected two tiny, previously-unknown moons orbiting Saturn between Mimas and Enceladus, mission scientists said Tuesday.
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Scientists believe heat from radioactive decay inside a tiny, icy Saturn moon shortly after it formed billions of years ago may explain why geysers are erupting from the surface today.
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A new scientific model suggests ancient radioactive decay played a key role in shaping the geyser-spewing region of Enceladus, one of Saturn's many moons. By the Associated Press.
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Calling Cassini&#39;s flyby &quot;the tale of two moons,&quot; imaging scientist Carolyn Porco said that &quot;one of them has been like out of a Lewis Carroll story and gets curiouser and curiouser the more we look at it and the closer we get, and the other turns out to be
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The crash of the Genesis spacecraft is a loss for NASA and for science. Once again, the potential of robotic space exploration is called into question.
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Stunning snaps, Cassini style Saturn has another, very diffuse, outer ring identified by astronomers working on the Cassini imaging data at NASA's JPL laboratory and the Space Science Institute in Boulder.â¦
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An astronomer at Penn State University is not certain whether the latest discovery in outer space is a planet or a failed star.
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PASADENA, Calif. Scientists don&#39;t know what to make of new close-up images of Saturn&#39;s giant moon Titan. Pictures taken by the European-US Cassini spacecraft show distinct dark and bright areas -- but scientists
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Scientists say the Cassini spacecraft is sending back evidence that Saturn's planet-size moon Titan has some familiar features, but that it still remains one of the strangest worlds.
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Saturn's chilly north pole boasts a hot spot of compressed air, a surprising discovery that could shed light on other planets within our own solar system and beyond, researchers said on Thursday.
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Genesis project officials failed to catch the flaw that doomed the Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft despite extra layers of scrutiny added after two of the company&#39;s other NASA probes failed.