Snowball Fight in Saturn&#39;s Rings
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The rings of Saturn are part of a young and evolving system, according to the latest observations that suggest a snowball fight is going on around the giant planet.
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Back to first principles, say boffins Scientists will have to go back to the drawing board to find an explanation for the hotter than expected temperatures in the upper atmospheres of the gas giants. New research modelling the upper atmosphere of Saturn has shown that the process put forward to explain the heating actually has a cooling effect.â¦
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A small new found object, temporarily designated S/2004 S 3, has been seen orbiting Saturn&#39;s outer F ring. The tiny object, seen in this movie centered in a green box, orbits the planet at a distance of approximately
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Scientists controlling the cameras aboard the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn have just recovered two extraordinary, contrasting images of the planet&#39;s most intriguing moons.
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The Cassini-Huygens mission in orbit around Saturn discovers two new moons around the ringed planet.
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The Cassini spacecraft is set to make a close pass of Saturn&#39;s moon Iapetus, a striking world of two halves. One side of Iapetus&#39; surface is as bright as snow, while the other is coated in a material as dark as tar.
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The business of building planets is messier and more chaotic than scientists realized, according to new observations from NASA&#39;s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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The surface of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan may be covered by thick drifts of combustible organic &quot;snow&quot; floating on lakes of liquid methane or water and ammonia ice flows, NASA (news - web sites) scientists said on Friday.
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Astronomers using a giant telescope atop a Hawaii volcano have discovered a hot spot on Saturn, located at the tip of the planet's south pole.
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The idea that opposites attract may be a romantic clichÃ©. But when Saturn is at opposition, as it will be this month, it is most certainly an attraction for Saturn-watchers around the world.
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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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The Cassini space probe captures an incredible image of Saturn's tiny moon Mimas set against the planet's rings.
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U.S. scientists were thrilled by photos sent back from space of Saturn and its rings.  Finally, here are the views that we've waited years for, said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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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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Scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have pieced together the most detailed images of two Saturnian moons from pictures the Cassini orbiter captured at the end of October.
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Cassini pierced the ring plane and rounded Saturn on Oct. 27, 2004, capturing this view of the dark portion of the rings. A portion of the planet&#39;s atmosphere is visible here, as is its shadow on the surface of the rings.
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A clutch of baby moons detected in Saturn's outermost ring has bolstered a theory that the giant planet's magnificent circles were created from icy satellites that smashed up over tens of millions of years.