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Saturn

Cassini Flyby Will Look for Waves on Titan’s Seas

May 22, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Are there waves on Titan’s lakes and seas? Cassini scientists say that the best chance of answering this question is with the May 23 flyby of Titan, when the Cassini spacecraft will be just 970 km (603 miles) over Titan’s biggest [...]

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Trapped Gas Explains Saturn’s Fresh Face

May 8, 2013

The mystery of Saturn’s bright, youthful appearance is a step closer to resolution. And it actually has to do with gas. Layers of gas within the ringed giant trap heat emanating from the center, preventing the planet from cooling off as it was expected to do as it aged, according to a model developed by [...]

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Saturn Storm’s ‘Suck Zone’ Shown In Spectacular Cassini Shots

April 29, 2013

Checking out the above pictures of a Saturn hurricane, one can’t help but wonder: how close was the Cassini spacecraft to spiralling down into gassy nothingness? Remove this ad

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Saturn Reaches Opposition on April 28

April 28, 2013

Saturn is one of the most striking objects to see through a telescope, and it is now at its brightest in the night sky as it reaches opposition from the Sun. This is when Earth stands mostly perfectly in line between Saturn and the Sun. It is when Saturn is brightest (at magnitude +0.3), closely [...]

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Cassini Watches as Meteors Hit Saturn’s Rings

April 25, 2013

From tell-tale evidence, we know that Earth, our Moon and other bodies in our Solar System are constantly barraged with both small meteoroids and larger asteroids or comets. And sometimes – like in the case of seeing meteors fling across our sky, or flashes on the Moon or Jupiter getting hit by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 [...]

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