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Saturn’s Little Wavemaking Moon

April 25, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Captured on January 15, this narrow-angle Cassini image shows an outer portion of Saturn’s A ring on the left and the ropy F ring crossing on the right. The thin black line near the A ring’s bright edge is the Keeler [...]

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Rain is Falling from Saturn’s Rings

April 10, 2013

Astronomers have known for years there was water in Saturn’s upper atmosphere, but they weren’t sure exactly where it was coming from. New observations have found water is raining down on Saturn, and it is coming from the planet’s rings. “Saturn is the first planet to show significant interaction between its atmosphere and ring system,” [...]

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Solar System Antiquities Abound in Saturn’s Rings

March 28, 2013

Anyone looking for miscellanies from the early days of the Solar System can likely find them all in one place: the Saturn system. A new analysis of data from the Cassini spacecraft suggests that Saturn’s moons and rings are “antiquities” from around the time of our Solar System’s very beginnings. “Studying the Saturnian system helps [...]

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Enceladus’ Jets Reach All the Way to its Sea

March 19, 2013

Thanks to the Cassini mission we’ve known about the jets of icy brine spraying from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus for about 8 years now, but this week it was revealed at the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference outside Houston, Texas that Enceladus’ jets very likely reach all the way down to the [...]

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Saturn to Shed its Spooky Spokes for Summer

March 12, 2013

As Saturn steadily moves along its 29.7-year-long orbit toward summertime in its northern hemisphere NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is along for the ride, giving astronomers a front-row seat to seasonal changes taking place on the ringed planet. One of these fluctuations is the anticipated disappearance of the “spokes” found in the rings, a few of which [...]

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