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NEWS ABOUT: Saturn

Saturn stories: 24 news summaries

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Total Eclipse Coming Feb. 20

3 billion could see Earth's shadow blot moon

Feb 7, 08 6:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Nearly half the world's population will find themselves really in the dark Feb. 20 as Earth's shadow totally eclipses the moon, LiveScience reports. Visible to 3 billion residents of North and South America, Europe, Africa, and parts of Asia, the eclipsed moon will create a celestial triangle in the night... More »

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NASA • astronomy • telescope • Saturn • lunar eclipse • moon

Saturn Has Unexpected Hot Spot

Unmanned space probe gets rare look at planet's dark top pole

Jan 3, 08 6:08 PM CST
(Newser) - Saturn’s frigid north pole has been revealed to have a hot column of compressed air, a surprising discovery by the unmanned Cassini spacecraft, Reuters reports. Scientists already knew that the gas giant’s sun-drenched south pole had such a hot spot, but infrared photographs taken by Cassini revealed a... More »

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Meet Frank, Saturn's 60th Moon

Planet's latest addition sparks search for more

Jul 20, 07 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have discovered Saturn’s 60th moon, and are hinting that more could exist. In May, cameras aboard the Cassini spacecraft captured the “extremely faint object,” which scientists have officially designated a moon and tentatively named Frank. Composed mostly of ice and rock, Frank is about a mile... More »

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NASA • European Space Agency • space • Saturn • Cassini • satellite • moons • Italian Space Agency • Methone • Pallene • Frank • Jupiter • International Astronomical Union

(Newser) - NASA's radar detected evidence of huge seas—one of them larger than any of the Great Lakes—on the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan. Although the spacecraft, Cassini, cannot confirm that the dark images are liquid until passing over the area again as scheduled in May, scientists believe they are... More »

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NASA • space exploration • space • Saturn • Titan • Cassini

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