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NEWS ABOUT: Cassini

Cassini stories: 6 news summaries

Hidden Ocean Found on
Saturn Moon

Watery Titan and salty Mars could have evidence of life

Mar 21, 08 4:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - NASA has unlocked two more of the solar system's secrets, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The Cassini orbiter discovered evidence of an underground ocean churning deep below the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and the Mars Odyssey spacecraft has found ancient salt deposits on the red planet. Both discoveries have... More »

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Saturn Moon Rings Detected

Rhea could be be the first known moon with rings

Mar 7, 08 4:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Saturn’s second-largest moon, Rhea, could be the first known moon with rings. The spacecraft Cassini detected apparent evidence of rings when it spotted debris around Rhea as it flew by in 2005, reports space.com. The set of rings has not been directly seen, but scientists inferred that the... More »

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Want Oil? Try Saturn's Titan

Moon has hundreds of times more oil and natural gas than Earth

Feb 14, 08 5:09 PM CST
(Newser) - Titan, one of Saturn's dozens of moons, has supplies of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons hundreds of times greater than Earth’s oil reserves, Space.com reports. The unmanned Cassini spacecraft has mapped only 20% of Titan’s surface with radar, and has already discovered dozens of bodies of hydrocarbon... More »

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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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(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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