Cassini Completes Final and Fateful Titan Flyby “NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has had its last close brush with Saturn’s hazy moon Titan and is now beginning its final set of 22 […]
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Hydrothermal Activity in The Seas of Enceladus
Hydrothermal Activity in The Seas of Enceladus: Implications For Habitable Zones, Astrobiology.com First posted on 11 April 2017 at 7:16 pm EDT. “On Thursday NASA will announce evidence that hydrothermal […]
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Using Art to Explain Space Science
Keith’s note: The artists at JPL who created the farewell video for Cassini must have seen “Wanderers” – and “Interstellar”. If so, it shows. That’s OK. This JPL creation sets […]
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A New View of Prometheus
Close Up View of Prometheus “NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spied details on the pockmarked surface of Saturn’s moon Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across) during a moderately close flyby on […]
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During The Stupid Shutdown The Universe Continued to Be Awesome
Stunning View From High Above Saturn “This portrait looking down on Saturn and its rings was created from images obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 10, 2013. It was […]
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Important Titan Flyby Wednesday
Significant Titan Flyby Happening on July 10th, NASA “For the Radar instrument, one of the most significant Titan fly-bys of the extended Solstice mission occurs July 10. Measurements from this […]
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Turning Imagery into Art
Sander van den Berg: “The footage in this video is derived from image sequences from NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions. I downloaden a large amount of raw images to create […]
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Cassini Experiences Communications Problems
NASA Cassini Significant Events 12/21/11 – 1/3/12 “Friday, Dec. 23 (DOY 357) – No signal was detected from the spacecraft today at the beginning of track at Deep Space Station […]
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More Spectacular Images From Cassini
Photo: Titan and Dione As Seen by Cassini “Saturn’s third-largest moon Dione can be seen through the haze of its largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing […]
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Titan, a Neighbor – and Saturn
Photo: Titan And Another Moon Set Against Saturn’s Rings “This image was taken on May 21, 2011 and received on Earth May 22, 2011. The camera was pointing toward Titan […]