NASA and ESA Celebrate 10 Years Since Titan Landing
Ten years ago, an explorer from Earth parachuted into the haze of an alien moon toward an uncertain fate. After a gentle descent lasting more than two hours, it landed […]
Tag Archives: Cassini
Jupiter’s Red Spot is Likely a Sunburn, Not a Blush
The ruddy color of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is likely a product of simple chemicals being broken apart by sunlight in the planet’s upper atmosphere, according to a new analysis […]
NASA Finds Methane Ice Cloud in Titan’s Stratosphere
NASA scientists have identified an unexpected high-altitude methane ice cloud on Saturn’s moon Titan that is similar to exotic clouds found far above Earth’s poles. This lofty cloud, imaged by […]
Swirling Cloud at Titan’s Pole is Cold and Toxic
Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Cassini mission have discovered that a giant, toxic cloud is hovering over the south pole of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, after the atmosphere there cooled […]
Cassini Prepares For Its Biggest Remaining Burn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will execute the largest planned maneuver of the spacecraft’s remaining mission on Saturday, Aug. 9. The maneuver will target Cassini toward an Aug. 21 encounter with Saturn’s […]
Titan’s Building Blocks Might Pre-date Saturn
A combined NASA and European Space Agency (ESA)-funded study has found firm evidence that nitrogen in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan originated in conditions similar to the cold birthplace […]
NASA Experiments Recreate Aromatic Flavors of Titan
NASA scientists have created a new recipe that captures key flavors of the brownish-orange atmosphere around Saturnโs largest moon, Titan. The recipe is used for lab experiments designed to simulate […]
Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets
Scientists working with data from NASA’s Cassini mission have developed a new way to understand the atmospheres of exoplanets by using Saturn’s smog-enshrouded moon Titan as a stand-in. The new […]
JPL Funding Opportunity to Study Europa Plumes
JPL Request for Proposal to Model Europa Plumes (URL: https://acquisition.jpl.nasa.gov/bizops/) Recent Hubble Space Telescope (HST) detection of anomalous concentrations of hydrogen and oxygen at Europa could potentially be due to […]
NASA Cassini Images May Reveal Birth of a Saturn Moon
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has documented the formation of a small icy object within the rings of Saturn that may be a new moon, and may also provide clues to the […]
Join in the Cassini Name Game!
As NASA’s Cassini mission approaches its 10th anniversary at Saturn, its team members back here on Earth are already looking ahead to an upcoming phase. Starting in late 2016, the […]
Planetary Data System – CASSINI DATA RELEASE 37
The Planetary Data System (PDS) is pleased to announce a new delivery of Cassini data, Release 37, April to June 2013, for instruments: CIRS HRD INMS ISS MAG MIMI RADAR […]
NASA Space Assets Detect Ocean inside Saturn Moon
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and Deep Space Network have uncovered evidence Saturn’s moon Enceladus harbors a large underground ocean of liquid water, furthering scientific interest in the moon as a potential […]
NASA Spacecraft Get a 360-Degree View of Saturn’s Auroras
NASA trained several pairs of eyes on Saturn as the planet put on a dancing light show at its poles. While NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting around Earth, was able […]
Cassini Sees Saturn and Moons in Holiday Dress
This holiday season, feast your eyes on images of Saturn and two of its most fascinating moons, Titan and Enceladus, in a care package from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. All three […]
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn’s north pole. This is the first hexagon movie of […]
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Provides New View of Saturn and Earth
NASA has released a natural color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible. The new […]
Here Comes the Sun: Ionizing Titan’s Atmosphere
A detailed analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has directly linked the density of the ionosphere โ a region in the upper atmosphere that is dominated by electrically charged […]
Cassini Gets New Views of Titan’s Land of Lakes
With the sun now shining down over the north pole of Saturn’s moon Titan, a little luck with the weather, and trajectories that put the spacecraft into optimal viewing positions, […]
Rings, Dark Side of Saturn Glow in New Cassini Image
The gauzy rings of Saturn and the dark side of the planet glow in newly released infrared images obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. “Looking at the Saturn system when it […]