... at Saturn’s cloud tops is 1 bar – comparable to the atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level – and while mission managers were confident Cassini would complete the manoeuvre successfully, extra precautions were taken with this first dive, as the...
... EDT, NASA will be streaming live shots from inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission control as Cassini embarks on its final, final mission, leaving behind an enviable legacy of information that scientists will still be studying in years to come...
... in the cloud-tops, this new structure has only come to light now as cooler temperatures at the start of Cassini’s mission, meant its Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) could not provide reliable CIRS observations. As the northern stratosphere...
...in the ocean of Enceladus. This graphic illustrates how Cassini scientists think water interacts with rock at the bottom ... and warming the surrounding surface. Hopefully, NASA's Europa Clipper mission, which is planned for launch in the 2020s will be...
... as promising as these results appear, the team acknowledge that it will take future missions with instruments more sophisticated than those used by Cassini in order to analyse the organic molecules found in Enceladus’s plumes. Hopefully by then, the...
...last year, a new analysis of data collected by the mission revealed the presence of silica, nitrogen and oxygen in the ...that is commonly found in quartz sand on Earth – analysed in Cassini data, also led scientists to the same suggestion; that the ...