05 February 2021
Hydrazine might be present on Rhea, new study says
.... The compound, that was discovered by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft before it ended its mission by plunging into the ringed planet, could be hydrazine; a chemical often used as rocket fuel. The Cassini mission to Saturn was one of NASA’s most ambitious...
26 March 2021
Enceladus could have ocean currents like those on Earth, new study says
... habitable world was boosted, when in 2008 NASA’s Cassini mission sampled material expelled into space by jets shooting out ...teams models and backed up by the earlier data gathered by Cassini. "Knowing the distribution of ice allows us to place ...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
... 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...
15 September 2017
A sad farewell as Cassini takes its final plunge...
... 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...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
...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...
17 September 2018
Newly discovered vortex on Saturn could be part of a huge towering structure
... 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...
