19 December 2018
Saturn's iconic rings are dying fast say scientists
... though as Dr O'Donoghue believes that the rings could even disappear quicker than this. "Add to this the Cassini-spacecraft detected ring-material falling into Saturn's equator, and the rings have less than 100...
28 June 2019
NASA drone to search for signs of early life on Titan
... to return to this exceptional world ever since Pionneer 11 first clapped eyes on it back in 1979 and since the Cassini and Huygens mission only added further intrigue as to the answers this replica of a young Earth could provide...
11 October 2018
The Ringed Planet: Cassini’s voyage of discovery at Saturn
... of page-count but it punches above its weight in terms of authorship (a planetary scientist who has “worked on the Cassini mission continuously for more than a quarter century”) and presentation (colour photos and diagrams throughout). Perhaps...
18 December 2015
Last look at geological activity on Enceladus before Cassini moves on
...through the ice from the moon's interior by utilising Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) instrument to observe ... of geologic activity on Enceladus was made not long after Cassini arrived at Saturn, and it quickly prompted changes to the...
17 August 2015
Cassini and Saturn’s moon Dione: so long and thanks for all the pics
... looms as a bigger possibility than before. “But we’ve never found the smoking gun,” Cassini science team member Bonnie Burratti told Space.com. The Cassini mission is meanwhile winding down. The last approach to Dione is first on the...
22 February 2016
Researchers constrain a possible location for Planet 9 using Cassini data
... to find it has not. Using data gathered from Cassini’s flybys of Saturn, Jupiter and the outer planets to... as an ephemeris. INPOP has been regularly updated with data obtained by Cassini in its recent flybys of the giant gas planets and is noted ...
