05 February 2021
Hydrazine might be present on Rhea, new study says
... 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 efforts in planetary space exploration ever mounted. Using a host of instruments, Cassini...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... on Titan lasts a lengthy 16 Earth-days and it orbits Saturn at a considerable distance - around 1.2 million kilometres compared to just... changes over two Titan seasons. Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004, two years after the northern winter solstice...
15 September 2016
Scientists shed light on how our gas giants got their different rings
...and Neptune so strikingly different to the ice rings of Saturn? Hoping to settle the debate on the origin and ...resulted in a more efficient capture of rocky material compared to Saturn’s case in which mostly ice is captured. The team concluded...
29 March 2018
Saturn V Rocket
... sight, this little book of colour images seems a strange addition to the volumes of material published on the Apollo Saturn V...until one realises that it is but part of a large series entitled ‘Images of Modern America’. The publisher’s website...
11 October 2018
The Ringed Planet: Cassini’s voyage of discovery at Saturn
... if we consider ‘iconic’ in terms of graphic symbolism, it has to be Saturn: ask a child to sketch a planet and, likely as not, it will ...page 3-10 and chapter 4 begins with page 4-1. Although Saturn has historically been seen as a rather bland disk, ...
13 April 2019
Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn
... than a chapter on each of the outer planets; now they can fill a 300-page book with details of “Saturn’s icy moons”. This academic volume is a tour de force produced by five editors and no less than 84 contributing authors...
