November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
.... However, if we based the estimate on the lightest D ring of Saturn, we would need perhaps 5-10 times more mass in orbit before this became...perhaps collecting and beaming power from space to Earth. Saturn has an extensive ring system made up of ice ...
18 December 2015
Last look at geological activity on Enceladus before Cassini moves on
...artist’s rendering showing a cutaway view into the interior of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, suggested to have a global ocean and ... on Enceladus was made not long after Cassini arrived at Saturn, and it quickly prompted changes to the mission's flight plan...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...Bonestell’s first published astronomical art was a series of paintings of Saturn from its (then nine) moons for a 1944 issue of ... a year of 88. Jupiter used to have 11 satellites, while Saturn, with nine, was the only planet - perhaps in the entire...
15 September 2017
A sad farewell as Cassini takes its final plunge...
...; a series of 22 orbits that each pass between Saturn and its spectacular rings. This last fling around the ... its demise. Very shortly Cassini is due to dramatically plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere to burn up and disintegrate like a meteor, all the...
March 2016
Space for art
...system. The twin spacecraft revealed stunning details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – using each planet’s gravity to ...orbiter missions as Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn. Today both Voyager spacecraft continue to return valuable ...
22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
... comet’s surface. Dragonfly on the other hand is a dual-quadcopter lander that would take advantage of the environment on Saturn’s moon Titan, to fly to multiple locations and study the prebiotic chemistry and habitability of dozens of sites, some...
