Saturn, The Moon And A Swarm Of Stars
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 10, 2006
A celestial swarm of stars will hover near a honey-colored Saturn for the next several months. Sky watchers will see the ringed planet together with the Beehive cluster, or M44, a group of stars that also make their home in the Milky Way galaxy.
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See Saturn At Its Best This Friday
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jan 26, 2006
No planet holds the fascination of ring-girdled Saturn - especially the first time you view it with a backyard amateur telescope. Right now Saturn is as close and bright as it will get this year, shining like a yellow star in the eastern evening sky. Many telescope users consider it the most beautiful thing in the heavens, and a view of it in a good scope often draws gasps from first-timers.
Predicting The Weather On Titan
Paris (ESA) Jan 24, 2006
Using recent Cassini, Huygens and Earth-based observations, scientists have been able to create a computer model which explains the formation of several types of ethane and methane clouds on Titan.
The Huygens Landing: One Year On
Paris (ESA) Jan 16, 2006
One year ago this week, on 14 January 2005, ESA's Huygens probe reached the upper layer of Titan's atmosphere and landed on the surface after a parachute descent 2 hours and 28 minutes later.
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Cassini Images Halo Around Titanic Moon Off Saturn
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 27, 2005
With its thick, distended atmosphere, Titan's orange globe shines softly, encircled by a thin halo of purple light-scattering haze.
Multiple Cassini Instruments Capture Enceladus Plume
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2005
Cassini observations by several instruments have revealed the source of Saturn's broadest and faintest ring. Recent observations show that tiny particles of frozen water ice are streaming outward into space from the south polar region of the moon Enceladus.
Titan's Methane Mystery
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2005
The methane giving an orange hue to Saturn's giant moon Titan likely comes from geologic processes in its interior according to measurements from the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GCMS), a Goddard Space Flight Center instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe.
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Huygens Finds A Hostile World On Titan
Katlenburg, Germany (SPX) Dec 09, 2005
Conditions on Saturn's moon Titan, with its dense atmosphere, are similar to those on Earth early in our solar system. Pictures and spectral analysis of Titan's surface, recorded by an international scientific team including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), show a dried-out "river" landscape.
Cassini Images Reveal Spectacular Evidence Of An Active Moon
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 07, 2005
Jets of fine, icy particles streaming from Saturn's moon Enceladus were captured in recent images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images provide unambiguous visual evidence that the moon is geologically active.
Rivers On Titan, One Of Saturn's Moons, Resemble Those On Earth
Champaign IL (SPX) Dec 06, 2005
Recent evidence from the Huygens Probe of the Cassini Mission suggests that Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn, is a world where rivers of liquid methane sculpt channels in continents of ice. Surface images even show gravel-sized pieces of water ice that resemble rounded stones lying in a dry riverbed on Earth.
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Bright Highlands And Dark Plains
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 02, 2005
This is a perspective view of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan near the Huygens probe landing site that includes the bright-dark boundary between the bright highlands and lower dark plains.
Scientists Find Huygens Probe Landing Site
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 01, 2005
Cassini/Huygens scientists have discovered exactly where on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe landed last January. Knowing the landing location will allow them to directly compare data from Huygens with remote sensing data from NASA's Cassini orbiter.
Titan Offers Clues To Early History Of Earth
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Dec 01, 2005
Readings from the Huygens probe of the surface and atmosphere around Saturn's largest moon, Titan, give researchers a peek back through time to when and how Earth's atmosphere formed, and how our primitive planet looked before life took a foothold here.
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