Tag: Saturn
Methane in the plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus: Possible signs of...
A study published in Nature Astronomy concludes that known geochemical processes can’t explain the levels of methane measured by the Cassini spacecraft on Saturn’s icy moon.
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The peculiarities of the huge equatorial jet stream in Saturn’s atmosphere...
The planet Saturn observed using the Wide Field Camera 3 of the Hubble Space Telescope on 30 June, 2015. The box shows the equatorial...
Mystery solved behind birth of Saturn’s rings
Left: Image of Saturn's rings taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Right: Image of Uranus' rings taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.Credit: NASA/JPL/STScI
A team of...
Changing Colors in Saturn’s North
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Hampton University
These two natural color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the changing appearance of Saturn's north polar region between...
Saturn’s moon Dione harbors a subsurface ocean
Representation of the interior of Enceladus with icy crust, ocean and solid core. ROB researchers think that Dione may also have a subsurface ocean.
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Hydrogen cyanide on Titan key to possible prebiotic conditions
An image of Titan's surface, as taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe as it plunged through the moon's thick, orange-brown atmosphere on...
An ocean lies a few kilometers beneath Saturn’s moon Enceladus’s icy...
Image showing the thickness of Enceladus's ice shell, which reaches 35 kilometers in the cratered equatorial regions (shown in yellow) and less than 5...
Cassini Captures a Disruption in Saturn’s Narrow F Ring
A bright disruption in Saturn's narrow F ring suggests it may have been disturbed recently. This feature was mostly likely not caused by Pandora...
