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Saturn's Vintage Goods
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| Topic: Saturn system |
03/29/13 |
| New data from Cassini suggests that the rings and moons of Saturn are bodies that date back to around the time of our solar system's birth. |
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Cassini Still Going Strong
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| Topic: Saturn system |
02/18/13 |
| NASA's Cassini mission is continuing its exploration of the Saturn system. Cassini has provided invaluable data for astrobiologists studying life's potential on moons of giant planets. |
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Another Pac-Man at Saturn
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| Topic: Saturn system |
11/29/12 |
| NASA's Cassini mission has spotted a second feature shaped like the 1980s video game icon in the Saturn system, this time on the moon Tethys. |
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Giant Impacts May Explain Unusual Moons of Saturn
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| Topic: Saturn system |
10/22/12 |
| A new hypothesis explains the origin of Saturn's strange middle-sized moons. The moons may have been spawned during giant impacts that occurred when several major satellites merged to form Saturn's large moon, Titan. |
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Ice Avalanches on Iaputus
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| Topic: Saturn system |
08/01/12 |
| Scientists have revealed new information about the fluid-like motion of landslides on Saturn's moon Iapetus. |
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Proto-Planet Phoebe
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| Topic: Saturn system |
05/01/12 |
| Data from Cassini has revealed that Saturn's moon Phoebe is more planet-like than previously thought. Phoebe may have originated in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune, and was later captured by Saturn's gravity when it somehow got close to the giant planet. |
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New Images Indicate Tectonic Activity on Rhea
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| Topic: Saturn system |
01/05/11 |
| New images of Saturn's moon Rhea have revealed dramatic fractures cutting through craters on the moon's surface. The findings are helping astrobiologists understand the processes that occur on moons of giant planets, and could help identify potentially habitable environments on these small worlds. |
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How Iapetus Got its Ridge
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| Topic: Saturn system |
12/14/10 |
| Scientists have a new theory about how the strange ridge belting Saturn's outermost moon, Iapetus, formed. Understanding the Saturn system is important for astrobiologists trying to determine whether or not habitable environments could persist on the moons of giant planets. |
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Rhea's Oxygen Atmosphere
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| Topic: Saturn system |
11/27/10 |
| The Cassini-Huygens mission has captured the first direct evidence of an oxygen atmosphere on a world other than Earth. The tenuous atmosphere exists around Saturn´s moon Rhea. |
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