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Saturn: Through a Glass Brightly
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| Topic: Saturn |
09/18/04 |
| Summary: The natural beauty of Saturn's rings shine through when Cassini looks on the nearly-translucent, icy debris in color. |
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Eye Through the Hurricane
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| Topic: Saturn |
09/04/04 |
| Summary: Planet-scale storms are best seen from far away, preferably from orbit. Hurricane Frances is no exception, but terrestrial storms are nothing compared to what shapes Saturn, the windiest place in our solar system. |
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Shepherding the Lightweight World
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| Topic: Saturn |
08/24/04 |
| Summary: More spectacular Saturn images from Cassini have arrived, but a two-dimensional view of this ringed world cannot capture its strange composition as the only planet less dense than water. |
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Spectrum of Stormy Saturn
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| Topic: Saturn |
08/20/04 |
| Summary: Seeing Saturn in different wavelengths gives mission scientists a new and stormy picture of weather on the gas giant. While the view in ultraviolet highlights the stratosphere, the view in infrared shows swirling patterns from rotating cloud bands. |
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Lightning Bolts from Saturn
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| Topic: Saturn |
08/08/04 |
| Summary: In orbit around Saturn for more than a month now, the Cassini spacecraft has been sending back mountains of scientific data. It's now detected flashes of lightning and a new radiation belt. The spacecraft's radio and plasma wave science instrument is detecting the lighting, which varies from day to day. |
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Saturn's Southern Bullseye
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| Topic: Saturn |
08/05/04 |
| Summary: Saturn is not only a ringed world, but also a banded one. When the Cassini probe looked at the south pole, Saturn's circulating stripes showed remnants of differential rotation rates in the upper atmosphere. Saturn is unique with its magnetic pole centered on the geographic axis. |
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Saturnian Shadow Looms Across Rings
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| Topic: Saturn |
08/02/04 |
| Summary: Cassini turned to look back at where it has been, when its cameras snapped a picture of the setting sun across Saturn's spectacular rings. |
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Ringscape in Natural Colors
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| Topic: Saturn |
07/24/04 |
| Summary: The Saturnian ring system is visible in natural colors using an amateur telescope, but to see it up close as one would riding on the Cassini spacecraft reveals a world of icy-white and what one can only refer to as 'earthtones'. |
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Saturn's Rings in Ultraviolet
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| Topic: Saturn |
07/08/04 |
| Summary: Short-wavelength images of Saturn's rings are sensitive to ice content and show that the outer rings are higher in water-ice than inner ones. According to Colorado researchers, these spectra give clues to the ring's origins. The Cassini images in UV are ten times better than the previous best ring snapshots. |
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Oxygen in Saturn's E Ring
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| Topic: Saturn |
07/03/04 |
| Summary: While en route to Saturn, Cassini detected a sudden, massive buildup of oxygen in the planet's E ring. Where did all that oxygen come from? No-one knows for sure. But now that Cassini's gotten a little closer to the ringed world, scientists are hopeful that they'll be able to find an answer. |
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