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Saturn Does the Wave in Upper Atmosphere Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years.
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Seeds of life found near Saturn Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
A sniff test of water vapor spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus shows it is gushing with organic molecules, increasing the possibility of life existing somewhere in the Saturn system.
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Hot spot on Enceladus causes plumes Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
Enceladus, the tiny satellite of Saturn, is colder than ice, but data gathered by the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan has detected a hot spot that could mean there is life in the old moon after all. In fact, for researchers of the outer planets, Enceladus is so intellectually hot, it's smokin'.
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The Vanishing Rings of Saturn Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Saturn: jewel of the solar system, taker of breaths, ringed beauty. Even veteran astronomers can't help but gasp when they see her through a small telescope.
Red Alert: Saturn's rings are vanishing.
Around the world, amateur astronomers have noticed the change; Saturn's wide open rings are rapidly narrowing into a thin line.
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See Saturn Now: Lord of the Rings Rocks Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
Saturn is now at its best in our late-winter sky. It appears below and to the left of the conspicuous "sickle" or backwards question-mark pattern of stars marking the head and mane of the constellation of Leo, the Lion.
What we see with the naked eye is a bright yellowish-white "star" shining with a steady light.
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Saturn And 'Forbidden Planet' Movie Share Music Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
High resolution observations of Saturn's radio emissions have just been made public by NASA. Listen to NASA's Saturn radio emissions, then listen to the classic 1956 science fiction movie Forbidden Planet. The similarities are startling.
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Liquid flowing on surface of Saturn moon: NASA Posted: 2 months ago by AfroMosHi
The groundbreaking discovery was made after analysis of instruments on the US-European Cassini probe, the spacecraft that has been orbiting Saturn since 2004 following a 3.5 billion-kilometer (2.2 billion miles) voyage.
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Breathtaking new photos of Saturn Posted: 2 years ago by Wingnut
NASA has released photos taken over the past few months from its Cassini spacecraft as it orbits around Saturn. Site includes high-res images that make for dandy wallpaper.
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New ring spotted around Saturn -- Old rings demoted, must now be called "hoops" Posted: 2 years ago by Galoot
Saturn has a newly discovered ring, a faint trail of particles just visible in between some of its better-known rings, NASA said on Tuesday.
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Bizarre hexagon circles Saturn's north pole Posted: 2 years ago by squirmster
A deep, hexagon-shaped feature lies above Saturn's north pole, newly released images from the Cassini spacecraft reveal.
Are there aliens there? Stationary on a gas giant?
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Scientists: Storms power winds on Saturn Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists say they now believe rotating eddies are driving Saturn's jet stream winds, not the other way around.
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Saturn moon's gushing geysers explained: study Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Mysterious vapor geysers on a Saturn moon may result from massive cracks in ice cover opening and closing under the gravitational sway of the satellite's lopsided orbit
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'Flying Saucers' Around Saturn Explained Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
The formation of strange flying-saucer-shaped moons embedded in Saturn's rings have baffled scientists. New findings suggest they're born largely from clumps of icy particles in the rings themselves, an insight that could shed light on how Earth and other planets coalesced from the disk of matter that once surrounded our newborn sun.
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High energy electron holes reveal unseen rings Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
Gaps in the soup of high-energy particles near the orbits of two of Saturn’s tiny moons indicate that Saturn may be surrounded by undiscovered, near-invisible partial rings. A paper in the February issue of the journal Icarus suggests that the larger saturnian moons may not be the only ones contributing material to Saturn's ring system.
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Scientists explain big vapor plume on Saturn moon Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists on Wednesday said they have an explanation how one of Saturn's moons can spew out a giant plume of water vapor, adding to evidence a source of life -- water -- lies beneath the moon's frozen surface.
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Mounting Mysteries at Saturn Keep Scientists Guessing Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The latest mystery is the giant hexagon circling Saturn's north pole. Nothing like the hexagon has ever been seen at any other planet, with each of its sides nearly 7,500 miles (12,500 kilometers) across-big enough to fit nearly four Earths inside.
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Saturn Surrounded By Electric ‘Doughnut’ Posted: 10 months ago by Mershaullk
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lopsided "doughnut" of electrified plasma surrounding Saturn.
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Saturn Moon "Mother Lode" Located Posted: 2 months ago by BernardBlack
The exact location of jets on Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus have been found—a discovery scientists are calling a "mother lode."
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Planetary line-up excites the sun Posted: 3 months ago by AutumnLotus
Australian astronomers may have found a solution to how far-away Jupiter and Saturn drive the sun's solar cycle. Astronomer Dr Ian Wilson and colleagues suggest Jupiter and Saturn affect the sun's movement and its rotation, and hence its sunspot activity.
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Saturn Has a 'Giant Sponge' Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
One of Saturn's rings does housecleaning, soaking up material gushing from the fountains on Saturn's tiny ice moon Enceladus, according to new observations from the Cassini spacecraft.
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