OTD In Space - October. 25: Giovanni Cassini Discovers Saturn's Moon Iapetus
On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...
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7 Incredible images of Saturn from NASA's Cassini orbiter
The images were taken by Cassini spacecraft camera at a distance of approximately 1.7 million km from Saturn. Saturn's atmosphere is fast-moving and turbulent with wind speeds of 1,800 km/hr in ...
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The Mysterious Planet Saturn
Its mass is 93 times that of the earth, and Jupiter alone exceeds it in magnitude. The equatorial diameter of Saturn is about ... of 1,450 miles known as “Cassini's division,” from the outer ...
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Goodbye to Saturn’s rings forever – they will disappear as of this date (in a few months)
People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...
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Sat­urn – The ringed plan­et
Earth and Jupiter. Then Christiaan Huygens added the ringed planet Saturn to the list by discovering its largest moon, Titan. Since then, 47 moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn, 15 of which ...
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NASA is about to crash a nuclear-powered robot into Saturn - here's when and how Cassini's final moments will go down in history
Note: Since beams of light (and data transmissions) take more than an hour to reach Earth from Saturn, all times are from Cassini's vantage unless otherwise noted. What: A flyby of Titan ...
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Saturn continues to rule universe
Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.
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Longtime spacecraft signs off
But it took that long for the news to reach Earth a billion miles away. The only spacecraft to ever orbit Saturn, Cassini showed us the planet, its rings and moons up close in all their splendor.
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The Seven Most Interesting Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Saturn
The chemical processes resemble what’s happening in hydrothermal vents on Earth’s ... moon by studying Saturn’s ring ...
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Saturn News
New Analysis of Cassini Data Yields ... 850 million miles from Earth. Hubble's ultra-sharp vision reveals a ... Using Eclipses to Calculate the Transparency of Saturn's Rings Nov. 14, 2023 ...
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Saturn ruled this scientist's life for 40 years - here's why she's begging NASA to go back after Cassini's death
Year after year at Saturn, Cassini's discoveries left Earth spellbound. The spacecraft dropped a lander on Titan in 2004 (the first landing on a moon other than Earth's), photographed hydrocarbon ...
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Webb Telescope’s New Images Of Saturn Are ‘Simply Breathtaking’
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Montage of JWST MIRI/MRS observations of Saturn in November 2022 ...