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Amazing New Photos of Saturn’s Strange Moon Hyperion
The Cassini spacecraft has been sending incredible space photos back to Earth for many years. The latest photos from Cassini are of Saturn’s odd-shaped moon Hyperion, which tumbles around Saturn in an irregular orbit. Continue reading
Epic Saturn Storm is as Wide as Earth
An amazing storm is raging on Saturn right now, and NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has a front-row seat. Already, the orbiter has been able to capture some stunning visual imagery. Continue reading
Mysterious Ice Plumes on Saturn’s Moon Hint at Hidden Ocean
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured exciting new imagery, which shows evidence for the existence of liquid water on one of Saturn’s moons. Continue reading
Strange Weather Around Saturn
Methane rain storms on Titan? A storm that has encompassed 2/3rds of Saturn’s northern hemisphere? It’s been an active few months out 740 million miles from Earth. Continue reading
Cassini Image Captures Three of Saturn’s Moons
One of the latest images captured by the Cassini satellite highlights three of Saturn’s moons. Continue reading
Gearfuse Almanac: January 14 in Science and Technology
A sturdy air weapon of the Cold War, a not-so-sturdy rock legend’s satellite star turn, and a landing in the outer solar system—today’s hits in science and technology. Continue reading
Up, Up, and Away: Exploring Titan by Balloon
Exotic lighter-than-air craft—including argon- and methane-filled balloons and hopping dirigibles—offer tantalizing prospects for future missions to Saturn’s largest moon. Continue reading
Pioneer 10: darkness at the edge of town
The Pioneer anomaly, a long-discussed discrepancy between the expected and actual speeds of the Pioneer spacecraft, has tantalized researchers with the possibility of an exotic new physics. A solution may be close at hand—and even if it supports the standard model, it’s pretty amazing. Continue reading
Cassini visits Saturn’s oxygenated moon
he Cassini spacecraft has detected atmospheric oxygen on Rhea, a rocky, icy moon orbiting Saturn. 950 miles in diameter (less than half that of our moon), the tiny world is covered with water ice, which likely produces free oxygen as it is bombarded with charged particles from the magnetosphere of its parent planet, Saturn. Continue reading
It’s a Plane, It’s a Bird… No, It’s a Nucleotide!: Life Might Have Originated in the Sky
For as long as intelligent human life has existed, we’ve wondered about our origins. How did it all begin? Theories have ranged everywhere from waterborne molecules, to comets, to alien colonization, but now scientists are turning their eyes in a new direction – towards the heavens. A new experiment that simulates chemical reactions in the atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, adds the sky to the ever growing list of the possibilities of life’s origins. Conducting a simulation... Continue reading
