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more about #cassini Hamslicer: Forget Mars, Moons of Jupiter, here we come! more » Pope John Peeps II: This planet simply suffers from a cosmic case of the runs. Simple. It's just a space-sized messy anus. more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Perhaps India has a more advanced space program than they are letting on. [www.isro.org] more » Meirelle: That's no moon. That's a space station! more » RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch!: It looks . . . delicious. Like some kind of chocolaty, powdered sugar treat. more » 92BuickLeSabre: To echo DangerousDac and AOClaus below, that is the single most Death-Star-iest looking moon I've ever seen. more » Smittius: Is that a black monolith of dimensions 1:4:9 I see? Wait wait no, wrong mysterious moon. more » Bill-Lee: Mildew? Chocolate Pudding? Spice blows? more » disatess: It`s quite amazing . Now only we can one day see with are eyes and not through lenses. more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: "Although astronomers have predicted the waves through simulations, they have never before been captured on film." Science. It works, bitches. more » Hamslicer: Great, now it's going to skip. more » -
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Saturn's Mysterious Splattered Moon
Iapetus may be Saturn's most enigmatic moon, with an unknown dark material splattering most of the surface and a strange ridge that makes one side of the moon resemble a walnut. Astronomers hope the Cassini spacecraft can unlock its mysteries. More » -
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Daphnis Pulls a Jagged Line Through Saturn's Rings
Saturn's tiny moon Daphnis orbits a gap in the A Ring, causing small waves with its gravity. Now, as the gas giant approaches its equinox, the Cassini probe has captured the waves on camera for the first time. More » -
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Saturn's Atmosphere Is A Modern Art Sensation
This isn't a newly-discovered Rothko painting or some kind of abstract masterpiece — it's the atmosphere of Saturn, photographed four different times on the same day. The Cassini space probe used different filters to show the storms in the planet's atmosphere in different lights. (The color is arbitrary, but gorgeous.) Click to enlarge. More » -
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Mysterious Infrared Aurora Glows at Saturn's North Pole
This stunning infrared image of Saturn's northern region shows a luminous aurora with the planet's mottled rings below. The aurora appeared in an area that the Hubble Space Telescope can't see, so no one knew it was there until Cassini spotted it recently. What's really weird is that astronomers aren't really sure what's causing it, since this aurora doesn't conform to known models of aurora formation. More » -
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NASA's Probe Will Buzz Titan Landing Site
NASA may have failed to prove there's an underground ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus, but now scientists claim they've found outstanding new evidence that there may be a vast ocean under the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. In this newly released image, Titan peeks out from behind Saturn while another moon, Tethys, streaks past the planet's shadowy rings. Click through for a gorgeous Titan gallery. More » -
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Failed Mission to Suck Up Moon Goo Results in Gorgeous Photos
Space probe Cassini dove headlong into the massive, icy plumes of liquid that spew from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. It managed to get some amazing images of the southern pole of the moon (pictured here), but sadly a mysterious software glitch prevented it from transmitting data about the moon jizz back to Earth. More » -
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Saturn Blocks Out The Sunlight
This is a total eclipse of the sun by Saturn, as seen by NASA's Cassini space probe. I totally want this image painted on black velvet. This famous image is just one of the photos that Cassini Imaging Team leader Carolyn Porco showed off during her talk about Saturn and its moons, now online at TED. [TED, via Runaway Pancake] -
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Saturn: Hot Or Not?
You can vote for the sexiest image of Saturn and its moons from the Cassini space probe, until Dec. 30. You even get to rate every space photo from 1 to 10, bringing a whole new meaning to "science porn." This pic shows the "dragon storm" on Saturn, a disturbance so fierce it kicked up radio waves. -
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Flying Saucers Are Orbiting Saturn Right Now
Atlas and Pan, two of Saturn's moons, look like flying saucers in these new images from the Cassini space probe. The cause? Unique equatorial ridges. Image by Peter Thomas and Carolyn Porco for CICLOPS.
