Saturn's Rings Had Strange Seasonal Spokes - Hubble To Study
It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...
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NASA image of Titan using the Cassini VIMS (IMAGE)
NASA image of Titan using the Cassini VIMS (visual and infrared mapping spectrometer) instrument. One impact crater is visible near the center. The dark areas near the equator are organic-rich ...
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Saturn’s first Trojan asteroid has finally been discovered
Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the ... others are 60 degrees behind. The NASA spacecraft Lucy will visit eight of them between 2027 and ...
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Could a methane crust be keeping Titan warm?
2024 The last spacecraft to visit Titan was Cassini, which performed several flybys and dropped the Huygens probe to Titan before NASA intentionally crashed the craft into Saturn at the end of its ...
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The Icy Crust of Saturn’s Moon Titan Could Be Hiding Secrets to Our World and Life Beyond It
Arguably the most fascinating moon in the Solar System is the Saturn satellite Titan ... atmosphere as well as prepare astronomers for when NASA’s Dragonfly mission arrives at the moon in ...
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Saturn's moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there?
Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface.
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Space Exploration
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft set a new speed record during its latest test flight on Nov. 5, marking a major milestone toward flying at supersonic speeds. SpaceX's Dragon performed an orbital ...
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Saturn Trojan asteroid confirmed
A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO 14 is a Trojan asteroid of Saturn ... gravitational pull. NASA has plans to send a probe to ...
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NASA has a problem, and it's offering up to $3 million if you have a solution
As NASA looks toward long-term lunar missions, a few problems have arisen -- specifically, how to create less trash in space and what to do with the trash that people create. That's why the US ...
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Why the Starliner Astronauts Are Still in Space: All the Details on a Mission Gone Wrong
Is there a nightmare unfolding 250 miles above Earth? Not according to NASA, which has maintained that astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore are not stuck or stranded in ...
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NASA launches mission to investigate a potentially habitable ocean world
Now, the spacecraft has successfully entered orbit and NASA confirmed they received a signal from Europa Clipper about an hour and 10 minutes after launch, which means that mission control is ...