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»» The two faces of Titan's dunes
[Monday, January 23, 2012] A new analysis of radar data from the international Cassini spacecraft has revealed regional variations amongst Titan's sand dunes. The result yields new clues to the giant moon's climatic and geological history.
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»» Image: Saturn's Moons Dione, Epimetheus and Prometheus
[Monday, January 23, 2012] Flying past Saturn's moon Dione, Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet's rings.
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»» 2012 NASA planetary Science Summer School
[Sunday, January 22, 2012] NASA is accepting applications from science and engineering post-docs, recent PhDs, and doctoral students for its 24th Annual Planetary Science Summer School, which will hold two separate sessions this summer.
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»» NASA Cassini Significant Events 01/11/2012 - 01/17/2012
[Saturday, January 21, 2012] The most recent spacecraft tracking and telemetry data were acquired Jan. 17 from the Deep Space Network 70 meter diameter Deep Space Station 63 at Madrid, Spain.
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»» Cassini Testing Part of Its Radio System
[Monday, January 16, 2012] Engineers with NASA's Cassini mission are conducting diagnostic testing on a part of the spacecraft's radio system after its signal was not detected on Earth during a tracking pass in late December.
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»» NASA Cassini Significant Events 1/4/12 - 1/10/12
[Friday, January 13, 2012] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Jan. 9 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Goldstone, California.
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»» Image: Titan, Tethys, and Saturn
[Friday, January 13, 2012] The line of Saturn's rings disrupts the Cassini spacecraft's view of the moons Tethys and Titan. Larger Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across) is on the left.
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»» Brilliant Enceladus
[Monday, January 9, 2012] The Cassini spacecraft looks at a brightly illuminated Enceladus and examines the surface of the leading hemisphere of this Saturnian moon.
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»» New Computer Model Explains Lakes and Storms on Titan
[Wednesday, January 4, 2012] Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a computer model of Titan's atmosphere and methane cycle that, for the first time, explains many of these phenomena in a relatively simple and coherent way.
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»» Image: Titan and Saturn
[Wednesday, January 4, 2012] The colorful globe of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, passes in front of the planet and its rings in this true color snapshot from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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»» Photo: Titan and Tethys and Saturn's Rings
[Sunday, January 1, 2012] Saturn's moon Tethys, with its stark white icy surface, peeps out from behind the larger, hazy, colorful Titan in this Cassini view of the two moons. Saturn's rings lie between the two.
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»» Cassini Data Shows Saturn Moon Enceladus May Affect Planet's Magnetosphere
[Sunday, January 1, 2012] New observations from Cassini flybys of Enceladus in 2008 are revealing new details about the plasma environment around Enceladus and how it may affect Saturn's magnetosphere. These observations could also shed some light on the SKR rotation rate.
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»» Photo: Titan and Dione As Seen by Cassini
[Thursday, December 29, 2011] Saturn's third-largest moon Dione can be seen through the haze of its largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and its rings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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»» Image: Peering Through Titan's South Pole Haze
[Tuesday, December 27, 2011] These views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft look toward the south polar region of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and show a depression within the moon's orange and blue haze layers near the south pole.
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