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August 2008 Top Stories
»» NASA New Horizons Mission: The PI's Perspective: Journeying Beyond Saturn
[Friday, August 1, 2008] As avid followers of New Horizons know, our spacecraft has been mostly hibernating since February, and will continue to so do until Sept. 2, when we will wake it to begin its second annual checkout.
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»» NASA Cassini Significant Events 07/16/08 - 07/22/08
[Friday, August 1, 2008] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on July 22 from the DSN tracking complex at Goldstone, California. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
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»» NASA Cassini Significant Events 07/23/08 - 07/28/08
[Friday, August 1, 2008] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on July 28 from the DSN tracking complex at Goldstone, California. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
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»» NASA Cassini Prepares for Flyby of Enceladus
[Thursday, August 7, 2008] Fractures, or "tiger stripes," where icy jets erupt on Saturn's moon Enceladus will be the target of a close flyby by the Cassini spacecraft on Monday, Aug. 11.
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»» NASA Blog: Enceladus August Flyby Preview
[Friday, August 8, 2008] Well, after the successful and exciting Enceladus flyby in March ... we're doing it again!! Cassini is executing a close pass by the little active moon, on Monday, August 11. Woo hoo!
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»» Jupiter and Saturn full of liquid metal helium
[Friday, August 8, 2008] A strange, metal brew lies buried deep within Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and in London.
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»» NASA Blog: Cassini Engineering Is Ready for Enceladus!
[Monday, August 11, 2008] As most folks on the third rock from the Sun turn their attention toward China and the Summer Olympics, Cassini scientists and engineers at JPL are turning their gaze skyward for some Winter Olympics of our own at Enceladus
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»» NASA Cassini Begins Transmitting Data From Enceladus Flyby
[Tuesday, August 12, 2008] Shortly after 9:03 p.m. PDT, the Cassini spacecraft began sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. During closest approach, Cassini successfully passed only 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the surface of the tiny moon.
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»» NASA Cassini Enceladus Rev 80 Flyby Skeet Shoot #4
[Tuesday, August 12, 2008] The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 11, 2008, a distance of approximately 2,621 kilometers (1,629 miles) above the surface of Enceladus. Image scale is approximately 20 meters (66 feet) per pixel.
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»» The Stuff of Life on Titan
[Thursday, August 14, 2008] For almost thirty years, scientists have known that complex carbon compounds called tholins exist on comets and in the atmospheres of the outer planets.
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»» NASA Cassini Pinpoints Source of Jets on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
[Thursday, August 14, 2008] In a feat of interplanetary sharpshooting, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus.
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»» NASA Cassini Significant Events for 07/29/08 - 08/05/08
[Monday, August 18, 2008] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Aug. 5 from the DSN tracking complex at Madrid, Spain. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
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»» NASA Cassini Significant Events for 8/6/08 - 8/12/08
[Monday, August 18, 2008] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Aug. 12 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Goldstone, Calif. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
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»» NASA Cassini Significant Events 8/13/08 - 8/19/08
[Wednesday, August 27, 2008] The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
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»» NASA Cassini Significant Events 8/20/08 - 8/26/08
[Saturday, August 30, 2008] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Aug. 26 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Goldstone, Calif. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
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