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February 2007 Top Stories
»» NASA Cassini finds cloud engulfing Titan's North Pole
[Thursday, February 1, 2007] A giant cloud half the size of the United States has been imaged on Saturn’s moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft. The cloud may be responsible for the material that fills the lakes discovered last year by Cassini's radar instrument.
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»» Cassini Significant Events for 01/25/07 - 01/30/07
[Friday, February 2, 2007] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Tuesday, January 30, from the Goldstone tracking complexes. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.
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»» Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, is a 'cosmic graffiti artist,' astronomers discover
[Friday, February 9, 2007] Astronomers have found that Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, is a "cosmic graffiti artist," pelting the surfaces of at least 11 other moons of Saturn with ice particles sprayed from its spewing surface geysers.
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»» Cassini Significant Events for 01/31/07 - 02/06/07
[Saturday, February 10, 2007] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Tuesday, February 6, from the Goldstone tracking complexes. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.
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»» Looking Down on Saturn
[Wednesday, February 14, 2007] This image was taken on February 09, 2007 and received on Earth February 11, 2007. The camera was pointing toward Saturn at approximately 1,655,479 kilometers away.
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»» One Shepherd Moon
[Wednesday, February 14, 2007] This view of the unlit side of Saturn's rings captures the small shepherd moon Pandora as it swings around the outside of the F ring. The F ring displays a few discrete bright clumps here.
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»» Round Vortex
[Wednesday, February 14, 2007] This close-up view of Saturn's atmosphere shows a circular vortex surrounded by numerous attendant bright clouds. Some blurring due to spacecraft motion is apparent in this view.
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»» Cassini Significant Events 02/07/07 - 02/13/07
[Friday, February 16, 2007] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, February 13, from the Goldstone tracking complex. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
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»» A New Crater on Titan?
[Monday, February 19, 2007] This radar image of Titan shows a semi-circular feature that may be part of an impact crater. Few impact craters have been seen on Titan, implying that the surface is young. Each new crater helps scientists to constrain the age of the surface.
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»» Color Across Rhea
[Monday, February 19, 2007] The extreme false color image makes it clear that the wisps -- likely networks of fractures as on Dione -- cut across older, cratered terrain.
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»» Epimetheus and the Dark Side
[Monday, February 19, 2007] This view looks toward the unlit side of the rings from about 49 degrees above the ringplane. Epimetheus is 116 kilometers (72 miles) across.
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»» Spoke Siblings
[Monday, February 19, 2007] This group of spokes in Saturn's B ring extends over more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) radially across the ringplane.
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»» Icy Outpost?
[Sunday, February 25, 2007] The Cassini spacecraft looks down under at the tortured south polar region of Enceladus, crossed by its "tiger stripes," or sulci, as the long, nearly parallel fractures are officially known.
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»» Disturbances by Daphnis
[Sunday, February 25, 2007] This view looks upon the lit side of the rings from 31 degrees below the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 17, 2007 at a distance of approximately 768,000 kilometers (477,000 miles) from Daphnis.
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»» Tempest-Tossed Saturn
[Sunday, February 25, 2007] The Cassini spacecraft views Saturn's southern latitudes in color, spying a great, eye-shaped vortex just northward of the south polar region. Other dark vortices, common features of Saturn's general circulation, are visible in the mid-latitudes.
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»» Saturn and its Rings
[Sunday, February 25, 2007] This image was taken on February 23, 2007 and received on Earth February 24, 2007. The camera was pointing toward Saturn's rings at approximately 1,325,037 kilometers away
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»» Atlas and Saturn's Rings
[Sunday, February 25, 2007] This image was taken on February 23, 2007 and received on Earth February 24, 2007. The camera was pointing toward Atlas at approximately 1,319,912 kilometers away.
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»» Cassini Significant Events 02/14/07 - 02/20/07
[Sunday, February 25, 2007] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, February 20, from the Goldstone tracking complex. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
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»» Drawing Out Details on Rhea
[Monday, February 26, 2007] Rhea displays a marked color contrast from north to south that is particularly easy to see in the extreme color-enhanced Cassini spacecraft view presented here.
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»» NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #4307
[Tuesday, February 27, 2007] A comprehensive set of observations of the auroral emissions from Jupiter and Saturn is proposed for the International Heliophysical Year in 2007, a period of especially concentrated measurements of space physics phenomena throughout the solar system.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Titan: Larger and Larger Lakes
[Tuesday, February 27, 2007] This radar image, obtained by Cassini's radar instrument during a near-polar flyby on Feb. 22, 2007, shows a big island smack in the middle of one of the larger lakes imaged on Saturn's moon Titan.
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