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February 2008 Top Stories
»» Journey to Saturn From Your Computer
[Friday, February 1, 2008] Want a peek at Saturn as seen from space? A new interactive 3-D viewer that uses a game engine and allows users to travel to Saturn and see it the way the Cassini spacecraft sees it is now online.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Trailing Rhea
[Friday, February 1, 2008] The Cassini spacecraft observes the wispy terrain that covers the trailing side of Rhea. North on Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) is up and rotated 27 degrees to the right.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Map of Iapetus - January 2008
[Friday, February 1, 2008] This global map of Iapetus was created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the poles.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Battered Dione
[Thursday, February 7, 2008] The view captures terrain stretching from about 30 degrees south latitude to about 65 degrees north latitude on the moon's Saturn-facing side. Cassini obtained this view from a position 48 degrees above the equator of Dione.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Coming to Light
[Thursday, February 7, 2008] As seasons change on Saturn, and sunlight creeps farther north, the region surrounding the north pole is steadily coming to light.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Flickering Antares
[Thursday, February 7, 2008] A point of light flickers behind Saturn's rings as multiple instruments on the Cassini spacecraft observe a stellar occultation of Antares (or alpha Scorpii).
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»» Scientists Study "Plumbing" in Plumes of Enceladus
[Friday, February 8, 2008] Scientists on the Cassini mission have become out-of-this world "plumbers" as they try to piece together what's happening inside the "pipes" feeding the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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»» Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth
[Wednesday, February 13, 2008] Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.
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»» A newly discovered solar system contains scaled-down versions of Saturn and Jupiter
[Thursday, February 14, 2008] A team of international astronomers reports in the Feb. 15 issue of Science the discovery of a solar system nearly 5,000 light years away with scaled-down versions of Jupiter and Saturn.
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»» Cassini Finds Mingling Moons May Share a Dark Past
[Tuesday, February 19, 2008] Some of Saturn's moons are pock-marked, some seemingly dirty, others pristine, one spongy, one two-faced, some still spewing with activity and some seeming to be captured from the far reaches of the solar system.
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»» NASA Cassini Significant Events for 02/13/08 - 02/19/08
[Friday, February 22, 2008] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, February 19, from the Madrid tracking complex. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
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