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January 2007 Top Stories
»» Titan Has Liquid Lakes, Scientists Report in Nature
[Thursday, January 4, 2007] Scientists report definitive evidence of the presence of lakes filled with liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan in this week's journal Nature cover story.
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»» Cassini Significant Events for 12/21/06 - 01/03/07
[Friday, January 5, 2007] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, January 3, from the Goldstone tracking complexes. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.
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»» Cassini Significant Events for 01/04/06 - 01/10/07
[Monday, January 15, 2007] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, January 10, from the Goldstone tracking complexes. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.
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»» Two Sides of Dunes
[Friday, January 19, 2007] This pair of images, taken by the Cassini spacecraft radar mapper on two different Titan passes, represent two different views of a field of dunes located near 9.4 degrees south latitude by 290 degrees west longitude.
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»» Titan (T16) Viewed by Cassini's Radar July 22, 2006
[Friday, January 19, 2007] This radar image shows the entire scene in which hydrocarbon lakes were first discovered on Titan, near its north pole. This image was acquired on July 22, 2006, by Cassini's radar instrument in synthetic aperture mode.
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»» The Spoke Boundary
[Friday, January 19, 2007] This ringscape shows the outermost part of the rings' spoke-forming region, the other edge of the B ring, and the regular bands of material within the Cassini Division. Spokes are only seen in Saturn's B ring, interior to the Cassini Division.
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»» Shadows on Ice
[Friday, January 19, 2007] Canyons and mountain peaks snake along the terminator on the crater-covered, icy moon Dione. With the Sun at a low angle on their local horizon, the line of mountain ridges above center casts shadows toward the east.
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»» Scintillating C Ring
[Friday, January 19, 2007] Both luminous and translucent, the C ring sweeps out of the darkness of Saturn's shadow and obscures the planet at lower left. The ring is characterized by broad, isolated bright areas, or "plateaus," surrounded by fainter material.
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»» World of Swirl
[Friday, January 19, 2007] The clouds of Saturn swirl, billow and merge. These bands are layered into stratified cloud decks consisting of droplets of ammonia, ammonium hydrosulfide and water set aloft in a sea of hydrogen and helium.
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»» Veil of Ice
[Friday, January 19, 2007] The Cassini spacecraft stares toward Saturn through its gauzy veil of rings. The great ice-particle screen acts like a filter here, attenuating the glare from the planet and making its high altitude haze easy to see.
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»» Daphnis Perturbs Nearby Rings
[Friday, January 19, 2007] This image was taken on January 17, 2007 and received on Earth January 17, 2007. The camera was pointing toward Daphnis, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.
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»» Saturn's South Pole
[Friday, January 19, 2007] This image was taken on January 14, 2007 and received on Earth January 15, 2007. The camera was pointing toward Saturn at approximately 905,780 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the MT2 and IRP90 filters.
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»» Cassini Significant Events for 01/11/07 - 01/17/07
[Saturday, January 20, 2007] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, January 17, from the Goldstone tracking complexes. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.
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»» Saturnian Psychedelia
[Monday, January 22, 2007] This psychedelic view of Saturn and its rings is a composite made from images taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 728, 752 and 890 nanometers.
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»» The jet stream of Titan
[Wednesday, January 24, 2007] A pair of rare celestial alignments that occurred in November 2003 helped a team of astronomers investigate Titan. In particular, the alignments helped validate the atmospheric model used to design the entry trajectory for ESA's Huygens probe.
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»» The Greatest Saturn Portrait ...Yet
[Wednesday, January 24, 2007] While cruising around Saturn in early October 2004, Cassini captured a series of images that have been composed into the largest, most detailed, global natural color view of Saturn and its rings ever made.
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»» Unexpected cooling effect in Saturn's atmosphere found
[Friday, January 26, 2007] Reseachers have found that the hotter than expected temperature of Saturn's upper atmosphere -- and that of the other giant planets -- isn't due to the same mechanism that heats the atmosphere around the Earth's Northern Lights.
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»» Cassini Significant Events 01/18/07 - 01/24/07
[Sunday, January 28, 2007] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 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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»» The Bends
[Monday, January 29, 2007] Bright undulations disturb a faint ringlet drifting through the center of the Encke Gap. This ring structure shares the orbit of the moon Pan.
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»» Titan Dunes over Possible Craters (T23)
[Monday, January 29, 2007] This radar image of Titan's well-known dunes is distinctive because it may show an age relationship between different classes of features on the surface of this frigid world.
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»» Breakup Captured in Saturn's F ring?
[Monday, January 29, 2007] These two images, taken about eight minutes apart, show clump-like structures and a great deal of dust in Saturn's ever-changing F ring.
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