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Cassini Significant Events  for 05/25/06 - 05/31/06 »» Cassini Significant Events for 05/25/06 - 05/31/06

[Friday, June 2, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, May 31, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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Titan's Atmosphere and Saturn's Rings »» Titan's Atmosphere and Saturn's Rings

[Saturday, June 3, 2006] This image was taken on June 02, 2006 and received on Earth June 03, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Titan at approximately 2,338,094 kilometers away.

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Janus, Prometheus, and Saturn's Rings »» Janus, Prometheus, and Saturn's Rings

[Monday, June 5, 2006] From just beneath the ringplane, Cassini stares at Janus (181 kilometers across) on the near side of the rings and Prometheus (102 kilometers) on the far side. The image shows that Prometheus is more elongated than Janus.

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Cassini Significant Events  for 06/01/06 - 06/07/06 »» Cassini Significant Events for 06/01/06 - 06/07/06

[Friday, June 9, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, June 7, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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Rhea and Saturn's Rings »» Rhea and Saturn's Rings

[Monday, June 12, 2006] This image was taken on June 07, 2006 and received on Earth June 07, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 3,516,173 kilometers away.

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Dark Side of Saturn and Enceladus »» Dark Side of Saturn and Enceladus

[Monday, June 12, 2006] The image was acquired in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 4, 2006 at a distance of approximately 2.1 million kilometers from Enceladus and 2.3 million kilometers from Saturn.

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Night on Saturn »» Night on Saturn

[Monday, June 12, 2006] This image was taken on June 08, 2006 and received on Earth June 09, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Saturn at approximately 4,002,275 kilometers away.

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A Sight to Behold - Saturn and Titan »» A Sight to Behold - Saturn and Titan

[Monday, June 12, 2006] Cassini gazes upon Titan in the distance beyond Saturn and its dark and graceful rings. This view was taken from above the ringplane and looks toward the unlit side of the rings.

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NASA Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Meeting Report May 4-5th 2006 »» NASA Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Meeting Report May 4-5th 2006

[Monday, June 12, 2006] The Outer Planets Assessment Group is a NASA-supported forum for scientists and engineers to discuss exploration of the outer solar system and to enhance communication between community and NASA.

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SwRI researchers offer first explanation for the near constant scale of the gas planet satellite systems »» SwRI researchers offer first explanation for the near constant scale of the gas planet satellite systems

[Wednesday, June 14, 2006] Research by SwRI proposes an explanation as to why the gaseous planets display this consistency, and why the satellites of gas planets are so much smaller compared to their planet than the principal satellites of solid planets.

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Three new 'Trojan' asteroids found sharing Neptune's orbit »» Three new 'Trojan' asteroids found sharing Neptune's orbit

[Thursday, June 15, 2006] Three new objects locked into roughly the same orbit as Neptune--called "Trojan" asteroids--have been found by researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) and the Gemini Observatory in Hilo, Hawaii.

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Cassini Significant Events  for 06/08/06 - 06/14/06 »» Cassini Significant Events for 06/08/06 - 06/14/06

[Friday, June 16, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, June 14, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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A Saturnian Musical Celebration to Honor Paul McCartney »» A Saturnian Musical Celebration to Honor Paul McCartney

[Sunday, June 18, 2006] On the occasion of Paul McCartney's landmark 64th birthday, the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) is releasing today an 8-minute movie as a birthday gift to the former Beatle.

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Epimetheus and a Crescent Saturn »» Epimetheus and a Crescent Saturn

[Sunday, June 18, 2006] This image was taken on June 09, 2006 and received on Earth June 09, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Epimetheus at approximately 3,961,242 kilometers away.

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Darkened Moons and Saturn's Rings »» Darkened Moons and Saturn's Rings

[Sunday, June 18, 2006] This image was taken on June 11, 2006 and received on Earth June 12, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Mimas at approximately 3,947,370 kilometers away.

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Crescent Moons Sail Past Saturn »» Crescent Moons Sail Past Saturn

[Sunday, June 18, 2006] This image was taken on June 11, 2006 and received on Earth June 12, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 3,660,862 kilometers away.

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NASA Cassini Image: Rhea Eclipses Titan »» NASA Cassini Image: Rhea Eclipses Titan

[Sunday, June 18, 2006] This image was taken on June 11, 2006 and received on Earth June 12, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 3,617,689 kilometers away.

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Pattern Upon Pattern »» Pattern Upon Pattern

[Thursday, June 22, 2006] The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 11, 2006 at a distance of approximately 2.9 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Saturn.

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Uncovering Rhea »» Uncovering Rhea

[Thursday, June 22, 2006] Two Saturnian moons meet in the sky. Dione departs after crossing the face of Rhea for several minutes.

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From Cloudy to Clear »» From Cloudy to Clear

[Thursday, June 22, 2006] During a recent flyby of Titan, the Cassini spacecraft looked beyond the utterly overcast moon and spied clear, distant Rhea in the blackness.

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A Tale of Two Moons »» A Tale of Two Moons

[Thursday, June 22, 2006] Many denizens of the Saturn system wear a uniformly gray mantle of darkened ice, but not these two moons. The brightest body in the solar system, Enceladus, is contrasted here against Titan's smoggy, golden murk.

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Cassini Significant Events  for 06/15/06 - 06/19/06 »» Cassini Significant Events for 06/15/06 - 06/19/06

[Friday, June 23, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Monday, June 19, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Marks Mission Halfway Point »» NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Marks Mission Halfway Point

[Tuesday, June 27, 2006] As the Cassini spacecraft reaches the halfway mark in its four-year tour of the Saturn system, discoveries made during the first half of the mission have scientists revved up to find out what's in store for the second act.

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Ragged Crescent »» Ragged Crescent

[Tuesday, June 27, 2006] Rhea's devastated surface creates a jagged terminator as mountains and crater rims break-up the line between day and night. Terrain on Rhea's night side is dimly lit by reflected light from Saturn.

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Moons of Interest »» Moons of Interest

[Tuesday, June 27, 2006] Wrinkled and cracked Enceladus hangs in the distance as the pitted ring moon Janus, at right, rounds the outer edge of the F ring.

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NASA Cassini Image: Saturn's New Moon Polydeuces »» NASA Cassini Image: Saturn's New Moon Polydeuces

[Wednesday, June 28, 2006] This magnified view shows tiny Polydeuces, a moon that was discovered by the Cassini spacecraft and is a mere 3 km across. Along with much larger Helene (32 km), Polydeuces orbits Saturn at the same distance as Dione 1,126 km in diameter.

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Hyperion »» Hyperion

[Wednesday, June 28, 2006] This image was taken on June 27, 2006 and received on Earth June 27, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Hyperion at approximately 549,398 kilometers away.

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Hyperion »» Hyperion

[Friday, June 30, 2006] This image was taken on June 28, 2006 and received on Earth June 29, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Hyperion at approximately 291,285 kilometers away.

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Cassini Significant Events  for 06/20/06 - 06/28/06 »» Cassini Significant Events for 06/20/06 - 06/28/06

[Friday, June 30, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, June 28, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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