[Wednesday, March 1, 2006] An international team of planetary scientists may have solved the mystery of why the atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan, is rich in methane.

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[Wednesday, March 1, 2006] Ghostly details make this dark scene more than just a beautiful grouping of two Saturn moons, with Tethys on the left and Titan on the right.

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[Wednesday, March 1, 2006] Structure in Saturn's narrow and complex F ring is seen here, including one of the faint strands (at the left) that Cassini has shown to curl around the planet in a tight, rotating spiral.

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[Wednesday, March 1, 2006] A small and battered reminder of the solar system's violent youth, Mimas hurtles around its gas giant parent, Saturn. At 397 kilometers across, Mimas is simply dwarfed by the immensity of Saturn.

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[Friday, March 3, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, March 1, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Saturday, March 4, 2006] Data from ESA's Huygens probe have been used to validate a new model of the evolution of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, showing that its methane supply may be locked away in a kind of methane-rich ice.

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[Saturday, March 4, 2006] This image was taken on March 02, 2006 and received on Earth March 02, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus [smaller moon] at approximately 2,028,783 kilometers away

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[Tuesday, March 7, 2006] Scientists from the Max Planck Institute have observed Saturn's polar region using the particle spectrometer MIMI, on the Cassini Space Probe. They discovered electrons not only being accelerated toward the planet, but also away from it.

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[Thursday, March 9, 2006] This specially processed composite view reveals a tremendous amount of structure in the northern polar atmosphere of Titan. The hazes in Titan's atmosphere are known to extend hundreds of kilometers above the surface.

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[Thursday, March 9, 2006] This contrast-enhanced view of Saturn's faint G ring shows its extremely sharp inner edge and more diffuse outer boundary.

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[Thursday, March 9, 2006] This image was taken on March 07, 2006 and received on Earth March 08, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Saturn at approximately 2,821,960 kilometers away.

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[Thursday, March 9, 2006] Enceladus hangs like a single bright pearl against the golden-brown canvas of Saturn and its icy rings. Visible on Saturn is the region where daylight gives way to dusk. Above, the rings throw thin shadows onto the planet.

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[Thursday, March 9, 2006] NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The rare occurrence of liquid water so near the surface raises many new questions about the mysterious moon.

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[Thursday, March 9, 2006] Images returned from Cassini have yielded evidence that the geologically young south polar region of Enceladus may possess reservoirs of near-surface liquid water that erupt to form geysers of the kind found in Yellowstone National Park.

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[Friday, March 10, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, March 8, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Monday, March 13, 2006] Astronomers have discovered a new "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star located about 9,000 light-years away. This world weighs about 13 times the mass of the Earth and is probably a mixture of rock and ice, with a diameter several times that of Earth.

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[Thursday, March 16, 2006] Unusual spokes that appear fleetingly on the rings of Saturn only to disappear for years at a time may become visible again by July, according to a new study spearheaded by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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[Friday, March 17, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, March 15, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Monday, March 20, 2006] This composite of 24 images from the Cassini spacecraft shows multiple layers in Titan's stratospheric haze. The most prominent layer is located about 500 kilometers (300 miles) above the surface and is seen at all latitudes, encircling the moon.

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[Wednesday, March 22, 2006] This image was taken on March 20, 2006 and received on Earth March 20, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Epimetheus at approximately 452,053 kilometers away.

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[Wednesday, March 22, 2006] This image was taken on March 21, 2006 and received on Earth March 22, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Janus at approximately 724,386 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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[Wednesday, March 22, 2006] This image was taken on March 21, 2006 and received on Earth March 22, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 222,543 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and GRN filters.

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[Wednesday, March 22, 2006] This image was taken on March 21, 2006 and received on Earth March 22, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 82,172 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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[Wednesday, March 22, 2006] This image was taken on March 21, 2006 and received on Earth March 22, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Mimas at approximately 191,645 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the P120 and MT2 filters.

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[Wednesday, March 22, 2006] This image was taken on March 21, 2006 and received on Earth March 22, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Mimas at approximately 190,524 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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[Wednesday, March 22, 2006] This image was taken on March 21, 2006 and received on Earth March 22, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 83,086 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and UV3 filters.

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[Wednesday, March 22, 2006] Rocky planets such as Earth and Mars are born when small particles smash together to form larger, planet-sized clusters in a planet-forming disk, but researchers are less sure about how gas-giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn form.

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[Thursday, March 23, 2006] This image was taken on March 22, 2006 and received on Earth March 23, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus at approximately 1,303,447 kilometers away.

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[Friday, March 24, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, March 22, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Monday, March 27, 2006] Some may be surprised to learn that bleach-blondes and the enabler of life elsewhere in our solar system have something in common. And, no, it's not intelligence. It is, in fact, hydrogen peroxide.

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[Wednesday, March 29, 2006] This image was taken on March 24, 2006 and received on Earth March 26, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus at approximately 1,861,217 kilometers away.

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