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March 2008 Top Stories
»» NASA Cassini Image: Titan Makes Contact
[Saturday, March 1, 2008] Titan's photochemical smog completely obscures the surface in such natural color views. Its high-altitude hazes are visible against the disk of Saturn as they attenuate the light reflected by the planet.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Alien Weather
[Saturday, March 1, 2008] A bright streak of cloud graces the northern skies of Titan. This is the second time the Cassini spacecraft's imaging cameras have spotted clouds at 60 degrees north latitude on Titan.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Pan in the Fast Lane
[Saturday, March 1, 2008] Two of Saturn's ring moons are captured in this Cassini spacecraft view, along with the signature of another. This image was taken not long after Prometheus passed, leaving a trail of dark gores in the inner edge of the F ring.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Adiri in View
[Saturday, March 1, 2008] The Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and the large, equatorial bright region at center called Adiri. The Huygens probe landing site is in view here, northwest of Adiri.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Janus, February 2008
[Saturday, March 1, 2008] This image was taken on February 20, 2008 and received on Earth February 21, 2008. The camera was pointing toward Janus at approximately 180,743 kilometers away.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Flowing Liquids on Titan
[Saturday, March 1, 2008] This synthetic aperture radar image was obtained by the Cassini spacecraft on its pass by Titan's south pole on Dec. 20, 2007.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Background Planet
[Saturday, March 1, 2008] Rhea drifts in front of Saturn. The battered, icy moon is seen here near the western limb of the planet's northern hemisphere.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Map of Tethys - February 2008
[Saturday, March 1, 2008] This global map of Saturn's moon Tethys was created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage.
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»» NASA Cassini Significant Events for 02/20/08 - 02/26/08
[Tuesday, March 4, 2008] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, February 26, 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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»» Saturn's Moon Rhea Also May Have Rings
[Thursday, March 6, 2008] NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This is the first time rings may have been found around a moon.
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»» Cassini Spacecraft to Dive Into Water Plume of Saturn Moon
[Monday, March 10, 2008] NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12.
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»» Enceladus Flyby Underway
[Wednesday, March 12, 2008] "Well our flyby sequence has officially started!! Last night we began our observations of Enceladus! We are very distant, but getting closer all the time, over the northern hemisphere."
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»» Cassini Completes Close Flyby of Enceladus
[Wednesday, March 12, 2008] According to NASA sources Cassini's flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus occurred today around noon Pacific time. Science data collection was been completed and Cassini has reoriented itself so as to point at Earth and play back the data that was collected.
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»» NASA Cassini Enceladus Polar Flyby Image 12 March 2008
[Thursday, March 13, 2008] This image was taken on March 12, 2008 and received on Earth March 13, 2008. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus at approximately 146,103 kilometers.
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»» NASA Cassini Enceladus Close Up Flyby Image 12 March 2008
[Thursday, March 13, 2008] This image was taken on March 12, 2008 and received on Earth March 13, 2008. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus at approximately 31,856 kilometers away.
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»» NASA Cassini Flies Through Watery Plumes of Saturn's Moon Enceladus
[Thursday, March 13, 2008] NASA's Cassini spacecraft performed a daring flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12, flying about 15 kilometers per second (32,000 mph) through icy water geyser-like jets.
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»» Cassini Spacecraft Finds Ocean May Exist Beneath Titan's Crust
[Thursday, March 20, 2008] NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan.
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»» NASA To Release New Details from Close Flyby of Saturn Moon
[Thursday, March 20, 2008] NASA will hold a news conference to present new clues on the composition of the icy plumes jetting off the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The findings were obtained March 12 during the closest flyby of the moon by the Cassini spacecraft.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Among the Waves
[Monday, March 24, 2008] Daphnis and its entourage of edge waves are captured here by the Cassini spacecraft. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 45 degrees below the ringplane. Daphnis is 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) across.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Janus in View
[Monday, March 24, 2008] The Cassini spacecraft spots the irregularly shaped icy moon Janus as it swings around Saturn. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 8 degrees above the ringplane. Janus is 181 kilometers (113 miles) across.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Trailing Prometheus
[Monday, March 24, 2008] Saturn's F ring displays magnificent structure following the passage of Prometheus. Atlas (32 kilometers, or 20 miles across) is seen between the A and F rings, above center.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Stepping Stone to Dione
[Monday, March 24, 2008] The Cassini spacecraft captures Janus in the foreground, with Dione in the distance beyond. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 17, 2008.
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»» NASA Cassini Spacecraft Tastes Organic Material at Saturn's Geyser Moon
[Wednesday, March 26, 2008] NASA's Cassini spacecraft tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion from Saturn's moon Enceladus during a close flyby on March 12.
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»» Warm 'Tiger Stripes' on Geyser Moon Enceladus Raise Hopes for Life
[Friday, March 28, 2008] The most detailed temperature map to date of the "Tiger Stripe" region on the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus reveals that the area is even warmer than previous measurements indicated.
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