[Thursday, November 04, 2004] The prospect of the Huygens probe landing on a hard, soft or liquid surface when it lands on Titan next January still remain following further analysis of data taken during the Cassini's encounter with Titan during its fly-by on 26th October.

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[Thursday, November 04, 2004] When ESA's Huygens probe plunges into the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on 14 January 2005, telescopes on Earth will be watching the remote world.

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[Friday, November 05, 2004] Titan's surface lies beneath a thick coat of hazy clouds, but Cassini's radar instrument can peer through to show finer surface features.  Scientists have added color to emphasize finer details on Titan, as shown in the image.

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[Friday, November 05, 2004] Science activities this week turned to a variety of observations. The Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph worked to determine the flux of impactors on the rings, and took mosaics of the inner magnetosphere in order to determine the density of neutrals.

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[Monday, November 08, 2004] A University of Colorado at Boulder professor involved with the Cassini-Huygens mission is reporting an ever-changing vista at the frontiers of Saturn, featuring wayward moons, colliding meteoroids, rippling rings and flickering auroras.

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[Monday, November 08, 2004] This synthetic aperture radar image of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan was acquired on Oct. 26, 2004, when the Cassini spacecraft flew approximately 2,500 kilometers (1,553 miles) above the surface and acquired radar data for the first time.

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[Friday, November 12, 2004] This false color image of two density waves in Saturn's A ring was made from the stellar occultation observed by Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrograph when the spacecraft was 6.8 million kilometers (4.2 million miles) from Saturn.

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[Friday, November 12, 2004] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Goldstone tracking station on Wednesday, November 10. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Sunday, November 21, 2004] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Madrid tracking station on Wednesday, November 17. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Tuesday, November 23, 2004] Saturn's moon Rhea shows off the moon equivalent of a black eye -- a bright, rayed crater near its eastern limb. Rhea is about half the size of Earth's moon. At 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across, it is the second-largest moon orbiting Saturn.

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[Tuesday, November 23, 2004] Cassini has returned the best-ever natural color view of this icy Saturnian moon. As seen here, the battered surface of Tethys (1,060 kilometers, or 659 miles across) has a neutral hue. The image here is a mosaic of two footprints.

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[Tuesday, November 23, 2004] A mosaic of nine processed images recently acquired during Cassini's first very close flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on Oct. 26, 2004, constitutes the most detailed full-disc view of the mysterious moon.

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[Wednesday, November 24, 2004] ESA's Huygens probe, now orbiting Saturn on board the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft, is in good health and successfully passed its sixteenth In-Flight Checkout on 23 November 2004.

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[Friday, November 26, 2004] This image reveals the odd shape of Saturn's moon Hyperion and an intriguing variation in brightness across its surface. The diameter of Hyperion is 266 kilometers (165 miles).

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[Friday, November 26, 2004] A gorgeous Dione poses for Cassini, with shadowed craters and bright, wispy streaks first observed by the Voyager spacecraft 24 years ago. The wispy areas will be imaged at higher resolution in mid-December 2004.

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[Monday, November 29, 2004] In a portrait created by light and gravity, Saturn's moon Mimas is seen against the cool, blue-streaked backdrop of Saturn's northern hemisphere. Shadows cast by the rings arc gracefully across the planet, fading into darkness on Saturn's night side.

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[Monday, November 29, 2004] This Cassini view of Enceladus hints at the curvilinear, groove-like features that crisscross the moon's surface, as seen in images from NASA's Voyager spacecraft.

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[Monday, November 29, 2004] Saturn's massive atmosphere appears poised to crush little Enceladus in this image. Many fascinating details are visible in the gas planet's sinuous bands, such as a giant, eye-shaped storm that circles the south pole.

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