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October 2006 Top Stories
»» Encke Structure
[Wednesday, October 4, 2006] Although the embedded moon Pan is nowhere to be seen, there is a bright clump-like feature visible here, within the Encke Division. Also discernable are periodic brightness variations along the outer (right side) gap edge.
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»» Mimas - Positive ID
[Wednesday, October 4, 2006] The great basin that interrupts the contours of this moon's crescent identifies the satellite unmistakably as Mimas. The giant crater Herschel (130 kilometers, or 80 miles wide) is this moon's most obvious feature.
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»» NASA Cassini Image: Saturn's Rings - Two Sculptors
[Wednesday, October 4, 2006] Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles across) is more or less obvious just inside the clumpy and braided-looking F ring. But in the Keeler Gap, just inside the bright A ring edge, lurks Daphnis (7 kilometers, or 4.3 miles across).
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»» A Dramatic View Of Saturn
[Wednesday, October 4, 2006] This image was taken on September 28, 2006 and received on Earth September 30, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Saturn, and the image was taken using the CL1 and BL1 filters.
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»» Spokes on the Rings
[Wednesday, October 4, 2006] This image was taken on September 28, 2006 and received on Earth September 28, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Saturn, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.
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»» Chinese Lantern Technique Helps Track Clouds at Saturn
[Thursday, October 5, 2006] A new image of Saturn demonstrates a technique that creates a 'Chinese lantern' effect, showing Saturn's deep clouds silhouetted against the planet’s warm, glowing interior.
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»» Enceladus' Folded Surface
[Thursday, October 5, 2006] The wrinkled border of Enceladus' south polar region snakes across this view, separating fresher, younger terrain from more ancient, cratered provinces.
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»» Cassini Significant Events for 09/28/06 - 10/04/06
[Friday, October 6, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, October 4, from the Canberra tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.
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»» Cassini Image: The Color of Darkness
[Sunday, October 8, 2006] Sunlight filters through Saturn's rings in this view from Cassini of the dark side of the rings. Those rays from the sun directly reflected from the lit side of the rings onto the planet strike and illuminate the night-side southern hemisphere.
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»» Cassini Image Shows Saturn Draped in a String of Pearls
[Wednesday, October 11, 2006] Saturn appears dressed to the nines, "wearing" a strand of "pearls" in a stunning infrared image from the Cassini spacecraft that showcases a meteorological phenomenon.
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»» Saturn's Rings Show Evidence of a Modern-Day Collision
[Wednesday, October 11, 2006] Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spied a new, continuously changing feature that provides circumstantial evidence that a comet or asteroid recently collided with Saturn's innermost ring, the faint D ring.
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»» NASA Finds Saturn's Moons May Be Creating New Rings
[Wednesday, October 11, 2006] Cassini scientists are on the trail of the missing moons of Saturn. A recent observation by the spacecraft leads them to believe that they will find the moons near newly discovered rings around the planet.
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»» Tristan Guillot provides new insights into the composition of giant planets
[Thursday, October 12, 2006] Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune indeed qualify as ``giant planets'' because they are larger than any terrestrial planet and much more massive than all other objects in the Solar System, except the Sun, put together.
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»» Cassini Significant Events 10/05/06 - 10/11/06 October 13, 2006
[Friday, October 13, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, Oct. 11, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.
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»» Cassini Image: F Ring Dynamism
[Thursday, October 19, 2006] The Cassini spacecraft has revealed a never-before-seen level of detail in Saturn's F ring, including evidence for the perturbing effect of small moonlets orbiting in or close to the ring's bright core.
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»» Cassini Significant Events for 10/12/06 - 10/18/06
[Friday, October 20, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, October 18, from the Madrid tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.
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»» Superb Janus
[Sunday, October 29, 2006] The Cassini spacecraft provides this dramatic portrait of Janus against the cloud-streaked backdrop of Saturn. The view was acquired on Sept. 25, 2006 at a distance of approximately 145,000 kilometers from Janus.
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»» Cassini Significant Events for 10/19/06 - 10/25/06
[Sunday, October 29, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, October 25, from the Madrid tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.
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