Cassini Captures Shining Mimas Against the Shadow of Saturn’s Rings
Although Innerspace.net tends to focus on Mars as the most inhabitable planet outside Earth, Saturn’s system holds a unique fascination, much of it due to the amazing Cassini space probe. It is also...
View ArticleCassini Finds Strange Feature in Titan’s Sea
Three images show an unusual feature in Titan’s sea. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell Note: Yet another in a long series of intriguing findings from the Cassini spacecraft operating in the...
View ArticleEuropa Clipper: Cubesats But No Nuclear Power
Artists Concept: Image CredIt JPL One recurring theme in coverage from Innerspace.net is a lamentation over the lack of any flagship class outer planet mission to follow in the wake of the...
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Cassini Journals: A Shocking Encounter at Hyperion and an Ocean on Mimas
A Shocking Encounter at Hyperion: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute This week brought two new findings from the Cassini spacecraft in the Saturn system. The first involved data from a September...
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Titan’s Seas
The Sun Shines on Titan’s Seas : Image NASA/JPL-CalTech/Univ. Arizona/Univ. Idaho The movie Interstellar took the crew of the Endurance to an ocean world with giant, wormhole driven waves, and then a...
View ArticleImaging Icy Worlds: Dawn, Cassini and New Horizons Promise a Hot Summer
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute 2015 is shaping up as a banner year for imaging icy worlds. The ion powered Dawn probe arrived at the Dwarf planet Ceres in the Main Asteroid...
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Cassini Prepares to Taste the Oceans of Enceladus During Historic “Plume Dive”
NASA Artist Cutaway of EnceladusCredits: : NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is about to make a return visit to one of the most interesting environments we have yet discovered in the Saturn...
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“Remember the Cant” : Cassini Captures Stunning View of Three Water Rich...
A Water Rich ViewCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA released this photo of three of Saturn’s moons yesterday. The image, which was taken by the Cassini spacecraft in December shows Tethys, Enceladus and...
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The Mysterious, Evolving Island in Titan’s Sea
Color Enhanced Radar Observations of Titan’s “Mysterious Island”Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell More fascinating observations of Titan’s seas from the Cassini spacecraft operating at Saturn....
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Another Day, Another Water World in Our Own Solar System
The solar system just keeps getting wetter and wetter. According to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, Enceladus is not the only Saturnian moon harboring a global ocean beneath its...
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