Tag: cassini
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#MorningMonarchy: September 14, 2017
Shooter drills, broken minds and Cassini’s goodbye kiss + this day in history w/the death of President McKinley and our song of the day by The Darts on your Morning Monarchy for September 14, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 27, 2017
Bog bodies, alleged abuse and the science of “The Scream” + this day in history w/Brandon Lee and our song of the day by David Bowie on your Morning Monarchy for April 27, 2017.
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How Long Is a Saturn Day?
How long is a day on Saturn? Universe Today provides simple answer: about 10 hours but varies by latitude.
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Mysterious Hurricane at Saturn’s North Pole
Cassini has been in orbit around Saturn for 9 years and we’ve been following this hexagon which surrounds the north pole.
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Titan – A Place Like Home
BBC Horizon program, “Titan – A Place Like Home?” The largest moon of Saturn, Titan remained largely unknown due to its heavy cloud cover. Cassini-Huygens spacecraft launched in 1997, entered […]
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Saturn’s ‘Spring Sun’ Lights Up Bizarre Polar Hexagon
The Daily Galaxy brings us new pix of Saturn’s North Pole and its amazing hexagon!
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Saturn’s Hexagon Revisited
One of the most bizarre things seen in the solar system is captured in the image…taken on 27 November by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
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Great Springtime Storm of Saturn
Brigette Hesman, who studies Saturn storms at the University of Maryland, recaps the “Great Springtime Storm” of Saturn as some call it in video (left). Wired.com provides rest of the […]
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Iapetus: A Moon, A Mystery
“Half of Iapetus appears as dark as asphalt and the other half as bright as snow,” begins narrative by Arthur C Clarke in video describing unusual Saturn moon. Iapetus discovered by Giovanni Cassini in 1671, is best known for its two tone coloration and huge equatorial ridge that extends halfway around it.
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cassini image of five saturn moons
Cassini spacecraft continues to amaze with images returned to Earth! In the image (pictured), according to article at The Daily Galaxy, “…NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured five of Saturn’s moons in […]
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life in the outer solar system
Europa seems high on a short list of worlds to explore. The Jovian moon has a global-wide ocean underneath a surface of solid ice, the prospect of finding life seems […]
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Weekend Starview: Cassini at Saturn
Weekend starview continues with Cassini Mission by Chris Abbas. An excellent two minute video of footage captured by Cassini space probe. Nancy Atkinson and her Universe Today article are thanked for the link. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable and relaxing video!
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cassini flies just 76km above rhea surface on jan. 11
It’s an exciting time for Cassini imaging team scientists as the spacecraft drops to just 47 miles above the surface of Rhea, Saturn’s second largest moon, on January 11th! “These will be […]
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mystery hexagon of saturn
In 1979, as Voyager 1 passed by Saturn, the satellite returned pictures of a hexagon on Saturn’s North Pole. The Cassini spacecraft confirmed, in 2006, the hexagon is still there! A […]