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During the final year of NASA’s Cassini mission before it completed a “death dive” into Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017, the spacecraft gathered as much data as possible about the planet’s ...
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IFLScience on MSN"The Rings Held The Answer": How We Finally Figured Out Saturn's Day Length In 2019Figuring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...
Cassini captures Saturn and its moons 31 photos NASA's Cassini probe survived its second pass between Saturn and its innermost rings earlier this week, giving scientists increasing confidence the ...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to fly closer to Saturn's rings than it has since it arrived at the planet back in 2004.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dove inside Saturn’s rings for the first time on April 26, its first of 22 planned orbits close to the planet’s atmosphere.
Before the Cassini-Huygens mission, scientists weren't sure how old Saturn's rings are, what they're made of, how they change, how thick they are, how fast they move, how big the ring particles ...
Cassini will make one last pass of this moon in April 2017 to permanently change its orbit. Once this happens, Cassini will fly through the narrow gap between the rings and Saturn.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft re-established contact with ground controllers shortly before 3 a.m. ET after passing through the gap between Saturn and the planet's rings. NASA says the probe is now ...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its first dive between Saturn and its rings early Wednesday, as the final act in a nearly 20-year mission.
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