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Cassini's Radar to Peer Through Titan's Haze
05.08.08 - Cassini is on a course for a Titan flyby on May 12, for the first of two Titan northern hemisphere flybys that will wrap up the prime mission.
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Q&A: Titan's Smoggy Sand Grains
05.02.08 - NASA scientist Jason Barnes says Titan and Earth have much in common, but not when it comes to sand.
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All That Cassini Jazz: Musician Uses Saturn's True Voice to Make Beautiful Music
04.23.08 - Imagine being able to listen to the music of the ringed planet Saturn. Now you can!
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Cassini Samples Titan's Atmosphere
03.31.08 - On March 25, just prior to its closest approach at an altitude of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), Cassini employed its Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer to examine Titan's upper atmosphere in yet another successful flyby of the orange-tinged moon.
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Cassini to 'Touch and Look' at Titan's Atmosphere
03.21.08 - On Tuesday, March 25, just prior to its closest approach to Titan at an altitude of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), Cassini will employ its Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer to examine the upper atmosphere.
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Cassini Images Huygens Landing Site
02.25.08 - A little more than three years after the Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan, Cassini's radar instrument got another look at the landing area during a successful flyby on Feb. 22.
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High Energy Electron Holes Reveal Unseen Rings
02.19.08 - Gaps in the soup of high energy particles near the orbits of two of Saturn's tiny moons indicate that Saturn may be surrounded by undiscovered, near-invisible partial rings.
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Cassini to Image Huygens Landing Site
02.14.08 - A little more than three years after the Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan, Cassini's radar instrument will get another look at the area where it landed during a flyby on Feb. 22.
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Students Paint a Window to Saturn
02.08.08 - Art students have literally left their mark at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a gigantic, multi-wall mural of the Cassini spacecraft's latest discoveries about Saturn and its moons.
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Scientists Study 'Plumbing' in Plumes of Enceladus
02.07.08 - Scientists on the Cassini mission have become out-of-this world "plumbers" as they try to piece together what's happening inside the "pipes" feeding the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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Saturn's Giant Sponge
02.05.08 - One of Saturn's rings soaks up material gushing from the fountains on the tiny ice-moon, Enceladus, according to new Cassini observations.
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Cassini Finds Rhythm in Saturn's Rings
01.31.08 - Order can be found in the most unexpected places, as demonstrated by our neighbor three planets down.
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Cassini Completes First Titan Visit of the New Year
01.07.08 - The Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Titan on Jan. 5.
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Cassini's First Titan Visit in the New Year
01.02.08 - During the Cassini spacecraft's next encounter with Titan on Jan. 5 its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer will map the Huygens probe's landing site, now in direct sunlight.
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Cassini Headed South on Titan
12.21.07 - Cassini successfully completed its most recent Titan flyby on Dec. 20, 2007, and data are currently being analyzed.
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Cassini Heads South on Next Titan Flyby
12.18.07 - On Cassini's next Titan flyby on Dec. 20, 2007, the radar instrument will reveal Titan's "deep south".
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Cassini Flies by Titan's South Pole
12.06.07 - The Cassini spacecraft performed a southern hemisphere pass of Titan's surface on Dec. 5.
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Cassini Flies by Titan's South Pole
11.29.07 - The Cassini spacecraft will perform a southern hemisphere pass of Titan's surface on Dec. 5, 2007.
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Organic 'Building Blocks' Discovered in Titan's Atmosphere
11.28.07 - Scientists analyzing data gathered by the Cassini spacecraft have confirmed the presence of heavy negative ions in the upper regions of Titan's atmosphere.
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Spotlight on Titan During Recent Cassini Flyby
11.20.07 - Saturn's moon Titan was backlit by the sun during Cassini's flyby on Nov. 19.