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Cassini spacecraft News
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The Cassini spacecraft has been collecting data while orbiting Saturn since its arrival in 2004 and is now in the throes of a final death spiral.
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Cassini's long mission at Saturn enabled the spacecraft to see the Sun rise over the north, revealing that region in great detail for the first time.
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Cassini will make the first of these five passes over Saturn at 12:22 am EDT Monday, August 14.
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The space probe, currently undergoing the final phase of its mission, known as the Grand Finale, has made some startling observations of the planet as it makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings.
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As per NASA, the image was taken in green light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on March 31, 2017.
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The image shows Cassini spoting bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Saturn's moon Titan, along with dark hydrocarbon lakes and seas clustered around the north pole.
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Data from the Cassini mission has shown that Cassini Regio on Iapetus is covered in a layer of dark, dusty material creating a stark contrast to the much brighter region that surrounds it, which leads to the moon's distinctive, two-toned appearance.
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The image was part of a mosaic that included the planet's moon Daphnis (PIA17212).
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According to NASA, reaching the solstice, and observing seasonal changes in the Saturn system along the way, was a primary goal of Cassini's Solstice Mission - the name of Cassini's second extended mission.
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On May 7, 2017, Cassini spacecraft captured this view of bands of bright, feathery methane clouds drifting across Saturn's Titan as it passed above the moon's surface.
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The rings themselves are made of fast-moving particles of ice and space debris.
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NASA has released a new video taken by th spacecrfat as it swooped over Saturn during the first of its Grand Finale dives between the planet and its rings.
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On Tuesday, May 2, at 3.38 p.m. EDT (1:a.m. Wednesday India Time), NASA's Cassini will shoot the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings for the second time in its Grand Finale.
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The unprocessed image shows features in Saturn's atmosphere from closer than ever before.
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NASA's Cassini became the first spacecraft to enter the gap between Saturn and its rings.
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As Cassini enters its final phase called the 'Grand Finale' on Saturn mission, Google is celebrating the 20-year journey of the spacecraft with a doodle on its homepage.
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It's a never-seen-before photograph clicked when Cassini was 870 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) away from Earth.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its final close encounter with Saturn's haze-enshrouded moon Titan on Friday.
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The US space agency NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered hydrogen in the plume of gas and icy particles spraying from Saturn's sixth largest moon Enceladus.
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The US space agency NASA has made a big revelation on its new discoveries on ocean worlds in our solar system on Thursday.
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