15 September 2017
A sad farewell as Cassini takes its final plunge...
...; a series of 22 orbits that each pass between Saturn and its spectacular rings. This last fling around the ... its demise. Very shortly Cassini is due to dramatically plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere to burn up and disintegrate like a meteor, all the...
March 2016
Space for art
...system. The twin spacecraft revealed stunning details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – using each planet’s gravity to ...orbiter missions as Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn. Today both Voyager spacecraft continue to return valuable ...
22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
... comet’s surface. Dragonfly on the other hand is a dual-quadcopter lander that would take advantage of the environment on Saturn’s moon Titan, to fly to multiple locations and study the prebiotic chemistry and habitability of dozens of sites, some...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... valuable information far beyond the mission’s original plan, including sampling the atmosphere and ionosphere, measuring Saturn’s gravitational and magnetic fields, determining ring mass, and making the last views of Enceladus. Chang’e 5, China...
07 July 2017
Unexpected large methanol find near Enceladus
..., suggest researchers who have recently spotted this organic molecule in unexpected large quantities in the E-ring around Saturn. Over a decade ago, Cassini revealed to scientists that cryovolcanoes near the south pole on Enceladus were shooting...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
... have a radius around four times that of Earth, whereas Jupiter and Saturn’s radius is 10 times that of Earth. It is easy to see...to the giant planet cores of our own neighbours (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune). Its not all good news for planets ...
