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Saturn itself – v nice job capturing the golden yellow shades of Saturn's cloud tops, only this one definitely shows the famous polar hexagon. Overall winner in atmosphere!
Saturn will be visible in our evening sky from August to January, so it isn’t a brief appearance. If you have a telescope you’ll have plenty of clear nights when you can view the ringed planet ...
It's summertime on Saturn, and rarely have Earthlings gotten to see such a clear view of it. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a new image of the planet, which shows its rings in ...
There's something very peculiar about the atmosphere surrounding Titan, Saturn's largest moon: rather than staying constantly fixed in line with its surface, the atmosphere wobbles across the ...
During Cassini's "Grand Finale" plunge into Saturn's innermost ring and upper atmosphere in 2017, ... The data are clear, but explanations are still being modeled and that will take a while.
NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn may have came to a fiery end in September, but observations made by the spacecraft in its final months still have plenty to teach us about the mysteries of the ...
Overall, Saturn's atmosphere seems fairly static over time—even the surprising hexagon-shaped jet stream over the north pole has changed little, Cassini showed, since Voyager first sighted it.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back an amazing photo showing summertime on Saturn. Hubble captured the image on July 4, when the giant planet was 839 million miles from Earth, according ...
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 ...
Saturn’s Rings Rain Organic Compounds Into Its Atmosphere The Cassini probe’s final flybys show that 22,000 pounds of material per second drops from the rings into the planet’s ionosphere ...
According to Cravens, the higher-than-expected rate of material being expelled from Saturn’s D Ring into the planet’s upper atmosphere, or ionosphere, is sufficient that astronomers now think ...