Archive for the 'Saturn' Category

The world holds many great mysteries, one of which has always been Stonehenge.  What is it?  How did it get there?  Who put it there?  And so on.  But at least one Stonehenge-related question has been definitively answered by a couple of archaeologists: its birth date.  Stonehenge was erected in 2300 BC, which is, in […]

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Posted By: rebecca | Sep 22nd

 An image of Titan’s surface shows what scientists believe are bodies of liquid, shown in blue.
PASADENA, California (AP) — At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn’s moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday.
Scientists […]

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Posted By: ashley | Jul 31st

This is an insanely slicker:
 
Cassini spacecraft has beamed back to Earth never-before-seen angles of Saturn from high above and below its majestic rings.
The planet is fully surrounded by the rings in images released Thursday by NASA.
“Finally, here are the views that we’ve waited years for,” Cassini scientist Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in […]

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Posted By: froosh | Mar 2nd

Images shot last summer by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provide the strongest evidence yet that Titan, a saturnian moon and one of the most Earth-like celestial bodies in the solar system, is dotted with a multitude of liquid lakes.
“At the time we first announced it, we were like, ‘Well, we think these are probably lakes,’ […]

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Posted By: froosh | Jan 3rd