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Cassini Shows Saturn Hurricanes at North Pole Close Up – Video

(Source NASA)-The spinning vortex of Saturn’s north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Measurements…

Meteors Seen Colliding With Saturn’s Rings

These observations make Saturn’s rings the only location besides Earth, the moon, and Jupiter where scientists and amateur astronomers have been able to observe impacts as they occur. Studying the…

Saturn’s North Pole forms Hexagon shape

Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon Saturn’s north polar hexagon basks in the Sun’s light now that spring has come to the northern hemisphere. Many smaller storms dot the north polar region…

Lakes on Titan Images Compared After Years Pass

Titan’s Lake District, One Season Later These images obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show Titan’s stable northern lake district. Cassini’s radar instrument obtained the recent images on May 22, 2012….

A Christmas Present From Saturn. Stunning Image taken by Cassini

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn, taken while the spacecraft was in Saturn’s shadow. The cameras were turned toward Saturn and the sun so that the…

Cassini Snaps Image of Hurricane like Storm on Saturn

Looking a lot like the recent Hurricane Sandy here on Earth, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this image of a large vortex. The Spacecraft has been traveling the Saturnian system in…

Cassini Mission finds Pac-Man in Space

These thermal images captured by the Cassini mission have spotted features shaped like the 1980s Pac-Man video game icon in the Saturn system, this time on the moon Tethys —…

Hot Spot on Saturn is largest ever seen

Earlier this yer a large hot spot appeared on Saturn. This spot was unusually large and hot. It was captured in the video below by Cassini. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft detected…