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Saturn moon’s ice canyons viewed by Cassini

June 18, 2015 Stephen Clark

Saturn’s moon Dione received a fleeting visitor this week, when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft whizzed by to image bizarre streaks thought to be canyons with ice walls up to 100 stories tall.

Cassini beams back last views of Saturn’s moon Hyperion

June 2, 2015 Stephen Clark

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spiraling around Saturn zipped past the giant planet’s oddball moon Hyperion for the last time Sunday, catching a final glimpse of the bizarre body’s porous sponge-like surface.

10 years since we landed on Titan

January 14, 2015 Keith Cooper

Ten years ago Wednesday, on Jan. 14, 2005, a compact, flattened cylinder called Huygens, chock-full of sensors, cameras and scientific experiments, went hurtling through the orange skies of the mysterious moon Titan.

Crescent Saturn and Titan seen by Cassini

November 7, 2014 Stephen Clark

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft — in its 11th year orbiting Saturn — has spotted the gas giant and its haze-covered moon Titan suspended in the blackness of space like diamonds in the rough.