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Scientists collect unique Cassini observations of Saturn’s rings
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists at the Southwestern Research Institute have collected 41 observations of a solar eclipse of Saturn’s rings taken by the Cassini mission. The collection, published recently in the journal Icarus, will serve as the basis for future studies of the particle size distribution and composition of Saturn’s rings. “For nearly two decades,…
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Cassini captures seas on Titan reflecting sunlight
(ORDO NEWS) — Saturn’s moon Titan has numerous smooth lakes of methane that reflect sunlight at certain angles, as if they were mirrored. This was reported by NASA. The robotic spacecraft Cassini, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, captured cloud-covered Titan in 2014 in different bands of infrared light penetrating the clouds. The specular…
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