Items Tagged With Saturn

Historic Apollo footage discovered on “The Tennis Shoe Test”
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse

Category: The Science Blog

2008-01-07 09:49:41
Authors Alan Lawrie and Robert Pearlman wrote on the CollectSpace.com website about an interesting day in 1966 for NASA engineers.           
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UFOs flying around Saturn have been identified
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-12-09 10:47:48
Scientists have finally explained unusual looking unidentified-flying-saucer-shaped objects within the rings of the planet Saturn. Luckily, the objects don't contain little green men.              
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Happy 10th Year Birthday for Cassini spacecraft
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-10-16 09:14:56
The Cassini spacecraft is ten years old and continues to successfully carry out its mission to explore the planet Saturn and its natural satellites (moons). Do you remember the controversy for its October 15, 1997 launch?          
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Cassini finds hydrocarbon lakes at Titan’s south pole
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-10-12 07:35:45
The NASA Cassini spacecraft has begun to explore the south pole of Saturn’s moon Titan. So far it has discovered three lakes filled with liquid methane and ethane.            
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Early morning risers: Look for triangle of Venus, Saturn, Regulus
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-10-11 08:49:39
The mornings of October 11 through 15, 2007, early morning risers in the northern latitudes will be able to see the planets Venus and Saturn and the star Regulus positioned at the three corners of an imaginary triangle.       
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Morning star Venus: brighter, earlier each Sept morn in 2007
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-09-16 08:59:07
The planet Venus, sometimes called the Morning Star when it appears in the dawn sky, is rising higher and earlier, and getting brighter, with the beginning of each new day during the months of September and October in 2007.
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NASA Cassini may perform close encounter with Saturn’s Enceladus
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-08-02 10:51:35
NASA mission managers with the Cassini space probe are seriously considering flying the spacecraft extremely close to Enceladus while dodging ice crystals rushing out of its south pole.
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Ridge on Saturn moon Iapetus was hard nut to crack
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-07-23 08:16:59
What is probably most unusual about the moon is its shape. Iapetus is not shaped like most large moons. Instead, it has a unique bulging ridge around its equator that makes it shaped like a walnut, prompting people to nickname it the “Walnut Moon”.
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New Saturn moon discovered: S/2007 S4, but, let’s call it Frank
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-07-21 09:40:09
Scientists researching images taken from the Cassini-Huygens mission have found a small natural satellite of Saturn. The images were taken on May 30, 2007, the Cassini Imaging Science Team made their announcement on July 18th, and called the modest moon Frank.
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Restored Saturn V: Apollo workhorse showcased at NASA Johnson Space Center
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-07-20 12:06:33
The newly refurbished Saturn V rocket, also nicknamed the Moon Rocket, is now on display outside of the NASA Johnson Space Center. The 30-story tall rocket provided the power in the 1960s and 70s to lift U.S. astronauts to the Moon and back.
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