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Cassini Scientist for a Day -- Fall 2008
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be part of a large science team with a spacecraft as your remote laboratory? Now is your chance to join the team.
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Saturn's Magnetic Personality Rubs Off on Titan
Cassini scientists found that Saturn's moon Titan, which has no magnetic field of its own, holds onto remnants of Saturn's magnetic field when it periodically moves out of the magnetosphere of its parent planet. A unique flyby of Titan caught the big moon on one of its excursions outside Saturn's magnetosphere.
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Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon. This is further evidence that most of the planet's small, inner moons orbit within partial or complete rings.
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Insider's Cassini -- Simulated Snafus
During this otherwise somewhat quiet time, Cassini management again took the opportunity to challenge the flight team with a simulated anomaly.
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Arc in Motion
The bright arc of material in Saturn's G ring is seen here as it rounds the ring's edge, or ansa. The ring arc orbits Saturn along the inner edge of the G ring.
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Enceladus
25.0 km (15.5 mi)
Oct. 9, 2008 (SCET)
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