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  Shut It Down?

  Posted by Frank Morring, Jr. 3:48 PM on Oct 28, 2011

  NASA's Science Mission Directorate has fallen on hard times. The expense of deep-space exploration has run smack into the wall of debt and fiscal uncertainty that is roiling the ec... Read More >>

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  Music of the Spheres

  Posted by Frank Morring, Jr. 5:37 PM on Apr 27, 2011

  The Cassini probe is the gift that keeps on giving.The hardy spacecraft has discovered an electrical link between giant Saturn and its tiny frozen moon Enceladus, which feeds Satur... Read More >>

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  Ring Science

  Posted by Frank Morring, Jr. 8:39 PM on Jul 09, 2010

  Close study of the swarms of propeller-shaped features the Cassini probe has imaged in the rings of Saturn suggests they may give scientists a better understanding of the way plane... Read More >>

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  No Elvis on Mars, But Pac-Man on Mimas

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:24 PM on Mar 30, 2010

  Space scientists are puzzling over the strange image returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its closest fly-by of Saturn's inner moon Mimas in early February. Instead of the expe... Read More >>

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