New research from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft’s up-close Grand Finale orbits shows a surprisingly powerful and dynamic interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its rings and its moon Enceladus.

The team studied infrared signals from H₃⁺, a charged form of hydrogen that helps reveal how Saturn’s atmosphere behaves.

Saturn’s beautiful rings and many moons are an impressive sight to view through a telescope. But as NASA’s Voyager and then Cassini spacecraft discovered, as they rocketed close to the planet, Saturn ...

Plasma waves found traveling between Saturn, its rings, and its moon Enceladus have been turned into sound by NASA researchers. The waves were detected by the Cassini space probe during its final ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first infrared image of Saturn. The new image of the sixth planet from the sun was taken earlier this week on June 25, 2023 and includes its moons Dione, ...

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The study, in which have participated researchers from the Universities of Granada and Valencia, has been recently published in the journal Icarus The scientific community considers that there is a ...

The Saturn V moon rocket launched in 1967 as part of the Apollo 4 mission. Photo: NASA On November 9, 1967, a 363-foot-tall (111-meter) Saturn V rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, ...