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Planetary scientists close in on Saturn's elusive rotation
12-12-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)Somewhere deep below Saturn's cloud tops, the planet rotates at a constant speed. Determining this interior period of rotation has proven extremely complicated. Now, with new Cassini results, a team of European scientists have taken an important step forward.
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- Planetary scientists close in on Saturn's elusive rotation
12-12-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Somewhere deep below Saturn's cloud tops, the planet rotates at a constant speed. Determining this interior period of rotation has proven extremely complicated. Now, with new Cassini results, a team of European scientists have taken an important step forward.
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- Huygens's second landing anniversary – the surprises continue
01-12-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Two years ago, planetary scientists across the world watched as Europe and the US did something amazing. The Huygens descent module drifted down through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, beaming its data back to Earth via the Cassini mothership. Today, Huygens's data are still continuing to surprise researchers.
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- Planetary scientist says: Focus on Europa
02-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Yogi Berra supposedly suggested that when you come to a fork in the road, you are supposed to take it.That's just what planetary scientists studying the rich data set from the Galileo Mission to the outer solar system are doing now. They're taking the fork.William B. McKinnon, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, says the community suffers from an embarrassment of riches
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- Building our new view of Titan
06-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
Two and a half years after the historic landing of ESA's Huygens probe on Titan, a new set of results on Saturn's largest moon is ready to be presented. Titan, as seen through the eyes of the European Space Agency's Huygens probe, still holds exciting surprises, scientists say. The results are presented in a special edition of Planetary and Space Science Journal and at a press conference held today, June 1, in Athens.
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- Saturn's rings may be as old as solar system, says CU-Boulder planetary scientist
12-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago when the solar system was still under construction.
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- Saturn joins Venus in the vortex club
11-24-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Cassini's spectacular image of Saturn's polar vortex, published this month by NASA, may provide astronomers with a missing piece in the puzzle of how that planet's atmosphere works. For planetary scientists studying Venus, the image was strangely familiar.
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- Scientists offer new model for forecasting the likelihood of an earthquake
12-08-2006 · EurekAlert!
In assessing the probability of an earthquake, scientists rely on two important pieces of data that are often inconsistent. The past geological record sometimes tells one story, while current measurements from the Global Positioning System (GPS) tell another. But a new forecasting model designed by Stanford University geophysicists may help close the gap.
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- Brain pattern associated with genetic risk of obsessive compulsive disorder
11-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
Cambridge researchers have discovered that individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder and their close family members have distinctive patterns in their brain structure. This is the first time that scientists have associated an anatomical trait with familial risk for the disorder.
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- With computers, astronomers show predicted present day distribution of elusive first stars
12-11-2006 · EurekAlert!
With the help of enormous computer simulations, astronomers have now shown that the first generation of stars -- which have never been observed by scientists -- should be distributed evenly throughout our galaxy, deepening the long-standing mystery about these missing stellar ancestors. The results are published in this week's issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
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- Images of Saturn's small moons tell the story of their origins
12-07-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Imaging scientists on the Cassini mission are telling a tale of how the small moons orbiting near the outer rings of Saturn came to be. The moons began as leftover shards from larger bodies that broke apart and filled out their figures with the debris that made the rings.
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