News articles tagged with 'moon'
A race against time to find Apollo 14's lost voyagers
— 10 Feb 2011 20:04 | AstronomyIn communities all across the US, travellers that went to the moon and back with the Apollo 14 mission are living out their quiet lives. The voyagers in question are not astronauts.…
Surprise hidden in Titan's smog: Cirrus-like clouds
— 4 Feb 2011 16:49 | AstronomyEvery day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes' London, the moon looks…
Voyager celebrates 25 years since Uranus visit
— 22 Jan 2011 10:08 | AstronomyAs NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the only close approach to date of our mysterious seventh planet Uranus 25 years ago, Project Scientist Ed Stone and the Voyager team gathered at…
Mars Express close flybys of Martian moon Phobos
— 22 Jan 2011 09:53 | AstronomyMars Express has returned images from the Phobos flyby of 9 January 2011. Mars Express passed Mars' largest moon at a distance of 100 km…
Cassini rocks Rhea rendezvous
— 14 Jan 2011 15:20 | AstronomyNASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea, returning raw images of the icy moon's surface. Pictures of the Rhea surface taken around…
Demise of large satellite may have led to the formation of Saturn's rings and inner moons
— 13 Dec 2010 17:13 | AstronomySimulations performed at Southwest Research Institute may explain how Saturn's majestic rings and icy inner moons formed following the collision of a Titan-sized satellite with the…
Cassini returns images of bright jets at Enceladus
— 2 Dec 2010 20:07 | AstronomyNASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully dipped near the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Nov. 30. Though Cassini's closest approach took it to within about 48 kilometres (30 miles)…
Thin air - Cassini finds ethereal atmosphere at Rhea
— 30 Nov 2010 21:38 | AstronomyNASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a very tenuous atmosphere known as an exosphere, infused with oxygen and carbon dioxide around Saturn's icy moon Rhea. This is the first time…
New analysis explains formation of bulge on far side of moon
— 12 Nov 2010 15:21 | AstronomyA bulge of elevated topography on the farside of the moon - known as the lunar farside highlands - has defied explanation for decades. But a new study led by researchers at the University…
Spring has sprung on Titan
— 22 Oct 2010 19:38 | AstronomyNASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back dreamy raw images of Saturn's moon Titan that show the appearance of clouds around the moon's midsection. These bright clouds likely appeared…