Hunting for Fossils on Europa If extraterrestrial life exists on Jupiter's moon Europa, instead of deploying probes to drill past its ice shell to look for aliens in the ocean below, one might just go fossil-hunting on the icy surface.
Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteorid Smacked Jupiter A mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. The spot first caught the eye of an amateur astronomer in Australia, and soon, observatories around the world.
Engineers Diagnosing Voyager 2 Data System Engineers have shifted NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft into a mode that transmits only spacecraft health and status data while they diagnose an unexpected change in the pattern of returning data.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 08/25/10 - 08/31/10 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Aug. 31 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Madrid, Spain. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 08/11/10 - 08/17/10 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Aug. 17 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Canberra, Australia. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 08/04/10 - 08/10/10 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Aug. 10 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Goldstone, California. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
Hunting Tigers on Enceladus with Night Vision Cassini will be hunting for heat signatures at the "tiger stripes" in the dim south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Aug. 13. The closest approach will bring the spacecraft to within about 2,500 km (1,600 mi) of the surface of Enceladus.
Mountain Growth on Saturn's Moon Titan Saturn's moon Titan ripples with mountains, and scientists have been trying to figure out how they form. The best explanation, it turns out, is that Titan is shrinking as it cools, wrinkling up the moon's surface like a raisin.
NASA Cassini Significant Events 07/28/10 - 08/03/10 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on August 3 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Madrid, Spain. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.
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