NASA figures out how to smell Saturn's moon Titan right here on Earth by an interplanetary smell-o-scope experiment, processing data from the Cassini spacecraft and reproducing the smell of another world. A new recipe that captures key flavors of the brownish-orange atmosphere around Saturn's largest moon was created by a team led by Joshua Sebree, assistant professor at the University of … [Read more...]
NASA images suggest birth of new Saturn Moon
Some recent images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in April 2013 have suggested the birth of a new Saturn moon. The images show a bright arc about 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide at the edge of Saturn's outermost ring (known as the A ring). According to the scientists, this arc and some strange bumps nearby were probably created by the gravity of a small, icy … [Read more...]