<p></p> Proposals Include Wind-Powered Automatons and Icy Volcano Divers <p>Each year, NASA funds a handful of futuristic concepts to push forward the boundaries of space exploration. These early-stage proposals are selected with
<p></p> <p>NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will sample the ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus on Wednesday, Oct. 28, when it flies through the moon’s plume of icy spray.</p> <p>Cassini launched in 1997 and entered
<p></p> <p>NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will wrap up its time in the region of <a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4525" target="_blank">Saturn’s large, icy moons</a> with a series of three close encounters with Enceladus starting Wednesday, Oct.
<p></p> <p>New research using data from NASA’s Cassini mission suggests most of the eruptions from Saturn’s moon Enceladus might be diffuse curtains rather than discrete jets. Many features that appear to
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has an underground sea of liquid water, according to the international Cassini spacecraft.</p> <p>Understanding the interior structure of 500 km-diameter Enceladus has been a top priority
<p style="text-align: center;"><br /> <em>The Cassini spacecraft looks down, almost directly at the north pole of Dione. The feature just left of the terminator at bottom is Janiculum Dorsa, a long,
<p>A patchwork network of frozen ridges and troughs cover the face of Enceladus, Saturn’s most enigmatic of icy moons.</p> <p>This face-on colour view of Enceladus was taken by the international Cassini
<p>Nearly 65 feet beneath the icy surface of a remote Antarctic lake, scientists from NASA, the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nev., the University of Illinois at Chicago, and
<p>You could call this “Pac-Man, the Sequel.” Scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission have spotted a second feature shaped like the 1980s video game icon in the Saturn system, this time
<p>There’s a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn’s rings that’s full of promise, and maybe — just maybe — microbes.</p> <p>In a series of tantalizingly close flybys to the moon, named “Enceladus,”