Tag: Cassini
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NASA win an Emmy Award
Among this week’s news, there’s one I believe especially worth sharing. NASA won this year’s Emmys in the category Outstanding Original Interactive Program with the…
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So long, Earthians. Cassini, over and out.
And this is it. On Friday 15 September, after 20 years in space, 13 of which spent in Saturn’s system, Cassini plunged into the…
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Heading to Milford – 9-16 September
Next week I am going to attend the fabled Milford, the annual UK writing workshop for speculative fiction authors. I am excited and together…
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Where’s Cassini now? Countdown has just started
In case you have been wondering what’s happening to Cassini, the glorious space probe in its last months of 13-year mission, here’s the fact: Cassini…
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Cassini’s Gran Finale – First images
After hours of trepidation, we now know for sure that Cassini has survived its daring first dive on April 26 between Saturn and its…
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Meet Enceladus – and the (alien) life in the Solar System
I have already written about Enceladus in the past – a frozen world orbiting Saturn and one of the most likely to support life…
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Space Features of the Week (9 April)
Again, that’s the moment of my summary of space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few, since I haven’t done it…
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-30 to the Gran Finale
We are less than one month from the Grand Finale, the moment Cassini is going to plunge deep into Saturn. As you can read…
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Space Features of the Week (20 January)
Here my periodic summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. As usual, I have provided a link and included my comments,…
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Images of space – what’s available online
There’s nothing better for space lovers that seeking (and finding) beautiful images of near and far space objects, some of them in amazing resolutions.…
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Waiting for Juno
Next week, July, 4th, the spacecraft Juno will finally enter Jupiter’s orbits after five years in space. Juno’s objectives for this mission are to…
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Viewed from Saturn – a small point in the sky
I have talked about the sky view from other planets / moons in other posts, but nothing has impressed me more than this one…
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News from Saturn – Getting ready for Cassini’s plunge
It is not a real news that the glorious Cassini’s mission will come to an end in April 2017, when the spaceship will plunge…
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Crossing Saturn’s Rings – the 2016 Finale
It’s not the first time I cover this authentic natural wonder, including posting a link to a media gallery with some of the best Cassini’s…
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See you on Enceladus
That Enceladus is one of the most spectacular moons in the Solar System is already known – for many reasons, including pure aesthetic ones.…
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Solar System’s Best Flybys – which one is your favourite?
Thanks to Cassini, we got spoiled for flybys over planets and moons – just think that we are now at number 111 (the last…
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Space missions – updates
2015 is an amazing year for space missions (not that 2014 has been a bad one) – plenty of them under way and expectations…
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See you on Europa
Yes, “on” it is the correct preposition. It’s not the continent I’m talking about; it is the Jupiter’s moon with the same name. Why…
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From Titan with love
During this Christmas break (still ongoing) I was thinking about the most amazing videos I have watched in 2014, and there are many that qualify in this…
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The (Seven) Wonders of the Solar System
I have read some days ago a nice article on IO9 discussing the Seven Wonders of the Solar System – from the original Seven Wonders…
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Saturn’s best
There are not a lot of things in space cooler than planets, and Saturn can rightly claim the crown for the coolest one (I personally…
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The amazing sound of…space
We all know by now that, differently from what SF movies led us to believe, you can’t hear a sound in space. Therefore no spectacular…
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Saturn’s Streaming Hexagon
From Nasa’s Cassini mission, voila’ the Exagon, Saturn’s glittering North Pole…