On the night of Monday August 4, mainland Australia will see Saturn disappear behind the moon. It’s the third time this year that the moon and Saturn will perfectly line up, as viewed from our part of…
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Everyone’s favourite ringed planet – the magnificent Saturn – is well worth some extra attention in the coming days. Tomorrow night, it reaches opposition, shining at its very best and brightest, directly…
An ocean of water has been found underneath the icy crust of Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth largest moon, according to observations of the Cassini spacecraft published in Science today. This result has come…
Finding liquid water on a celestial body within the solar system is exciting. The only thing that is probably more exciting is finding an ocean full of it. Today such news comes via Cassini, which has…
The joint NASA-ESA Cassini space probe, exploring Saturn and her moons, has revealed extraordinary lakes and seas of liquid methane around the north pole of Titan. Scientists associated with the Cassini…
The US space agency has released fresh pictures of a hurricane with a 2000km wide eye locked over Saturn’s north pole and spinning at around four times the speed of earthly hurricane winds. The pictures…
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria Research Institute; The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Tufts University
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Program Manager / Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Facilities Program Director Nasa Operations Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex , CSIRO
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Outreach Manager, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, CSIRO
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Oxford
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Flagship Initiatives, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Professor of Planetary Physics, UCL