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December 10, 2014

Saturn's Moons: What a Difference a Decade Makes
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2014
Almost immediately after NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft made their brief visits to Saturn in the early 1980s, scientists were hungry for more. The Voyagers had offered them only a brief glimpse of a family of new worlds - Saturn's icy moons - and the researchers were eager to spend more time among those bodies. The successor to the Voyagers at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, has spent the past 10 years collecting images and other data as it has toured the Ringed Planet and its family of satel ... read more

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