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Here’s how Earth looks from 1.4 billion kms away

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 09:51

This July 19, 2013 image from the Cassini spacecraft provided NASA shows the planet Earth, annotated by NASA with a white arrow, lower right, below Saturn`s rings.

Smaller, paler Earth unveiled in new NASA photo

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 08:47

A robotic space probe nearly 900 million miles from Earth turned its gaze away from Saturn and its entourage of moons to take a picture of its home planet, NASA said on Monday.

Wave at Saturn: Earth photobombs NASA’s interplanetary photoshoot

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 15:49

Ordinary Earthlings and scientists across North America waved at Saturn, the ringed planet, on Friday as part of an interplanetary photo op.

NASA probe Cassini to photograph Earth from 1.5 bn kms away on 19 July

Last Updated: Sunday, July 14, 2013, 10:39

A camera aboard the Cassini spacecraft, currently about 1.5 billion kilometers away in the orbit of Saturn, will turn towards Earth and snap photos for about 15 minutes on 19th July.

Mystery behind Saturn`s gigantic storm revealed

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 13:21

Scientists have for the very first time managed to explain the behaviour of Saturn`s storms through the analysis of images sent from the Cassini space probe belonging to NASA and ESA.

NASA to photograph Earth from Saturn

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 16:54

NASA`s Cassini spacecraft will be taking the first-ever natural-colour image of the Earth as seen from the Saturn system, from 1.44 billion kilometres away on July 19.

Saturn`s icy moon Dione had a watery past?

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 19:10

New images from NASA`s Cassini spacecraft show that the plain-looking Saturn moon Dione may have once had a geologically active subsurface ocean.

Cassini sees precursors to aerosol haze on Titan

Last Updated: Thursday, June 6, 2013, 19:48

Scientists analyzing data from NASA`s Cassini mission have confirmed the presence of a population of complex hydrocarbons in the upper atmosphere of Saturn`s largest moon, Titan.

Saturn moon Dione may have been active in past

Last Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 10:48

Scientists have found more evidence for the idea that Saturnian moon Dione was likely active in the past, thanks to close-up images of a 500-mile-long (800-kilometer-long) mountain on the moon from NASA`s Cassini spacecraft.

NASA`s Cassini gets close-up of hurricane on Saturn

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 13:49

Thanks to NASA`s Cassini spacecraft, scientists have obtained the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn`s north pole.

Ice cloud over Titan`s south pole indicate fall on Saturn`s moon

Last Updated: Friday, April 12, 2013, 12:37

NASA`s Cassini spacecraft has observed an ice cloud taking shape over Titan`s south pole, the latest sign that the change of seasons is setting off a cascade of radical changes in the atmosphere of Saturn`s largest moon.

Saturn`s rings and moons claimed to be 4 billion years old

Last Updated: Saturday, March 30, 2013, 15:04

The dazzling rings of Saturn and its moons are likely to be more than 4 billion years old, scientists have claimed.