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Cassini’s Legacy in Print

by Jenny Lunn, Michael W. Liemohn, Mark Moldwin and E. P. Turtle 20 September 201717 February 2023

With over 750 papers published in AGU journals based on Cassini-Huygens mission data, three editors select some of the most noteworthy.

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Iapetus's Ridge: The Result of Many Small Impacts?

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 30 March 201721 February 2023

A ridge around Saturn's third-largest moon has scientists scratching their heads.

A polar view of Saturn’s moon, Pan
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New Images of Pan, Saturn's Walnut Moon, in Unprecedented Detail

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 10 March 201720 April 2023

The finely detailed images can help future scientists study small bodies with weak gravity.

This image of Pluto’s moon Charon was captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it approached Pluto on 14 July 2015.
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Scientists Solve Charon's Red Mystery

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 15 September 201625 October 2021

Why are Charon's poles dusted with reddish material?

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Saturn’s Magnetosphere: A Dozen Years of Discovery

by Michael W. Liemohn 11 July 201611 January 2022

Twelve years of studying Saturn's magnetosphere has produced many compelling breakthroughs. Even more exciting, however, is what's left to learn.

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Jupiter's Europa Helps Earthlings See Sister Moon's Volcano

by R. Cowen 17 November 20152 May 2023

By briefly slipping between Earth and sister Jovian moon Io, Europa fortuitously enabled an Earth-based telescope to observe, with greater detail than ever before, a huge, puzzling volcano on Io.

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New Spin on Pluto's Moons

by R. Cowen 9 November 20156 January 2023

Strangely speedy rotation rates of Pluto's tiny orbiting companions show up in a trove of images taken as the New Horizons spacecraft approached the dwarf planet last spring and early summer.

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Pluto's Moons Nix and Hydra Show Their Faces

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 21 July 20156 January 2023

When the New Horizons spacecraft photographed Pluto last week, it snapped the most revealing images yet of two little-known moons of the dwarf planet.

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