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Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn's Northern Lights

In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known ''northern lights'' in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness high above the ringed planet. The new video reveals changes in Saturn’s aurora every few minutes, in high resolution, with three dimensions.

Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn's Northern Lights

Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

Cassini has sailed seamlessly through the Nov. 21 flyby and started transmitting data and images of the rippling terrain.

Roughed-up Rhea

The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the battered surface of the moon Rhea.

Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

Cassini has sailed seamlessly through the Nov. 21 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and started transmitting uncalibrated temperature data and images of the rippling terrain. These data and images will be processed and analyzed in the coming weeks. They will help scientists create the most-detailed-yet mosaic image of the southern part of the moon's Saturn-facing hemisphere.

CHARM -- Cassini INMS: Observations of Titan and Enceladus

The next ''Cassini-Huygens Analysis and Results of the Mission'' (CHARM) teleconference is Tuesday, Nov. 24, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pacific Time. The presentation is ''Cassini INMS: Observations of Titan and Enceladus.''

Roughed-up Rhea

The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the battered surface of the moon Rhea. This view looks toward leading hemisphere of Rhea. North on Rhea is up. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 13, 2009.

Dr. Amanda Hendrix and the Latest on Enceladus

I recently sat down with Dr. Amanda Hendrix, a science team member for the Ultra-Violet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) instrument on Cassini. Her specialty is icy satellites of the outer planets, so this November with twin Enceladus flybys must seem like an early holiday present for her and her team. Dr. Hendrix obtained her PhD studying ultraviolet observations of Earth’s moon and the main-belt asteroids Gaspra and Ida.