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In 1980, the U.S. spacecraft Voyager I sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Saturn.
CNN: Wednesday,
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The researchers were able to draw parallels between our planet and Saturn's hazy moon, suggesting that similar geological processes may have altered Titan's icy surface in the recent past.
MSN: Saturn's moon Titan may have seen Earth-like erosion
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Two further sine waves emerged in 2002, corresponding to one planet that has the mass of Saturn and is also orbiting more closely than Mercury, and another with four times the mass of Jupiter that is located in what would be Jupiter's orbit.
ECONOMIST: Extrasolar planets
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Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September Kepler-16, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.
WSJ: Galaxy Hosts 100 Billion Planets, in New Estimate
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Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September Kepler-16b, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.
WSJ: Galaxy Hosts 100 Billion Planets, in New Estimate
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Saturn has a network of over 60 moons and as they orbit the planet their gravitational influence sweeps through the rings.
BBC: Saturn's beauty and power