Friday, November 26, 2010

Cassini Finds Ethereal Atmosphere at Rhea

Cassini Finds Ethereal Atmosphere at Rhea "NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a very tenuous atmosphere known as an exosphere, infused with oxygen and carbon dioxide around Saturn's icy moon Rhea. This is the first time a spacecraft has directly captured molecules of an oxygen atmosphere – albeit a very thin one -- at a world other than Earth."

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