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Ed Stone, project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission, remembers the first time he saw the kinks in one of Saturn's narrowest rings. It was the day the Voyager 1 spacecraft made its closest approach to the giant ringed planet, 30 years ago. Scientists were gathering in front of television monitors and in one another's offices every day during this heady period to pore over the bewildering images and other data streaming down to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.Stone drew a...

Scientists believe they finally understand why one of the most dynamic regions in Saturn's rings has such an irregular and varying shape, thanks to images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. And the answer, published online November 1 in the Astronomical Journal, is this: The rings are behaving like a miniature version of our own Milky Way galaxy.This new insight, garnered from images of Saturn's most massive ring, the B ring, may answer another long-standing question: What causes the...

LAS VEGAS and BILLINGS, Mont., June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ante5, Inc. (Pink Sheets: Trading Symbol Pending) ("ante5") and Voyager Oil & Gas, Inc. (f/k/a ante4, Inc.) ("Voyager") (OTC Bulletin Board: VYOG) today announced the completion of the previously announced spin-off of ante5. ante5 was previously a wholly-owned subsidiary of Voyager and holds certain assets principally related to Voyager's prior entertainment and consumer products business. ante5 has become a separate...

Engineers have shifted NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft into a mode that transmits only spacecraft health and status data while they diagnose an unexpected change in the pattern of returning data. Preliminary engineering data received on May 1 show the spacecraft is basically healthy, and that the source of the issue is the flight data system, which is responsible for formatting the data to send back to Earth. The change in the data return pattern has prevented mission managers from decoding...

SEATTLE, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Capital, a leading West Coast venture capital firm, today announced that Bruce Chizen, former CEO of Adobe Systems, has joined the firm as a Venture Partner. Previously serving on Voyager's Advisory Board, Chizen is expanding his role to bring his strategic insight and leadership experience to technology entrepreneurs offering innovative solutions in digital media and software. "Bruce possesses a rare combination of valuable market insight and...

DALLAS, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- In anticipation of World Math Day (March 4, 2009), Voyager Expanded Learning(R) announced today that it will partner with TeacherTube for the first annual World Math Day Video Challenge. The Challenge, open to all U.S. classrooms, grades three through eight, begins today and runs through February 20, 2009. How the Challenge Works 1. Teachers will record a two to three minute video highlighting how their students are preparing for World...

Almost every day, the great antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network turn to a blank patch of sky in the constellation Ophiuchus. Pointing at nothing, or so it seems, they invariably pick up a signal, faint but full of intelligence. The source is beyond Neptune, beyond Pluto, on the verge of the stars themselves. It's Voyager 1. The spacecraft left Earth in 1977 on a mission to visit Jupiter and Saturn. Almost 30 years later, with the gas giants long ago seen and done, Voyager 1 is still going...

JPL -- Scientists are celebrating the first Cassini spacecraft sighting of spokes, the ghostly radial markings discovered in Saturn's rings by NASA's Voyager spacecraft 25 years ago. A sequence of images taken on the side of the rings not illuminated by the sun has captured a few faint, narrow spokes in the outer B ring, about 3,500 kilometers long and about 100 kilometers wide (2,200 miles by 60 miles). Previously, scientists believed the visibility of spokes depended on the elevation of the...