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November 30, 2010

Thin air: Oxygen atmosphere found on Saturn's moon Rhea

Thin air: Oxygen atmosphere found on Saturn's moon 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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