Massive Saturn Storm Churns Up Water Ice from Great Depths
A newly published study details a massive storm that erupted on Saturn in late 2010, finding that cloud particles at the top of the great…
Cassini-Huygens Mission News
Cassini Reveals a Rigid and Weathered Ice Shell on Titan
Using new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists from UC Santa Cruz discovered a negative correlation between the gravity and topography signals on Titan, indicating…
Cassini Reveals Forces Controlling Saturn Moon Jets
Using data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a newly published study reveals that the intensity of the jets of water ice and organic particles that…
Cassini Helps Explain the Mystery of the Missing Waves on Titan
A new four minute ScienceCast video and new Cassini RADAR Team study examine the surface of Titan, trying to explain the mystery of the missing…
Cassini Will Photograph Earth in Natural Color
On the 19th of July, NASA’s Cassini probe will take a mosaic picture of Earth while Saturn is eclipsing the sun from Cassini’s point of…
Cassini Data Confirms PAHs Play Major Role in Production of Lower Haze on Titan
Data from Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer has allowed researchers to confirm that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) play a major role in the production…
Evidence of Activity at Saturn Moon Dione
Researchers have found hints of evidence suggesting that Saturn’s moon Dione was likely active in the past, and could still be active now. From a…
Scientists Use Cassini Data to Create First Global Topographic Map of Titan
Using data from the Cassini spacecraft, researchers have created the first global topographic map of Saturn’s moon Titan. Scientists have created the first global topographic…
Cassini Views a Spinning Vortex at Saturn’s North Pole
Taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, this NASA image of the day shows the spinning vortex of Saturn’s north polar storm. The spinning vortex of Saturn’s…
Cassini Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn’s Rings
Using NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, astronomers observed meteors colliding with Saturn’s rings. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into…
Titan’s Methane May Run Out
Based on Cassini data, scientists believe that Titan’s methane-based hydrocarbon features may be passing phenomena, the after-effects of a gigantic outburst of methane released from…
Cassini Data Suggests Saturn’s Moons and Rings Are More Than 4 Billion Years Old
Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggests that the moons and rings of Saturn are more than 4 billion years old. A new analysis of data…
Cassini Captures New Images of Saturn’s Moon Rhea
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured several new photos of Saturn’s moon Rhea as it flew by Rhea at an altitude of 620 miles (997 kilometers) on…
NASA’s Cassini Catches a Glimpse of Venus From Saturn Orbit
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has taken several new images of Saturn and its rings, capturing a glimpse of Venus in the process. Pasadena, California – A…
Cassini Views Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon
Captured by Cassini’s wide-angle camera, this NASA image of the day shows Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon. Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon Saturn’s north polar hexagon basks…
Cassini Detects Particles Being Accelerated to Ultra-High Energies
Similar to the particle acceleration that takes place around supernovas, observations from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have detected particles being accelerated to ultra-high energies by an…
Storm Spawns the Largest Tropospheric Vortex Ever Seen on Saturn
Using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists analyzed a massive storm on Saturn. The storm was the longest-lasting ever recorded on Saturn and it spawned…
NASA’s Image of the Day Shows Saturnian Moons Prometheus and Pan
This NASA image of the day shows Saturn’s moons Prometheus and Pan through Saturn’s rings captured in visible violet light by the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle…