Final Cassini Orbits Provide Huge Leap Forward in Our Understanding of the Saturn System
New research emerging from the final orbits of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft represents a huge leap forward in our understanding of the Saturn system — especially…
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Outstanding Hubble Image Shows Fully-Illuminated Saturn and Its Rings
Cassini ended its 13-year mission at Saturn on 15 September 2017 when it plunged into the gas giant’s atmosphere, but the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…
Scientists Reveal Surprising Feature Emerging at Saturn’s Northern Pole
The long-lived international Cassini mission has revealed a surprising feature emerging at Saturn’s northern pole as it nears summertime: a warming, high-altitude vortex with a…
Amazing Cassini Image of Saturn’s Translucent Rings
Saturn’s rings are perhaps the most recognized feature of any world in our solar system. Cassini spent more than a decade examining them more closely…
New Hubble Space Telescope Photos of Mars and Saturn
In summer 2018 the planets Mars and Saturn are, one after the other, in opposition to Earth. During this event the planets are relatively close…
Listen to the Sound of Plasma Waves Moving Between Saturn and Enceladus
New research from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft’s up-close Grand Finale orbits shows a surprisingly powerful and dynamic interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its…
Cassini Reveals the Subtle Colors of Saturn’s Rings
Saturn’s rings display their subtle colors in this view captured on August 22, 2009, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The particles that make up the rings…
Mosaic Cassini Image of the Icy Particles of Saturn’s Rings
Saturn’s shadow sweeps across the rings in a view captured on November 5, 2006 by NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft. In the bottom half of the image,…
Cassini Sees Saturn and Its Rings Through a Haze of Sun Glare
In this image, NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft sees Saturn and its rings through a haze of Sun glare on the camera lens. If you could travel…
Beautiful Mosaic of Some of the Very Last Images Captured by Cassini
This view of Saturn looks toward the planet’s night side, lit by sunlight reflected from the rings. A mosaic of some of the very last…
A Song of Ice and Light, Enceladus Drifts Before Saturn’s Rings
Saturn’s moon Enceladus drifts before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora in this view that NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured on November 1, 2009. The…
Cassini Image of Saturn’s Icy Rings
Saturn’s rings, made of countless icy particles, form a translucent veil in this view from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft. Saturn’s tiny moon Pan, about 17 miles…
New Physical Model Explains the Origin of Water in Our Solar System
Equipped with Newton’s law of universal gravitation (published in Principia 330 years ago) and powerful computational resources (used to apply the law to more than…
Cassini Spacecraft Image of the Northern Hemisphere of Saturn
Astronomers continue to study Cassini data on Saturn, providing us with images like this one showing the northern hemisphere from about 34 degrees above Saturn’s…
Cassini Image of Saturn’s Graceful Lanes of Orbiting Ice
This view from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows Saturn’s graceful lanes of orbiting ice (rings) winding their way around the planet to pass beyond the horizon….
Analysis Continues on the Mountain of Data from the Cassini Spacecraft
The Cassini Spacecraft ended its journey on September 15 with a plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, but analysis continues on the mountain of data…
One of the Last Images of Saturn’s Dark Side from Cassini
This newly released image of Saturn was taken by the Cassini Spacecraft several months before ending its mission on September 15, 2017. Stunning views like…
Cassini Spacecraft Bids Farewell to Saturn’s Moon Iapetus
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft continues its farewell tour as it views Saturn’s yin-and-yang moon, Iapetus for the last time. The above image is from the last…