NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Measures a Day on Saturn
Measuring the exact length of a Saturn day is turning out to be a bigger challenge than originally thought. Over more than a decade in…
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NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Captures a New View of Saturn
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views Saturn from above. Saturn appears as a serene globe amid tranquil rings in this view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. In reality,…
Cassini Views Saturn’s Dynamic Atmosphere
Astronomers are using Saturn’s clouds to study fluid dynamics, which seeks to understand the motion of gases and liquids. Saturn’s lack of a solid planetary…
Cassini Views a Lonely Moon of Saturn
This new Cassini image shows Saturn’s moon Pandora in isolation beside Saturn’s kinked and constantly changing F ring. Pandora (near upper right) is 50 miles…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Begins Final Year of Its Voyage
After more than 12 years of exploring Saturn, NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft has entered the final year of its voyage. The conclusion of the historic scientific…
New Cassini Image Shows a Glowing Spot on Saturn’s B Ring
This new image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows an ethereal, glowing spot on Saturn’s B ring. There is nothing particular about that place in the…
Long Divisions – New Cassini Image of Saturn and Mimas
This newly released image form the Cassini Spacecraft shows Saturn and Mimas. The shadow of Saturn on the rings, which stretched across all of the…
New View of Saturn’s A and F Rings
The Cassini Spacecraft gives us another interesting view of Saturn. Saturn’s A and F rings appear bizarrely warped where they intersect the planet’s limb, whose…
Cassini Image Shows Saturn’s Rings with Dione and Epimetheus
This newly released Cassini image shows Saturn’s rings with Dione and Epimetheus off in the distance. Saturn’s main rings, along with its moons, are much…
New Cassini Image – Tethys Tops Saturn
This newly released Cassini image provides an illusion of perspective, showing Saturn’s moon Tethys above the planet’s north pole. Tethys (660 miles or 1,062 kilometers…
New Cassini Image of Saturn’s Rings and the Icy Moon Enceladus
This newly released Cassini image shows Saturn’s rings and the icy moon Enceladus. At first glance, the most obvious features in this image from NASA’s…
Shadow Below – New Cassini Image of Saturn
This newly released Cassini image of Saturn was captured this past March. As Saturn’s northern hemisphere summer approaches, the shadows of the rings creep ever…
Cassini Views a Disruption in Saturn’s Narrow F Ring
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft captures a small disruption in Saturn’s F ring; which was likely caused by the interaction of a small object embedded in the…
New Cassini Image of Titan above Saturn’s Rings
NASA reveals another image of Titan and Saturn. Distant Titan, its northern hemisphere drenched in the sunlight of late spring, hangs above Saturn’s rings. What…
Cassini Image of Saturn’s Rings and Its Moon Prometheus
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views Saturn’s Rings and its neighboring moon Prometheus. Most planetary rings appear to be shaped, at least in part, by moons orbiting…
Newly Released Cassini Image – The Dew Drop of Saturn
This newly released image of Saturn and Enceladus was taken by NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft last May. The water-world Enceladus appears here to sit atop Saturn’s…
New Cassini View of Saturn’s Rings
Cassini gets a closer look at Saturn’s rings. It’s difficult to get a sense of scale when viewing Saturn’s rings, but the Cassini Division (seen…
Cassini Spacecraft Not Affected by Hypothetical Planet 9
According to mission managers and orbit determination experts at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Cassini Spacecraft is not experiencing unexplained deviations in its orbit around…