Sep 21, 2023 · This gallery contains the full record of the Cassini spacecraft’s raw images taken from Feb. 20, 2004 to Cassini’s end of mission on Sept. 15, 2017. The archive will remain …

— At Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, Cassini and Huygens showed us one of the most Earth-like worlds we’ve ever encountered, with weather, climate and geology that provide new ways to …

Four spacecraft have visited the Saturn system, but only Cassini actually orbited the ringed planet. Doing so bought Cassini time – more than a decade – to linger and watch Saturn’s …

Extensive studies conducted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) showed that NASA’s Cassini mission, given its science objectives, available launch systems, travel time to its …

The Cassini spacecraft will make more than 70 orbits of Saturn, studying the planet, its magne- tosphere, rings, and moons. The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe descends to …

On Oct. 9, 2008, just after coming within 25 kilometers (15.6 miles) of the surface of Enceladus, NASA's Cassini captured this stunning mosaic as the spacecraft sped away from this …

On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn’s shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its rings — and, in the …

Mar 28, 2017 · NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make 22 orbits of Saturn during its Grand Finale, exploring a totally new region between the planet and its rings.

Aug 31, 2010 · The “charming” ringlet in the Cassini Division is clearly not circular, as it appears at different distances from the edges of the gap it occupies in different images

Cassini referred to Tethys as one of the four Sidera Lodoicea (Stars of Louis) after King Louis XIV (the other three were Iapetus, Dione and Rhea). Other astronomers called the Saturn moons …