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Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, ...
An image authentically shows Saturn photographed from NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its final mission in 2017. Rating: Miscaptioned (About this rating?) Context: The highly saturated image was ...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been snapping amazing photos of Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017. See some of Cassini's latest spectacular photos of the Saturn system here. SHOWN HERE ...
Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004, and it wasted no time making scientific discoveries. The NASA spacecraft witnessed epic storms and discovered new moons. Most importantly, its observations of ...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its sojourn at Saturn on Sept. 15, with a plunge in the atmosphere of the ringed planet. The mission began in 1997 when Cassini was launched on a trip to Saturn to ...
As of this writing, Cassini is scheduled to end its travels around Saturn in mid-September by diving, on command, into the planet's atmosphere. It will be incinerated in a fireball that likely no ...
After examining Saturn from up close for 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft is ending its long career with a boom — and there's an important reason why. Friday morning (Sept. 15), Cassini will ...
Controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a final command Friday morning to the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn. Not long after, accounting for the vast distance the message traveled ...
The Cassini-Huygens mission — a collaboration of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency — has been a prolific pioneer of Saturn's moons. When the mission launched in 1997 ...
After traveling in the Saturn system for nearly 13 years, Cassini launched on a new trajectory in April that took the two-story-high spacecraft into the previously unexplored territory between ...
The highly saturated image was an artistic representation of Cassini's final mission. Actual images captured by the spacecraft were monochrome with far less detail. NASA's Cassini spacecraft ...