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 …

Cassini’s finale plunge is a fitting and truly spectacular end for one of the most scientifically rich voyages yet undertaken in our solar system. This end was planned for Cassini in 2010, at the …

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 …

The Cassini orbiter will orbit Saturn for 4 years. The spacecraft’s 12 onboard instruments will collect data about Saturn, the rings, the magnetosphere, Titan, and Saturn’s smaller moons.

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 …

Cassini’s electrical power source — Radio-isotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) — have provided electrical power for some of the U.S. space program’s greatest suc-cesses, including …

Jun 26, 2019 · During one of Galileo’s extended missions, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft also flew by Jupiter on its way to Saturn. For a few weeks, both spacecraft were observing the giant planet …

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 …

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 …