Cassini Diagram No. 5

A diagram of the Dawn spacecraft from 2006.

+ Brightening Adiri -- Unannotated Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show changes caused by methane rain in the bright Adiri region near the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Altho...

Pan Found!

Diagram of the Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe.

These illustrations indicate possible ways in which the water vapor and ice particles in the plume of Enceladus may be formed. The Cassini spacecraft recently found a small fraction of salt-rich ic...

This animation blinks between two images of NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander hardware around the mission's 2008 landing site on far-northern Mars. By late 2017, dust obscures much of what was visible two...

The forceful storm generated unprecedented spikes in temperature and increased amounts of ethylene. In these two sets of measurements taken by Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer, yellow repr...

Take a virtual trip to alien worlds, and maybe even plaster your living room with new, futuristic space tourism posters. 

Artist's concept of our solar system showing a sense of scale and distance.

Saturn will be visible in clear skies during Cassini's final plunge into Saturn on Sept. 15, 2017.

+ Unnnotated Version This mosaic shows an updated global map of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys. The map incorporates new images taken du...

The Cassini spacecraft has logged some impressive numbers in the 12 years since it arrived at Saturn on July 1, 2004. This infographic offers a snapshot of just a few of the mission's big numbers a...

Oct. 15, 2012 update: check out the top voted images for the 15th anniversary of the launch. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassinifeatures/feature20120926/ Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Artist's concept of Cassini orbiter crossing Saturn's ring plane.

Scientists from NASA's Cassini mission suggested in a 2016 paper that the appearance of a cloud of dicyanoacetylene (C4N2) ice in Titan's stratosphere may be explained by “solid-state” chemistry ta...

Cassini is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Ca...

+ Version with labels Cassini shot past the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Aug. 11, 2008, acquiring a set of seven high-resolution images targeting known jet source locations on the moo...

Diagram of the Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe.  

Atlas Found!

On Sept. 23-24, 2005, the Cassini-Huygens radar team continuously scans Saturn from pole to pole, letting Saturn's rotation sweep the atmosphere across the track. This image details the planned pas...

Jean Dominique Cassini (1625-1712) discovered Saturn's moons Iapetus, Rhea, Tethys, and Dione. In 1675, Cassini discovered that Saturn's rings are separated into two parts by a gap. The gap is now ...

The lower panel is a mass spectrum that shows the chemical constituents sampled in Enceladus' plume by Cassini's Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer during its fly-through of the plume on Mar. 12, 20...

Temperature changes mapped with Cassini's composite and infrared spectrometer throughout Saturn's main rings show the ring temperatures decreasing with the increase of the Sun-spacecraft-ring angle...

InSight's landing site is Elysium Planitia, a flat, smooth plain selected not for its surface features, but for safety considerations. InSight's purpose is to study the interior of Mars, not the su...

Artist's concept of the LADEE spacecraft at the Moon.