Animated Spacecraft

Soar over the giant asteroid Vesta in 3-D. Put on your 3-D glasses for this ride over asteroid Vesta.

Trouble pronouncing Rosetta and Philae's target comet? We called in some expert help.

This visualization shows the orbits of NASA-related near-Earth science missions that are considered operational as of March 2017. 

This is an animated artist interpretation of the area surrounding the Huygens landing site, based on images and data returned Jan. 14, 2005.

New science, mined from the archives. Data from NASA's Galileo orbiter launched a generation ago yields new evidence of plumes, eruptions of water vapor, from Jupiter's moon Europa.

This animation demonstrates how deformation in the icy surface of Europa could transport subsurface ocean water to the moon’s surface.

The beauty and spectacle of celestial motion is captured in this short movie of a moon shadow darting across Saturn's rings.

This mosaic strip – extending across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015 – now includes all of the highest-resolution images taken by the NA...

Atlas Found!

Watch the NASA-JPL press briefing announcing Cassini's final orbits recorded at JPL on April 4, 2017.

In August 2012, a long filament of solar material coalesced in the Sun's atmosphere. 

Two crescent moons dance around Saturn as far-off Dione slips behind its sibling moon Rhea.

This animation shows the last 30 seconds of Cassini's X- and S-band radio signals as they disappeared from mission control on Sept. 15, 2017.

An overview video of the OSIRIS-REx mission.

This spectrogram and video show a changing pattern of radio waves from Saturn known as Saturn Kilometric Radiation, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Blanket Installation

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first glimpse of Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989.

On October 15, 1997, the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was launched on an almost 7-year journey to the Saturn system.

This movie from Cassini, made possible only as Saturn's north pole emerged from winter darkness, shows new details of a jet stream that follows a hexagon-shaped path and has long puzzled scientists.

Mating of LVA

Big water news from Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus.

Go, Atlas. Go, Centaur. Go, InSight! NASA's InSight mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base for Mars on May 5, 2018—the first interplanetary launch from the West Coast. 

The history-making Viking 1 mission launched 35 years ago.

The interaction of the solar wind with the Martian moon Phobos creates a complex electrical environment that could impact future exploration.

The Sun as seen in multiple wavelengths of light by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory over four days in August 2018.