RTG fit and test

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

This video takes viewers on a virtual tour of Vesta's south polar basin, the 'snowman' set of craters and a crater called Oppia.

Spacecraft Trajectory

An aurora, shining high above the northern part of Saturn, moves from the night side to the day side of the planet in this movie recorded by Cassini.

This is the first footage of one orbiting robotic spacecraft taken by another orbiting robotic spacecraft at Earth's moon. 

  After decades of exploration, Voyager 1 reaches a historic milestone for mankind, interstellar space.

Flight across Titan

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.

Eleven years in the life of the Sun, spanning most of solar cycle 23.

This three-frame animation from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the swirling clouds in a vortex spawned by a great northern storm on Saturn. The clouds are moving in a clockwise direction.

The six Apollo landing sites are revealed chronologically as the phase and libration of the Moon is shown throughout the Apollo era. 

On unexplored worlds, the sound of science is a harmonious melody of chimes, clicks and mechanical whirrs.

This movie, made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows Saturn's southern aurora shimmering over approximately 20 hours as the planet rotates.

Rosaly Lopes shares how she was inspired to help the exploration of space and how that lead to her role as a planetary scientist.

Where is the edge of the solar system? The answer is not so simple.

The bright crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus slides past distant Rhea in this mutual event, or occultation, movie from Cassini.

This sequence of images shows the Sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere and in order of temperature from the first one at 6,000 degrees C on the surface out to about 10 million degrees C.

Hi, Everyone! My name's Morgan. My favorite topic is Enceladus.

This computer-generated view shows the view from the perspective of the Cassini spacecraft as it dives between the rings and Saturn's cloud tops.

Blanket Installation

On Jan. 22, 2012, the Sun erupted with a solar flare, a coronal mass ejection, and a burst of highly energetic protons known as solar energetic particles.

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, awaited the final transmission from the Cassini spacecraft as it plunged into Saturn's atmosphere ending its 20-year voyage of...

Cassini scientist Dr. Kevin Baines discusses Saturn's Cyclones.

Animations, interviews and mission b-roll available for download.

Team members reflect on Spirit's six-years of roving Mars.