Final Assembly at the Cape

The moon Tethys is joined by two smaller moons in this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Jets of icy particles burst from Saturn's moon Enceladus in this brief movie sequence of four images taken on Nov. 27, 2005.

This movie shows what it was like for NASA's Stardust spacecraft to fly by comet Tempel 1.

No one really knew what Vesta looked like until NASA’s Dawn spacecraft decided to drop in on it. Now, images taken by the spacecraft have been stitched together to create a virtual flyover of the j...

The inside story of Apollo 8's iconic "Earthise" photo.

The Sun emitted a significant solar flare on Dec. 19, 2014.  

Radar Mapping Titan

The moon Prometheus slowly collides with the diffuse inner edge of Saturn's F ring in this movie sequence of Cassini images.

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

Release of Probe

Animation of Cassini's final orbit, leading to a pass by the moon Titan which sends the spacecraft plunging into Saturn on Sept. 15, 2017. 

Hear about what we know about Titan topics that were investigated early in Cassini’s mission. Learn what questions have baffled and perplexed Cassini scientists for a long while (cough cough cryovo...

As millions of people observed the total lunar eclipse on October 8, 2014, MESSENGER was also watching from Mercury.

This new animation shows us that Saturn's moon Titan has more in common with Earth than we thought.

This movie, built with data collected during the European Space Agency's Huygens probe on Jan. 14, 2005, shows the operation of the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer camera during its descent and ...

NASA's Cassini has found salt in Saturn's E ring, hinting that the moon Enceladus could have an underground liquid reservoir, perhaps even an ocean.

Hello from Saturn, essentially on the opposite side of the sun as seen from Earth! This annual occurrence called solar conjunction, when Saturn (and Cassini) nearly disappear behind the sun.

On Nov. 30, 2016, NASA's Cassini mission begins a daring set of ring-grazing orbits, skimming past the outside edge of Saturn's main rings.

This animation shows the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft being captured in orbit at Saturn in 2004.

This animation glides along the shoreline of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake on the southern hemisphere of Saturn’s moon Titan.

Pan Found!

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

A simplified visualization of Saturn's magnetic field, or magnetosphere.

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

Orange and white stripes slide against each other, and huge oval storms  gyrate in the NASA's Cassini spacecraft's first color movie clip of Jupiter.