Arrival at Saturn

Ring World Highlights  

What can you see in the February sky? Stars and planets with distinct red and blue colors, like Mars and Sirius.

Dive between Saturn and its rings with NASA's Cassini spacecraft in the final chapter of its mission.

Jupiter Magnetosphere

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

A simulated flyover of the most intriguing landmarks on giant asteroid Vesta, as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

While NASA's Cassini spacecraft was pointed to study Saturn's F ring, it happened to catch a globular star cluster passing through the camera's field of view.

Explore. Create. Share. How has Cassini inspired you?

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The small moon Mimas passes in front of the larger moon Rhea, which is partly obscured by Saturn's rings, in this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

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

This movie captured by NASA'S Cassini spacecraft shows a south polar vortex, or a swirling mass of gas around the pole in the atmosphere, at Saturn’s moon Titan.

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

Clouds move above Titan's large methane lakes and seas near the moon's north pole in this movie made from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

After a 15-year wait, equinox arrived at Saturn and Cassini was there to witness the spectacle of light and shadow.

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

A large sunspot was the source of a powerful solar flare and a coronal mass ejection (Sept. 6, 2017). The flare was the largest solar flare of the last decade. For one thing, it created a strong sh...

NASA’s Cassini mission will come to a spectacular close on September 15, 2017 after almost two decades in space since its launch in 1997.

Final Assembly at the Cape

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

SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event—the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun in 2012.

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 artist's concept shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descent sequence.

JPL's Dawn mission is en route to rendezvous with the main-belt asteroids Vesta and Ceres, and is using ion propulsion to get there.

Cassini's mission planners created this animation to showcase the mission's final orbits, known as the Grand Finale.