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Arrival at Saturn
Published:
September 17, 2004
Arrival at Saturn
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This short computer-animated film highlights Cassini's accomplishments and Saturn and reveals the science-packed final orbits between April and September 2017.
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Dive between Saturn and its rings with NASA's Cassini spacecraft in the final chapter of its mission.
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A scientist's interpretation and visualization of the January 2005 descent and landing of the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe on Titan.
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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.
Cassini's First Color Movie of Jupiter
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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.
Swirling Vortex
This movie, comprised of several detailed images taken by Cassini's radar instrument, shows bodies of liquid near Titan's north pole.
Radar Shows Evidence of Seas
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Cassini: Coming Attractions at Saturn
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Rough and Tumble Hyperion
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From Hot to Hottest
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