Arrival at Saturn

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. 

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

Animated Spacecraft

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.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission launched Aug. 12, 2018, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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

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.

For hundreds of years, this gaseous giant planet appeared shrouded in colorful bands of clouds extending from dusk to dawn, referred to as zones and belts.

Giovanni Cassini, the astronomer, discovers a moon near Saturn. Half is dark as coal. The other half, bright as snow. Three centuries later, Cassini, the spacecraft, flies by for a close look.

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

As the solar wind flows from the sun, it creates a bubble in space known as the "heliosphere" around our solar system.

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

  This video drops in on mission control for NASA's Voyager spacecraft as Voyager 1 sends back data from the far reaches of our solar system.

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.

My name is Mana. Europa is my favorite It is that it is one of the very few places in our solar system that could potentially have life.

This graphic and animation depicts a cross-section of the Saturnian moon Titan.

Ceres' lack of giant impact basins presents a puzzle to scientists.

NASA scientists pioneered new techniques to effectively peer beneath Greenland's thick ice sheet and into the crust itself.

This animation, made using data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the topography of Occator crater on Ceres.

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.

Everyone likes to check the weather in a far away destination before they travel there. This is especially true for spaceflight, where the destination may be where no one has gone before.

This movie shows Mercury's globe as it rotates. 

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. 

Big water news from Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus.

Thomas Valdez tells how his early penchant for tinkering with things followed a path that led him to a career as a research engineer