Atmospheric Motion

+ Unannotated version Almost all of the hydrocarbon seas and lakes on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan cluster around the north pole, as can be seen in this mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission....

This animation, from Cassini's navigation team, shows the spacecraft's final orbits in 2016 and 2017. 

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted a glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn's north pole that marks the presence of an electrical circuit that connects Saturn with its moon Enceladus. 

Click here to play sounds of Saturn's radio emissions, which have changes in frequency (127Kb Wave Sound). Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions, which have been monitored by the Cassini...

Some key numbers for Cassini's Grand Finale and final plunge into Saturn. 

This graphic shows the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon Enceladus on Oct. 9, 2008. At closet approach Cassini will be 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the surface...

This graphic plots the source locations of the geysers scientists have located on Enceladus' south polar terrain. 

To create the first global, topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, scientists analyzed data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a mathematical process called splining. This method effectively uses ...

On Oct. 31, 2008, during the second close flyby of Enceladus of the month, the cameras and other optical remote sensing instruments will be front and center, imaging the fractures that slash across...

Frigid and alien, yet similar to our own planet billions of years ago, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has a thick atmosphere, organic-rich chemistry and a surface shaped by rivers and lakes of liqui...

InSight's landing site is Elysium Planitia, a flat, smooth plain selected not for its surface features, but for safety considerations. InSight's purpose is to study the interior of Mars, not the su...

The forceful storm generated unprecedented spikes in temperature and increased amounts of ethylene. In these two sets of measurements taken by Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer, yellow repr...

This false-color image, made from infrared data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows dark and bright clouds on Saturn associated with thunderstorm activity. Convection generated by the stor...

Presented here is a complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution Dione atlas, a project of the Cassini Imaging Team. The map sheets form a 15-quadrangle series covering the entire...

Three new small lakes, 100 to 300 square miles (a few hundreds of square kilometers) in surface area, have been identified on Saturn's moon Titan in data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. In the imag...

A diagram of the Dawn spacecraft from 2006.

The faint dot in the upper right is Neptune's tiny moon Hippocamp.

In lab experiments NASA scientists matched the spectral signature of an unknown material the Cassini spacecraft detected in Titan's atmosphere at far-infrared wavelengths.

This animation blinks between two images of NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander hardware around the mission's 2008 landing site on far-northern Mars. By late 2017, dust obscures much of what was visible two...

Enceladus is a small ocean world covered in ice -- one of more than 60 confirmed moons orbiting Saturn.

Cassini is honored to be one of NASA's annual π (pi) day challenges. 

A whimsical mission poster inspired by classic 1960s pop culture art.

These flags illustrate the international scope of the Cassini program. Although its primary sponsors are NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Cassini team ...

Oct. 15, 2012 update: check out the top voted images for the 15th anniversary of the launch. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassinifeatures/feature20120926/ Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

This graphic shows the trajectories for the Cassini spacecraft during its flybys of the icy moon Enceladus through the 21st planned targeted encounter. With the exception of E-12, E-13, and E-16...