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September 17, 2004
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Flyover of Sotra Facula, Titan
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View this beautiful visualization of the Dawn spacecraft on its journey to the main asteroid belt to Asteroid Vesta and Dwarf Planet Ceres.
Dawn Animations
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Cassini: Mission of Exploration
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Glittering Trail in Saturn's F Ring (Narrated)
This is a compilation of the Saturn hexagon movies released on Dec. 5, 2013.
Saturn's Unique Hexagon Movies
Striking 3-D detail highlights a towering mountain, the brightest spots and other features on dwarf planet Ceres in a new video from NASA's Dawn mission.
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Ben Holt tells how he fell in love with the ocean as a teenager and how that lead to a career as a research scientist.
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This short animation created by Cassini's mission planning team shows the spacecraft's final orbits - starting with the Ring-Grazing orbits in November 2016 and transitioning to the Grand Finale or...
Cassini's Ring-Grazing and Grand Finale Orbits
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A mission concept to explore Jupiter's intriguing moon system.
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