Skip Navigation
menu close modal

Resources

Tracking Huygens Animation

Published: September 17, 2004

As Huygens descends Titan's atmosphere, Cassini will record the data from 72,000 kilometers (about 44,700 miles).

Related

From aboard NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center G-III aircraft, this wide angle video of the moon's umbra was captured as they flew over the coast of Oregon, near Lincoln City at 35,00 feet dur...
More
video of eclipse umbra captured by aircraft
NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center G-III Captures Eclipse Umbra
This is the first footage of one orbiting robotic spacecraft taken by another orbiting robotic spacecraft at Earth's moon. 
More
This is the first footage of one orbiting robotic spacecraft taken by another orbiting robotic spacecraft at Earth's moon.
Spacecraft Pass Each Other at the Moon
The Psyche spacecraft includes many unavoidable magnetic field sources, which must be accounted for to measure the magnetic field signature of the Psyche metal-rich asteroid.
More
Still image and video showing a concentrations of magnetic energy around parts of the Psyche spacecraft.
Magnetic Field of the Psyche Spacecraft
Annette and Alden Tombaugh, the children of Clyde Tombaugh, remember their father and his discovery of Pluto.
More
Video about Clyde Tombaugh
Video: Reflections on Clyde Tombaugh
Ceres' lack of giant impact basins presents a puzzle to scientists.
More
Ceres Missing Large Craters
Ceres' Missing Large Craters
Eleven years in the life of the Sun, spanning most of solar cycle 23.
More
Eleven years in the life of the Sun, spanning most of solar cycle 23, as it progressed from solar minimum (upper left) to maximum conditions and back to minimum (upper right) again, seen as a collage of ten full-disk images of the lower corona.
Solar Cycle
Catch some close pairings of the Moon with Jupiter, Mars, and Venus.
More
Video describing things to see in the night sky.
What's Up: January 2022
What's Up for January? Morning meteors, Mars meets its "rival," and the Moon comes around for another visit with Venus.
More
Video describing things to see in the sky this month.
What's Up: January 2020 [Video]
This video shows the scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet Vesta might look like.
More
Virtual Vesta
Virtual Vesta
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission launched Aug. 12, 2018, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
More
Video of rocket launching.
Parker Solar Probe Launch
As NASA prepares to launch the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket on the uncrewed Artemis I mission around the Moon, we’ve already begun to take the next step.
More
Video about NASA's Artemis missions
Why the Moon?
This animation of Vesta is made from images taken with Dawn's framing camera.
More
This animation of Vesta is made from images taken with Dawn's framing camera.
Vesta's Coat of Many Colors
Venus reaches peak elevation, Jupiter briefly disappears for some, and what's unique about Southern Hemisphere skies.
More
A video about things to see in the night sky.
What's Up: May 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA
The scientific community is incredibly excited to have these two highly complementary observatories operating together. 
More
Video about Hubble and Webb space telescopes
Hubble and Webb: A New Golden Age of Astronomy
Video from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, as the spacecraft pl...
More
Video of Perseverance rover descending to Mars
Watch NASA's Perseverance Rover Land
Studying Venus not only teaches us about our own planet, but also about many planets beyond our solar system.
More
Video describing how science on Venus can be applied throughout the galaxy.
Venus: The Mysterious Planet
This movie shows Mercury's globe as it rotates. 
More
Color enhanced movie of Mercury rotating
Mercury False Color Rotation Movie
NASA's Cassini has found salt in Saturn's E ring, hinting that the moon Enceladus could have an underground liquid reservoir, perhaps even an ocean.
More
Briny Breath of Enceladus
Briny Breath of Enceladus
One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years of t...
More
One Image, One Million Galaxies
One Image, One Million Galaxies
~4 minute video explores the different types of eruptive events on the Sun.
More
The very top of a fiery, red Sun with an orange loop coming out of the top and a small Earth with the label "Earth to Scale"
Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun
Clara, Sugar Plum Fairy, move aside. Saturn's moons give Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, "The Nutcracker," a graceful new spin in this video compiled from some 61 images taken by the Cassini spacecra...
More
Clara, Sugar Plum Fairy, move aside. Saturn's moons give Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, "The Nutcracker," a graceful new spin in this video compiled from some 61 images taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
Saturn Moon Ballet
With fingers crossed and eyes wide open, sci-fi fans and scientists savor the joys of discovery...at Iapetus.
More
Video of scientists watching Iapetus data,
Backstage Pass to Iapetus (2007)
A mission concept to explore Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus.
More
A mission concept to explore Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus.
Titan Saturn System Mission
Phillip Chamberlin expresses his enthusiasm for science and describes how he became a research astrophysicist.
More
Phillip Chamberlin expresses his enthusiasm for science and describes how he became a research astrophysicist.
Through the Eyes of Scientists - Meet Phillip Chamberlin
Saturn's two-faced moon tilts and rotates for Cassini in this mesmerizing movie sequence of images acquired during the spacecraft's close encounter with Iapetus on Nov. 12, 2005.
More
Screenshot from the 'Iapetus Spins and Tilts' movie
Iapetus Spins and Tilts

You Might Also Like