Flight across Titan

A plane flies in front of a Blue Moon in July 2015.

Saturn's moon Prometheus casts a shadow on the narrow F ring in this image captured weeks after the planet's August 2009 equinox. The gravity of potato-shaped Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 mile...

Day and Night on Hyperion October 22, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06504 As it approached Saturn near the end of its second orbit, Cassini caught...

Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer has imaged a huge cloud system covering the north pole of Titan.

This illustration is a representation of the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus with a global liquid water ocean between its rocky core and icy crust.

The objectives of the Cassini mission can be divided into five scientific categories. Titan, at the upper right, is the target for the Huygens probe, which will descend to the surface of Saturn's...

This 400 by 900 light-year mosaic of several Chandra images of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy reveals hundreds of white dwarf stars, neutron stars, and black holes bathed in an incandes...

The ghostly spokes in Saturn's B ring continue to put on a show for the Cassini spacecraft cameras in this recent image. The spokes, believed to be a seasonal phenomenon, are expected to disappear ...

Prometheus shows up bright in this image of the dark side of the rings. The bright band that appears above Prometheus in this image is the Cassini division separating the (very dark) B ring and th...

Saturn sits nested in its rings of ice as Cassini once again plunges toward the graceful giant.

The Cassini spacecraft captures a far-off view of the two-toned surface of Saturn's moon Iapetus. Scientists continue to investigate the nature of this moon's surface. See The Other Side of Iapetu...

This image of Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows Sintana Crater (36 miles, 58 kilometers wide) at top, just right of center. The rim of a large crater called Zadeni (80 miles, 128 kilome...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft obtained this image of Saturn’s moon Dione on Sept. 3, 2010. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 49,969 kilometers (31,049 miles) away. This image has...

These composite images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft images show the spectacular spectral diversity of asteroid Vesta's surface.

This image of Titan, taken by a Voyager spacecraft, shows Titan to be completely shrouded by a thick atmosphere. The atmosphere is about 95% nitrogen, the remainder methane as well as other hydroca...

This raw image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken on March 27, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Saturn's moon Janus. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrat...

Prometheus is caught here casting a shadow on the F ring. To the right, the F ring also shows a gore where Prometheus recently entered into the ring, scattering material out of its way. The image...

The Cassini spacecraft observes the wrinkled surface of Enceladus. The geologically active south polar region is visible at bottom. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Enceladus (504 ...

For more than 22 years, since before Cassini even launched, summer interns helped the mission happen. But with the spacecraft's journey ending in September, the current summer interns will be Cassi...

Saturn and its moon Titan as seen by Pioneer 11 in 1973.

TThis image was taken during Cassini's third close approach to Titan on Feb. 15, 2005. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera through a filter sensitive to wavelengths...

Vertical structures created by Saturn's small moon Daphnis cast long shadows across the rings in this dramatic image taken as the planet approaches its mid-August 2009 equinox. Daphnis, 8 kilomete...

On May 28, the Cassini spacecraft will fly by Saturn's moon Titan in its last flyby of the original four-year tour, but Cassini’s exploration of Saturn will continue for two more years. This flyby ...

The Cassini spacecraft surveys the battered surface of icy Tethys. The great impact basin straddling the terminator is itself overprinted by many smaller impact sites. The view in this image is to...

In this sequence of four images taken during one night of observation by NASA's Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona, the speck of light that moves relative to the background stars is a small a...