Regions of Saturn's Magnetosphere

A selection of graphics celebrating America's birthday over the years.

For Cassini's next flyby of Titan on May 12, 2007, the radar instrument was originally pointing north of where it is now pointed. Due to the discovery of probable large seas on Titan, Cassini's qui...

This video demonstrates the hiss-like radio noise generated by electrons moving along magnetic field lines from the Saturnian moon Enceladus to a glowing patch of ultraviolet light on Saturn. Th...

This animation shows an example of a recent space weather event forecast derived from such observations by Goddard Space Flight Center space weather lab and illustrates the kind of information we w...

+ View Related Story At the end of the formation of Saturn's satellites, a Titan-sized satellite spirals inward towards the planet due to interaction with the primordial circumplanetary gas disk...

Temperature changes mapped with Cassini's composite and infrared spectrometer throughout Saturn's main rings show the ring temperatures decreasing with the increase of the Sun-spacecraft-ring angle...

A set of eight stickers created from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft.  

+ View related feature story + View unlabeled image Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted two features shaped like the 1980s video game icon "Pac-Man" on moons of Saturn. One wa...

This whimsical travel poster imagines a future regatta where explorers recreate Voyager 1 and 2's historic Grand Tour of the outer solar system.

This is an artist concept of a close-up view of Saturn's ring particles. The planet Saturn is seen in the background (yellow and brown). The particles (blue) are composed mostly of ice, but are not...

This graphic shows Cassini's final plunge toward Saturn from a top view. 

This graphic depicts one possible orbital tour for the Cassini mission. The final four-year tour has yet to be finalized and could look different from this one. The view is from Saturn's north pole...

A computer-generated animation that shows the orbits of Cassini from 2004 to 2017 - affectionately called the ball of yarn by the mission.

Until recently, Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus was thought to be cold and dead. But close observations by the Cassini spacecraft have revealed dramatic features and made this frozen world a new targe...

One of the glittering trails caused by small objects punching through Saturn's F ring is highlighted in this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These trails show how the F ring, the outermost of...

Artist's concept of the final orbits of the Cassini spacraft at Saturn.

The Mariner Mark II spacecraft that was designed to handle both the CRAF, Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby mission, and the Cassini mission.

Graphic showing the relative altitudes of Cassini's final five passes through Saturn's upper atmosphere.

This is a drawing of Saturn made by an elementary school student.

A poster-style artist's view of Cassini's Grand Finale orbits.  

A whimsical view of the planets of our solar system and the missions sent from Earth to explore them.

Cassini scientists know some of the thousands of images from the spacecraft's journey stand apart. With this feature they present the Cassini Images Hall of Fame. + View Feature

This diagram depicts conditions observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a flyby in Dec. 2013, when Saturn's magnetosphere was highly compressed, exposing Titan to the full force of the solar w...

This set of enhanced-color maps made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's moons Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione and Rhea. The global maps show the colorful splotches and ba...

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