Regions of Saturn's Magnetosphere

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...

Saturn: Journey to a Ringed World - Spotlight: Why go to Saturn?

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...

This graphic shows the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon Enceladus on Oct. 31, 2008. At closet approach Cassini will be 197 kilometers (122.3 miles) from the su...

This still is from a short computer-animated film that highlights Cassini's accomplishments and Saturn and reveals the science-packed final orbits between April and September 2017. Download the vi...

This image shows the location of Cassini's most precise measurements so far of the surface temperatures at the active "tiger stripe" fractures that cut the south polar region of Enceladus. The back...

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 ...

This free NASA e-Book celebrates Saturn as seen through the eyes of the Cassini spacecraft. 

This still is from a short computer-animated film that highlights Cassini's accomplishments and Saturn and reveals the science-packed final orbits between April and September 2017.

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

This graphic shows NASA's Science Mission Directorate spacecraft fleet.

This graphic shows the average temperatures of various destinations in our solar system. (Planets not to scale)

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...

+ See Unannotated Version + High Resolution Version This artist’s concept shows a possible model of Titan’s internal structure that incorporates data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. In this m...

A poster version of one of Cassini's famous backlit Saturn images with Earth in the background.

+ View Image Without Labels This false-color image of Saturn's main rings was made by combining data from multiple star occultations using the Cassini ultraviolet imaging spectrograph. During occ...

The sounds and spectrograms in these two videos represent data collected by the Radio and Plasma Wave Science, or RPWS, instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, as it crossed the plane of Saturn's ...

This still is from a short computer-animated film that highlights Cassini's accomplishments and Saturn and reveals the science-packed final orbits between April and September 2017.

This graphic shows Cassini's final descent toward Saturn beginning with a distant encounter with Titan. 

This illustration depicts the best-known candidates in our search for life in the solar system.

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This artist’s concept shows an over-the-shoulder view of Cassini making one of its Grand Finale dives over Saturn.

New data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that the shape of our solar system moving through the local Milky Way galaxy looks like a bubble.

The plot shows the type of data the magnetometer measures. These data were taken during Saturn orbit insertion. Cassini is measuring the three components of the magnetic field (the strength of t...

Saturn will be visible in clear skies during Cassini's final plunge into Saturn on Sept. 15, 2017.