Backstage Pass to Iapetus

+ Unannotated Version The northern and southern hemispheres of Enceladus are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini clear-filter images. Each map is...

The icy crust is thinner in the polar regions, below which sits an ocean.

    Topography on Titan October 28, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06989   This graph, produced using preliminary altimetry data from Cassini's radar instrument, show...

+ Non-annotated version This false-color view of Saturn's moon Mimas from NASA's Cassini spacecraft accentuates terrain-dependent color differences and shows dark streaks running down the sides ...

This graphic plots the source locations of the geysers scientists have located on Enceladus' south polar terrain. 

In its five-year tour of the Saturn system, Cassini has sent home a bounty of fruitful images showing delectable scenes that fill the mind with wonder and awe.

To create the first global, topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, scientists analyzed data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a mathematical process called splining. This method effectively uses ...

This illustration shows the interior of Saturn, including its core of heavy elements (orange), liquid metallic hydrogen layer (grey), and gaseous molecular hydrogen envelope (brown). 

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

A colorful summary of Cassini's 13 years orbiting Saturn.

This artist's concept shows "tides" on Titan raised by Saturn's gravity, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's gravitational pull on Titan, its largest moon, varies as Titan orbits ...

This movie sequence of images is from the last dedicated observation of the Enceladus plume by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

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 high res + View unannotated version + View contrast enhanced version On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow ...

Some key numbers from the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn.

This illustration shows ''quasi-parallel'' (top) and ''quasi-perpendicular'' (bottom) magnetic field conditions at a planetary bow shock. Bow shocks are shockwaves created when the solar wind blows...

Happy Valentine's Day from Cassini at Saturn.

This graphic represents a possible model for mechanisms that could generate the water vapor and tiny ice particles detected by Cassini over the southern polar terrain on Enceladus. This model shows...

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

NASA's Dawn mission by the numbers:

This figure shows shifting stratospheric temperatures obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft between 2005 (left) to 2008 (right). The difference between the temperatures is shown in the middle, with...

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

The Cassini composite infrared spectrometer obtained temperature maps of Saturn's main rings (A, B and C) that showed ring temperatures decreasing with increasing solar phase angle (the change of t...

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.

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