Cassini Flies By Earth

This global view of Jupiter's moon, Io, was obtained during the tenth orbit of Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Io, which is slightly larger than Earth's moon, is the most volcanically active ...

An Atlas-Agena 5 carrying the Mariner 1 spacecraft lifts off from the Cape Kennedy Launch Complex on a mission to Venus.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of a central mound in a large structure at the south pole of asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on August 12, 2011. This image was taken through the c...

Jupiter's Magnetosphere Made Visible February 27, 2002 The vast magnetosphere of charged particles whirling around Jupiter, normally invisible, can be imaged by a new type of instrument a...

The Cassini spacecraft examines the Maxwell Gap -- the large, dark division at center -- which is surrounded on either side by the broad, isolated and bright ring regions, or "plateaus," of Saturn'...

Although Janus should be the least lonely of all moons - sharing its orbit with Epimetheus - it still spends most of its orbit far from other moons, alone in the vastness of space.

This image obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a field of small craters next to Kokopelli Crater, seen at bottom right in this image, on dwarf planet Ceres.

NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Smithsonian Institution (SI) recently renewed their agreement to search for, collect and curate Antarctic meteorites in a partnership known as AN...

                  Rippling Rings July 1, 2004   Full-Res: PIA06094   This is one of the first images taken by the Cas...

This stunning close-up view shows mountainous terrain that reaches about 10 kilometers (6 miles) high along the unique equatorial ridge of Iapetus. The view was acquired during Cassini's only close...

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 24, 2015, shows dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) with a resolution of 1,400 feet (410 meters) per pixel.

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This set of four images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows some of the more bizarre trails that were dragged out from Saturn's F ring by objects about a half mile (1 kilometer) in diameter...

                  Musical Rings September 27, 2004   Full-Res: PIA06485   Looking something like the fibrous bow of a viol...

N00151577.jpg was taken on February 13, 2010 and received on Earth February 15, 2010. The camera was pointing toward MIMAS at approximately 40,404 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the...

These images are located in Vesta's Rheasilvia quadrangle, near asteroid Vesta's south pole. NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained the apparent brightness image with its framing camera on Oct. 22, 2011.

ORIGINAL CAPTION: The Cassini spacecraft, protected by an environmentally controlled protective fairing, is sitting at Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, awaiting its launch scheduled for mid-Oc...

This image is the first skeet-shoot image taken during Cassini's very close flyby of Enceladus on Aug. 11, 2008. It captures a region near the Cairo Sulcus on Enceladus' south polar terrain that i...

This sweeping view from Cassini gives a sense of the awesome scale of the planet's disk-like ring system, which stretches many thousands of kilometers into the distance. The shepherd moon Prometheu...

The Cassini spacecraft captured this close view of Saturn's moon Pandora during the spacecraft's flyby on June 3, 2010. Pandora is 81 kilometers (50 miles) across, and orbits beyond Saturn's thin ...

Large regions of Saturn's night side are illuminated by the planet's gleaming rings. Except for a sliver of the sunlit crescent at left, this view shows a part of the planet lit almost entirely by ...

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, located in asteroid Vesta's Marcia quadrangle, in Vesta's northern hemisphere, demonstrate a special analytical technique, which results in shadowed areas ...

Saturn's bright moon Enceladus hovers here, in front of a rings darkened by Saturn's shadow. Enceladus is 505 kilometers (314 miles) across. This view is from less than one degree beneath the ri...

+ View Full Res This raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Enceladus was taken on Oct. 19, 2011. As the spacecraft passed Enceladus, its infrared instruments, cameras and other instruments moni...

Saturn's small, irregularly shaped moon Helene is strikingly illuminated in this close view captured by Cassini during the spacecraft's June 18, 2011, flyby. Although it is not visible at this exp...