Cassini Flies By Earth

New radar images were release today at a press conference at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Washington, D.C. The radar images were taken during Cassini's ...

This image combines two separate views of the giant asteroid Vesta obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The data reveal a world of many varied, well-separated layers and ingredients.

The latitude bands and swirling storms of Saturn, always intriguing to scientists, often are exquisitely beautiful as well. The turbulent atmosphere is dotted with storms; most are small, but some ...

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft taken on May 29, 2016, shows the southern rim of Gaue Crater on Ceres.

Tethys' huge Odysseus Crater is brightly lit in the northern latitudes of this Saturnian moon in this Cassini spacecraft view. The crater is seen almost edge-on in the upper left of the image. See...

This Cassini narrow-angle camera image -- one of those acquired in the survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus -- was taken as Cassin...

This image of the infrared heat radiation from Saturn's moon Iapetus was obtained by the Cassini composite infrared spectrometer instrument 16 hours before Cassini's closest approach to this myster...

Achita Crater on Ceres was named for the Nigerian god of agriculture. NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of the crater on January 15, 2016. Achita is located in the northern hemisphere.

Saturn's moon Daphnis casts a short shadow on the A ring in this image taken about six months after the planet's August 2009 equinox. Daphnis (8 kilometers, or 5 miles across) appears as a tiny br...

This image shows a rare and powerful storm on the night side of Saturn. Light from Saturn's rings (called "ringshine") provided the illumination, allowing the storm and other cloud features to be ...

Following the path of one of Jupiter's jet streams, a line of V-shaped chevrons travels west to east just above Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Most of the planet is unfolded here in a single, flat map m...

In the boundary between light and shadow on Enceladus, run the Anbar Fossae -- a series of narrow, shallow depressions. Like other features on this geologically active moon, the fossae are named a...

A lone moon hurtles past as the Cassini spacecraft stares into the clouds of Saturn. Cassini monitored clouds near Saturn's equator for nearly 20 hours during an important series of observations d...

The first image captured by one of NASA's Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats. The image, which shows both the CubeSat's unfolded high-gain antenna at right and the Earth and its moon in the center, was...

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a portion of the southern hemisphere of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 450 f...

This view from NASA's Dawn mission shows where ice has been detected in the northern wall of Ceres' Juling Crater, which is in almost permanent shadow.

Comet ISON photographed by the crew aboard the International Space Station.

The highly reflective moon Enceladus appears as a bright dot beyond a crescent Saturn in this Cassini image.

From Los Angeles (and western states) find the moon, Saturn and Venus in the western-southwestern sky after sunset on July 19th. Saturn appears as a golden “star” brighter than any of the surroundi...

+ See Animation These false-color mosaics from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the changing appearance of the huge storm that developed from a small spot in Saturn's northern hemisphere. Here ...

The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark Senkyo region on Saturn's moon Titan. Senkyo is the dark region towards the right. Two other dark regions, Aztlan (to the left, slanting down below the...

These two images of Saturn show the entire south polar region, not just the little area around the core of the hurricane-like vortex. Earth-like storm patterns seem to be powering this vortex. The...

Two tiny moons of Saturn, almost lost amid the planet's enormous rings, are seen orbiting in this image. Pan, visible within the Encke Gap near lower-right, is in the process of overtaking the slow...

Saturn's Waves October 18, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06500 This Cassini image shows beautifully the complex eddies and wave patterns in Satur...

Collapsed volcanoes form large, dark spots on Io’s surface.