Vibrating Aerosol Molecules on Titan (close up)

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

Learning what Jupiter is made of and how it works will tell us more about the rest of the solar system and our own planet, Earth.

Saturn Poster

During its final targeted flyby of Titan on April 22, 2017, Cassini's radar mapper got the mission’s last close look at the moon's surface.

This illustrated timeline features milestones in the journey of NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Cassini, namesake of the Cassini Orbiter, discovered four moons of Saturn and the large gap in Saturn's rings, now called the Cassini division. He also was the first director of the Paris Observato...

+ 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...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted a glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn's north pole that marks the presence of an electrical circuit that connects Saturn with its moon Enceladus. 

A family portrait showing (from left to right) Pioneers 6-9, 10 and 11 and the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and Multiprobe series.

This video describes Cassini measurements of high speed streams of tiny dust particles emanating from the vicinity of Saturn. It presents actual dust measurements and displays Cassini measurements ...

Diagram of the Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe.

Measurements by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal temperatures in a high layer of Saturn's atmosphere known as the stratosphere and show the dramatic effects of the massive storm deep below. In thes...

This infrared projection map of Titan was composed from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, visual and infrared mapping spectrometer. The location of two regions that changed in brightness a...

Artist's rendition of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft at Jupiter.

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...

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

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.

Cassini mission planners created this animation to showcase Cassini's final 22 orbits - the mission's Grand Finale.

This graphic shows the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon Enceladus on Oct. 9, 2008. At closet approach Cassini will be 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the surface...

The forceful storm generated unprecedented spikes in temperature and increased amounts of ethylene. In these two sets of measurements taken by Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer, yellow repr...

Artist’s version of a star chart, complete with arrows to help locate Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL

Bright clumps of ring material and a fan-like structure appear near the core of Saturn's tenuous F ring in this mosaic of images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Such features suggest the existence ...

A simplified model of Jupiter's massive magnetic field, known as a  magnetosphere.

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

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