Vibrating Aerosol Molecules on Titan (close up)

Regions of Saturn's Magnetosphere Click here for high resolution version.

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 plot shows the variation in brightness of the plume of material, composed of all the geysers erupting from the south polar terrain of Saturn's moon Enceladus, as a function of the moon's orbit...

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

An artist's concept of the Cassini spacecraft crossing Saturn's ring plane during one of the mission's final orbit.

This three-frame animation from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the swirling clouds in a vortex spawned by a great northern storm on Saturn. The clouds are moving in a clockwise direction. These...

Happy Holidays from the Planetary Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

This movie shows a concatenation of images, hotly downloaded of the telescope today, April 22, 2013. While the frame rate is constant, the movie is time-lapse but by varying degrees. Credit: NAS...

A selection of graphics celebrating America's birthday over the years.

This graphic, constructed from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the percentage of cloud coverage across the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. The color scale from black to yellow sig...

This synthetic aperture radar image was obtained by the Cassini spacecraft on its recent pass by Titan's south pole on Dec. 20, 2007. This portion of the (T39) swath is of the region extending f...

+ 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 ...

The Cassini spacecraft has logged some impressive numbers in the 12 years since it arrived at Saturn on July 1, 2004. This infographic offers a snapshot of just a few of the mission's big numbers a...

This graphic depicts Cassini's interplanetary flight path beginning with launch from Earth on 15 October 1997, followed by gravity assist flybys of Venus (26 April 1998 and 21 June 1999), Earth (18...

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.

Map projection of Charon, the largest of Pluto's five moons, annotated with its first set of official feature names.

An unprecedented space fleet tracked comet ISON.

This animation shows the locations of Cassini's various rings.

Artist's concept of the final orbits of the Cassini spacraft at Saturn.

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 ...

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 plunge toward Saturn from a side view. 

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...

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...

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