Vibrating Aerosol Molecules on Titan (close up)

+ Related Interactive: Anatomy of a Flyby This graphic shows the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its close brush with the icy outpost of Enceladus on March 12, 2008. At closet appro...

We always see the same side of the moon, because as the moon revolves around the Earth, the moon rotates so that the same side is always facing the Earth. But the moon still looks a little differen...

A whimsical view of the planets of our solar system and the missions sent from Earth to explore them.

Diagram of the Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe.

Presented here is a complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution Tethys atlas, a project of the Cassini Imaging Team. The map sheets form a 15-quadrangle series covering the en...

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...

These polar maps show the first global, topographic mapping of Saturn's moon Titan, using data from NASA's Cassini mission. To create these maps, scientists employed a mathematical process called s...

Amateur astronomer Christopher Go took this image of a storm on Saturn from his veranda in Cebu, Philippines, on March 13, 2010. The arrow indicates the location of the storm, around 40 degrees sou...

The Cassini mission entered its second extended mission, called the Cassini Solstice Mission, in September 2010. This extension enables scientists to study seasonal and other long-term weather chan...

This image compares midday temperatures on Saturn's moon Iapetus, recorded by the composite infrared spectrometer instrument during Cassini's close Sept. 10, 2007 flyby, with images of the same reg...

A labeled diagram of the Dawn spaccraft.

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

Radio signals sent by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to Earth through Saturn's rings revealed the presence of highly unusual regular formations of densely grouped ring particles. The harmonic ring struc...

This graph shows the energetic ion and electron data from the Saturn orbit insertion interval on June 30 and July 1, 2004.

+ View Related Feature Story + View Labeled 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 was ...

This graphic shows a 3-D model of 98 geysers whose source locations and tilts were found in a Cassini imaging survey of Enceladus' south polar terrain by the method of triangulation.

This false-color image, made from infrared data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows dark and bright clouds on Saturn associated with thunderstorm activity. Convection generated by the stor...

This visual reveals how the magnetic field associated with the Psyche spacecraft distorts the ambient magnetic field to be measured.

This colorized mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission shows the most complete view yet of Titan's northern land of lakes and seas. Saturn's moon Titan is the only world in our solar system other than E...

This free NASA e-Book celebrates Saturn as seen through the eyes of the Cassini spacecraft. 

Cassini is honored to be one of NASA's annual π (pi) day challenges. 

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

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

The discovery of Enceladus' icy jets and their role in creating Saturn's E-ring is one of the top findings of the Cassini mission to Saturn.

This graphic shows NASA's Science Mission Directorate spacecraft fleet.