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Cassini: A Saturn Odyssey

Published: August 29, 2017

Team members reflect on what has made the NASA/ESA Cassini mission such an epic journey—the extraordinary spacecraft, tremendous science and historic international collaboration.

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Hello from Saturn, essentially on the opposite side of the sun as seen from Earth! This annual occurrence called solar conjunction, when Saturn (and Cassini) nearly disappear behind the sun.
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Short video showing how the sun comes between Saturn and Earth.
What's Up? Solar Conjunction
Dive between Saturn and its rings with NASA's Cassini spacecraft in the final chapter of its mission.
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360 degree video showing Cassini dive between the rings.
Cassini's Grand Finale (360 view)
In August 2012, a long filament of solar material coalesced in the Sun's atmosphere. 
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In August 2012, a long filament of solar material coalesced in the sun's atmosphere. For several days it was visible, appearing from Earth's viewpoint to curl up and over the left side of the sun.
Solar Filament Coalesces in Sun's Atmosphere
In this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the gravitational pull of Saturn's moon Prometheus creates patterns in Saturn's F ring.
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In this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the gravitational pull of Saturn's moon Prometheus creates patterns in Saturn's F ring.
F Ring Patterns
This movie shows a quick succession of multiple products of Titan's surface from the Cassini orbiter and the European Space Agency's Huygens probe.
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Screenshot from the 'Huygens Landing Site' movie
Huygens Landing Site Movie
The bright crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus slides past distant Rhea in this mutual event, or occultation, movie from Cassini.
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Screenshot from the 'Enceladus Transits Rhea' movie
Enceladus Transits Rhea
On Jan. 22, 2012, the Sun erupted with a solar flare, a coronal mass ejection, and a burst of highly energetic protons known as solar energetic particles.
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On January 22, 2012, the sun erupted with a solar flare, a coronal mass ejection, and a burst of highly energetic protons known as solar energetic particles.
Solar Fury
Flight across Titan
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Flight across Titan
Flight across Titan
Edward Stone describes how he was always interested in what was new as a young man and how space physics got his attention.
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Edward Stone describes how he was always interested in what was new as a young man and how space physics got his attention.
Through the Eyes of Scientists - Meet Edward Stone
On June 30, 2004 (PDT), as mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory held their collective breath, the international Cassini-Huygens mission successfully arrived in orbit around Satur...
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A look back at Cassini's arrival at Saturn.
Flashback: Cassini Arrival at Saturn
This video shows the intriguing Occator Crater on Ceres, home to the dwarf planet's brightest area.
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Ceres Explore New Worlds
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Flight Over Occator Crater
Cassini's mission planners created this animation to showcase the mission's final orbits, known as the Grand Finale.
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This animation illustrates the mission's final orbits, known as the Grand Finale.
Grand Finale Orbits Begin and End with Titan
Probe Landing on Titan
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Probe Landing on Titan
Probe Landing on Titan
A mission concept to explore Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus.
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A mission concept to explore Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus.
Titan Saturn System Mission
This computer-generated view shows the view from the perspective of the Cassini spacecraft as it dives between the rings and Saturn's cloud tops.
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This computer-generated view shows the view from the perspective of the Cassini spacecraft as it dives between the rings and Saturn's cloud tops.
Cassini Dive Ride Along
Spacecraft Trajectory
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Spacecraft Trajectory
Spacecraft Trajectory
This infrared movie from NASA's Cassini mission shows the churning of the curious six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as "the hexagon."
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Saturn hexagon
Hexagon in Silhouette
This short animation created by Cassini's mission planning team shows how a Titan flyby will be used to move the spacecraft's course from orbiting Cassini's outer ring (F ring) to an orbit that tak...
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Animation showing Cassini's orbit change to dive between the planet and its rings.
Entering Final Orbits: Cassini's Grand Finale
The Dawn spacecraft visited the asteroid 4 Vesta for the time period May 3, 2011 to Sept. 5, 2012.
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Dawn Approach animation
Dawn's Approach to Vesta
No one really knew what Vesta looked like until NASA’s Dawn spacecraft decided to drop in on it. Now, images taken by the spacecraft have been stitched together to create a virtual flyover of the j...
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Flyover simulator of Vesta.
Meet Vesta
Six years of exploration through the 'eyes' of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.
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Six years of exploration through the 'eyes' of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.
Spirit of Mars
Unedited version of the stellar occultation video.
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Unedited version of the stellar occultation video
Stellar Occultation Video
This video takes viewers on a virtual tour of Vesta's south polar basin, the 'snowman' set of craters and a crater called Oppia.
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This video takes viewers on a virtual tour of Vesta's south polar basin, the 'snowman' set of craters and a crater called Oppia.
Touring Vesta's Craters
Bands of eastward and westward winds on Jupiter appear as concentric rotating circles in a movie composed of Cassini images which have been reprojected to appear as if the viewer were floating over...
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Video showing winds going in a circular pattern around Jupiter's north pole.
Jupiter Polar Winds Movie
This graphic and animation depicts a cross-section of the Saturnian moon Titan.
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An Ocean Runs Through It
An Ocean Runs Through It

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