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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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Dark spokes dance around Saturn's B ring in this series of movies comprised of images taken with Cassini's wide-angle camera.
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Dark spokes dance around Saturn's B ring
'Tis the Season for Spokes
This video describes Cassini measurements of high speed streams of tiny dust particles emanating from the vicinity of Saturn.
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Saturn dust
Cosmic Messengers From Saturn
This movie was built with data collected during the 147-minute plunge through Titan's thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft sandy riverbed by the European Space Agency's Huygens Descent Imager/Sp...
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A View from Huygens - Jan. 14, 2005
A View from Huygens
High-Altitude Clouds
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High-Altitude Clouds
High-Altitude Clouds
Big water news from Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus.
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Enceladus: Cold Faithful
Enceladus: Cold Faithful
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 graphic shows in a series of three images how Saturn's rings, after they became tilted relative to Saturn's equatorial plane, would have transformed into a corrugated ring.
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This graphic shows in a series of three images how Saturn's rings, after they became tilted relative to Saturn's equatorial plane, would have transformed into a corrugated ring.
Tilting Saturn's Rings
This colorful spectrogram represents data collected by Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument as it crossed through Saturn's D ring on May 28, 2017.
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Color image shows rise in sound as Cassini crossed the D-ring.
Cassini's First D-Ring Crossing
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
This animation shows a color-coded map from NASA's Dawn mission revealing the highs and lows of topography on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres.
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This animation shows a color-coded map from NASA's Dawn mission revealing the highs and lows of topography on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres.
Ceres Topographic Globe Animation
The Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory takes a series of images every 45 seconds in a very narrow range of wavelengths in visible light of the solar photospher...
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The Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory takes a series of images every 45 seconds in a very narrow range of wavelengths in visible light of the solar photosphere.
The Active Sun from SDO: HMI Dopplergram
Sungrazing comets are a special class of comets that come very close to the sun at their nearest approach, a point called perihelion.
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Sungrazing comets are a special class of comets that come very close to the sun at their nearest approach, a point called perihelion.
What is a Sun-Grazing Comet?
Take a flight over dwarf planet Ceres in this video made with images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
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Flight Over Ceres
Flight Over Dwarf Planet Ceres
A recreation of Huygen's historic descent to Saturn's giant moon Titan in January 2005.
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Zooming in on Huygens landing spot
Approaching Titan a Billion Times Closer
Io Color Eclipse
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Io Color Eclipse
Io Color Eclipse
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
The four changes of the seasons, related to the position of sunlight on the planet, are captured in this view from geosynchronous Earth orbit by EUMETSAT's Meteosat-9 satellite. 
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earth from space
Seeing Equinoxes and Solstices from Space
Bennu's Journey is a 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar system.
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Video about how an asteroid was formed over billions of years.
Bennu's Journey
This video demonstrates the hiss-like radio noise generated by electrons moving along magnetic field lines from the Saturnian moon Enceladus to a glowing patch of ultraviolet light on Saturn.
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This video demonstrates the hiss-like radio noise generated by electrons moving along magnetic field lines from the Saturnian moon Enceladus to a glowing patch of ultraviolet light on Saturn.
Hiss from Aurora Caused by Enceladus
A large sunspot was the source of a powerful solar flare and a coronal mass ejection (Sept. 6, 2017). The flare was the largest solar flare of the last decade. For one thing, it created a strong sh...
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A large sunspot was the source of a powerful solar flare (an X 9.3) and a coronal mass ejection (Sept. 6, 2017).
Major Solar Flare
This animation based on data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows how the “explosions” of hot plasma on the night side (orange and white) periodically inflate Saturn’s magnetic field (white ...
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This animation based on data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows how the “explosions” of hot plasma on the night side (orange and white) periodically inflate Saturn’s magnetic field (white lines).
Saturn's Hot Plasma Explosions
Ceres' lack of giant impact basins presents a puzzle to scientists.
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Ceres Missing Large Craters
Ceres' Missing Large Craters
Filters, pixels and math star in this narrated cartoon.
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How Does a Spacecraft Take a Picture?
How Does a Spacecraft Take a Picture?
Bob Anderson describes his work as a geologist who helps design and uses robots to collect data about Mars.
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Bob Anderson describes his work as a geologist who helps design and uses robots to collect data about Mars.
Through the Eyes of Scientists - Meet Bob Anderson
NASA scientists pioneered new techniques to effectively peer beneath Greenland's thick ice sheet and into the crust itself.
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Video about Earth's Crust
Earth: Greenland's Geologic Past

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