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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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This animation shows "beacons" of hot air seen in the infrared that appeared during a great springtime storm on Saturn from January 2011 to March 2012. 
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This animation shows "beacons" of hot air seen in the infrared that appeared during a great springtime storm on Saturn from January 2011 to March 2012.
Infrared Hotspots in a Monster Saturn Storm
This movie shows clouds in the mid-southern latitudes of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in a series of images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft a few months after fall began in the southern hemi...
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This movie shows clouds in the mid-southern latitudes of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in a series of images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft a few months after fall began in the southern hemisphere.
Titan's Moving Mid-Latitude Clouds
With kaleidoscopic forms and hues, these two false-color views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the patterns that come and go in the course of one Saturn day within the huge storm in the planet'...
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Patterns that come and go in the course of one Saturn day within the huge storm in the planet's northern hemisphere.
Kaleidoscopic Rainbows
As Huygens descends Titan's atmosphere, Cassini will record the data from 72,000 kilometers (about 44,700 miles).
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Tracking Huygens Animation
Tracking Huygens Animation
The shadow of Saturn's moon Tethys seems to disappear as it crosses the planet's rings, demonstrating variations in the density of particles across the rings.
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Shadow from the Dark Side
Shadow from the Dark Side
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
A meteor shower produced by debris from Halley's Comet, asteroids named after dinosaurs, and a "blue moon" on May 18th.
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Video explaining what can be seen in the night sky in May 2019.
What's Up: May 2019 Skywatching from NASA
The Usual Suspects: Science research is like detective work. One scientist takes his case to California's Death Valley, to search for clues surrounding a Titan lake.
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The Usual Suspects: California's Death Valley compared to Titan's Ontario Lacus.
The Usual Suspects
Lloyd French talks about the adventures that await in science and in life.
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Lloyd French talks about the adventures that await in science and in life.
Through the Eyes of Scientists - Meet Lloyd French
Probe Landing on Titan
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Probe Landing on Titan
Probe Landing on Titan
Keeping a close watch on the outer portion of Saturn's B ring, NASA's Cassini spacecraft records the complex inward and outward movement of the edge of the ring.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft records the complex inward and outward movement of the edge of the ring.
Galactic Behavior for the Outer B Ring
An update on findings from Cassini's latest flyby of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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Cassini at Saturn
Cassini at Saturn Sept. 22, 2006
This animation shows the last 30 seconds of Cassini's X- and S-band radio signals as they disappeared from mission control on Sept. 15, 2017.
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This animation shows the last 30 seconds of Cassini's X- and S-band radio signals
Cassini's last X- and S-band radio signals
As NASA marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, here are five things to know about the Moon that you can share with others.
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Video describing five facts about the Moon.
What's Up Video: July 2019 Skywatching Tips from NASA
A mission concept to explore Jupiter's intriguing moon system.
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A mission concept to explore Jupiter's intriguing moon system.
The Europa Jupiter System Mission
Explore. Create. Share. How has Cassini inspired you?
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video of Cassini images of Saturn and artists creating
Cassini Inspires
This animation illustrates the path the Cassini spacecraft will take during its four year mission at Saturn.
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Illustration of the path the Cassini spacecraft will take during its four year mission at Saturn.
Cassini Tour Petal Plot
Watch the NASA-JPL press briefing announcing Cassini's final orbits recorded at JPL on April 4, 2017.
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Video of press conference.
Grand Finale Preview Press Conference (April 4, 2017)
Giovanni Cassini, the astronomer, discovers a moon near Saturn. Half is dark as coal. The other half, bright as snow. Three centuries later, Cassini, the spacecraft, flies by for a close look.
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Screenshot from the 'Backstage at Iapetus' movie
Backstage Pass to Iapetus
This animation shows the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft being captured in orbit at Saturn in 2004.
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This animation shows the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft being captured in orbit at Saturn in 2004.
Cassini Tour Beginning
Rotating asteroids have a tough time sticking to their orbits. Their surfaces heat up during the day and cool down at night, giving off radiation that can act as a sort of mini-thruster.
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Video showing host asteroids can slip out of stable orbits.
How Sunlight Pushes Asteroids
Orange and white stripes slide against each other, and huge oval storms  gyrate in the NASA's Cassini spacecraft's first color movie clip of Jupiter.  
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Cassini's First Color Movie
Cassini's First Color Movie of Jupiter
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?
The sequence of seven images in this animation shows sunspots as viewed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from June 27 to July 8, 2015. From Mars, the rover was in position to see the opposite side of...
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The sequence of seven images as viewed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from June 27 to July 8, 2015. From Mars, the rover was in position to see the opposite side of the Sun from the side facing Earth during this period.
Tracking Sunspots from Mars, Summer 2015
After a 15-year wait, equinox arrived at Saturn and Cassini was there to witness the spectacle of light and shadow.
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Equinox at Saturn
Equinox at Saturn

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