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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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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 new animation shows us that Saturn's moon Titan has more in common with Earth than we thought.
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Titan Canyon Country
Titan Canyon Country
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 is a compilation of the Saturn hexagon movies released on Dec. 5, 2013.
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A compilation of movies of Saturn's Hexagon.
Saturn's Unique Hexagon Movies
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Great Dark Spot
Great Dark Spot
NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft have new names, thanks to some enthusiastic 4th graders from Montana, who reveal the names in dramatic fashion.
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NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft have new names, thanks to some enthusiastic 4th graders from Montana, who reveal the names in dramatic fashion.
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A harvest moon and a blue moon, Mars is up all night, and a journey beyond the galaxy.
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On October 15, 1997, the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was launched on an almost 7-year journey to the Saturn system.
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Cassini-Huygens Launch
The flight over Charon begins high over the hemisphere New Horizons saw on its closest approach, then descends over the deep, wide canyon of Serenity Chasma. 
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Video showing close terrain at Pluto's moon Charon.
Flyover: Pluto Moon Charon
NASA's Cassini scientists waited years for the right conditions to produce the first movie that shows lightning on another planet - Saturn.
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Cassini Lightning
Cassini Lightning
This image shows that NASA's Dawn mission detected abundances of hydrogen in a wide swath around the equator of the giant asteroid Vesta. The hydrogen probably exists in the form of hydroxyl or wat...
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Hydrogen Hotspots on Vesta
Hydrogen Hotspots on Vesta
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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Ocean Worlds
This life-like movie sequence captures Saturn's rings during a ring plane crossing--which Cassini makes twice per orbit--from the spacecraft's point of view.
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The Great Crossing
The Great Crossing
Big water news from Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus.
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Enceladus: Cold Faithful
Enceladus: Cold Faithful
As the moon Enceladus eclipses its neighbor Mimas, Cassini records a scene possible only around the time of Saturn's approaching equinox.
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Eclipsing Mimas
Eclipsing Mimas
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.
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Scientists working with NASA's Dawn spacecraft have created a new video showing the giant asteroid Vesta as the spacecraft approaches this unexplored world in the main asteroid belt.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft spies the asteroid Vesta
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Dr. Bonnie Buratti describes her background as well as her role as a senior research scientist.
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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.
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This three-frame animation from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the swirling clouds in a vortex spawned by a great northern storm on Saturn.
Swirling Vortex
NASA’s Dawn: Highlighting Bright Areas of Ceres
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The moon Prometheus slowly collides with the diffuse inner edge of Saturn's F ring in this movie sequence of Cassini images.
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