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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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Explore the process that Johannes Kepler undertook when he formulated his three laws of planetary motion.
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Explore the process that Johannes Kepler undertook when he formulated his three laws of planetary motion.
Orbits and Kepler's Laws
NASA's Cassini has found salt in Saturn's E ring, hinting that the moon Enceladus could have an underground liquid reservoir, perhaps even an ocean.
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Briny Breath of Enceladus
Briny Breath of Enceladus
This animated sequence of images, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows changes in the brightness of the Enceladus plume during a 6.5-hour observation.
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Enceladus' plume
Changing View of the Enceladus Plume
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
Earth's Moon  
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Earth's Moon
Earth's Moon
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)
JPL's Dawn mission is en route to rendezvous with the main-belt asteroids Vesta and Ceres, and is using ion propulsion to get there.
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Artist concept of Dawn spacecraft
Advanced Propulsion for JPL Deep Space Missions
What can you see in the February sky? Stars and planets with distinct red and blue colors, like Mars and Sirius.
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What's Up: February 2019 Skywatching from NASA
Actual images of the July 4, 2005 impact of the Deep Impact probe into comet Tempel 1.
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Video of approach to comet and bright flash of probe impact.
Deep Impact: Approach and Impact
Dawn spacecraft successfully launched September 27th, 2007.
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Dawn Launch September 27, 2007
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Launches September 27, 2007
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.
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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.
Geyser Basin in 3-D (video)
This sequence of images shows the Sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere and in order of temperature from the first one at 6,000 degrees C on the surface out to about 10 million degrees C.
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This sequence of images shows the Sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere and in order of temperature, the colors go: orange, red, yellow, lighter yellow, purple, blue, green, lighter blue.
From Hot to Hottest
A quick look at how a Bistatic Observation works.
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Artist's rendition of a bistatic observation
Bouncing Waves Off Titan
This animation of Vesta is made from images taken with Dawn's framing camera.
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This animation of Vesta is made from images taken with Dawn's framing camera.
Vesta's Coat of Many Colors
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Computer simulation of asteroid orbit.
OSIRIS-REx Orbits
The Sun as seen in multiple wavelengths of light by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory over four days in August 2018.
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rotating sun seen in several colors
The Sun in Multiple Wavelengths
This audio clip was created from radio signals received by the radio and plasma wave science instrument on the Cassini spacecraft.
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Screenshot of lightning data.
Lightning Sounds from Saturn
The little moon Daphnis and its entourage of waves on the edge of the Keeler gap in Saturn's rings cast long shadows in this movie created from images taken as the planet approaches its mid-August ...
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Wave Shadows in Motion
Wave Shadows in Motion
Animations, interviews and mission b-roll available for download.
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Cassini video reels
Cassini Video Reels for Download
Cassini scientist Dr. Kevin Baines discusses Saturn's Cyclones.
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Kevin Baines
Kevin Baines on Saturn's Cyclones
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
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 visualziation shows the major fragments of comet Showmaker-Levy 9 colliding with Jupiter in 1994.
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Video showing a series, or train, of comet fragments smashing into Jupiter.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Jupiter Impact (Visualization)
A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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Asteroid Vesta
NASA's Journey Above Vesta
Release of Probe
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Release of Probe
Release of Probe

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