Cassini Video Reels for Download

Part of the shadow of Saturn's moon Mimas appears as if it has been woven through the planet's rings in this unusual series of images from Cassini.

March 2022 skywatching highlights: Saturn with Venus and Mars in the a.m., the Hyades star cluster, and stars with known exoplanets that you can find without a telescope.

The tumbling and irregularly shaped moon Hyperion rotates away from the Cassini spacecraft in this movie taken during a distant encounter in Dec. 2005.

This artist concept shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft above dwarf planet Ceres, as seen in images from the mission.

This video from NASA's Dawn mission shows that the gravity field of Vesta closely matches the surface topography of the giant asteroid 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.

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.

With fingers crossed and eyes wide open, sci-fi fans and scientists savor the joys of discovery...at Iapetus.

This animation of Vesta is made from images taken with Dawn's framing camera.

OSIRIS-REx has imaged Bennu in higher resolution than we have Earth and our own Moon. Since its arrival at the asteroid on Dec. 3, 2018, the spacecraft has discovered boulders the size of buildings...

This animated graphic shows how Saturn and its moon Enceladus are electrically linked.

This artist's concept shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descent sequence.

In this month's sky, look for lovely crescent Moons at the start and end of the month. The September equinox brings the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. And Mars is at solar conjunctio...

Artist's concept of Lunar Prospector at the Moon.

Meet Lucy as she prepares for the first ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter.

On Feb. 18, 2021, the world watched live as NASA’s Mars 2020 mission team attempted the most daring part of its mission: landing the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars. Viewers around the wo...

In this movie, strung together from a series of images provided by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft, we see a full rotation of Vesta, which occurs over the course of roughly five hours. 

The Sun as seen in multiple wavelengths of light by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory over four days in August 2018.

This mosaic strip – extending across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015 – now includes all of the highest-resolution images taken by the NA...

Final Assembly at the Cape

This animated movie shows the simulated solar wind velocity from March 21 to May 10, 2013. 

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...

As the solar wind flows from the sun, it creates a bubble in space known as the "heliosphere" around our solar system.

This movie is based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and shows a flyover of an area of Saturn's moon Titan known as Sotra Facula

This animation, made using data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the topography of Occator crater on Ceres.