Cassini Video Reels for Download

No one really knew what Vesta looked like until NASA’s Dawn spacecraft decided to drop in on it. Now, images taken by the spacecraft have been stitched together to create a virtual flyover of the j...

An overview video of the OSIRIS-REx mission.

What are some skywatching highlights in June 2021? Catch Saturn and Jupiter in the morning, and the constellation Scorpius after dark! Plus skywatchers in the Northeast U.S., Eastern Canada, and No...

How can you communicate with Mars spacecraft when the Sun is in the way? Learn more about 'solar conjunction' in this 60-second video.

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...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed a fourth, more challenging flight on the Red Planet on April 30, 2021.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will make history's first attempt at powered flight on another planet.

This computer-generated animation shows all of Cassini's orbits - affectionaly called the "ball of yarn" by mission planners.

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 still is from a short computer-animated film that highlights Cassini's accomplishments and Saturn and reveals the science-packed final orbits between April and September 2017.

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.

Holiday greetings from the Cassini mission to Saturn.

Cassini mission planners created this animation to showcase Cassini's final 22 orbits - the mission's Grand Finale.

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

What incredible things will the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn see and do over the next few years?

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.

This time-lapse video captures a portion of the path that tiny Phobos takes around Mars. 

This colorized movie from NASA's Cassini mission shows a polar projection of the curious six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as "the hexagon" in the infrared.

This video shows the scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet Vesta might look like.

What's Up for August? This month our main focus is the Perseid meteor shower.

Known as the "Mother of Hubble," Dr. Nancy Grace Roman was instrumental in taking the Hubble Space Telescope from an idea to reality.

Video from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, as the spacecraft pl...

An artist's concept of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. 

This video describes Cassini measurements of high speed streams of tiny dust particles emanating from the vicinity of Saturn.

The interaction of the solar wind with the Martian moon Phobos creates a complex electrical environment that could impact future exploration.