Milestones in Cassini's Final Dive

This animation shows an example of a recent space weather event forecast derived from such observations by Goddard Space Flight Center space weather lab and illustrates the kind of information we w...

This animation shows the locations of Cassini's various rings.

+ Brightening Adiri -- Unannotated Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show changes caused by methane rain in the bright Adiri region near the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Altho...

The icy crust is thinner in the polar regions, below which sits an ocean.

The number of water particles in Enceladus' plume peaked over the area highlighted by the circle in this image of Enceladus, which is overlain by data from Cassini's Ion and Neutral Mass Spectromet...

This movie sequence of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft offers a unique perspective on Saturn’s ring system. 

A whimsical mission poster inspired by a 1970s advertising campaign.

This graphic shows the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon Enceladus on Aug. 11, 2008. At closet approach Cassini will be 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the surfac...

+ View high res + View unannotated version + View contrast enhanced version On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow ...

This graphic summarizes Cassini's 13 years orbiting Saturn, with moon flybys grouped into columns for each phase of the mission. 

Eight of Cassini's science instruments are planned to be turned on during the final plunge.

This graphic plots the source locations of the geysers scientists have located on Enceladus' south polar terrain. 

+ View Related Story At the end of the formation of Saturn's satellites, a Titan-sized satellite spirals inward towards the planet due to interaction with the primordial circumplanetary gas disk...

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

One of the glittering trails caused by small objects punching through Saturn's F ring is highlighted in this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These trails show how the F ring, the outermost of...

This whimsical travel poster imagines a future regatta where explorers recreate Voyager 1 and 2's historic Grand Tour of the outer solar system.

The Cassini mission entered its second extended mission, called the Cassini Solstice Mission, in September 2010. This extension enables scientists to study seasonal and other long-term weather chan...

This illustration shows the various steps that lead to the formation of the aerosols that make up the haze on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. When sunlight or highly energetic particles from Satur...

This image shows the location of Cassini's most precise measurements so far of the surface temperatures at the active "tiger stripe" fractures that cut the south polar region of Enceladus. The back...

The Cassini mission’s epic 13-year exploration of Saturn is coming to a close. On Sept. 15, the spacecraft will make a planned plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn in order to protect pristine icy ...

+ Higher Resolution This graphic illustrates the Radio Science Occultation Experiment conducted on Friday May 10, 2013. Details and description of terms: Dots are spaced at 15-minute (15 m) ...

Bright clumps of ring material and a fan-like structure appear near the core of Saturn's tenuous F ring in this mosaic of images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Such features suggest the existence ...

This image, which is composed of data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the topography of a mountain known as Janiculum Dorsa on the Saturnian moon Dione.

See also the non-annotated version. Astronomers have long known that Saturn's rings reflect sunlight most strongly when Earth is located directly between Saturn and the sun. Flat, shiny surfaces (...

These three posters imagine future tourism possibilities based on the rich history of Saturn exploration from the twin Voyager's Grand Tour to the epic discoveries made by the Cassini-Huygens missi...