Crazy Engineering: Ion Propulsion for the Dawn Mission

A scientist's interpretation and visualization of the January 2005 descent and landing of the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe on Titan.

This movie presents a series of animations showing NASA's Dawn spacecraft traveling to and operating at the giant asteroid Vesta.

Beginning April 2021, the window opens for the first flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. It will be history’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet.

Io Color Eclipse

Great Dark Spot  

As the moon Enceladus eclipses its neighbor Mimas, Cassini records a scene possible only around the time of Saturn's approaching equinox.

The six Apollo landing sites are revealed chronologically as the phase and libration of the Moon is shown throughout the Apollo era. 

This movie shows a quick succession of multiple products of Titan's surface from the Cassini orbiter and the European Space Agency's Huygens probe.

In this video captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover, the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.

This animation shows the last 30 seconds of Cassini's X- and S-band radio signals as they disappeared from mission control on Sept. 15, 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.

Lloyd French talks about the adventures that await in science and in life.

As millions of people observed the total lunar eclipse on October 8, 2014, MESSENGER was also watching from Mercury.

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

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space.

Release of Probe

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.

Learn more about black holes, how to find them and how to stay safe should you ever get a chance to visit one.

Final Assembly at the Cape

Where is the edge of the solar system? The answer is not so simple.

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

On October 15, 1997, the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was launched on an almost 7-year journey to the Saturn system.

The scientific community is incredibly excited to have these two highly complementary observatories operating together. 

This video shows the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors during their long string of tests, from individual segments to the final tests of the assembled mirror. 

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