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Giovanni Cassini, the astronomer, discovers a moon near Saturn. Half is dark as coal. The other half, bright as snow. Three centuries later, Cassini, the spacecraft, flies by for a close look.
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Screenshot from the 'Backstage at Iapetus' movie
Backstage Pass to Iapetus
  Take a virtual ride with Voyager 1 and 2 past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
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Take a virtual ride with Voyager 1 and 2 past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Voyage of Discovery
Spacecraft Trajectory
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Spacecraft Trajectory
Spacecraft Trajectory
Multimedia-rich e-book on the birth and death of the Sun and other types of stars, full of NASA data and imagery.
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Title "Life and Death of a Planetary System" justified on the top middle and overtop a lava pit with a cloudy, grey sky
Life and Death of Planetary System
Look for Mars close to the Pleiades in the first weeks of March. Then wake up early to observe the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn.
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Video describing things to see in the night sky.
What's Up: March 2021 [Video]
NASA's Dawn is the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial targets.
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Ceres Explore New Worlds
Using Ion Propulsion to Explore New Worlds
Seeking September 2020 skywatching highlights? Catch Venus and Mars with the Moon, and spot the flickering star Fomalhaut.
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Video of viewing tips for the night sky in September 2020.
What's Up: September 2020 [Video]
This movie, made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows Saturn's southern aurora shimmering over approximately 20 hours as the planet rotates.
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This movie shows Saturn's southern aurora shimmering over approximately 20 hours as the planet rotates.
Dancing Southern Lights of Saturn
With Cassini’s exploration of Saturn coming to a dashing end in a few months, the mission team scheduled an “All Cassini Plus Alumni” group photo on Wednesday, June 21,2017 to commemorate the event. 
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Video showing the Cassini team members gathering for a group photo.
Behind the Scenes: Cassini Group Photo
A total lunar eclipse, Leonid meteors, and the Moon visits Mars, Saturn, and Spica.
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This video describes things in the night sky and the reasons we study them.
What's Up: November 2022 Skywatching Tips from NASA
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu is a rubble pile of rocks and boulders left over from the formation of the solar system. 
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New details about the surface of asteroid Bennu
Asteroid Bennu's Surprising Surface Revealed by NASA Spacecraft
Learn more about black holes, how to find them and how to stay safe should you ever get a chance to visit one.
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Whimsical cartoon about an alien visiting a black hole.
Guide To Black Hole Safety
View this beautiful visualization of the Dawn spacecraft on its journey to the main asteroid belt to Asteroid Vesta and Dwarf Planet Ceres.
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Artist's concept of Dawn
Dawn Animations
As Titan Turns
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As Titan Turns
As Titan Turns
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.
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Video about NASA's Lucy spacecraft making a gravity assist at Earth.
Lucy's Journey: Episode 7 - "Earth Gravity Assist"
Cassini's mission planners created this animation to showcase the mission's final orbits, known as the Grand Finale.
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This animation illustrates the mission's final orbits, known as the Grand Finale.
Grand Finale Orbits Begin and End with Titan
Orange and white stripes slide against each other, and huge oval storms  gyrate in the NASA's Cassini spacecraft's first color movie clip of Jupiter.  
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Cassini's First Color Movie
Cassini's First Color Movie of Jupiter
What has Perseverance accomplished since landing on Mars in February 2021? Surface Operations Mission Manager Jessica Samuels reflects on a year filled with groundbreaking discoveries.
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Video about Perseverance's accomplishments since landing on Mars in February 2021
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Milestones - 2021 Year in Review
On Nov. 30, 2016, NASA's Cassini mission begins a daring set of ring-grazing orbits, skimming past the outside edge of Saturn's main rings.
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Video describing Cassini's orbits of the F ring.
Cassini's High-Flying, Ring-Grazing Orbits
High-Altitude Clouds
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High-Altitude Clouds
High-Altitude Clouds
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.
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Ingenuity's first flight on Mars
First Video of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Flight
An aurora, shining high above the northern part of Saturn, moves from the night side to the day side of the planet in this movie recorded by Cassini.
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An aurora, shining high above the northern part of Saturn, moves from the night side to the day side of the planet in this movie recorded by Cassini. Two side by side views of the movie are shown here.
Northern Aurora in Motion
NASA has dozens of robotic spacecraft exploring our solar system – and beyond. So how exactly do we navigate spacecraft that are so far away? 
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Animated video explaining how NASA's Deep Space Network communicates with spacecraft.
How Do We Know Where Faraway Spacecraft Are?
This movie, comprised of several detailed images taken by Cassini's radar instrument, shows bodies of liquid near Titan's north pole.
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Screenshot from the 'Radar Shows Evidence of Seas' movie
Radar Shows Evidence of Seas
An audio interview with Dr. Joane Feynman, a NASA heliophysicist, talking about how solar missions are conceptualized on the Space Weather Living History podcast.
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Space Weather Living History written in white lettering with an image of the Sun and Earth in the background.
Space Weather Living History Podcast Featuring Heliophysist Dr. Joan Feynman

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