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This map shows the pattern of Cassini spacecraft’s well-controlled up-and-down nodding movements
Pattern of Cassini spacecraft's well-controlled up-and-down nodding movements
Geysers on Saturn's little moon Enceladus are throwing off Saturn's internal clock, making it hard to measure the length of the Saturn day. Credit: NASA/JPL
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Saturn, Enceladus and the magnetich field
Enceladus Geysers Mask the Length of Saturn's Day
The sounds and spectrograms in these two videos represent data collected by the Radio and Plasma Wave Science, or RPWS, instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, as it crossed the plane of Saturn's ...
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The sounds and spectrograms data collected by the Radio and Plasma Wave Science, or RPWS
The Sound of Science: Comparison of Cassini Ring Crossings
Diagram of the Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe.
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Cassini Diagram No. 6
This image shows the surprise that startled Cassini scientists on the composite infrared spectrometer team when they got their first look at the infrared (heat) radiation from the south pole of Sat...
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Enceladus Temperature Map
Enceladus Temperature Map
This three-frame animation from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the swirling clouds in a vortex spawned by a great northern storm on Saturn. The clouds are moving in a clockwise direction. These...
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This three-frame animation from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the swirling clouds in a vortex spawned by a great northern storm on Saturn.
Swirling Vortex
This short animation created by Cassini's mission planning team shows how a Titan flyby will be used to move the spacecraft's course from orbiting Cassini's outer ring (F ring) to an orbit that tak...
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Animation showing Cassini's orbit change to dive between the planet and its rings.
Entering Final Orbits: Cassini's Grand Finale
Diagram of the Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe.  
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Diagram of the Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe.
Cassini Diagram No. 8
This colorized mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission shows the most complete view yet of Titan's northern land of lakes and seas. Saturn's moon Titan is the only world in our solar system other than E...
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This colorized mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission shows the most complete view yet of Titan's northern land of lakes and seas.
Titan's North -- Annotated, With Text
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...
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A graph of the number of water particles in Enceladus' plume
Peak Water Density
Eight of Cassini's science instruments are planned to be turned on during the final plunge.
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Cassini instruments
Instruments On During Cassini's Final Plunge
This series of maps of Saturn's moon Iapetus shows how a computer model of migrating ice can explain most features of Iapetus' global appearance. The model starts with Iapetus uniformly covered in ...
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Series of maps of Saturn's moon Iapetus
Thermal Runaway Model
Presented here is a complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution Enceladus atlas, a project of the Cassini Imaging Team. The map sheets form a 15-quadrangle series covering the...
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Enceladus
The Enceladus Atlas (2008)
Pan Found!
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Pan Found!
Pan Found!
This graphic, constructed from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the percentage of cloud coverage across the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. The color scale from black to yellow sig...
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Graphic showing percentage of cloud coverage across the surface of Titan.
Mapping Titan's Cloud Coverage
This artist's concept shows the approximate relative sizes of the terrestrial planets of the inner solar system. Correct distances are not shown.
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Line up showing four rocky planets in a row.
Terrestrial Planet Sizes
A whimsical artist's view of a girl dreaming of space exploration.
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Little girl looking at a magical swirl of planets and galaxies.
Inspiration
Dawn's launch vehicle is a variant of the Delta II known as a Delta 2925H.
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Diagram showing various stages of rocket.
Dawn Launch Vehicle Diagram
In this computer-generated artist's concept, the Cassini spacecraft is shown breaking apart after entering Saturn's atmosphere.
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Illustration of spacecraft breaking apart above Saturn.
Breakup (Illustration)
Here’s how the solar wind interacts with a few select planets and other celestial bodies.
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Illustration showing how particles from the Sun interact with planets.
The Solar Wind Across Our Solar System
A whimsical mission poster inspired by classic 1960s pop culture art.
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Comic book style poster of Cassini racing past Saturn.
Cassini Retro Poster: Whoosh!
A simplified model of Jupiter's massive magnetic field, known as a  magnetosphere.
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Colorful video visualization showing the lines of the massive magnetic bubble that surrounds Jupiter.
Jupiter's Magnetic Field Visualization
Holiday greetings from the Cassini mission to Saturn.
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Whimsical view of Cassini spacecraft made of snowflakes in orbit at Saturn.
Happy Holidays 2017
This free NASA e-Book celebrates Saturn as seen through the eyes of the Cassini spacecraft. 
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Downloadable electronic book showcasing the discoveries of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn.
The Saturn System Through the Eyes of Cassini (e-Book)
InSight's landing site is Elysium Planitia, a flat, smooth plain selected not for its surface features, but for safety considerations. InSight's purpose is to study the interior of Mars, not the su...
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Map of Mars with spacecraft landing sites labeled.
InSight's Landing Site: Elysium Planitia

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