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In lab experiments NASA scientists matched the spectral signature of an unknown material the Cassini spacecraft detected in Titan's atmosphere at far-infrared wavelengths.
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Titan's vibrating aerosol molecules
Vibrating Aerosol Molecules on Titan
+ 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...
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Graphic illustrates the amount of material stripped from a moon at different times
Tidal Stripping of Ice from a Titan-Sized Satellite
While the curtain-like auroras we see at Earth are green at the bottom and red at the top, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has shown us similar curtain-like auroras at Saturn that are red at the bottom a...
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Saturn's aurora
Saturn's Colorful Aurora (annotated)
This composite image of the Sun reveals the entire solar atmosphere in multiple wavelengths.
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The Sun visualized in multiple pie slice wavelengths.
Slices of the Sun
Atmospheric Motion
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Atmospheric Motion
Atmospheric Motion
This graphic illustrates Cassini's trajectory, or flight path, during the final two phases of its mission. The 20 Ring-Grazing Orbits are shown in gray; the 22 Grand Finale Orbits are shown in blue...
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This graphic illustrates Cassini's trajectory, or flight path, during the final two phases of its mission.
Final Orbits and Titan: Cassini Grand Finale (Artist's Concept)
Presented here is a complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution Dione atlas, a project of the Cassini Imaging Team. The map sheets form a 15-quadrangle series covering the entire...
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Dione atlas
The Dione Atlas
Twenty-eight years before Cassini-Huygens arrived at Saturn, artist Ken Hodges painted this vision of a possible mission to explore Saturn and the giant moon Titan for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laborat...
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Painting of spacecraft and lander exploring Saturn and Titan.
Titan Saturn Mission Artwork (1976)
Cassini scientists know some of the thousands of images from the spacecraft's journey stand apart. With this feature they present the Cassini Images Hall of Fame. + View Feature
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Artist's rendition of a 'Cassini Images Hall of Fame'
Cassini Images Hall of Fame
Artist's rendition of our solar system. Not to scale. 
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Fanciful illustration of the bodies in our solar system all lined up.
Our Solar System (Artist's Concept)
This illustration depicts potential origins of methane found in the plume of gas and ice particles that sprays from Saturn's moon, Enceladus, based on research by scientists working with the Ion an...
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This illustration depicts potential origins of methane found in the plume of gas that sprays from Enceladus
Trapping of Methane In Enceladus' Ocean
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
This animation shows the locations of Cassini's various rings.
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Animated GIF showing the location of Cassini's rings.
Saturn's Rings
In the decade since NASA’s Cassini delivered ESA’s Huygens probe to the hidden surface of Titan, our knowledge of Saturn’s largest moon has grown by leaps and bounds.
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Infographic of Huygens at Titan
10th Anniversary of Huygens Arrival at Titan
This graphic represents a possible model for mechanisms that could generate the water vapor and tiny ice particles detected by Cassini over the southern polar terrain on Enceladus. This model shows...
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This graphic represents a possible model for mechanisms that could generate the water vapor and tiny ice particles detected by Cassini over the southern polar terrain on Enceladus.
Modeling 'Warm' Ice on Enceladus
This is a drawing of Saturn made by an elementary school student.
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Drawing of Saturn
Student Rendering of Saturn
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.
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Huygens landing
Huygens Landing
The icy crust is thinner in the polar regions, below which sits an ocean.
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A graphic showing hydrothermal activity in Enceladus' core
Hydrothermal Activity in Enceladus' Core and the Rise of Organic-rich Bubbles
Enceladus' plume was found to have a comet-like chemistry by Cassini's Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer during its fly-through of the plume on Mar. 12, 2008. Water vapor, methane, carbon monoxide,...
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This graph shows the chemical constituents in percentage of abundance found in comets compared to those found in Enceladus’ plume
Comets and Enceladus – Similar Chemistry
For an Earth observer on May 3, 2005, the Cassini spacecraft appeared to pass behind the rings, then Saturn, then the rings again (the red line). The discovered harmonic structure was found on both...
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Illustration of the harmonic structure found in various parts of Saturn's rings
Saturn's Ring Rhythm #2
This is a drawing of Saturn made by an elementary school student.
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Drawing of Saturn
Student Rendering of Saturn
Diagram of the Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe.
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Cassini Diagram No. 6
Like any extended family, the Cassini mission enjoys holiday traditions - such as transforming our homepage into a spooky landscape for Halloween.
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Animate GIF of Halloween images.
Spooky Saturn
+ Unannotated Version The northern and southern hemispheres of Enceladus are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini clear-filter images. Each map is...
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The northern and southern hemispheres of Enceladus are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini clear-filter images.
Enceladus Polar Maps - December 2011 -- South -- Annotated
A brief explainer about the 2018 global dust storm on Mars.
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Illustrated story about dust impact on Mars rover.
Science Comic: Dust Storm on Mars

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