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Watch a NASA simulation of Cassini’s upcoming Saturn crash
On April 26th, NASA's Cassini probe will begin diving in and out of the gap between Saturn and its rings in what the agency calls its "Grand Finale." The spacecraft will orbit the gas giant it's been observing since 2004 22 more times before taking t...
Cassini Spacecraft Captures Close-up View of a Propeller in Saturn’s Outermost Ring
Cassini captures close-up views of Saturn’s rings
NASA has released high-resolution close-up images of Saturn's outermost rings captured by Cassini as part of its penultimate mission. The spacecraft has been diving in and out of the rings every week since November, taking images that show features a...
Cassini Spacecraft Reveals Saturn and Its Rings System in Stunning Detail
NASA’s Cassini Takes Closest View of Saturn’s ‘Wavemaker Moon Daphnis
NASA video recreates Huygen probe’s historic landing on Titan
Before NASA's Cassini probe captured the most detailed images of Saturn we've ever seen, it dropped its companion Huygens on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The probe's historic landing took place on June 14th, 2005. Now, the space agency has taken the...
Cassini will Die into Saturn’s Moon Titan
Cassini Captures Titan’s Mystery Clouds and Saturn’s Moon Pandora
Cassini captures Titan’s mysterious clouds on cam
It's business as usual for the Cassini spacecraft until it's time to say goodbye in September 2017, and some of the latest images it captured tell us more about Saturn's moons. The spacecraft's cameras, for one, produced two very different views of T...