Sep 21, 2023 · This gallery contains the full record of the Cassini spacecraft’s raw images taken from Feb. 20, 2004 to Cassini’s end of mission on Sept. 15, 2017. The archive will remain …

Cassini’s finale plunge is a fitting and truly spectacular end for one of the most scientifically rich voyages yet undertaken in our solar system. This end was planned for Cassini in 2010, at the …

Extensive studies conducted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) showed that NASA’s Cassini mission, given its science objectives, available launch systems, travel time to its …

Oct 21, 2025 · At left is an unprocessed, or raw, image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image was taken using a filter that lets red wavelengths of light pass through to the camera's …

The Cassini orbiter will orbit Saturn for 4 years. The spacecraft’s 12 onboard instruments will collect data about Saturn, the rings, the magnetosphere, Titan, and Saturn’s smaller moons.

The Cassini mission is a joint effort of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), and Italian Space Agency (ASI). The mission is managed for …

Four spacecraft have visited the Saturn system, but only Cassini actually orbited the ringed planet. Doing so bought Cassini time – more than a decade – to linger and watch Saturn’s …

Volume 2 is one of four documents that the Laboratory (JPL) has compiled to support the (EIS) for the Cassini Program by the National focus is on identifying and characterizing comparing …

On Oct. 9, 2008, just after coming within 25 kilometers (15.6 miles) of the surface of Enceladus, NASA's Cassini captured this stunning mosaic as the spacecraft sped away from this …

Discovery Giovanni Cassini discovered Tethys on March 21, 1684. Overview Tethys is Saturn's fifth largest moon. Its irregular shape is 331 miles (533 kilometers) in mean radius, with …