The Cassini orbiter, a collaborative mission by NASA, ESA, and ASI, provided us with a stunning legacy of Saturn and its intricate system of rings and moons.
It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...
Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.
NARRATOR: But we never realized the true beauty of them until NASA's Cassini spacecraft went to visit. The photographs and data sent back were spectacular. OLUSEYI: Saturn's rings turned out to be ...
The Remarkable Rings (2005): Science’s understanding of Saturn changed forever after the Cassini spacecraft—which ended its long mission in September 2017—began orbiting through the ...
After that it will intentionally crash into the atmosphere of Jupiter similar to crashing Cassini into Saturn. Juno’s mission ... you will notice that its rings are very thin now, only tilted ...
Like the Earth, the Sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for ...
Saturn’s rings are made from billions of pieces of ice and rock. To explore more: Visit Saturn’s photo album . Take a look with your little one at images taken by the spacecraft Cassini ...
Saturn's rings loop for hundreds of thousands of miles ... frozen and unchanging. But in 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft travelled to the South Pole and discovered that stillness shattered.