Upon separation just over an hour after liftoff, the spacecraft will rely on its meticulously designed propulsion system ...

July 16, 2024 — A new study of radar experiment data from the Cassini ... from Earth. Hubble's ultra-sharp vision reveals a ... Using Eclipses to Calculate the Transparency of Saturn's Rings ...

But it took that long for the news to reach Earth a billion miles away. The only spacecraft to ever orbit Saturn, Cassini showed us the planet, its rings and moons up close in all their splendor.

The chemical processes resemble what’s happening in hydrothermal vents on Earth’s ... moon by studying Saturn’s ring particles. In its last few years of operation, Cassini found large ...

Saturn’s moon Titan is the second largest in the ... These two kinds of erosion produce characteristically different shorelines on Earth. Careful analysis of the Cassini radar maps compared with ...

Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission made history with a daring lunar-Earth flyby and double gravity assist maneuver, a ...

Earth may once have had something similar ... So, we know a lot about how rings form. Here’s how it works. Saturn backlit by the sun, taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Image Credit: Cassini Imaging ...

The iconic feature likely formed at least 190 years ago, making it the longest-lived vortex known in the solar system. A new ...

Voyager 2 then obtained an assist from Saturn and another one later from Uranus, climbing all the way to Neptune and beyond.

On Saturn, an equinox occurs ... orient edge-on to our line of sight from Earth and appear to vanish. The last time this happened, in 2009, NASA’s Cassini orbiter used the opportunity to study ...