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We are in a special time where Earth and Saturn’s tilts create two wonderful illusions for lovers of the night sky. Not only have Saturn’s rings disappeared from view, but its largest moon has cast ...
The colossal shadow of Titan, Saturn's largest and most mysterious moon, will glide across the vibrant cloud bands of the ...
NASA’s Cassini-Huygens orbiter has been on mission for nearly two decades and it’s still delivering glimpses of Saturn that leave us in awe. The spacecraft, which is approaching its final ...
The Saturn orbiter also carried a piggyback European lander called Huygens, which touched down on the 3,200-mile-wide (5,150 kilometers) moon in January 2005.
After 13 years at Saturn, the Cassini orbiter’s explorations are coming to an end on September 15 with a dramatic dive into the ringed planet’s atmosphere. This illustration depicts the ...
A dynamical interplay between Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and its rings is captured in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Sept. 20, 2009 and released Dec. 23, 2013.
NASA's Cassini probe has begun reshaping its orbit around Saturn in preparation for the spacecraft's "grand finale" at the ringed planet next year. Cassini performed a 35-second engine burn on ...
PASADENA, Calif. — Linda Spilker checks the clock: 12:04 p.m. As the NASA scientist sits in this crowded conference room on the Caltech campus, the aging Saturn orbiter Cassini is flying past ...
Cassini-Huygens is set to slip between two of Saturn’s rings and then thrust into the planet’s field of gravity in a maneuver called the Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI). Cassini then is expected ...