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 …

NASA found that even with solar arrays containing the latest high-efficiency solar cells developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) it would not have been possible to conduct the Cassini …

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.

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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 …

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 …

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 …

Cassini carries another spacecraft along for the ride to the Saturnian system. The Huygens Probe, built by the European Space Agency, will separate from Cassini once in orbit at Saturn, and …

Cassini's 12 science instruments were designed to carry out sophisticated scientific studies of Saturn, from collecting data in multiple regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, to studying …