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Video: Cassini – Helene
Animation made using the raw images from Cassini’s flyby of Saturn’s moon, Helene on 18/6/2011
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Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn Moon
Dramatic plumes (cloudy, white areas), both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed "tiger stripes" near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. PASADENA, Calif. –...
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Cassini Spacecraft Captures Images And Sounds Of Big Saturn Storm
The huge storm churning through the atmosphere in Saturn's northern hemisphere overtakes itself as it encircles the planet in this true-color view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft Scientists analyzing...
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Enceladus weather: Snow flurries and perfect powder for skiing
Global signature of frost deposition on Enceladus revealed in colour mapping. The top map shows a colorized map of the predicted pattern of fallout from Enceladus’s icy plumes (bus represent thicker...
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Saturn and Its Moon Dione
Dione on a Diagonal Saturn and Dione appear askew in this Cassini spacecraft view, with the north poles rotated to the right, as if they were threaded along on the thin diagonal line of the planet’s...
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Rhea Before Titan
Craters appear well defined on icy Rhea in front of the hazy orb of the much larger moon Titan in this Cassini spacecraft view of these two Saturn moons. Lit terrain seen here is on the leading...
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Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Rhea on March 10, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 26,019 miles (41,873 kilometers) away. These...
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Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn
A particularly strong jet stream churns through Saturn’s northern hemisphere in this false-color view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI) Turbulent jet streams, regions where...
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Cassini Finds a Video Gamers’ Paradise at Saturn
Scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission have spotted two features shaped like the 1980s video game icon “Pac-Man” on moons of Saturn. One was observed on the moon Mimas in 2010 and the latest was...
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Cassini captures spectacle in Saturn’s shadow
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn, taken while the spacecraft was in Saturn’s shadow. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Just in time for the...
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Cassini Suggests Icing on a Lake
The icebergs of Titan: Astronomers say hydrocarbon blocks could contain ‘exotic form of life’ An artist’s impression of the hydrocarbon ‘icebergs’ on Titan scientists believe could harbour an exotic...
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Saturn is Like an Antiques Shop, Cassini Suggests
Cassini observes three of Saturn’s moons set against the darkened night side of the planet. From left, Dione, partly obscured by Saturn, then Rhea and Enceladus. This view looks toward the northern,...
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Titan’s Fancy Collar
Titan’s polar collar — previously seen by Voyager 2 and the Hubble Space Telescope — has now been observed by the Cassini spacecraft, seen here in ultraviolet light. The collar is believed to be...
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NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon
This colorful view from NASA’s Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn’s north pole known as “the hexagon.” This movie, made from images obtained by...
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Cassini Spacecraft Reveals 101 Geysers and more on Icy Saturn Moon
This artist’s rendering shows a cross-section of the ice shell immediately beneath one of Enceladus’ geyser-active fractures, illustrating the physical and thermal structure and the processes ongoing...
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Cassini Watches Mysterious Feature Evolve in Titan Sea
These three images, created from Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, show the appearance and evolution of a mysterious feature in Ligeia Mare, one of the largest hydrocarbon seas on Saturn’s...
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Cassini Caught in Hyperion’s Particle Beam
This stunning false-color view of Saturn’s moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon’s surface. Differences in color could represent differences in the composition of...
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