The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

For example, the Cassini-Huygens mission was first proposed in 1982 and wasn't launched until 1997, during which time it endured several years of studies and swapped between a solo NASA mission or ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

Q. What is the Cassini mission and who is involved? "The Cassini Huygens mission is an international mission between the European space agency and the US space agency, which has been orbiting ...

Cassini’s flagship mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended ... times as strong as the average wind speeds estimated by the Huygens measurements near the surface and with climate models ...

On 15 September, we say farewell to this game-changing mission and crash the probe into Saturn’s toxic clouds, protecting these moons from contamination. All images courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Like the Galilean moons, the moons of Saturn (except Io) are composed primarily of ice, mixed with varying proportions of rock and, in some cases, organic substances (carbon compounds). As well as ...

Our current work is supported by a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation under their SocioComputational Systems (SOCS) division. Under this project, the SpaceTeams Research Group is ...

named after the Nasa mission with the Cassini spacecraft carrying the Huygens probe. Just like the Nasa mission that had its fair share of nail-biting moments, this release had some nail-biting ...