This brings us to the Cassini mission, which orbited Saturn between 2004 and its final fiery crash into the planet in 2017. Saturn orbits the sun at 10 AU. Due to a quirk of MOND, the gravity from ...

Despite its Earth-like rivers and lakes of liquid methane, Saturn’s moon Titan seems oddly lacking in river deltas — ...

Earth, as seen by Cassini's radar. In order to understand what landforms on Titan could be seen by Cassini's radar, researchers looked at well-known Earth landforms through Cassini's perspective. The ...

No one can ever say that Cassini went quietly into its good night. At about 7:55 a.m. ET on Friday, mission controllers on Earth got official word that the Cassini spacecraft -- a joint operation ...

On April 26, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot between Saturn and its innermost ring, going where no human-made object has gone before. Cassini has already made some new discoveries thanks to its ...

More than a pretty picture, this mosaic of 126 Cassini frames taken in October 2004 shows rich detail, down to the faint shadows of rings criss-crossing the actual rings. Cassini, a robotic ...

Saturn's moon Titan, with its methane rivers and lakes, lacks expected deltas. Scientists are puzzled by this mystery, ...

The robotic Cassini spacecraft which is now orbiting Saturn looked back toward the eclipsed Sun and saw a view unlike any other. CICLOPS, JPL, ESA, NASA We've been looking at other planets through ...

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The featured missions were selected through a poll conducted by The Planetary Society, with the top results being the Voyager "Grand Tour" program of the 1970s and 1980s; the Cassini/Huygens ...

This included the benefits of a plume-focused mission as opposed to a lander or other type of scientific mission how data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft contributed to recent discoveries ...