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A diagram of the Cassini probe's final orbit at Saturn. NASA/JPL-Caltech Cassini snapped its final of many images at Saturn on Thursday around 3:58 p.m. EDT.
NASA has published Cassini’s final images of Saturn before the spaceship performed its death dive into the planet’s atmosphere. Cassini disintegrated into a ball of fire at 7:55 a.m. ED… ...
Cassini observes Enceladus for the last time, on August 28, 2017. Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Bringing invasive species to an isolated ecosystem could prove disastrous.
NASA’s Saturn-orbiting spacecraft, Cassini, has begun an unprecedented mission to skim the planet’s rings. On Tuesday, Cassini got a gravitational assist from Saturn’s big moon Titan.
NASA's Cassini orbiter, along with the Huygens lander built to descend to the surface of Titan, launched on October 15, 1997, aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur rocket and reached an orbit around Saturn ...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has taken nearly 400,000 images during its slow sojourn to Saturn, documenting its 53 or so moons and stunning rings, resulting in a collection of humbling, jaw ...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dove inside Saturn’s rings for the first time on April 26, its first of 22 planned orbits close to the planet’s atmosphere. Cassini returned the closest images ever ...
Cassini-Huygens launched on Oct. 15, 1997 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Huygens was an atmospheric entry probe that Cassini dropped off at Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in 2005.
On September 15, 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraftmade its final journey into the heart of Saturn, marking the end of an extraordinary 13-year mission dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the ...
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