Released April 27, the images of Saturn’s cloud tops are a “big step forward” for understanding the planet’s atmosphere, says Cassini imaging team member Andy Ingersoll, ...

The dark shadows of Mimas and Tethys are also visible on Saturn's cloud tops, and the shadow of Saturn is seen across part of the rings. Photograph by NASA/JPL/USGS.

Death Dive to Saturn. Season 44 Episode 12 | 54m 32s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Follow Cassini's final days as it skims the cloud tops before plunging into the planet. Aiming to skim less ...

Saturn and several of its moons, including Tethys, Dione and Rhea while Mimas hangs over its cloud tops. ... Saturn, despite being smaller than Jupiter, appears to have many more irregular moons.

As Cassini captured the footage, it dropped from 45,000 to 4,200 miles above Saturn's cloud tops. As it zoomed along it got an ever sharper view of smaller and smaller features. At the beginning of ...

Skywatchers in central Wisconsin can expect a stunning week ahead, with planetary pairings, moon phases and celestial ...

Saturn Could Lose Its Rings in Less Than 100 Million Years. ... In the image captured by Cassini, the rings are illuminated both by direct sunlight and by light reflected off Saturn's cloud tops.

At the time of this writing, June 23, Jupiter was about half a degree left of the afternoon Sun and due to pass behind it ...

In 2017, the mission famously ended by plunging into the cloud tops. But before it did, it showed us so much about the ringed world.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the second-largest in the solar system, is a strange place. Like Earth, it has lakes and seas; unlike on Earth, those bodies are filled with liquid methane. Titan ...