Overview | Cassini – NASA Solar System Exploration
Cassini revealed in great detail the true wonders of Saturn, a giant world ruled by raging storms and delicate harmonies of gravity. Cassini carried a passenger to the Saturn system, the European Huygens probe —the first human-made object to …
Cassini - The Grand Finale – NASA Solar System Exploration
Jan 9, 2025 · Cassini represented a staggering achievement of human and technical complexity, finding innovative ways to use the spacecraft and its instruments, and paving the way for future missions to explore our solar system.
Overview | The Grand Finale – NASA Solar System Exploration
The Grand Finale In April 2017, NASA's Cassini spacecraft began writing the final, thrilling chapter of its remarkable 20-year-long story of exploration: its Grand Finale. Every week, Cassini dived through the approximately 1,200-mile-wide (2,000 …
About the Mission | Mission – NASA Solar System Exploration
A joint endeavor of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency), and the Italian space agency (ASI), Cassini was a sophisticated robotic spacecraft sent to study Saturn and its complex system of rings and moons in unprecedented detail. Cassini carried a …
Cassini Orbiter | Spacecraft – NASA Solar System Exploration
Cassini-Huygens was one of the most ambitious missions ever launched into space. Loaded with an array of powerful instruments and cameras, the spacecraft was capable of taking accurate measurements and detailed images in a variety of atmospheric conditions and light spectra.
Cassini Raw Images - NASA Solar System Exploration
Sep 21, 2023 · This gallery contains the full record of the Cassini spacecraft’s raw images taken from Feb. 20, 2004 to Cassini’s end of mission on Sept. 15, 2017. The archive will remain available to all as a historical record.
Cassini - Images | Galleries – NASA Solar System Exploration
Jan 9, 2025 · NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
Cassini - Quick Facts | Mission – NASA Solar System Exploration
Oct 15, 1997 · Total distance traveled: At Cassini’s end of mission, the spacecraft had traveled about 4.9 billion miles (7.8 billion kilometers) with respect to the Sun; this distance includes its 2.1 billion-mile (3.4-billion kilometer) interplanetary trajectory from Earth to Saturn.
Cassini - Overview | Science – NASA Solar System Exploration
Jan 9, 2025 · Cassini carried 12 science instruments to collect a wide range of information about the Saturnian environment. These sophisticated devices took images across the infrared, visible and ultraviolet light spectra, detected dust particles, and characterized Saturn's plasma environment and magnetosphere.
Cassini Orbiter - NASA Solar System Exploration
Like a highly-sensitive and extremely precise compass, Cassini’s Dual Technique Magnetometer, or MAG, recorded the direction and strength of magnetic fields around the spacecraft.