Cassini
Video: Carolyn Porco Discusses Her Life at Saturn
Space historian Andrew Chaikin sat down with planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, and she discusses how her career has ended up…
Is Saturn Making a New Moon?
Congratulations! It's a baby... moon? A bright clump spotted orbiting Saturn at the outermost edge of its A ring may…
Cassini Sees a “Zen Garden” on Titan
Looking like the flowing designs carved by a Zen gardener's rake, long parallel dunes of hydrocarbon sand stretch across the…
Cassini Spacecraft Confirms Subsurface Ocean on Enceladus
Ever since the Cassini spacecraft first spied water vapor and ice spewing from fractures in Enceladus’ frozen surface in 2005,…
Surf’s Up on Titan! Cassini May Have Spotted Waves in Titan’s Seas
It's no surprise that Titan's north polar region is covered with vast lakes and seas of liquid methane -- these…
Watch Two Dark Moons Sneak Into Cassini’s Shots
On March 11, NASA's Cassini spacecraft was acquiring some images of Saturn's back-lit limb when two of its moons decided…
Saturn’s Ring Shows A Twist In Cassini’s Glimpse Of Planet
What's up with this distortion? This picture from the Cassini spacecraft shows some kind of twist happening in the F…
Prometheus Practices Its Pull
Lit by eerie, reflected light from Saturn's F ring (and a casting a faint shadow through a haze of icy…
Watch: An Amazing, Mesmerizing Full Rotation of Jupiter
Jupiter is a happening place in the solar system. While bashful Mars only puts on a good show once every…