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Proposed orbiter could probe the ocean beneath Saturn’s moon Titan

When NASA’s Cassini mission arrived at Saturn, it pressed through the haze surrounding the ringed planet’s largest moon, Titan, to reveal a complex, liquid-covered world with the potential to support life. Now, researchers are proposing a return to Titan with a mission that would investigate...

Weird clouds linger on Saturn’s moon Titan

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew over Titan on June 7 and July 25 and captured strikingly different photos of the moon’s high northern latitude using the probe’s Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) and Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS). Only the VIMS (the bottom, color image) was...

Back to Saturn? NASA eyes possible return mission as Cassini ends

Humanity’s light at Saturn has gone out. NASA’s robotic Cassini spacecraft burned up in the ringed planet’s atmosphere Friday morning (Sept. 15), ending a remarkable 13-year run at Saturn that has revolutionized scientists’ understanding of the outer solar system and its potential to host life....

NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn: By the numbers

After 20 years spent traveling the solar system and 13 years spent circling Saturn, the remarkable Cassini mission is coming to a bittersweet end. On Friday, Sept. 15, mission scientists and enthusiasts will witness the self-destruction of the Cassini probe, as it burns up and...

Cassini captures another stunning view of Saturn and its rings

NASA’s Cassini Orbiter captured a breath-taking view of Saturn impossible to see from anywhere else. Using it’s wide-angle camera, with the violet filter, the spacecraft snapped this incredible image on Oct. 28, 2016. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is known for some of...