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This composite image shows an infrared view of Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during a high-altitude fly-by, 6,200 miles above the moon, on Nov. 13, 2015. The view features the ...
An curved arrow pointing right. At just 240,000 miles from Saturn's north pole, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped some stunning photos. These are the first images of the spacecraft's new mission ...
In 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped an exceptional view of our vivid blue planet beyond Saturn's glorious rings. "At a distance of just under 900 million miles, Earth shines bright among ...
Sometimes these pictures are taken by spacecraft — like the famous pale blue dot photo which was snapped by the Cassini spacecraft — and sometimes they are taken by satellites that orbit the ...
These are the closest-ever images of Saturn. They were taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft just days before it crashed into Saturn. The results are spectacular. Shortly after Cassini took its final ...
A timelapse of all of the photographs the Cassini space probe has taken of Saturn's moon Tethys from Feb. 6, 2004 to Sept. 15, 2015. Note: These sequences at times include rapid flashing.
The robotic Cassini spacecraft which is now orbiting Saturn ... traveled to other planets and approached the Sun, sending back pictures that humble or awe, even as they advance astronomers ...
That’s why scientists sat up at their computers last year when pictures returning from the Cassini spacecraft showed enormous geysers of water erupting from the warm south pole of Saturn’s ...
There is poetry in the fact that when the Cassini spacecraft burns up in Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, ending its mission, the bus-sized spacecraft will become a part of the planet it has admired ...
On Friday, as the long-running Cassini mission at Saturn came to a close ... sending back amazing photos and scientific data about the world's moons, rings, and environment.
The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing ... On 15 September, we say farewell to this game-changing mission and crash the probe into Saturn’s toxic clouds, protecting these moons ...