High-resolution images of Saturn’s Hexagon obtained by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: UPV/EHU High-resolution images obtained by the Cassini spacecraft were used for this purpose by…
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This false-color composite image shows auroras (depicted in green) above the cloud tops of Saturn’s south pole. The 65 observations used here were captured by…
Optical image of Titan taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Planetary scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the secrets…
Using new geochemical models, SwRI scientists found that CO2 in Enceladus’ ocean may be controlled by chemical reactions at the seafloor. Integrating this finding with…
First seen by the Cassini mission to Saturn, Enceladus’ “tiger stripes” are like nothing else known in our Solar System. Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI,…
The colorful globe of Titan passes in front of Saturn and its rings in this true-color snapshot from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2011. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space…
This is an artist’s conception of the 20 newly discovered moons orbiting Saturn. These discoveries bring the planet’s total moon count to 82, surpassing Jupiter…
A prototype of the transforming robot Shapeshifter is tested in the robotics yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Shapeshifter is made of smaller robots that…
The latest view of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system — which looks like a phonograph record with…
This artist’s concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn’s moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features such as those seen by…
This graphic shows the ring moons inspected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in super-close flybys. The rings and moons depicted are not to scale. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech…
An artist’s impression of how Saturn may look in the next hundred million years. The innermost rings disappear as they rain onto the planet first,…