This poster shows a flattened (Mercator) projection of the Huygens probe’s view of Saturn’s moon Titan from 10 kilometers altitude. The images that make up…
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November 2023 skywatching highlights include the peak of the Leonid meteor shower, Saturn in Aquarius, and opposite views of Venus and Jupiter in the morning…
Supercomputer simulations suggest that Saturn’s rings might have originated from a massive collision between two icy moons during the age of dinosaurs. Collaborative research by…
Artist’s impression of the Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon and a major target in NASA’s quest to assess habitability and…
Artist’s Impression of Dragonfly on Titan’s surface. Taking advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity, Dragonfly will explore dozens of locations across the icy…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn each year, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, and the dynamic gas…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn each year, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, and the dynamic gas…
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…
Illustration of Saturn and its rings. All of the outer gas giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus — have rings around them. Planets…
These three mosaics of Titan were composed with data from Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer taken during the last three Titan flybys, on October…
Infrared image of Saturn showing an aurora at its southern pole, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL/ASI/University of Arizona/University of Leicester Saturn’s high-altitude winds…
On October 13, 2021, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter slewed to allow LRO Camera (LROC) to acquire this magnificent view revealing Saturn and its rings. Credit:…
This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn’s moon Titan from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA Titan, SaturnSaturn is the sixth planet from the…
An illustration of Saturn and its “fuzzy” core. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Saturn Makes Waves in its Own Rings In the same way that earthquakes…
Artist’s rendering showing a cutaway view into the interior of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. A plume of ice particles, water vapor, and organic molecules sprays from…
What’s Up for March? Mars and friends in the evening, and a brilliant pair of planets returns… In the first week or so of March,…
Artist’s impression of the migration of Titan and the tilt of Saturn. Credit: © Coline SAILLENFEST / IMCCE Two scientists from CNRS and Sorbonne University…
An artistic rendering of Kraken Mare, the large liquid methane sea on Saturn’s moon Titan. Credit: NASA/John Glenn Research Center Far below the gaseous atmospheric…
Skywatchers are in for an end-of-year treat. What has become known popularly as the “Christmas Star” is an especially vibrant planetary conjunction easily visible in…
Just after sunset on the evening of December 21, 2020, Jupiter and Saturn will appear closer together in Earth’s night sky than they have been…