Cassini Grand Finale Reveals Saturn's Rings Blast the Planet With Organic Rain
“I think it’s tremendously exciting to see all of these new results from Cassini. Many of them are things we never expected in the first place.”
“I think it’s tremendously exciting to see all of these new results from Cassini. Many of them are things we never expected in the first place.”
The newly-released image isn’t exactly what Hubble saw – but it’s still exciting, I promise.
Sound and light have way more in common than you think.
The Juno spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter was supposed end its mission by crashing into the gas giant next month. Not anymore!
It’s been more than six months since the Cassini probe plummeted to its demise, but scientists are still releasing incredible images from two-decade mission to Saturn.
Cassini may be dead, but we’re still learning plenty from its historic mission.
Planets and robots lack hearts and minds, but they’re especially good at impacting ours.
The highest-resolution colour images of any part of Saturn’s rings.
On September 15th, Cassini’s 20-year-long exploration of the Saturnian system will come to an end.
Although its lakes are full of ultra-cold liquid methane and ethane, they could be placid enough for future space probe to land on.
The raw photos from Cassini’s second dive into the gap between Saturn and its rings are now available to sift through.
While we’re all excited to see the the results of Cassini’s second dive, astronomers are still parsing through the findings from her first.
It’s classic Cassini, making the previously impossible look easy.
In the 20 years it’s spent in space, this intrepid orbiter has enabled the publication of over 3,000 scientific reports.
Cassini has been sending back some of the most incredible images of Saturn and its moons—but one of its latest from Saturn’s rings is especially spectacular. See that dot? That's Earth. Read More >>
As if we already weren’t sad enough about Cassini’s imminent demise, NASA has now created a video so that we can watch what the spacecraft’s final moments will look like.
