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Over the past few months, Cassini took the closest pictures of Saturn’s rings we’ve ever seen that it was pretty easy to forget that the probe was nearing its end. It actually dove in and out of the rings to prepare for its poetic death, and now it’s down to its last orbits around the […]
Timelapse video of a LEGO Saturn V construction, recorded by Ron Zaguli. (video link) I wasn’t sure what I was getting into. Yes, I love LEGOs. (Who doesn’t?!?) I played with them extensively as a boy—building castles, X-wings, and battleships, and then throwing my entire collection into a large cloth bag to create entirely new things […]
On April 26, NASA flew its Cassini spacecraft closer to Saturn than ever before. In fact, it’s the closest any spacecraft has ever come to Saturn — just 1,900 miles from the beautiful planet’s cloud tops. Even more exciting, Cassini has already transmitted images of what it saw from its deepest dive yet. These are […]
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Good morning, Cassini! Today, at about 3:00am EDT, NASA’s Deep Space Network Goldstone Complex in California’s acquired the orbiter’s signal for the first time since it began its series of Grand Finale dives. The photos it took from the space between Saturn and its rings, which have just been released, are […]
For the last 13 years, a NASA spacecraft the size of a school bus has been whirling around Saturn, collecting data and snapping mesmerizing images of the ringed planet and its icy moons. That vehicle is Cassini, and its exploration of Saturn has led to some of the biggest discoveries ever made about the worlds […]
Scientists recently took a closer look at data over a decade old and concluded that two moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter might have environments that foster life. During an October 2015 flyby of the ringed planet’s moon Enceladus, the probe Cassini was hit by gaseous plume, which was likely a hydrothermal vent breaking through the […]
It’s been nearly two decades since the Cassini-Hyugens spacecraft launched from Earth toward Saturn, entering the ringed planet’s orbit on July 1, 2004. The Huygens lander separated on Christmas Day to dive into Saturn’s atmosphere, leaving Cassini to study the Saturn system alone. But now Cassini is running out of fuel and NASA is preparing […]
