The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

The Cassini mission brought with it the European Space Agency’s Huygens lander, which was dispatched to Titan and successfully entered its atmosphere and then descended under parachute to the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

Saturn has decisively claimed the crown. With the discovery of 128 new moons, the ringed planet’s total count has soared to 274 — nearly twice as many as all other planets combined. Jupiter now trails ...

Q. What is the Cassini mission and who is involved? "The Cassini Huygens mission is an international mission between the European space agency and the US space agency, which has been orbiting ...

Huygens did not have the capability to transmit data back to Earth. And it relied on the Cassini spacecraft flying overhead. Instead of having to carry something big enough to transmit the billion ...

Our current work is supported by a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation under their SocioComputational Systems (SOCS) division. Under this project, the SpaceTeams Research Group is ...