Sep 21, 2023 · This gallery contains the full record of the Cassini spacecraft’s raw images taken from Feb. 20, 2004 to Cassini’s end of mission on Sept. 15, 2017. The archive will remain available to all …

On October 15, 1997, the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was launched on an almost 7-year journey to the Saturn system. On its way, Cassini– Huygens passes Venus (twice), Earth, and Jupiter — arriving at …

Four spacecraft have visited the Saturn system, but only Cassini actually orbited the ringed planet. Doing so bought Cassini time – more than a decade – to linger and watch Saturn’s exotic zoo of 80 …

NASA found that even with solar arrays containing the latest high-efficiency solar cells developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) it would not have been possible to conduct the Cassini mission using …

The Cassini-Huygens mission — a joint endeavor of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency), and the Italian Space Agency — is the first mission to orbit Saturn and explore its environs in detail.

On Oct. 9, 2008, just after coming within 25 kilometers (15.6 miles) of the surface of Enceladus, NASA's Cassini captured this stunning mosaic as the spacecraft sped away from this geologically active …

Cassini carries another spacecraft along for the ride to the Saturnian system. The Huygens Probe, built by the European Space Agency, will separate from Cassini once in orbit at Saturn, and will descend …

Volume 2 is one of four documents that the Laboratory (JPL) has compiled to support the (EIS) for the Cassini Program by the National focus is on identifying and characterizing comparing those …

Jun 26, 2019 · During one of Galileo’s extended missions, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft also flew by Jupiter on its way to Saturn. For a few weeks, both spacecraft were observing the giant planet together.

Mar 28, 2006 · The DSN radiates an X-Band uplink signal which the spacecraft locks to (just like your FM radio receiver) and then the spacecraft multiplies the uplink signal by a exact (880/749) amount …