Cassini

Nine years after the Cassini spacecraft was deliberately destroyed in Saturn's atmosphere to avoid endangering potentially habitable moons, scientists continue to uncover treasures in the data it left behind. In 2025, new organic compounds were found to originate from Enceladus' subsurface ocean.

Cassini has disappeared from Saturn, but its discoveries still continue

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Nine years after the Cassini spacecraft was deliberately destroyed in Saturn's atmosphere to avoid endangering potentially habitable moons, scientists continue to uncover treasures in the data it left behind. In 2025, compounds were found in
Saturn and the ten-sided decagon discovered at the south pole in Hubble Space Telescope images

Hubble Discovers Giant Decagon at Saturn's South Pole

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Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a massive, ten-sided atmospheric wave circling Saturn's south pole. This is the first time a regular pattern has been discovered in the planet's southern hemisphere.
An illustration showing the position of Saturn's pole (right) compared to Earth's pole (left). Credit: SUSTech

New study: Saturn's magnetosphere tip is shifted past noon due to its rapid rotation

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Analysis of Cassini data shows that Saturn's magnetosphere does not behave like Earth's. Instead of remaining near local noon, the tip of the magnetosphere is shifted to the after noon hours, a result that could change
Cassini's imager plunges into the gap between Saturn and its rings, in the final phase of its 20-year mission in space. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Saturn's rings will disappear within 100 million years

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The north pole of Enceladus. Source: NASA.

The north pole of Enceladus

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The Cassini spacecraft in the vicinity of Saturn and its rings. Image: NASA/JPL.

2017 in space - the end of the Cassini mission to Saturn

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A simulation of the Dragonfly mission proposal, to send a rover that could fly through the dense and icy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. Source: APL/Mike Carroll.

Which spacecraft will succeed Cassini in exploring the secrets of Saturn and its moons?

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Cassini's imager plunges into the gap between Saturn and its rings, in the final phase of its 20-year mission in space. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Cassini Huygens crashed on Saturn, took pictures until the last moment

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Cassini's imager plunges into the gap between Saturn and its rings, in the final phase of its 20-year mission in space. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

The farewell mission of Cassini - NASA's most beloved spacecraft

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The moon discussed in a Cassini photograph in 2005. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Dione - New findings from Saturn's moon

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Image composited from raw Cassini spacecraft images taken from about 500,000 km from the Moon on May 7, 2017. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill.

New discoveries from Cassini: Titan's methane clouds and the propellers in Saturn's rings

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Cassini imaging during the dive between Saturn and its rings. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Cassini discovered that the space between Saturn and its rings is almost completely free of dust particles

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Cassini imaging during the dive between Saturn and its rings. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Cassini successfully completed its first dive between Saturn and its rings

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Cassini's last pass over Titan, which also caused a change in its trajectory and the expected dive below Saturn's rings. Image: NASA

The Cassini probe is diving between Saturn and its rings today

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Imaging of the Cassini spacecraft passing through the water jets of the moon Enceladus. The close flyby she made through the jets in 2015 allowed her to detect molecular hydrogen in the water jets and strengthen the possibility that the environment in the sub-glacial ocean from which the jets emanate supports the existence of life. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

NASA unveils new discoveries from the ocean worlds of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn

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Water vapor and mineral particles drift into space from the surface of the moon Enceladus, one of the icy moons orbiting Saturn. Metamorphoses hint at the existence of an ocean beneath the ice and the fascinating possibility that it contains life. Artist rendering: NASA / David Seal.

Is there life on one of Saturn's icy moons?

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from Athens Source: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.

On Mathon, a tiny moon of Saturn

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Saturn's moon Enceladus. At the bottom of the image is its south pole, with its leopard stripes, from which water jets emerge, originating from an ocean of liquid water hidden beneath an outer layer of ice. New research suggests that this layer of ice is much thinner than previously thought in the south polar region, which could greatly assist a future lunar exploration mission. Source: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

Enceladus' sub-ice ocean may be very close to the surface

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Saturn's moon Pan. Photo. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

Pan - Saturn's unusual month

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Saturn's moon Helen, as photographed by Cassini from 2011. Source: NASA.

on Saturn's moon Helen

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Enlarged section of the photograph. Source: NASA / Image editing - Ph0705, wikimedia.

Daphnis, a moon of Saturn, revealed in a new Cassini image

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One of the new close-up photos taken by Cassini on December 18, 2016. This photo shows part of Cassini's A ring, the outer of its two large rings, and is approximately 134 km from the planet. The photo was taken from a distance of 56,000 km . On the left side of the image you can see the route known by NASA as "straw", caused by small clusters of the tiny ice particles that make up Saturn's rings. The straw itself is visible on top of waves in the ring, which are created by the gravitational influence of the moons Epimetheus and Janus. In the rest The image shows the gravitational "traces" of the moon Pan.Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

Saturn's rings are revealed in unprecedented detail in new Cassini images

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Pandora's new photography. Source: NASA.

Pandora, a small moon of Saturn, has been revealed in new Cassini images

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Saturn's rings as photographed by the Cassini spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Cassini will approach the rings on the last mission before crashing into Saturn

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Penetration through Titan's nebulous atmosphere. Photo from the Cassini spacecraft on December 4, 2015.

Titan - findings 2015

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A unique weather system causes Titan's north polar region to be wet

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Storms on Saturn. Photo: NASA

Saturn - new findings part two

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Saturn's Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream in Artificial Colors. Photo: NASA's Cassini spacecraft

New findings from Saturn - part one

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An illustrated interpretation of the Sikun Labyrinthus area on the Saturnian moon Titan based on radar scans and imaging data taken by the Cassini spacecraft with a variety of instruments. The relative height of the surface is based on estimates based on the fact that liquids flow down the mountain. Photo: NASA/JPL/ESA/SSI and M. Malaska/B. Jonsson –

Saturn's moon Titan - new findings from the Cassini spacecraft

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The image of the merger of the moon Mimas was created from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby on February 13, 2010. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Is there an ocean or at least a glacier in the heart of the Saturnian moon Mimas?

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Titan. Photo: NASA/The Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Karl Kopod

Surfing Titan / Clara Moskowitz

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Gravity measurements by the Cassini spacecraft and NASA's Deep Space Network indicate that Saturn's moon Enceladus, which has jets from its south pole, also contains a large internal sea beneath the ice sheet. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Further confirmation of the existence of a liquid water ocean beneath the surface of the Saturnian moon Enceladus

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Artist's concept of a solar-electric drive system. Image: NASA

Titan (6) – clouds

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Two eroded impact craters in the Xando region of Titan

Titan (part 2) - craters, cryovolcanism, dunes

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The surface of Titan. The image consists of data transmitted by the Huygens spacecraft that landed on its surface in 2004. Image: NASA and the European Space Agency

Titan - the lunar soil

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A geyser (at the top of the image) erupts from Enceladus. Photo: NASA's Cassini spacecraft

Geysers and water on the moon Enceladus

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Photo PIA11669 - Cassini division (Cassini division) an area of ​​low density between ring A and ring B

Rings of Saturn - new discoveries

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Saturn's Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream in Artificial Colors. Photo: NASA's Cassini spacecraft

A massive storm on Saturn

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The surface of Titan. The image consists of data transmitted by the Huygens spacecraft that landed on its surface in 2004. Image: NASA and the European Space Agency

A surprising change of seasons on Titan

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The moon Prometheus as photographed by the Cassini spacecraft, 1/2/2010

Prometheus is a moon of Saturn

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The Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Saturn's moon Hyperion on August 25, 2011. Photo: NASA/Caltech

On Thursday, August 25, Cassini imaged Saturn's moon Hyperion

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Mimas and the Herschel Crater on it. Taken by the Cassini spacecraft on February 13, 2010

Mimas and see - summary of new findings

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On March 2, 2010, the Cassini spacecraft passed near Rhea. In the picture: simulation of the predicted oxygen density (in yellow) compared to INMS instrument measurements on Cassini (in white) during the approach flight

A faint atmosphere containing oxygen has been discovered around Saturn's moon see

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Saturn's moons Dion (above) and see a unique Cassini image, June 27, 2010

Did the moons merge?

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Mountains on Titan. Photo: NASA's Cassini spacecraft

Titan's contractions give birth to mountains

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The temperature map of Mimas (right) and the same moon in visible light (left)

Pacman Ate the Death Star (3D)

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Do spaceships have life after death?

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

The leopard plume and stripes are clearly visible in Cassini's close-up images of the moon Enceladus.

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

The naked Saturn

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

Titan looks like Earth before life formed

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