A viral TikTok video published on Dec. 21, 2024, claimed the image was the "last photo taken by the Cassini spacecraft before its disintegration in Saturn's atmosphere." At the time of this ...

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NASA has released one final image of Saturn, taken before the Cassini probe plummeted into the planet’s atmosphere, concluding a 20-year mission. The probe actually crashed into Saturn last ...

Cassini launched from Earth in 1997 and arrived at Saturn in 2004. The download of Cassini's last pictures, which began around 5:45 p.m. ET on Thursday, took about 11 hours to finish. Linda ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been snapping amazing photos of Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017. See some of Cassini's latest spectacular photos of the Saturn system here. SHOWN HERE ...

Just four days before the Cassini spacecraft's dramatic dive into Saturn's atmosphere last year, cameras aboard the spacecraft captured the mission's last image of Saturn's largest moon ...

This natural-color image was taken March 27, 2004, as the Cassini-Huygens probe neared its arrival into Saturn's orbit in July 2004. This was the last image that the spacecraft's camera was able ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dove inside Saturn’s rings for the first time on April 26, its first of 22 planned orbits close to the planet’s atmosphere. Cassini returned the closest images ever ...

The Cassini mission to Saturn may be over, but scientists and the rest of humanity will be poring over images from the spacecraft for years to come. Below is the very last picture Cassini took of ...

Cassini project manager Earl Maize hugs Julie Webster, spacecraft operations team manager, at Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory just after the mission’s end. Program ...

More Bruce Weaver/AFP/Getty Images Cassini completed the first ... until we were about 1.5 years away from Saturn, so we were in a mad rush in those last months. What's next for you?