For the past 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn, capturing high resolution photos of our solar system's second-biggest planet, as well as its many moons and spectacular rings.

Sponsor Message In the maneuver that sent Cassini between Saturn and its rings, the craft went over the planet's north pole, where it captured the first high-resolution image of the mammoth storm ...

The image was taken using the High Resolution Imaging Science ... visible on the lower right of Earth. Cassini took the third shot of Earth from another planet was taken from Saturn on July ...

[Cassini's Saturn Crash 2017: 'Grand Finale' at the Ringed Planet] The mission is known ... how much material is in the rings, and taking high-resolution images of Saturn and its rings from ...

They gave the planet dimension and personality but ... and the other deep black—was a long-standing mystery. From Cassini's high-resolution images, we learned that even on small scales, the ...

In high-resolution pictures and ... Saturn's north pole was dark because the planet was in the middle of its north polar winter. During that time, the Cassini spacecraft's composite infrared ...

The rings we can see in images of the planet—even high-resolution images—aren't single ... In 1997, NASA sent the Cassini orbiter to continue the space agency's study of the ringed planet ...

Saturn pumps into space varying amounts of heat based on its seasons, which drives planet-wide storms, data from NASA's Cassini mission ... switching between high- and low-power modes, Saturn ...