Tag: Cassini

  • Cassini beams back last views of Saturn’s moon Hyperion

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    Cassini’s narrow-angle camera captured this view of Hyperion on May 31 at a range of 37,000 miles. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spiraling around Saturn zipped past the giant planet’s oddball moon Hyperion for the last time Sunday, catching a final glimpse of the bizarre body’s porous sponge-like surface. Cassini flew about 21,000 miles (34,000…

  • 10 years since we landed on Titan

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    Ten years ago today, on 14 January 2005, a compact, flattened cylinder called Huygens, chock-full of sensors, cameras and scientific experiments, went hurtling through the orange skies of the mysterious moon Titan. An artist’s impression of Huygens on the surface of Titan. Image: ESA/C Carreau. The surface of Titan was still largely unknown at the…

  • Crescent Saturn and Titan seen by Cassini

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    Saturn and Titan appear as crescents in this image from Cassini. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute NASA’s Cassini spacecraft — in its 11th year orbiting Saturn — has spotted the gas giant and its haze-covered moon Titan suspended in the blackness of space as brilliant crescents. Encircled by its famous rings faintly visible in this image,…