After 13 years of studying saturn and nearly 20 years since it first launched into space nasa s cassini satellite took a death dive into the upper atmosphere of the distant ringed planet and.
Cassini satellite saturn images.
Cassini orbiting saturn illustration full resolution.
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The spacecraft captured this image from roughly 1 2 million miles at 7 degrees above the ring plane using its wide angle camera.
These two natural color images from cassini show the changing appearance of saturn s north polar region between 2012 and 2016.
An image of saturn taken by the cassini probe on feb.
A false color view of saturn s clouds from kevin m.
News images and videos from the cassini mission which explored saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017.
Composite of a true colour image of saturn observed by cassini in 2016 overlaid with a false colour representation of the ultraviolet aurora in the northern hemisphere as observed on 20 august 2017.
Cassini carried a passenger to the saturn system the european huygens probe the first human made object to land on a world in the distant outer solar system.
After 20 years in space 13 of those years exploring saturn cassini exhausted its fuel supply.
Visual and infrared mapping spectrometer.
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Cassini revealed in great detail the true wonders of saturn a giant world ruled by raging storms and delicate harmonies of gravity.
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Saturn in the infrared.
The cassini huygens space research mission k ə ˈ s iː n i ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z kə see nee hoy gənz commonly called cassini involved a collaboration between nasa the european space agency esa and the italian space agency asi to send a probe to study the planet saturn and its system including its rings and natural satellites the flagship class robotic spacecraft comprised.