An image of Saturn, taken by the Cassini probe on Feb. 19, 2016. The spacecraft captured this image from roughly 1.2 million miles, at 7 degrees above the ring plane using its wide-angle camera.

The Cassini orbiter, carrying the Huygens probe, launched from Cape Canaveral at 4:43 a.m. ET on October 15, 1997. Seven years and 2.2 billion miles later, the spacecraft arrived at the Saturn system.

In total, the probe sent back more than 450,000 images of the Saturn system. That's a lot to sift through, but we think these are some of the most spectacular images Cassini took of Saturn.

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 ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took seven years to travel nearly 2.2 billion miles to reach Saturn. But once it got there in 2004, it started taking some breathtaking pictures of the planet, its ...

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 ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has taken nearly 400,000 images during its slow sojourn to Saturn, documenting its 53 or so moons and stunning rings, resulting in a collection of humbling, jaw ...

The Cassini probe has been orbiting Saturn’s planetary system since 2004, but its mission will soon come to an end in 2017. As it starts to wrap things up, the spacecraft will be conducting ...

The Cassini spacecraft has been capturing snapshots from Saturn for the past 10 years. Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute talks to Judy Woodruff about capturing and sharing images of the ...

Nasa Cassini spacecraft's final images before smashing into Saturn released by agency. Planet shown at night lit by sunlight reflected from rings. Judith Vonberg. Saturday 24 February 2018 17:56 GMT.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back stunning images from its historic dive between Saturn and its rings. Cassini is the first spacecraft to explore the 1,500-mile gap between Saturn and its ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn for more than 10 years, capturing images of its rings and moons in never-before-seen detail. Since at least 2019, posts on social media have shared a ...