cassini

cassini has been touring the Saturn system since 2004 for an up-close study of the planet, its rings and moons. It now begins a thrilling journey through unexplored regions of the Saturn's F rings. "We're calling this phase of the mission cassini's Ring-Grazing Orbits", said a NASA scientist.

cassini mission: cassini, an international project that cost $3.9 billion and included scientists from 27 nations, has run out of rocket fuel as expected after a journey of some 4.9 billion miles (7.9 billion kilometers).

After studying Saturn, its rings and moons for more than 12 years, NASA's cassini spacecraft has entered the final year of its epic voyage during which it will make the closest-ever observations of the planet.

This is not the first time that a distant spacecraft has taken photographs of the Earth. Voyager 1 took a famous photo from 6 billion kilometers, the one that was described by cosmologist Carl Sagan as 'The Pale Blue Dot'.

cassini's wide-angle camera acquired 42 red, green and blue images, covering the planet and its main rings from one end to the other on September 13 this year. Imaging scientists stitched these frames together to make a natural colour view. The scene also includes the moons Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, Epimetheus, Mimas and Enceladus.

Alien dust in the solar system is not unanticipated. In the 1990s, the ESA/NASA Ulysses mission made the first in-situ observations of this material. cassini was able to analyze the composition of the dust, showing it to be made of a very specific mixture of minerals, not ice.

Nasa's cassini spacecraft has found the first clues that indicate that there is hot water on Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Since arriving in the Saturn system, the cassini spacecraft has revealed that more than 1.6 million square kilometers of Titan's surface -- almost two percent of the total -- are covered in liquid.

Nasa's cassini craft saw a sliver of Saturn's sunlit atmosphere as the icy rings stretch across the foreground. They have released stunning image of Saturn's sunlit atmosphere.The view was obtained at a distance of about one million kilometers from Saturn.

cassini, launched on Oct 15, 1997, was a joint mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and Italian Space Agency. It reached Saturn’s system in 2004, and began returning the first-ever clear and close views of the giant planet, its rings and moons. The mission comes to an end on September 15, 2017 with cassini plunging into the upper atmosphere Saturn and burning up like a meteor. Here’s a look at what it achieved in its 20-year space journey.

American space agency Nasa's cassini spacecraft has detected a monstrous new cloud of frozen compounds in the low- to mid-stratosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.

Nasa's cassini spacecraft has detected a monstrous new cloud of frozen compounds in the low- to mid-stratosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.

A 'global' ocean containing a vast liquid water reservoir lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's cassini mission.

Nasa's cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of the Earth from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19.

Titan, the most mysterious of Saturn's moons, could surrender many of its secrets when the cassini space probe makes its closest - ever approach this week.

A `global' ocean containing a vast liquid water reservoir lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from Nasa's cassini mission.

NASA's cassini spacecraft has captured an image of Saturn, Earth, and the Moon, with the planets appearing as tiny dots. The image, taken from a distance of approximately 746,000 miles, shows Venus as a white dot, Mars as a faint red dot, Earth as a pale blue dot, and the Moon as a smaller dot

The most recent fly-bys of Enceladus made by the American space agency Nasa's cassini spacecraft have provided new signs of ongoing changes on and around the moon.

Saturn's rings appeared within the last 10- 100 million years. Saturn formed about 4.5 billion years ago, along with the rest of the planets and spent the bulk of its existence without the characteristic rings it is known for today. Astronomers have long believed the rings could be young, formed by collisions between the moons of Saturn or by a comet.

It was triple the fun for music aficionados of Kolkata as alternative rock band, cassini's Division, alternative rock rap rock band, Underground Authority and Mumbai- based singersongwriter Sidd Coutto performed at Jamsteady recently.

NASA's cassini spacecraft has captured stunning images of Saturn and its moons from around 576,000 miles away while studying its atmosphere, magnetosphere, moons, and rings. The images show Saturn's beautiful colours tilted at an angle with its rings appearing like a thin line, and the moon Mimas visible

NASA has released images of Saturn's moon, Pan, which bears a striking resemblance to a dumpling. The images, captured by the cassini spacecraft, reveal intricate details of the moon's dumpling-like features, including flat ridges and surface lines. cassini approached Pan to within 24,600 km, marking a significant milestone for the spacecraft

For the first time a global topographic map of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has been produced by scientists using radar data from Nasa's cassini spacecraft which was launched on October 15,1997.

In a delicate maneuver on 18 June, conducted from nearly 1.4 billion kilometers away, Nasa scientists bounced radio waves off Saturn’s moon Titan’s lakes in such a way that they were received on Earth.

Scientists have found the first widespread evidence of giant hydrocarbon lakes on the surface of Saturn's planet-size moon Titan.

When the researchers compared the geysers' locations with low-resolution maps of thermal emission, it became apparent the greatest geyser activity coincided with the greatest thermal radiation.

Nasa has released the first-ever natural-colour portrait of Saturn, in which the planet, its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.

PASADENA: The cassini spacecraft pierced the haze enveloping Titan, Saturn's largest moon, to reveal surface details that already have shattered theories about its composition.