28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
... at Saturn’s cloud tops is 1 bar – comparable to the atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level – and while mission managers were confident Cassini would complete the manoeuvre successfully, extra precautions were taken with this first dive, as the...
15 September 2017
A sad farewell as Cassini takes its final plunge...
... EDT, NASA will be streaming live shots from inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission control as Cassini embarks on its final, final mission, leaving behind an enviable legacy of information that scientists will still be studying in years to come...
17 September 2018
Newly discovered vortex on Saturn could be part of a huge towering structure
... in the cloud-tops, this new structure has only come to light now as cooler temperatures at the start of Cassini’s mission, meant its Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) could not provide reliable CIRS observations. As the northern stratosphere...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
...in the ocean of Enceladus. This graphic illustrates how Cassini scientists think water interacts with rock at the bottom ... and warming the surrounding surface. Hopefully, NASA's Europa Clipper mission, which is planned for launch in the 2020s will be...
06 November 2017
Enceladus more active than previously thought
... as promising as these results appear, the team acknowledge that it will take future missions with instruments more sophisticated than those used by Cassini in order to analyse the organic molecules found in Enceladus’s plumes. Hopefully by then, the...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... for the rocket and satellite industry. We said a sad farewell to one of the most distinguished planetary missions of our time - Cassini. However we also said hello to the first interstellar visitor from another system as it passed briefly through...
