03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
...these two planets, Cassini, which did the same for Saturn and its moons, will terminate its mission in July, but ...the spacecraft will collect valuable information far beyond the mission’s original plan, including sampling the atmosphere and ionosphere...
28 June 2019
NASA drone to search for signs of early life on Titan
... eyes on it back in 1979 and since the Cassini and Huygens mission only added further intrigue as to the answers this ...than 175 kilometres (108 miles) during its 2.7-year baseline mission – nearly double the distance travelled to date by all the...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... our solar system. Planet-encircling storms Many of the north-south contrasts that we saw at the start of Cassini’s mission have completely reversed If the overarching impression of Saturn’s atmosphere is slow evolution over many decades, then Saturn...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... region in the middle of southern fall, which is experiencing the coldest stratospheric temperatures since the beginning of the Cassini mission, allowed for the detection of condensates that were previously only found in the north, including some new...
17 August 2015
Cassini and Saturn’s moon Dione: so long and thanks for all the pics
... looms as a bigger possibility than before. “But we’ve never found the smoking gun,” Cassini science team member Bonnie Burratti told Space.com. The Cassini mission is meanwhile winding down. The last approach to Dione is first on the list...
11 October 2018
The Ringed Planet: Cassini’s voyage of discovery at Saturn
... of page-count but it punches above its weight in terms of authorship (a planetary scientist who has “worked on the Cassini mission continuously for more than a quarter century”) and presentation (colour photos and diagrams throughout). Perhaps the...
