#cassini

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Storm at Saturn's north pole

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

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The Colors of Saturn from Cassini © ©

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Cassini's Saturn

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Saturn and Jupiter's Auroras l Cassini/Hubble

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Earth as seen through Saturn's ring(Cassini)

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10 years ago today: Planet Saturn, viewed by NASA's Cassini probe on August 18, 2013.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The beautiful rings of Saturn in near infrared taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2014. 🪐

📷: NASA / Maksim Kakitsev

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Cassini–Huygens, commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.

The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA's Cassini space probe and ESA's Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

Cassini was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it stayed from 2004 to 2017.

The two craft took their names from the astronomers Giovanni Cassini (1625-1712) and Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695).

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Cassini 🪐 Cassini was a sophisticated robotic spacecraft sent to study and capture the beauty of Saturn. She embarked on a great adventure and made many fascinating discoveries along her way. Until finally, with one last maneuver, she plunged into the gas giant and perished in a final, fatal embrace. She became one with her muse for an eternity. You can read more about the original Cassini’s journey here and here :)

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(via cassini mission photos - Google Search)

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Saturn's moon Dione drifts before the planet's rings, seen here almost edge on. For all their immense width, the rings are relatively paper-thin, about 10 meters in most places. For its part, Dione is about 1,123 kilometers across.

Credit: NASA/Cassini

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Saturn's Earthlike Moon, Titan in visible/infrared ©

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Amazing Cassini spacecraft capture.

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The night side of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Sunlight scatters through Titan's atmosphere, forming purple and gray rings l NASA Cassini

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Saturn's aurora