Cassini: Saturn Tour

Saturn Tour Highlights

Cassini's final orbits will bring the closest views of Saturn since the spacecraft's arrival in 2004.

2016 Saturn Tour Highlights

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Cassini's final orbits will bring the closest views of Saturn since the spacecraft's arrival in 2004.

Article9 years ago
This colorized mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission shows the most complete view yet of Titan's northern land of lakes and seas.

2014 Saturn Tour Highlights

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The Cassini spacecraft is working overtime on the Cassini Solstice Mission, seeking answers to new questions raised in Cassini’s first years at Saturn.

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With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, on Sept. 15, 2006.

2013 Saturn Tour Highlights

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The Cassini spacecraft spies Titan's south polar vortex from below the moon in this image taken Sept. 13, 2012.

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During a flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Oct. 1, 2011, the Cassini spacecraft snapped this portrait of the moon joined by its sibling Epimetheus and the planet's rings.

2012 Saturn Tour Highlights

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicles the change of seasons as it captures clouds concentrated near the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

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Complex and unique canyon systems appear to have been intricately carved into older terrain by the ample flow of liquid methane rivers on Saturn's moon Titan, as seen in this radar image taken on May 21, 2009.

2010 Saturn Tour Highlights

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The Cassini spacecraft looks toward Rhea's cratered, icy landscape with the dark line of Saturn's ringplane and the planet's murky atmosphere as a background. Combined images taken July 17, 2007.

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2008 Saturn Tour Highlights

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Combination of four artist's concepts of previous fly-bys

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