Remembering Cassini: The stunning photos it took of Saturn, rings & moons
Sep 13, 201712:00 pm +03 +03:00
This Aug. 12, 2009 composite image made available by NASA shows Saturn in equinox seen by the approaching Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's equinox occurs only once in about 15 Earth years.
This May 4, 2014 image made available by NASA shows the persistent hexagonal cloud pattern on Saturn's north pole, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft.
This Feb. 3, 2017 image made available by NASA shows Saturn's shadow on its rings as seen from the Cassini spacecraft.
This Aug. 14, 2014 image made available by NASA shows shadows of Saturn's rings projected on the southern hemisphere of the gas giant
This Jan. 28, 2016 image made available by NASA shows Saturn's rings, including the darker series of bands called the Cassini Division between the bright B ring, left, and dimmer A ring, right
This Dec. 3, 2015 image made available by NASA shows three of Saturn's moons - Tethys, above, Enceladus, second left, and Mimas, seen from the Cassini spacecraft.
This July 19, 2013 image made available by NASA shows Saturn's rings and planet Earth, center right, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft.
This Nov. 13, 2015 composite image made available by NASA shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon, Titan, as seen by the Cassini spacecraft.
This 2007 image made available by NASA shows a hydrocarbon sea named Ligeia Mare on Saturn's moon Titan, as seen by the Cassini spacecraft.
Slight changes observed over several passes indicates that Titan's seas are not stagnant, but rather, dynamic environments.
This Feb. 15, 2016 image made available by NASA shows cracks in Enceladus' icy shell caused by tectonic stresses, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft.
This June 9, 2017 image made available by NASA shows bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Saturn's moon Titan, along with dark hydrocarbon lakes and seas clustered around the north pole, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft.
