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Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.
In December, the spacecraft skimmed by Saturn's outer rings, snapping some of the most detailed images we have ever seen. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science NASA's Cassini ...
Check these five spectacular NASA images from space posted on their Instagram handle, which keeps us updated with all the happenings in space. Saturn’s inner rings: NASA, through its Cassini ...
The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed. New photos beamed home after it completed that ...
If you were to pick Saturn out of a lineup you’d probably recognize it by its iconic rings. They’re the biggest, brightest rings in our solar system. Extending over 280,000 km from the planet ...
NASA is saying goodbye ... The photo shows Saturn in all its sunlit glory, glowing gold against the blackness of space. Cassini snapped the series of images that were stitched together to create ...
As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, Saturn’s iconic rings tend to litter some of its moons with a variety of material, coating them as they drift in orbit around ...
According to NASA, between 1655 and 1980, 13 moons of Saturn were discovered during ring plane crossings. Ring plane crossing events are fairly rare, occurring around every 15 years. The series of ...
NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and, along with Voyager 2, which reached the planet in 1981, snapped nearly 16,000 images of Saturn, its rings and its moons. The two probes discovered ...