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Ian Regan • October 10, 2017 • 1
Amateur image processor Ian Regan shares the story of processing Cassini's final images of the ringed planet.
Donna Stevens • September 27, 2017
The Fall 2017 issue of The Planetary Report is in the mail and available online now to our members!
Emily Lakdawalla • September 15, 2017 • 12
Cassini is no more. At 10:31 according to its own clock, its thrusters could no longer hold its radio antenna pointed at Earth, and it turned away. A minute later, it vaporized in Saturn’s atmosphere. Its atoms are part of Saturn now.
Björn Jónsson • August 30, 2017
Björn Jónsson argues that even now, 40 years after Voyager 1 and 2 were launched, a lot of the data they returned is still of high interest.
Ian Regan • May 16, 2017
Amateur image processor Ian Regan shares a stunning mosaic of Saturn in all its ringed glory.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 08, 2017
An unusual photo of Saturn by astrophotographer Damian Peach shows the planet and its largest moon nestled among the star-filled lane of the Milky Way.
Emily Lakdawalla • April 28, 2017 • 4
Cheers erupted in the Von Karman auditorium at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory early Thursday morning as a squiggly green line on a graph developed a crisp, tall peak, signifying that the Cassini spacecraft was calling home after surviving its first plunge between Saturn and its ring system.
Jason Davis • April 19, 2017
NASA's long-lived Cassini spacecraft is about to buzz Titan for the final time, putting it on course for a spectacular mission finale that concludes in September.
Franck Marchis • April 13, 2017 • 4
NASA's Cassini spacecraft sniffed out molecular hydrogen spewing from Enceladus' subsurface ocean. The discovery means Saturn's moon has all the basic ingredients needed to support life.
Jason Davis • March 09, 2017 • 7
Our latest roundup of Cassini goodies from Saturn includes Pan, a ravioli-shaped moon that orbits inside the planet's ring system.
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