“Cassini was approximately 698,000 miles (1.1 million kilometers) from Saturn, on its final approach to the planet, when the images in this mosaic were taken. Image scale on Saturn is about 42 ...
An curved arrow pointing right. At just 240,000 miles from Saturn's north pole, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped some stunning photos. These are the first images of the spacecraft's new mission ...
Hubble's latest images of Saturn, taken on October 22 from 850 million miles away, show the "spokes" at a time when the planet is nearing its autumnal equinox, expected in May 2025. Researchers ...
The resulting images are therefore overlaid onto an image of Saturn in visible light taken ... of a program of observations of all four giant planets. “If we can get so many new findings from ...
Saturn usually appears golden in images, as its thick clouds are predominantly yellow. So scientists were surprised when Cassini returned images of its northern hemisphere showing a blue sky. The blue ...
(Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via ... a point in Earth’s orbit when it’s between the sun and the planet. Saturn is therefore as close, as bright and as fully lit as it ever gets ...