The photos show the massive swirling storm at Saturn’s north pole, which has formed a hexagonal shape, though scientists don’t know precisely why. NASA notes that each side of the hexagon is ...
The photo is composed of multiple images ... Saturn), it is called an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, meaning to conceal or hide. Saturn and the moon put on a celestial ...
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 ...
(Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via ... but also a bright light close to its disk. Saturn, the “ringed planet,” is just past its bright opposition, a point in Earth’s orbit when ...
A timelapse of all of the photographs the Cassini space probe has taken of Saturn's moon Mimas from Feb. 6, 2004 to Sept. 15, 2015. Note: These sequences at times include rapid flashing.