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Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history with the closest-ever approach to the sun last December, and we're finally getting a look at some of the images it captured. The space agency released a ...
Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest-ever flyby.
Right until its final moments, the spacecraft continued to send insightful images of 'The Ringed Planet.' The mission's 'death' was conceptualized by the experts and called 'The Grand Finale.' The ...
Cassini wasn’t just a spacecraft—it was one of the greatest space missions of all time. From discovering liquid oceans on Enceladus to sending back the most detailed images of Saturn’s rings ...
After 13 years of studying Saturn from close range, Cassini burned up in Saturn's atmosphere on Friday morning, ending its successful mission.
After logging more than 4.9 billion miles, the Cassini mission is finally coming to a close. Here are the 25 best Cassini images of Saturn.
Cassini plunged into Saturn's atmosphere in September 2017, but not before sending back high-resolution photos of the planet’s ultraviolet aurorae.
Launched in 1997, NASA's Cassini mission was designed to orbit Saturn, studying the planet's rings, icy moons, and general composition. During its 13 years of circling, it also discovered bizarre ...
Saturn's rings are a complex mix of stripes, speckled textures and other odd features that appear to be sculpted by the planet's moons. So say researchers who have crunched the final data collected by ...
Saturn's rings and some of its moons. (Supplied: NASA/JPL) Images from Cassini's cameras reveal in unprecedented detail how Saturn's rings are affected by moons like Daphnis, which is just 10 ...
NASA's Cassini Saturn probe may be gone, but it's far from forgotten. Cassini plunged intentionally into the ringed planet's thick atmosphere one year ago today (Sept. 15), ending a storied 13 ...