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24 paź 2024 · During NASA's Cassini mission's final distant encounter with Saturn's giant moon Titan, the spacecraft captured the enigmatic moon's north polar landscape of lakes and seas, which are filled with liquid methane and ethane.
Cassini carried a passenger to the Saturn system, the European Huygens probe—the first human-made object to land on a world in the distant outer solar system. After 20 years in space — 13 of those years exploring Saturn — Cassini exhausted its fuel supply.
Its cameras took amazing, ultra-close images of Saturn's rings and clouds. Discoveries to the End. Cassini’s final images were sent to Earth several hours before its final plunge, but even as the spacecraft made its fateful dive into the planet's atmosphere, it was sending home new data in real-time.
The engineering video below simulates the physics of Mars entry for Starship. SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
11 wrz 2017 · When the spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, the planet’s northern hemisphere, seen here at top, was in darkness, just beginning to emerge from winter (see PIA06164). Now at journey’s end, the entire north pole is bathed in the continuous sunlight of summer.
15 wrz 2017 · Investigating the moons of Saturn (and Jupiter) helps us gain an understanding of what planets might look like across the galaxy. Here are some of the very best, most inspiring images from the...
18 sty 2024 · Dragonfly’s Journey to Titan. Titan orbits Saturn in this Cassini image. NASA’s newest mission to explore the solar system delivers an 8-bladed rotorcraft to visit Saturn’s largest and richly organic moon, Titan. Slated for launch in 2027 and arrival in 2034, Dragonfly will sample and examine dozens of promising sites around Saturn’s ...
