For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It ...
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Oct. 26, 2004: Cassini at Titan

On Oct. 26, 2004, the Cassini spacecraft made its first close pass by Saturn's planet-size moon, Titan (later known as Titan ...
The Cassini spacecraft has revealed surface details of Saturn’s moon Titan and imaged a huge cloud of gas surrounding the planet-sized moon. Cassini gathered data before and during a distant flyby of ...
As spring continues to unfold on Saturn, April showers on the planet’s largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA’s Cassini ...
Mere weeks away from its dramatic, mission-ending plunge into Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has a hectic schedule, orbiting the planet every week in its Grand Finale. On a few orbits, Saturn’s ...
NASA's Cassini probe zipped by Saturn's largest moon Titan on Tuesday (July 24) in a close flyby to search for a lake filled with liquid methane. The Cassini spacecraft flew within 629 miles (1,012 ...
On October 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the first close-up images of Saturn's largest moon Titan. The Cassini spacecraft would later drop off a probe on Titan named Huygens, which was a ...
As it soared past Saturn’s large moon Titan recently, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft caught a glimpse of bright sunlight reflecting off hydrocarbon seas. In the past, Cassini had captured separate views of ...
Cassini captured this image of Saturn with it’s largest moon, Titan, in the foreground on August 29, 2012. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI) An analysis of gravity and topography data from Saturn’s ...
As spring continues to unfold at Saturn, April showers on the planet’s largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA’s Cassini ...
The Cassini spacecraft has beamed back a new, more detailed image of smog-enshrouded Titan. This view represents an improvement in resolution of nearly three times over the previous Cassini image ...
These three views of Titan illustrate how different the same place can look in different wavelengths of light. Cassini's cameras have numerous filters that reveal features above and beneath the shroud ...