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Huygens landing spin mystery solved
Fifteen years ago, ESA’s Huygens probe made history when it descended to the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan and became the first probe to successfully land on another world in the...
News SciencesFebruary 3, 2020 -
First complete cartography of Titan moon by...
The first complete geological map of the largest Saturn moon has been realized with 120 flybys of Cassini between 2004 and 2017.
News SciencesDecember 4, 2019 -
Source of Saturn’s kilometric radiation revealed
Using data from the Cassini mission, scientists are unravelling the mechanisms that drive auroral radio emissions at Saturn’s poles, which are key to understanding certain...
News SciencesNovember 13, 2018 -
Cassini reveals giant dust storms on Titan
These giant dust storms seen at the equator on Titan rise as far as 10 kilometres above the surface. Mars and Earth are no longer the only worlds in the solar system where such...
News Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologyOctober 5, 2018 -
Saturn’s north polar hexagon
Analysis of data from the Cassini probe has revealed that a vortex towering more than 300 kilometres above Saturn’s north pole mirrors the famous hexagon cloud pattern observed...
News SciencesSeptember 19, 2018 -
Cassini - Tracking Saturn’s great storm
A giant storm raged in Saturn’s atmosphere from 2010 to 2011. To understand the effects of this planetary-scale disturbance, scientists pored over the 13 years of data from the...
News SciencesJanuary 3, 2018 -
Cassini’s ‘Grand Finale’ at Saturn. Mission ends...
Observation, SciencesSeptember 16, 2017 -
Grand Finale - Cassini bids farewell
15 September 2017 will mark the end of the Cassini mission, after 13 years exploring the Saturn system. With its fuel fast running out, the spacecraft will plunge into the gas...
News SciencesSeptember 14, 2017 -
Huygens - Landing on Titan
In December 2004, the U.S. Cassini spacecraft released the European Huygens module for the most-distant landing yet accomplished in the history of space exploration. Titan, Saturn...
News SciencesSeptember 11, 2017 -
Cassini - Exploring beneath Enceladus’ icy crust
Besides studying Saturn and its rings, a good deal of the Cassini mission focused on the planet’s moons. Among those where the most discoveries have been made is Enceladus, an icy...
News SciencesSeptember 8, 2017 -
Cassini: Destination Moons
In the space of 13 years, Cassini observed Saturn and devoted a lot of attention to its moons. With the mission now about to end, Patrick Michel, astrophysicist, planetologist and...
News SciencesSeptember 6, 2017 -
Saturn’s rings through the eyes of Cassini
As well as studying Saturn and its moons, Cassini also trained its sights on the planet’s rings, analysing their composition, structure and dynamics to learn more about the...
News SciencesSeptember 4, 2017 -
Cassini’s Saturnian legacy
Since entering orbit around Saturn in July 2004, the Cassini spacecraft has studied the planet and its moons from every angle. Before its dramatic dive into the gas giant’s...
News SciencesSeptember 1, 2017 -
Cassini-Huygens: a 30-year space odyssey
Cassini-Huygens is a joint NASA-ESA mission to Saturn and its moons. As the mission prepares to take its curtain call, Christophe Sotin, Chief Scientist, Solar System Exploration...
News SciencesAugust 30, 2017 -
Seasons shift on Titan
While the seasons are a familiar feature of Earth, those on Titan are largely unknown. A team of researchers has obtained a tantalizing glimpse of a seasonal shift on Saturn’s...
News SciencesDecember 11, 2012 -
Titan’s north pole is surrounded by lakes
Scientists have reported evidence of lakes dotted around Titan’s northern hemisphere. Radar imagery obtained by the Cassini spacecraft on 22 July 2006 revealed dark patches less...
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
Sand dunes on Titan
The Cassini spacecraft has revealed sand dunes on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s giant moon. The dunes look very similar to those seen in the Namibian desert. They appear to have...
News Sciences InstitutionalMay 24, 2006 -
Cassini-Huygens mission - Titan one year on
Cassini-Huygens is the 1st space mission dedicated to exploring Saturn and its system of rings and moons. One year ago today, Europe’s Huygens probe separated from the Cassini...
News Observation InstitutionalJanuary 10, 2006