No spacecraft has ever ventured so close to the planet before, NASA said.
Amazing new images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting the planet give a spectacular view of Saturn's rings and its moons. The Cassini space probe, for the first time in two years, has been able to get a good view of the planet's famous rings owing to a recent change in the spacecraft's angle of orbit. It took seven years for Cassini to travel the two billion miles to Saturn. Here's a look at some stunning pictures of Saturn.
NASA has released the first-ever natural-colour portrait of Saturn, in which the planet, its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.
Marketers are required to be more Sisyphus than The Vitruvian Man, says Bharat Bambawale.
New images from National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Cassini spacecraft show rogue kilometre-sized objects punching through Saturn's F-ring and leaving glittering trails -- dubbed 'mini-jets' -- behind them.
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, appears to be strung like a bead on the planet's rings, which cast shadows onto the southern hemisphere of the gas giant in a new image from Cassini spacecraft.
Located in Titan's stratosphere, the cloud is made of a compound of carbon and nitrogen known as dicyanoacetylene (C4N2), an ingredient in the chemical cocktail that colours the giant moon's hazy, brownish-orange atmosphere.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration 's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole.
While she has been a member of the Perseverance Rover mission since the beginning at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, Dr Mohan has also been a part of various important missions of NASA. The Indian-American Scientist worked on projects Cassini (a mission to Saturn) and GRAIL (a pair of formation flown spacecraft to the Moon).
Temperatures in Saturn's stratosphere soared more than 65.5 degree Celsius above normal in the aftermath of a storm, according to data captured by NASA's Cassini satellite, which orbits the ringed planet.
Scientists at the American space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration have claimed that Saturn's moon Enceladus 'may contain life,' after they discovered new evidence suggesting presence of 'liquid water' beneath its surface.
With an instrument on board India's lunar mission Chandryaan discovering water molecules on the Moon, scientists are now confident of harvesting water from the lunar surface in the future, which could help sustain lunar astronauts and even propel missions to Mars.
Cassini has become the first to orbit Saturn, the second-largest planet in the solar system.
After having witnessed the 'goddess of love' dance across the face of the Sun on Tuesday, astronomers are getting ready to watch the unmasking of the planet Saturn -- the 'lord of the rings' -- from Friday.
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