Range : 660,000 kilometers (400,000 miles) Time : 5:05 am PST This V...
Range : 660,000 kilometers (400,000 miles) Time : 5:05 am PST This Voyager 1 picture of Mimas shows a large impact structure at 110 degrees W Long., located on that face of the moon which leads Mimas in its o... More
The descent module of the Titan-bound Huygens probe undergoes prefligh...
The descent module of the Titan-bound Huygens probe undergoes preflight processing on a support structure in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). The probe will study the clouds, atmosphere and surf... More
Workers offload the shipping container with the Cassini orbiter from w...
Workers offload the shipping container with the Cassini orbiter from what looks like a giant shark mouth, but is really an Air Force C-17 air cargo plane which kscpao/release/1997/66-97.htm">just landed</a> at ... More
Workers prepare to move the shipping container with the Cassini orbite...
Workers prepare to move the shipping container with the Cassini orbiter inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) for prelaunch processing, testing and integration. The kscpao/release/1997/66-97.ht... More
Workers prepare to tow away the large container with the Cassini orbit...
Workers prepare to tow away the large container with the Cassini orbiter from KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility. The orbiter kscpao/release/1997/66-97.htm">just arrived</a> on the U.S. Air Force C-17 air cargo pla... More
Workers begin unloading the Cassini orbiter from a U.S. Air Force C-17...
Workers begin unloading the Cassini orbiter from a U.S. Air Force C-17 air cargo plane after its kscpao/release/1997/66-97.htm">arrival</a> at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility from Edwards Air Force Base, Califor... More
Workers prepare to move the shipping container with the Cassini orbite...
Workers prepare to move the shipping container with the Cassini orbiter inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) for prelaunch processing, testing and integration. The kscpao/release/1997/66-97.ht... More
Workers prepare to move the shipping container with the Cassini orbite...
Workers prepare to move the shipping container with the Cassini orbiter inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) for prelaunch processing, testing and integration. The kscpao/release/1997/66-97.ht... More
An employee in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) sews th...
An employee in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) sews thermal insulation material on the front heat shield of the Huygens probe during prelaunch processing testing and integration in that facility... More
A worker in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) stands beh...
A worker in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) stands behind the bottom side of the experiment platform for the Huygens probe that will accompany the Cassini orbiter to Saturn during prelaunch proc... More
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) stand aroun...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) stand around the upper experiment module and base of the Cassini orbiter during prelaunch processing, testing and integration in that facility. The Cas... More
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) perform che...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) perform checkouts of the upper experiment module and base of the Cassini orbiter during prelaunch processing, testing and integration in that facility.... More
Employees in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) lower the...
Employees in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) lower the upper experiment module and base of the Cassini orbiter onto a work stand during prelaunch processing, testing and integration work in that... More
An employee in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) sews th...
An employee in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) sews thermal insulation material on the back cover and heat shield of the Huygens probe during prelaunch processing, testing and integration in tha... More
An employee in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) works o...
An employee in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) works on the top side of the experiment platform for the Huygens probe that will accompany the Cassini orbiter to Saturn during prelaunch processin... More
Environmental Health Specialist Jamie A. Keeley, of EG&G Florida Inc.,...
Environmental Health Specialist Jamie A. Keeley, of EG&G Florida Inc., uses an ion chamber dose rate meter to measure radiation levels in one of three radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) that will pro... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians finish mounting a thermal ...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians finish mounting a thermal model of a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) on the installation cart which will be used to install the RTG in the Cassini spacecr... More
The Titan IVB core vehicle and its twin Solid Rocket Motor Upgrades (...
The Titan IVB core vehicle and its twin Solid Rocket Motor Upgrades (SRMUs) which will be used to propel the Cassini spacecraft to its final destination, Saturn, approaches the pad at Launch Complex 40, Cape ... More
The Titan IVB core vehicle and its twin Solid Rocket Motor Upgrades (...
The Titan IVB core vehicle and its twin Solid Rocket Motor Upgrades (SRMUs) which will be used to propel the Cassini spacecraft to its final destination, Saturn, arrive at the pad at Launch Complex 40, Cape C... More
A Titan IVB core vehicle and its twin Solid Rocket Motor Upgrades (SR...
A Titan IVB core vehicle and its twin Solid Rocket Motor Upgrades (SRMUs) depart from the Solid Rocket Motor Assembly and Readiness Facility (SMARF), Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS), en route to Launch Co... More
The Titan IVB core vehicle and its twin Solid Rocket Motor Upgrades (...
The Titan IVB core vehicle and its twin Solid Rocket Motor Upgrades (SRMUs) which will be used to propel the Cassini spacecraft to its final destination, Saturn, arrive at the pad at Launch Complex 40, Cape C... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A Centaur upper stage is prepared for ho...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A Centaur upper stage is prepared for hoisting at Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station to be mated with the Titan IV expendable launch vehicle that will propel the Cassini s... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A Centaur upper stage is hoisted at Laun...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A Centaur upper stage is hoisted at Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station for mating with the Titan IV expendable launch vehicle that will propel the Cassini spacecraft and t... More
The aft shield is installed on the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazar...
The aft shield is installed on the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). The European Space Agency's Huygens probe will be attached to the Cassini spacecraft which will explore the... More
The aft shield is installed on the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazar...
The aft shield is installed on the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). The European Space Agency's Huygens probe will be attached to the Cassini spacecraft which will explore the... More
The propulsion system is mated to the Lower Equipment Module of the Ca...
The propulsion system is mated to the Lower Equipment Module of the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). Cassini will explore the Saturnian system, including the planet’s ring... More
The Lower Equipment Module of the Cassini spacecraft is lifted into a ...
The Lower Equipment Module of the Cassini spacecraft is lifted into a workstand in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). Cassini will explore the Saturnian system, including the planet’s rings and i... More
The Lower Equipment Module of the Cassini spacecraft is lifted into a ...
The Lower Equipment Module of the Cassini spacecraft is lifted into a workstand in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). Cassini will explore the Saturnian system, including the planet’s rings and i... More
The propulsion system is mated to the Lower Equipment Module of the Ca...
The propulsion system is mated to the Lower Equipment Module of the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). Cassini will explore the Saturnian system, including the planet’s ring... More
The propulsion system is mated to the Lower Equipment Module of the Ca...
The propulsion system is mated to the Lower Equipment Module of the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). Cassini will explore the Saturnian system, including the planet’s ring... More
The Lower Equipment Module of the Cassini spacecraft is lifted into a ...
The Lower Equipment Module of the Cassini spacecraft is lifted into a workstand in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). Cassini will explore the Saturnian system, including the planet’s rings and i... More
The propulsion system is mated to the Lower Equipment Module of the Ca...
The propulsion system is mated to the Lower Equipment Module of the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). Cassini will explore the Saturnian system, including the planet’s ring... More
The propulsion system is mated to the Lower Equipment Module of the Ca...
The propulsion system is mated to the Lower Equipment Module of the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). Cassini will explore the Saturnian system, including the planet’s ring... More
Technicians from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) attach the upper...
Technicians from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) attach the upper equipment module to the propulsion module and the lower equipment module in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility in July prior to inst... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians clean and prepare the upp...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians clean and prepare the upper equipment module for mating with the propulsion module subsystem of the Cassini orbiter in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at K... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians in a blue crane at the to...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians in a blue crane at the top of the white upper equipment module (UEM) level the UEM prior to separation from its dolly. The module will be prepared for stacking atop... More
Technicians from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) lower the upper ...
Technicians from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) lower the upper equipment module over a propellant tank in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in July prior to installation on the Cassini orb... More
Technicians from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the Californi...
Technicians from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology lift the remote sensing pallet in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in July prior to installation o... More
The complete remote sensing pallet is lowered by technicians from the...
The complete remote sensing pallet is lowered by technicians from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology and mated at the interface with the Cassini spacecraft in the Pa... More
The complete remote sensing pallet is lowered by technicians from th...
The complete remote sensing pallet is lowered by technicians from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology to mate with the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Se... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians reposition and level the ...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians reposition and level the Cassini orbiter in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in July after stacking the craft’s upper equipment module on the propuls... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians reposition and level the ...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians reposition and level the Cassini orbiter in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in July after stacking the craft’s upper equipment module on the propuls... More
Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff prepare to remove the lift fixture used ...
Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff prepare to remove the lift fixture used to install the back cover on the Huygens probe, the conical structure in the white workstand, in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility a... More
Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff install the back cover on the Huygens pr...
Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff install the back cover on the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in July. Instruments mounted on the probe, which was developed by the European Space... More
A Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff member inspects the heat shield of the...
A Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff member inspects the heat shield of the Huygens probe after the shield was installed in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in July. Instruments mounted on the probe,... More
Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff install the back cover on the Huygens pr...
Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff install the back cover on the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in July. Instruments mounted on the probe, which was developed by the European Space... More
A Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff member installs thermal blanket insula...
A Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff member installs thermal blanket insulation on the back cover of the Huygens probe in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in July. Instruments mounted on the probe, w... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers David Rice, at left, and John...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers David Rice, at left, and Johnny Melendez rotate a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) to the horizontal position on a lift fixture in the Payload Hazardous Serv... More
This radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), at center, will und...
This radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), at center, will undergo mechanical and electrical verification testing now that it has been installed on the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servi... More
This radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), at center, is ready...
This radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), at center, is ready for electrical verification testing now that it has been installed on the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. ... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers prepare the installation cart...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers prepare the installation cart (atop the platform) for removal of a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) from the adjacent Cassini spacecraft. This is the second ... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers carefully roll into place a p...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers carefully roll into place a platform with a second radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) for installation on the Cassini spacecraft. In background at left, the fi... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers use a borescope to verify pre...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers use a borescope to verify pressure relief device bellows integrity on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) which has been installed on the Cassini spacecraft i... More
Carrying a neutron radiation detector, Fred Sanders (at center), a he...
Carrying a neutron radiation detector, Fred Sanders (at center), a health physicist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and other health physics personnel monitor radiation in the Payload Hazardous Serv... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) engineers examine the interface surfa...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) engineers examine the interface surface on the Cassini spacecraft prior to installation of the third radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG). The other two RTGs, at left, a... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers Dan Maynard and John Shuping ...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers Dan Maynard and John Shuping prepare to install a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) on the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHS... More
Supported on a lift fixture, this radioisotope thermoelectric generat...
Supported on a lift fixture, this radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), at center, is hoisted from its storage base using the airlock crane in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). Jet Propu... More
Lockheed Martin Missile and Space Co. employees Joe Collingwood, at r...
Lockheed Martin Missile and Space Co. employees Joe Collingwood, at right, and Ken Dickinson retract pins in the storage base to release a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in preparation for hoisti... More
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility remove the stora...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility remove the storage collar from a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in preparation for installation on the Cassini spacecraft. Cassini will be out... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) employees bolt a radioisotope thermoe...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) employees bolt a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) onto the Cassini spacecraft, at left, while other JPL workers, at right, operate the installation cart on a raised ... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) employees Norm Schwartz, at left, and...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) employees Norm Schwartz, at left, and George Nakatsukasa transfer one of three radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) to be used on the Cassini spacecraft from the inst... More
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) worker Mary Reaves mates connectors o...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) worker Mary Reaves mates connectors on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) to power up the Cassini spacecraft, while quality assurance engineer Peter Sorci looks on. ... More
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF), Dan Maynard, a Jet...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF), Dan Maynard, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory technician, inserts the Digital Video Disk (DVD) into a shallow cavity between two pieces of aluminum that will prote... More
A crane lowers a protective transportation cover over the Cassini spac...
A crane lowers a protective transportation cover over the Cassini spacecraft, with its attached Huygens probe, at Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station for the spacecraft’s return trip to the Payload Haza... More
The Cassini spacecraft, with its attached Huygens probe, is lowered fr...
The Cassini spacecraft, with its attached Huygens probe, is lowered from Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station for its return trip to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). Damage to thermal ins... More
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) finish the ...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) finish the removal of a protective cover from the Cassini spacecraft with its attached Huygens probe. Damage to thermal insulation was discovered insid... More
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) begin to re...
Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) begin to remove a protective cover from the Cassini spacecraft with its attached Huygens probe. Damage to thermal insulation was discovered inside Huyg... More
The Cassini spacecraft, protected by an environmentally controlled pro...
The Cassini spacecraft, protected by an environmentally controlled protective fairing, is sitting at Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, awaiting its launch scheduled for mid-October atop a Titan IV/Centaur l... More
The Cassini spacecraft, protected by an environmentally controlled pro...
The Cassini spacecraft, protected by an environmentally controlled protective fairing, is sitting at Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, awaiting its launch scheduled for mid-October atop a Titan IV/Centaur l... More
The Cassini spacecraft, with the Huygens probe seen on the right in th...
The Cassini spacecraft, with the Huygens probe seen on the right in this photo, sits atop a Titan IVB expendable launch vehicle at Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, where it awaits placement of its p... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A seven-year journey to the ringed plane...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe. Launch occurred at 4:43... More
A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the lifto...
A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe. Launch occurred at 4:43 a.m. EDT, Oct. 15, from Launc... More
A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the lifto...
A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe. This spectacular streak shot was taken from Hangar AF... More
A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the lifto...
A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe. Launch occurred at 4:43 a.m. EDT, Oct. 15, from Launc... More
A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the lifto...
A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe. Launch occurred at 4:43 a.m. EDT, Oct. 15, from Launc... More
The Saturnian Moon Dione, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo
The Saturnian Moon Dione NASA/JPL
Saturnian Atmospheric Storm, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo
A vortex, or large atmospheric storm, is visible in this color composite of NASA Voyager 2 Saturn images obtained Aug. 25, 1979 from a range of 1 million kilometers 620,000 miles. NASA/JPL
The Saturnian Moon Enceladus, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo
The Saturnian Moon Enceladus NASA/JPL
Merging Saturnian Storms - NASA Jupiter images
Three months before its scheduled arrival at Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft has observed two storms in the act of merging. With diameters close to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles), both storms, which appear as spot... More
Saturnian Hurricane - NASA Saturn images
This close-up view shows lots of atmospheric detail, including a dark storm and wisps of clouds. The dark spot is noticeably lighter around its perimeter than in its interior. The image was taken with the Cass... More
Saturnian Meteorology - NASA Saturn images
Saturnian Meteorology NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Saturnian Specters - NASA Tethys images
Saturnian Specters NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Saturn Rings, Saturnian Squiggles, NASA image
Storms whip up the cloud bands of Saturn southern hemisphere in this infrared view. Small fractions of the A and F rings are visible at right NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Saturn Rings, Saturnian Psychedelia, NASA image
This psychedelic view of Saturn and its rings is a composite made from images taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light NASA/JPL/Space... More
Saturn Rings, Saturnian Citizens, NASA image
Saturnian Citizens NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Biggest Saturnian Moons, NASA Cassini Huygens images of Rhea
A darkly defined Rhea passes before the fuzzy orb of Titan in this view from NASA Cassini spacecraft of Saturn two largest moons. Rhea is closer to the spacecraft in this view. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Saturnian Snowman - NASA Cassini Huygens images
NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied this tight trio of craters as it approached Saturn's icy moon Enceladus for a close flyby on Oct. 14, 2015. The craters, located at high northern latitudes, are sliced through by... More
The Saturnian Sisters, NASA Cassini Huygens images of Rhea
he view from NASA Cassini spacecraft looks toward the anti-Saturn sides of Tethys and Rhea. North on both moons is up. Rhea and Tethys are medium-sized moons that are large enough to have pulled themselves into... More
Saturnian Hexagon Collage - NASA Saturn images
This collage of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's northern hemisphere and rings as viewed with four different spectral filters. Each filter is sensitive to different wavelengths of light and ... More