#cassini huygens

[theofficialastronomy101]

The Earth As Seen From

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Cassini: looking Saturn in the eye (October 11, 2006)

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Cassini-Huygens Last Dives (Illustration). NASA/ESA/JPL.

[octochick]

sometimes you think about cassini-huygens and starts contemplating what it may have thought in its last moments

was it afraid? how hard did it fight to send every last bit of information it could? how excruciating was the heat?

did it enjoy the winds in its last seconds?

[justafoxhound]

The Final Images We Will Ever See of Saturn Stunned Me | Cassini Supercut

Incredible photos.

Images like this should be on the front pages! A crime for people not to know what is up there, what we have *flown by and photographed* in our solar system.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Clearest images ever taken of Equatorial Ridge on Saturn's moon Iapetus.

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The equatorial ridge is the tallest mountain feature on Saturn's moon Iapetus.

It is 20 km (12 mi) high and is the third tallest mountain structure in the Solar System.

It runs along most of Iapetus' equator. It was discovered by the Cassini probe on 31 December 2004.

Cassini–Huygens, commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.

[almazcomet]

An experimental costume for Almaz 🪐 My inspiration was the Cassini-Huygens satellite

[junolockscreens]

Giant Storms and High Clouds| Jpl Nasa

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OC

Cassini & Huygens

[historysurvivalguide]

New (Named) Crater on Saturn's Moon Titan!

Ihi Crater

The crater has been there for a while, but an official name has just been adopted on March 21, 2024 by the IAU. The crater is named Ihi, after a Tahitian goddess of wisdom and learning

The crater is located between -7.40° to -8.29° latitude and 164.75° and 165.46° longitude on the moon's surface

Image: Source

The images above were recovered from the Cassini RADAR images taken of the spot on April 30, 2006 (T13-S01). This was done via pydar—a Python tool I help develop

[rieb3ckite]

Cassini and Huygens are now on the workshop!!

[theofficialastronomy101]

The Veil Nebula in high definition from Hubble

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Cassini: Saturn's spectacular and disorienting maze of lines and its small, icy moon Mimas (October 15, 2004)

[pixoplanet]

It's September 1st. On this day in 1979, NASA's Pioneer 11 became the first satellite to visit 🪐 Saturn up close as it approached to within 21,000 kilometers of the planet's cloud tops. Instruments sent back a treasure trove of scientific data concerning the magnetic fields, atmospheres, and surfaces of the planet and some of its moons, along with data on interplanetary dust particles, cosmic rays, and solar wind properties. And of course Pioneer 11 sent back many awe-inspiring images. Science operations and daily telemetry ceased on 30 September 1995 when the spacecraft used up the last of its power.

Since Pioneer 11's rendezvous with Saturn, three other satellites have made the trip. NASA's twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft performed flybys in 1980 and 1981. The international Cassini mission arrived in orbit in 2004 and stayed for 13 years before spectacularly plunging into the planet in September 2017. Cassini also carried the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe, which landed on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005.

Meanwhile, unless it's collided with another celestial object, Pioneer 11 is still trekking its way out of the Solar System. If aliens capture it, they'll find a plaque depicting a man, a woman, and the location of the sun and earth in the galaxy. ☮️ Peace… Jamiese of Pixoplanet

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im sorry what???

[gnarl3ne-blog]

A cosmic hurricane by European Space Agency Via Flickr: The giant planet Saturn is mostly a gigantic ball of rotating gas, completely unlike our solid home planet. But Earth and Saturn do have something in common: weather, although the gas giant is home to some of the most bizarre weather in our Solar System, such as the swirling storm shown in this Cassini view. Known as “the hexagon”, this weather feature is an intense, six-sided jet stream at Saturn’s north pole. Spanning some 30 000 km across, it hosts howling 320 km/h winds that spiral around a massive storm rotating anticlockwise at the heart of the region. Numerous small vortices rotate in the opposite direction to the central storm and are dragged around with the jet stream, creating a terrifically turbulent region. While a hurricane on Earth may last a week or more, the hexagon has been raging for decades, and shows no signs of letting up. This false-colour image of the hexagon was made using ultraviolet, visible and infrared filters to highlight different regions. The dark centre of the image shows the large central storm and its eye, which is up to 50 times bigger than a terrestrial hurricane eye. The small vortices show up as pink-red clumps. Towards the lower right of the frame is a white-tinted oval storm that is bigger than any of the others — this is the largest of the vortices at some 3500 km across, twice the size of the largest hurricane ever recorded on Earth. The darker blue region within the hexagon is filled with small haze particles, whereas the paler blue region is dominated by larger particles. This divide is caused by the hexagonal jet stream acting as a shepherding barrier — large particles cannot enter the hexagon from the outside. These large particles are created when sunlight shines onto Saturn’s atmosphere, something that only started relatively recently in the northern hemisphere with the beginning of northern spring in August 2009. Cassini will continue to track changes in the hexagon, monitoring its contents, shape and behaviour as summer reaches Saturn’s northern hemisphere in 2017. The Cassini–Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA and Italy's ASI space agency. An animated version is available here: www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA17652 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University