CASSINI Mission: EARTH seen from SATURN

The cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this rare look at Earth and its moon from Saturn orbit on July 19, 2013. Taken while performing a large wide-angle mosaic of the entire Saturn ring system, narrow-angle camera images were deliberately inserted into the sequence in order to image Earth and its moon. This is the second time that Cassini has imaged Earth from within Saturn's shadow, and only the third time ever that our planet has been imaged from the outer solar system.

Earth is the blue point of light on the left; the moon is fainter, white, and on the right. Both are seen here through the faint, diffuse E ring of Saturn. Earth was brighter than the estimated brightness used to calculate the narrow-angle camera exposure times. Hence, information derived from the wide-angle camera images was used to process this color composite.

Credits: NASA

SATURN B Ring

Saturn B Ring

Cassini continues its space exploration sending extraordinary images from Saturn's rings.

Here we see a glorious B ring with its dense layers and various structures which have been one of the subjects which scientists have been looking up to.

Saturn's B ring is the densest and most massive of all the rings. The C ring is also visible inside the B ring and the A ring puts on an appearance beyond the Cassini Division near the top and bottom of the image.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on July 22, 2012.

The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 201,000 miles (324,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 134 degrees. Image scale is 10 miles (16 kilometers) per pixel.   from here

Cassini - TITAN Reveals an HIDDEN OCEAN at DEPTH

This artist's concept shows a possible scenario for the internal structure of Titan, as suggested by data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Image credit: A. Tavani

PASADENA, Calif. - Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturn's moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell.

Researchers saw a large amount of squeezing and stretching as the moon orbited Saturn. They deduced that if Titan were composed entirely of stiff rock, the gravitational attraction of Saturn would cause bulges, or solid "tides," on the moon only 3 feet (1 meter) in height. Spacecraft data show Saturn creates solid tides approximately 30 feet (10 meters) in height, which suggests Titan is not made entirely of solid rocky material. The finding appears in today's edition of the journal Science.

"Cassini's detection of large tides on Titan leads to the almost inescapable conclusion that there is a hidden ocean at depth," said Luciano Iess, the paper's lead author and a Cassini team member at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. "The search for water is an important goal in solar system exploration, and now we've spotted another place where it is abundant."   from here

CASSINI - A Long Mission to SATURN

For the last 15 years, since October 15th, 1997 Cassini Mission has been exploring Saturn, its Moons and Rings. Astonishing images were captured by Cassini and much of the Big unknown planet is nowadays widely covered with thousands of infra red pictures which opened our knowledge and clarified many of Saturn mysteries. Scientists could see frozen lakes, mountains, small and huge moons,  furious storms and rings that seemed to float on Saturn's gas atmosphere.

Cassini spacecraft views SATURN rings and TITAN its biggest Moon

TITAN the biggest Saturn's moon was extensively explored and incredible shoots were captured, like this one where the BIG MOON relays in the center of the image, with its 5,150 km, across. 

The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on 15 Jan. 2011 using a combination of polarized and spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light.

The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 844,000 km from Titan. 

Image scale is 50 km per pixel.