Daily Cassini

Sharing the wonder of Saturn and its moons. With few exceptions, images are in their raw form and are taken from the Cassini Solstice mission archive.

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Saturn, rings and moons seen by the Cassini spacecraft wow!

Image credit: NASA/JPL (original video)

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July 18, 2009 – Spectacular Saturn, observed by the Cassini space probe from a distance of approximately 2.1 million kilometers (1.3 million miles).

(NASA)

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Cassini is gone but its memory lives on.

this blog isn’t dead and neither am i.

but in a few dozen orbits i will be too.

we all get a few dozen orbits and burn up, just like cassini.

but in our brief and fleeting moments of life, we tread quietly, observing the magnificence all around us.

we spin around and around, savoring the beautiful sunset, knowing there won’t always be another.

but even in our absence, the march of life carries forth, spinning, observing.

for we are not alone in this dizzying swirl, we have each other, and that makes it all just a little bit sweeter.

look around you

you are cassini.

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This is the last photograph ever taken by the Cassini spacecraft. It comes with great sadness that the Cassini mission will end in a few hours. Its epic Odyssean journey involved weaving between dozens of strange icy worlds, flying through plumes of water, landing a probe on the hazy surface of a mysterious world, and diving between the rings of Saturn. To our watchful eye, our humble observer, our intrepid and ever-enduring ambassador of the Ringed planet, we say goodbye. Among the Saturnian clouds may you rest in peace.

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I'm gonna miss Cassini

:(

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Image of Saturn taken by Cassini spacecraft in October 28, 2016.

Credit: NASA / JPL / Cassini

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In Cassini’s final days, it is sweeping through dramatic, close flybys of Saturn’s rings

(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

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Planet Saturn, observed by the Cassini space probe on April 20, 2016. (NASA)

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Saturn’s rings and Saturn’s moon appearing cut in two by Saturn’s razor-thin rings.

Credit to NASA, Space Science Institute. (on ig)

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The rings of Saturn, observed by Cassini space probe, April 2016. (NASA)

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The rings of Saturn, observed by Cassini space probe on April 2, 2016. (NASA)

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Planet Saturn, May 9, 2007, observed by the Cassini space probe from a distance of approximately 717,729 miles (1,155,073 kilometers). (NASA)

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ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: The rings of Saturn, observed on March 13, 2015 by the Cassini space probe.

(NASA/JPL)

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Planet Saturn and its moons Tethys and Dione were, photographed by the Voyager 1 space probe in November of 1980.