Saturn Turns 60 - NASA Science
Jul 18, 2007 · Scientists have recently discovered that the planet Saturn is turning 60 — not years, but moons. “We detected the 60th moon orbiting Saturn using the Cassini spacecraft’s powerful wide-angle camera,” said Carl Murray, a Cassini imaging team scientist from Queen Mary, University of London.
NASA’s Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets
Dec 9, 2024 · Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Collectively, since their launch in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were far more complex than scientists had imagined. There was a lot […]
Dr. Charles Webb - NASA Science
Dr. Charles Webb is the Acting Director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, PSD (Science Mission Directorate, SMD) at NASA Headquarters. Planetary science is focused on space flight missions and scientific research that address fundamental questions of solar system formation and evolution, including understanding planetary environments that can support life.
Saturn, Titan - NASA Science
Dec 17, 2004 · Saturn appears serene and majestic in the first color composite made of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its approach to the ringed planet, with arrival still 20 months away. The planet was 285 million kilometers (177 million miles) away from the spacecraft, nearly twice the distance between the Sun and Earth, when Cassini took images of it in …
Saturn and its Rings - Science@NASA
May 21, 1999 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery.
Saturn Apollo Program - Science@NASA
Saturn Apollo Program. The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn Five launch vehicle.
Saturn’s moon Hyperion - Science@NASA
Saturn’s moon Hyperion. This stunning false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface.
The Next Full Moon Will Be the Last of Four Consecutive …
The Next Full Moon is a Supermoon; the Beaver, Frost, Frosty, or Snow Moon; Kartik Purnima; Loy Krathong; the Bon Om Touk (”Boat Racing Festival”) Moon, the Tazaungdaing Festival Moon; and Ill Poya. The next full Moon will be Friday afternoon, November 15, 2024, at 4:29 PM EST. This will be early Saturday morning from […]
Saturn Moons Facts - Science@NASA
Jan 17, 2025 · Introduction. The Voyager and Pioneer flybys of the 1970s and 1980s provided rough sketches of Saturn’s moons. But during its many years in Saturn orbit, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft discovered previously unknown moons, solved mysteries about known ones, studied their interactions with the rings and uncovered new mysteries – including the discovery on an …
Saturn’s Rings in Ultraviolet Light - Science@NASA
Saturn’s Rings in Ultraviolet Light. This Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet image of Saturn was taken when the planet's rings were at a maximum tilt of 27 degrees toward Earth.