Cameras Ready, Spacecraft Gets Up Close to Saturn Moon
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The Cassini spacecraft cruised on Tuesday to within 745 miles of Titan, Saturn&#39;s planet-size moon, for the first close encounter with it.
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The Cassini spacecraft is set to make a close pass of Saturn&#39;s moon Iapetus, a striking world of two halves. One side of Iapetus&#39; surface is as bright as snow, while the other is coated in a material as dark as tar.
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As earthlings prepare for Christmas celebrations this weekend, more than 2 billion kilometres away a small space probe will begin the final stage of a long journey aimed at a touchdown on one of Saturn&#39;s moons.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured never-before-seen views of Saturn from perspectives high above and below the planet's rings.
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It&#39;s an encounter that everyone has been waiting for: on Tuesday, October 26, Cassini-Huygens will streak past Titan in the mission&#39;s first close encounter with Saturn&#39;s largest moon.
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The infrared-sensitive camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has photographed the tallest mountains ever seen on Saturn's moon, Titan. The mountain chain is nearly a mile high (1.5 kilometers), 93 miles long (150 kilometers) and 19 miles wide (30 kilometers).
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This radar image of the surface of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan was acquired on October 26, 2004, when the Cassini spacecraft flew approximately 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) above the surface and acquired radar data for the first time.
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The countdown is underway for the next flyby of the Saturian moon Titan for Monday, December 13, 2004 by the Cassini spacecraft expected to yield more detailed imaging
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Scientists identify the area of Saturn's moon Titan where the Huygens spacecraft touched down in new images released by the European Space Agency.
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The Huygens probe is on target and all set for its encounter with Titan, the mysterious large moon of Saturn.
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In the six months the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn, it has beamed to Earth images of startling beauty and detail, giving astronomers enough research for decades.
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The Huygens probe has been successfully sending data as it approaches the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.
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NASA released one of the best pictures ever made of Saturn's moon Titan as the Cassini spacecraft begins a close-up inspection of the satellite today. Cassini is making the nearest flyby ever of the smog-shrouded moon.
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A radar image of the surface of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan, taken Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004, by the spacecraft Cassini, is seen in this photo courtesy of NASA.
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U.S. scientists were thrilled by photos sent back from space of Saturn and its rings.  Finally, here are the views that we've waited years for, said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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The international Cassini spacecraft began unveiling Saturn's mysterious sidekick Titan with a stream of increasingly sharp pictures of the surface taken during a flyby within 745 miles of the hazy moon.
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The Cassini spacecraft is set to make a close pass of Saturn's moon Iapetus, a striking world of two halves.