Right until its final moments, the spacecraft continued to send insightful images of 'The Ringed Planet.' The mission's ...

The final snap was of Saturn itself, even capturing where the spacecraft would ultimately plunge to its final destination. Explaining that impressive final photo, NASA said: "This monochrome view is ...

It took Cassini and Huygens again to make the first ... As the spacecraft flew through the rings at more than 75,000 miles per hour during an epic grand finale—22 dives through the 1,200-mile ...

Cassini carried a probe called Huygens to the Saturn system. The probe, which was built by ESA, ... Cassini Grand Finale Concept - NASA Science. 6 Apr. 2017, https: ...

The Cassini spacecraft spent 20 years exploring Saturn, revealing incredible details about its rings, moons, and atmosphere. ... What did Cassini-Huygens achieve before its Grand Finale.

The Huygens probe detached from the Cassini orbiter in December 2004, landing on the moon Titan in January 2005. ... The mission ended with the Grand Finale – a series of 22 orbits that on closest ...

But Cassini’s Grand Finale gave us a major clue as to what’s going on inside that planet. ... The separation of Huygens from Cassini. Credit: ESA-D. DUCROS.

The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft showed us a new view of the Saturn system. ... and its Grand Finale in September 2017. Cassini scoured the planet in unrivaled detail using a dozen instruments, ...

Cassini performed what NASA dubbed the “Grand Finale” of its mission in 2017: a number of passes between Saturn and its inner rings. In these close encounters, Cassini measured the mass of the rings ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings as part of the mission’s grand finale. NASA/JPL-Caltech The thinness of planetary rings is ...