Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.
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The countdown continued. The total cost of Europa Clipper is about five billion dollars, comparable to previous NASA flagships such as the Cassini mission. But the real cost of this voyage has ...
Another ice-shelled moon of the outer Solar System, Enceladus, stunned NASA’s Cassini mission team when the Saturn world revealed a magnificent jet to the spacecraft in 2005. The Hubble Space ...
NASA's Cassini mission spotted a giant plume of water vapor erupting from multiple jets near the south pole of Saturn's ice-covered moon Enceladus. Europa may also emit misty plumes of water ...
The Cassini orbiter, a collaborative mission by NASA, ESA, and ASI, provided us with a stunning legacy of Saturn and its intricate system of rings and moons.
Three views of Jupiter’s sprawling and deadly inner radiation belts, based on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Each view comes from a different point in the giant planet’s 10-hour ...
Over her long career, Bonnie Buratti has seen the search for life in the solar system go from a joke to a flagship mission.
"With the Dragonfly mission, NASA will once again do what no one else can ... To help Nasa's Dragonfly survive on Titan, the space agency has used Cassini data to choose a period of calm weather for ...
It was the first spacecraft to enter Jupiter's atmosphere. The Cassini spacecraft took detailed photos of Jupiter on its way to neighbuoring Saturn as did New Horizons on its journey to Pluto and ...
An illustrated depiction of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL On October 14, NASA launched Europa Clipper, its largest planetary mission spacecraft yet. It’s headed to Jupiter’s icy ...
The House of Cassini — an eight-story Gilded Age mansion on the Upper East Side that once housed the atelier of Jackie Kennedy’s favorite fashion designer, Oleg Cassini, in its atrium — has ...