Here's a view of Enceladus' crumpled, frozen surface captured by #CassiniSaturn as it passed just 30 miles (48km) over it on October 28, 2015 #OTD

Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Cassini Imaging Team

Jason Major
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To those in the US, enjoy being together with those in your orbits :)
#thanksgiving #cassinispacecraft #cassinisaturn #insaturnsrings

Timeline - NASA Science October 15, 1997 Launch from Cape Canaveral A nearly seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn began with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe. Both the orbiter and the probe were history-making triumphs of engineering and scientific discovery. April 25, 1998 First Venus Flyby […]

Just seen this timeline of #CassiniSaturn and was pretty much blown away: saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/the-journey/timeline/

Cassini: Space probes, history and women - Making Science Public I have just read a lovely article by Rebekah Higgitt on the various Cassinis that worked in France as astronomers. One of them was Giovanni Domenico (or Jean Dominique) Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712), the first director of the observatory founded by Louis XIV, and discoverer, amongst other things, of four satellites of the planet ...

A quick post on #CassiniSaturn, history of science and women blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2017...

Spectacular! #GrandFinale #CassiniSaturn