In spite of this appearance, Saturn is an active and dynamic world. Its atmosphere is a fast-moving and turbulent place with wind speeds in excess of 1,100 miles per hour (1,800 km per hour ...
In 2010, an unexpected storm arrived in Saturn's Northern Hemisphere. Within only a few months, the storm had grown into a colossal band of swirling gas — shown below as neon-orange swirls in ...
The images were taken by Cassini spacecraft camera at a distance of approximately 1.7 million km from Saturn. Saturn's atmosphere is fast-moving and turbulent with wind speeds of 1,800 km/hr in ...
These are the closest-ever images of Saturn. They were taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft just days before it crashed into Saturn. The results are spectacular. Shortly after Cassini took its final ...
So sensitive to light is Webb that it had to be pointed at only tiny parts of Saturn at any one time to prevent its detectors from being overwhelmed. The resulting images are therefore overlaid ...
In fact, it's the closest any spacecraft has ever come to Saturn — just 1,900 miles from the beautiful planet's cloud tops. Even more exciting, Cassini has already transmitted images of what it ...