This colorful view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as "the hexagon."

Dec 8, 2009 · After waiting years for the sun to illuminate Saturn’s north pole again, cameras aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have captured the most detailed images yet of the …

Jan 9, 2025 · Cassini imaged, first in the infrared and later in visible wavelengths of light, the hexagonal jet stream around Saturn’s north pole, and revealed its remarkable symmetry. …

Oct 12, 2008 · New images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal a giant cyclone at Saturn’s north pole, and show that a similarly monstrous cyclone churning at Saturn’s south pole is …

Forces deep inside Saturn create a giant magnetic bubble around the planet, called the magnetosphere, which exerts a powerful influence on the space environment near the planet. …

Feb 20, 2013 · A recent study provides the first detailed, quantitative model that reproduces most of the strange periodic signatures observed in the magnetic bubble around Saturn. It suggests …

Apr 28, 2013 · Cassini has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists …

Cassini carried a passenger to the Saturn system, the European Huygens probe—the first human-made object to land on a world in the distant outer solar system. After 20 years in space — 13 …

MAG saw Saturn’s magnetic field bending around the south pole of Enceladus in a shape that wasn't symmetrical. This turned out to be the first definitive detection of the plume that sprays …

This colorful view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as "the hexagon."