Saturn's rings News

Cassini has been orbiting Saturn for nearly a half of a Saturnian year but that journey is nearing its end. 

Using data from Cassini mission, scientists including those from University College London (UCL) in the UK, identified negatively charged molecules called 'carbon chain anions' in the atmosphere of Titan.

The rings themselves are made of fast-moving particles of ice and space debris.

NASA has released a new video taken by th spacecrfat as it swooped over Saturn during the first of its Grand Finale dives between the planet and its rings.

 NASA's Cassini became the first spacecraft to enter the gap between Saturn and its rings. 

The US space agency NASA has released a beautiful and close view of the wavemaker moon 'Daphnis'.

The spacecraft, which began its penultimate mission phase on November 30, crossed through the plane of Saturn's rings on December 4 at 5:09 a.m. PST (8:09 a.m. EST) at a distance of approximately 91,000 kilometres above the planet's cloud tops.

During the first two orbits, the spacecraft will pass directly through an extremely faint ring produced by tiny meteors striking Saturn's two small moons Janus and Epimetheus.

On November 30, Cassini will begin a daring set of Ring-Grazing Orbits, skimming past the outside edge of Saturn's main rings. 

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on September 24, 2016.  

Observations show that Saturn's rings are made of more than 95 per cent icy particles, while the rings of Uranus and Neptune are darker and may have higher rock content.

Just as on Earth, as the sun climbs higher in the sky, shadows get shorter.

In the image, which was released on Monday, Saturn's A and F rings appear bizarrely warped where they intersect the planet's limb, whose atmosphere acts here like a very big lens.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 29, 2015.