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Cassini A is the larger of these two, and it lies just north-east of the crater center. A hilly ridge area runs from this inner crater toward the south-east. Near the south-west rim of Cassini is the smaller crater Cassini B. Oblique view from Apollo 15 The crater Cassini, from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data. Inset graph is elevations taken ...
Cassini is a crater on Mars named in honour of the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini. The name was approved in 1973, by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. [1] The crater measures approximately 415 kilometers in diameter and can be found at 327.9°W and 23.4°N. [2]
Cassini Regio / k ə ˈ s iː n i ˈ r iː dʒ i oʊ / (adjective Cassinian / k ə ˈ s ɪ n i ən /) [1] is the enigmatic dark area that covers the leading half of Saturn's moon Iapetus. It is named after Giovanni Cassini , the discoverer of Iapetus; ' Regio ' is a term used in planetary geology for a large area that is strongly differentiated ...
Cassini has run low on propellant, and will become an artificial meteor at Saturn on Friday morning as it plunges to its death. NASA is now receiving the last photos ever taken by the Cassini ...
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Cassini view of Enceladus's south pole. The tiger stripes, from lower left to upper right, are the Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, Alexandria and Camphor sulci. The tiger stripes of Enceladus consist of four sub-parallel, linear depressions in the south polar region of the Saturnian moon.
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center The roughly 60,000-square-mile piece of crust has been hiding below the eastern Mediterranean Sea for about 340 million years (give or take 30 million years ...
Cassini Division, a gap in the rings of Saturn; Cassini–Huygens, the space mission to examine Saturn and its moons, of which the Cassini orbiter was a part; Cassini (Martian crater) Cassini (lunar crater) 24101 Cassini, an asteroid; 24102 Jacquescassini, another asteroid; Cassini Regio, the dark region of the moon Iapetus