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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest planet in our solar system. Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Saturn is not the only planet to have rings, but none are as spectacular or as complex as Saturn's.
Saturn's Hexagon in Motion. 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."
This spectacular, vertigo inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green.
Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.
This gallery contains the full record of the Cassini spacecraft’s raw images taken from Feb. 20, 2004 to Cassini’s end of mission on Sept. 15, 2017. The archive will remain available to all as a historical record.
Image of Saturn-rings W00090776.jpg was taken on 2014-12-14 00:22 (PST) and received on Earth 2014-12-16 13:42 (PST). The camera was pointing toward Saturn-rings, and the image was taken using the CL1 and IR1 filters.
The first map showing the global geology of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has been completed and fully reveals a dynamic world of dunes, lakes, plains, craters and other terrains.
March 18, 2021: Hubble Sees Changing Seasons on Saturn Hubble Space Telescope images of Saturn taken in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as the planet’s northern hemisphere summer transitions to fall. Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/A. Simon/R. Roth
Voyager 1 color-enhanced image of Saturn taken on October 18, 1980, 25 days before closest approach. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. On November 12, 1980, 35 years ago, Voyager 1 became the second spacecraft to flyby Saturn.
Its cameras took amazing, ultra-close images of Saturn's rings and clouds. Discoveries to the End Cassini’s final images were sent to Earth several hours before its final plunge, but even as the spacecraft made its fateful dive into the planet's atmosphere, it was sending home new data in real-time.