These discoveries were made using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft that flew through Saturn’s rings in late 2017
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Watch LIVE: Cassini plunges through Saturn’s atmosphere
Head over to mission control to experience the bus-sized spacecraft make its dramatic final dive just after 6:32am (EDT)
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Cassini Update: Spacecraft says goodbye to Titan before its demise
This last gravitational interaction with Titan will send Cassini into Saturn’s upper atmosphere
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Cassini’s end draws near with only five orbits to go
As the spacecraft approaches its Grand Finale, it is now attempting its closest ever observations of Saturn
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Cassini finds ‘surprisingly empty’ gap in Saturn’s ring
As the spacecraft plunges through the gap between the gas giant and its rings, mission members are shocked by the latest finding
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Cassini to make final close approach of Titan this weekend
The flyby marks the mission’s final opportunity for up-close observations of the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons that spread across the moon’s northern polar region
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Cassini prepares to make ‘death plunge’ into Saturn’s atmosphere
In orbit around the ringed planet since 2004, the spacecraft is about to begin the final chapter of its remarkable story
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Check out these new images of Saturn’s megastorm from Cassini
NASA’s spacecraft has sent its first views of the ringed planet’s atmosphere since beginning the latest phase of its mission
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Cassini spacecraft prepares for spectacular mission finale at Saturn
With the conclusion of the international mission set for September 2017, the spacecraft is poised to begin a thrilling two-part endgame
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Watch LIVE: Rosetta’s grand finale as orbiter heads for comet crash
The spacecraft will join lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P, bringing its 13 year mission to a close
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Cassini takes final breathtaking images of Saturn’s moon Dione
Brand new images of the pockmarked, icy landscape of Dione mark the spacecraft’s last flyby of the Saturn moon