Detailed analysis of Saturn’s gravitational field leads astronomers to believe that the deepest interior of Saturn must consist of a molten rock core about the same size as Earth, but much …

The Saturn-200 bus platform inherits fundamental architecture, software trunk and core components from our catalog of TRL-9 flight-proven buses, subsystems and precision …

system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Because these planets have similar characteristics, they were named after their mythological olar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, …

eveloped that could enable many solar-powered missions to Saturn, its moons and beyond. This technology can be implemented on mission concepts such as the Enceladus Orbilander, Titan …

Saturn is the second largest planet in the Solar System. Like the other gaseous outer planets – Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune – it has an atmosphere made up mostly of hydrogen and helium.

The Cassini orbiter will orbit Saturn for 4 years. The spacecraft’s 12 onboard instruments will collect data about Saturn, the rings, the magnetosphere, Titan, and Saturn’s smaller moons.

Since its 2004 arrival at Saturn, Cassini has shown that Europa isn’t an oddball: Potentially habitable ocean worlds exist even in the Saturn system — 10 times farther from the Sun than …

May 26, 2009 · Solar wind at Saturn orbit • Cassini observations made during the spacecraft’s approach to Saturn revealed that the solar wind consisted of alternating regions of …

t show over the ringed planet’s south pole. Like Jupiter, Saturn has an immense magnetic field, which accelerates and energizes charged particles from the sun, creating

NASA’s Voyager mission took advantage of a once-every-175-year alignment of the outer planets for a grand tour of the solar syste y-175-year alignment of the outer planets for a grand tour of …