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...CICLOPS: Cassini Imagining Central Laboratory For Operations View special release close-up images of Saturn's ring after Cassini slipped into the planet's orbit...
...Planetary Society This amazingly detailed site devoted to the Cassini-Huygen mission allows visitors to explore all aspects about the orbiter and probe. Follow the Saturn Orbit insertion with live NASA TV coverage, view the latest images of Saturn's moons or read archived articles from The Planetary Report...
After only the most cursory study of Voyager's flood of data, scientists were staggered by a succession of discoveries. Many involved Saturn's rings, which until the recent finding of similar features around Uranus and Jupiter were thought to be unique. Before Voyager's visit only six Saturnian rings and a few gaps between them were known. Now there seem to be 1,000 rings or so. One of the so-called gaps may contain several dozen ringlets ... Saturn's entourage of other satellites, until now no more than bright gleams in earthly telescopes, also proliferated--by three...
...billion miles away from Earth, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is bearing down on SATURN. Much of our knowledge of that planet dates from Voyager 1's close encounter in 1980, which TIME chronicled in a cover story...
Miles from center of Saturn...