Carolyn Porco Talk at TED on Cassini Mission to Titan

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The Saturn System, in all its glory, thanks to Cassini

Feast your eyes on beautiful Saturn. There are some heartbreakingly gorgeous images here, but be warned: you might end up staying for a while, so make sure you have adequate time!

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/?start=1&category=1

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Saturn

Saturn:

From 20 degrees above the ring plane, Cassini's wide angle camera shot 75 exposures in succession for this mosaic showing Saturn, its rings, and a few of its moons a day and a half after exact Saturn equinox, when the sun's disk was exactly overhead at the planet's equator. The images were taken on Aug. 12, 2009, at a distance of approximately 847,000 km (526,000 mi) from Saturn. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) 

 

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Hexagon on Saturn, thirty years on

I love that we can do this stuff!

30 years ago, the Voyager spacecraft spotted this for the first time. Now as spring begins again on Saturn (one saturnian year being approximately thirty earth years), the Cassini spacecraft has a chance to look again, and the hexagon is still there. No-one's quite sure what causes it, but I'll be very interested to hear the theories. More info below:

Saturn's Hexagon