"During its first four years of exploration, Cassini has made the Saturn system a familiar place to us Earthlings. The intrepid craft has returned more than 150,000 images since arriving in orbit in mid-2004. In this natural color image, the blues and grays of Saturn's northern hemisphere, so striking in early Cassini images, are diminishing in intensity with the slow change of seasons on Saturn, and are almost imperceptibly being replaced by pale shades of the colors commonly seen by Cassini in the planet's southern hemisphere." NASA

After a seven-year trip, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn arrived at the ringed world and has been sending back amazing and wondrous information, revealing previously unsuspected facts.

» Click here for the exciting and amazing news from Titan, the extraordinarily Earth-like world now revealed for the first time!

» Click here for NASA's mission page with links to multimedia features, photos and news updates on "the spacecraft's close encounter with Saturn."

»Through the Ring Plane - a Quicktime movie that puts you there. Click here...

» Find Saturn in the Sky - for kids, but useful for adults like us!

The Cassini-Huygens mission is an international project. Primaries are NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate and the Cassini orbiter and cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.