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This is Cassini’s Last Photo of Saturn After 13 Years in Orbit

On September 15, 2017, NASA’s Cassini space probe plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere and burned up, concluding its mission after 13 years in orbit. Two days earlier, Cassini used its wide-angle cameras and captured this beautiful final photo of the planet it had studied for over a decade. NASA writes that Cassini spent two hours shooting […]

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Saturn’s Moon Pan Looks Like a Ravioli in New NASA Photos

NASA has just released new raw photos of Saturn’s tiny moon Pan, captured on March 7th, 2017, by the Cassini space probe from about 15,000 miles away (~24,500km). The photos reveal a bizarre-looking moon — one that looks like a giant ravioli floating in space (or a dumpling or walnut or “paper mache mini-planet“). These […]

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These Photos Were Snapped by the Farthest-Ever Cameras from Earth

NASA has published a pair of record-breaking photos. These two images that show Kuiper belt objects in the outer Solar System were captured by the farthest-ever cameras from Earth. NASA writes that the photos were captured by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) camera on its New Horizons interplanetary space probe, which performed a flyby […]

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These Closeup Photos of Jupiter Look Like Works of Art

NASA’s Juno space probe has been orbiting Jupiter and dazzling us with photos of the giant gas planet for over a year now. In recent days, Juno has captured a number of gorgeous close-up photos that look strangely like impressionist art.

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Rosetta Sent a Surprise Close-Up Photo of the Comet it Crashed On

On September 30th, 2016, the European Space Agency ended the Rosetta space probe’s mission by crashing it onto the comet that it had been orbiting for two years. It’s been over a year now, but scientists just discovered that Rosetta had sent a surprise final close-up photo of the comet’s surface just before impact. The […]

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