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Saturn, the farthest naked-eye planet visible from Earth, is famous for its rings, its bands and its yellow color. An east-moving air current at 360 km/hr (220 mph) around the hexagon's outline ...
Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest in our solar system, takes about 29 Earth years to complete one orbit around our star. That means that each season on the ringed gas ...
As Saturn moves towards fall in its northern hemisphere, we see the polar and equatorial regions changing, but we are also seeing that the atmosphere varies on much shorter timescales,” Amy ...
A processed, true-color image of Saturn’s polar vortex based on photos taken by Cassini on April 26, 2017 during the spacecraft’s first dive between the planet and its rings.
Five of Saturn's inner moons are engaged in a cosmic paintball fight, pelting each other with particles that leave bright, colorful splotches and bands.
Look at that beautiful, raging storm. A new gif showing the movement of the north polar hexagon shows off the Cassini spacecraft's view of the rose-tinted jet stream on April 25.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a brand-new image of giant gas planet Saturn and its incredible ring pattern. The new image, above, was take it on September 22, 2022, but only ...
A natural-color view of Saturn as seen from NASA's Cassini spacecraft after more than 13 years of surveying the gas giant. Six of Saturn's moons—Enceladus, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Pandora and ...
Earth isn't the only planet that experiences a changing of the seasons. The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the colorful transition from summer to fall in Saturn's northern hemisphere -- a ...