An curved arrow pointing right. At just 240,000 miles from Saturn's north pole, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped some stunning photos. These are the first images of the spacecraft's new mission ...

Credit: Mashable "No spacecraft has ever been this close to Saturn ... an end on September 15 when Cassini makes a planned plunge into Saturn's atmosphere, burning up in the process.

This sampling showed nanometer size particles, like smoke, residing in the region, suggesting an as-yet-unknown process grinding up ring ... by getting so close to Saturn in Cassini’s final ...

And Europe picked up about 20 percent of the mission ... One possibility: impurities in the hard ice. Cassini’s close-ups of Saturn’s second-largest moon, Rhea, have revealed ice cliffs ...

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And up until the end, Cassini was doing what it ... NASA has no missions on the books back to Saturn or other planets in the outer solar system. Our close-range eye on that part of our cosmic ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has ... “The daring, close flybys of these odd little moons let us peer into how they interact with Saturn’s rings,” JPL’s Bonnie Buratti said in a statement.

Earth, as seen by Cassini's radar. In order to understand what landforms on Titan could be seen by Cassini's radar, researchers looked at well-known Earth landforms through Cassini's perspective.