Cassini at Saturn: A Retrospective

Scientific American ---------- Some evening when Saturn is high in the sky and the night is clear and dark, take a look through a backyard telescope. When you have had your fill of the planet's awe and beauty, search online for images that NASA's Cassini spacecraft has returned over the past 13 years in its travels around this ringed wonder. It will likely hit you hard: how far we have traveled, how proficient we have become as interplanetary explorers and how extraordinary an accomplishment it has been to come so intimately to know a world as distant as Saturn. To get more in depth information click on the picture below to read the article.