The images were taken by Cassini spacecraft camera at a distance of approximately 1.7 million km from Saturn. Saturn's atmosphere is fast-moving and turbulent with wind speeds of 1,800 km/hr in ...
So sensitive to light is Webb that it had to be pointed at only tiny parts of Saturn at any one time to prevent its detectors from being overwhelmed. The resulting images are therefore overlaid ...
On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...