[Monday, June 2, 2008] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Monday, May 26, from the Goldstone, California tracking complex. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally

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[Saturday, June 14, 2008] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, June 3, from the Goldstone, California tracking complex. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.

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[Saturday, June 14, 2008] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, June 10, from the Goldstone, California tracking complex. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.

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[Tuesday, June 17, 2008] Four students have won the Cassini Scientist for a Day contest, with most choosing Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, as the best place for scientists to study using NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

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[Tuesday, June 24, 2008] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, June 17, from the Goldstone, California, tracking complex. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.

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[Friday, June 27, 2008] Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across at its widest point) is on the side of the rings closest to the Cassini spacecraft in this view. The image looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about a degree below the ringplane.

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[Friday, June 27, 2008] This view of Saturn's moon Rhea includes two large and ancient impact basins and a more recent, bright ray crater.

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[Friday, June 27, 2008] The Cassini spacecraft stares at the Huygens Gap -- the region between Saturn's outer B ring and the ringlets of the prominent Cassini Division -- in this high-resolution view.

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[Friday, June 27, 2008] With its excess warmth, water ice jets and huge vapor plume laced with simple organic materials, Enceladus is an important part of the quest to understand environments compatible with the chemistry of life as we know it.

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[Friday, June 27, 2008] The Encke Gap in Saturn's A ring is maintained by the presence of the moon Pan, which shares the gap with several diffuse ringlets.

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[Friday, June 27, 2008] With nearby Saturn looming large, the Cassini spacecraft spies the bright distant moon Tethys in the icy blackness beyond.

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[Friday, June 27, 2008] The moon's south pole is at bottom center, just above the terminator. To the left of the pole is the crater Melanthius, with its complex of central peaks poking upward into sunlight.

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[Friday, June 27, 2008] Multiple tenuous strands flank the brilliant core of Saturn's F ring. These delicate, flanking ringlets wind through the F ring, creating a tight spiral. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 35 degrees below the ringplane.

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[Saturday, June 28, 2008] NASA's Cassini mission is closing one chapter of its journey at Saturn and embarking on a new one with a two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most intriguing targets--Titan and Enceladus.

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[Saturday, June 28, 2008] The nearest star system, the trinary star Alpha Centauri, hangs above the horizon of Saturn. Both Alpha Centauri A and B -stars very similar to our own -are clearly distinguishable in this image. The third star, Proxima Centauri, is not visible here.

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[Saturday, June 28, 2008] Craters cover the rugged surface of Saturn's moon Janus. The view is from 42 degrees above the moon's equator. North on Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) is towards the top of the image.

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[Saturday, June 28, 2008] This global map of Saturn's moon Dione was created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage.

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[Saturday, June 28, 2008] A set of three parallel ridges was seen by the Cassini spacecraft's radar instrument during the latest Titan flyby on May 12, 2008.

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[Saturday, June 28, 2008] This high-resolution view shows, at left, a spiral density wave in Saturn's inner B ring. A spiral density wave is a spiral-shaped massing of particles that tightly winds many times around the planet.

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[Saturday, June 28, 2008] From a highly inclined orbit, the Cassini spacecraft looks toward far northern latitudes on Tethys.

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[Saturday, June 28, 2008] The Cassini spacecraft catches a hint of topography on Janus, which orbits Saturn just outside the planet's narrow F ring.

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[Saturday, June 28, 2008] A great, eye-like vortex stares out of Saturn's roiling atmosphere. The storm is wide enough to span the distance from Washington, DC to London.

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[Saturday, June 28, 2008] Myriad vortices churn through Saturn's high northern latitudes while Dione's shadow drifts across the gas giant's face.

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[Saturday, June 28, 2008] The Cassini spacecraft provides an excellent view of the southernmost reaches of the great rift of Tethys -- Ithaca Chasma.

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