[Friday, September 2, 2005] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Tuesday, August 30, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Tuesday, September 6, 2005] Analyzing fantastic new results from Cassini's first season of prime ring viewing, imaging scientists are announcing some of their unexpected findings on Saturn's rings.

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[Wednesday, September 7, 2005] Turbulence driven by sunlight and thunderstorm activity may explain the multiple east-west jet streams on Jupiter and Saturn and even produce strong winds extending hundreds or thousands of kilometers into the interior.

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[Wednesday, September 7, 2005] For the last two years, tests have been conducted at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility to see how materials used for NASA's future planetary exploration missions can withstand severe radiant heating.

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[Wednesday, September 7, 2005] Cassini scientists have announced a host of fantastic new results from the spacecraft's first season of prime ring viewing, including some unexpected findings on Saturn's rings.

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[Wednesday, September 7, 2005] Cassini scientists have discovered an unexpected menagerie of clouds lurking in the depths of Saturn's complicated atmosphere.

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[Wednesday, September 7, 2005] Enceladus is "absolutely" a highlight of the Cassini mission and should be targeted in future searches for life, Robert H. Brown of The University of Arizona, leader of the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team, said last week.

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[Tuesday, September 13, 2005] Dione's southern polar region contains fractures whose softened appearance suggests that they have different ages than the bright braided fractures seen in the image to the north.

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[Tuesday, September 13, 2005] This image was taken on September 05, 2005 and received on Earth September 06, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Pandora at approximately 51,749 kilometers away.

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[Tuesday, September 13, 2005] This image was taken on September 06, 2005 and received on Earth September 08, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Titan at approximately 171,158 kilometers away.

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[Tuesday, September 13, 2005] This image was taken on September 09, 2005 and received on Earth September 10, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Mimas at approximately 2,178,688 kilometers away.

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[Tuesday, September 13, 2005] Prometheus has just passed -- and gravitationally disturbed -- some of the fine particulate material in the F ring, creating the sheared gap visible in the inner strands of the ring. Prometheus is 102 kilometers (63 miles) across.

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[Tuesday, September 13, 2005] Saturn's moon Rhea is an alien ice world, but in this frame-filling view it is vaguely familiar. Here, Rhea's cratered surface looks in some ways similar to our own Moon, or the planet Mercury.

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[Friday, September 16, 2005] Images returned during Cassini's flyby of Titan show captivating evidence of what appears to be a large shoreline cutting across the smoggy moon's southern hemisphere.  Hints that this area was once wet, or currently has liquid present, are evident.

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[Sunday, September 18, 2005] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Tuesday, September 14, from the Madrid tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Friday, September 23, 2005] Titan is enveloped in a thick orange haze, and the organic particles that make up that smog have been raining out of the atmosphere and down onto the surface. This rich chemical brew is thought to be ripe for life's origin.

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[Monday, September 26, 2005] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, September 21, from the Madrid tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Monday, September 26, 2005] This image was taken on September 22, 2005 and received on Earth September 23, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 802,594 kilometers away

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[Monday, September 26, 2005] This image was taken on September 22, 2005 and received on Earth September 23, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 802,897 kilometers away

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[Monday, September 26, 2005] This image was taken on September 22, 2005 and received on Earth September 23, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Tethys at approximately 1,495,564 kilometers away. Dione is also visible.

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[Monday, September 26, 2005] Cassini recently flew past Tethys and sent back the sharpest images yet of this Saturnian moon.

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[Monday, September 26, 2005] This image was taken on September 23, 2005 and received on Earth September 24, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Calypso at approximately 101,049 kilometers away.

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[Monday, September 26, 2005] This image was taken on September 24, 2005 and received on Earth September 25, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Tethys at approximately 45,243 kilometers away.

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[Monday, September 26, 2005] This image was taken on September 25, 2005 and received on Earth September 26, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Hyperion at approximately 74,656 kilometers away.

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[Tuesday, September 27, 2005] Cassini recently flew past Hyperion and sent back the sharpest images yet of this Saturnian moon.

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[Wednesday, September 28, 2005] Images of Hyperion's strange surface continue to arrive from the Cassini spacecraft after last week's close flyby.

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[Friday, September 30, 2005] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, September 21, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Friday, September 30, 2005] This view is among the closest Cassini images of Tethys' icy surface taken during the Sept. 24, 2005 flyby.

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[Friday, September 30, 2005] This stunning false-color view of Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange surface. Differences in color could represent differences in the composition of surface materials. The view was obtained during Cassini's close flyby on Sept. 26, 2005.

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[Friday, September 30, 2005] This movie sequence shows highlights of Cassini's Sept. 26, 2005, flyby of the odd, icy moon Hyperion, which is 266 kilometers (165 miles) across.

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