NASA’s New Horizons probe dazzled the world with a detailed photo of Pluto today, but another probe has been beaming back stunning shots of space for over a decade already. The Cassini space probe has captured its fair share of eye-popping photos since launching in 1997 and arriving in Saturn’s orbit in 2004.
Here’s a collection of some of Cassini’s most remarkable photographs. Many of them were compiled by Reddit user I_Say_I_Say, and others were featured here before or obtained from NASA’s website:(via PetaPixel)
DECEMBER 23: In this June 16, 2011 photo distributed today, Saturn’s largest and second largest moons, Titan and Rhea, appear to be stacked on top of each other in a true-color scene from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The images were taken using red, green and blue spectral filters that were combined to create this natural-color view. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
You can find a massive collection of Cassini’s photos in the mission gallery on NASA’s website.
