Journey to Saturn
Trace humanity's road to Saturn — from the Pioneer and Voyager fly-bys to Cassini's 13-year tour of the rings and moons, and the missions still to come.
The voyage
- SaturnIts rings are mostly water ice — and only ~10m thick.→
- Another great explorerPioneer 11First to fly past Saturn (1979), using Jupiter's gravity to get there. Last heard from in…→
- The full storyCassini-Huygens: 13 Years at Saturn and the Greatest Planetary Mission Ever FlownCassini-Huygens: 20 years, 293 Saturn orbits, Titan's methane lakes, Enceladus's ocean…→
- Another great explorerPioneer 10First craft to cross the asteroid belt and fly past Jupiter (1973). Silent since 2003, it…→
- Another world in our systemJupiterThe largest planet — its Great Red Spot has raged for 350+ years.→
- The full storyJupiter: The King of Planets and Its Incredible MoonsJupiter by the numbers: the Great Red Spot, 95 moons, and the four Galilean worlds — Io's…→
- Featured in this storyJunoJuno is NASA's New Frontiers mission to Jupiter and the first solar-powered spacecraft…→
- Continue the storyCassini-HuygensCassini-Huygens was a flagship-class joint NASA-ESA-ASI mission and the only spacecraft…→
This voyage is assembled live from the connections between everything on SpaceOdysseyHub — each stop is a place you can explore in full.