What's New

University of Hawaii - May 20, 1995 - Two days before the first ring plane crossing.

February 13, 1996

• Today's New Images:
  • APO Image (February 12, 1996).

February 5, 1996

• Today's New Images:
  • Kitt Peak Images (November 22, 1995).
• Added the following Saturn animation:
  • Kitt Peak Animation of Saturn (November 22, 1995).

January 11, 1996

• Added a link to the Voyager Project Home Page (JPL).
• Today's New Images:
  • Hubble Image of Saturn's Moon Mimas (August 10, 1995).
  • Hubble Images of the Motion of Saturn's Satellites (August 10, 1995).
  • Hubble Images of Saturn's Moon 1995 S5 (August 10, 1995).
  • Hubble Image of Saturn's E Ring (August 10, 1995).

November 24, 1995

• Hubble Space Telescope Daily Reports (November 16-22, 1995).

November 22, 1995

• Today's New Images:
  • ESO Images of Pandora and 1995S6 (August 10, 1995).

November 15, 1995

• Added a link to the Cassini - Mission to Saturn home page (JPL).

November 12, 1995

• Today's New Images:
  • Pic du Midi Image of Saturn (November 12, 1995).

November 7, 1995

• Today's New Images:
  • Saturn Image by Rodriguez, Gonzalez and Francisco (October 12, 1995).

October 17, 1995

• Today's New Images:
  • Hubble Image of Saturn's Aurora (October 9, 1995).
  • Hubble Image of Saturn's Aurora (June 1992).

October 5, 1995

• Saturn Moon Mystery Continues (October 5, 1995).

October 4, 1995

• New Saturn Moons Observed by Hubble! (October 4, 1995).

September 16, 1995

• Added new Saturn observations made by Matt Will (September 10, 1995).

September 4, 1995

• Added new Saturn observations made by Matt Will (September 3, 1995).

August 31, 1995

• Today's New Images:
  • Saturn Images by Thomas Collin (August 19, 1995).

August 28, 1995

• Added new Saturn observations made by Matt Will (August 27, 1995).

August 25, 1995

• Home Page Selected as Top 5% Web Site!

August 19, 1995

• White Spots Observed on Saturn (August 11, 1995).

August 18, 1995

• Home Page Mentioned in Science Magazine (August 4, 1995).
• Correction: the images attributed to the Pic du Midi Observatory during the second ring plane crossing were actually taken at the European Southern Observatory.
• Today's New Images:
  • William Herschel Telescope Image of Saturn (August 3, 1995).

August 15, 1995

• Added a paper on how the Jupiter and Saturn Fly-By Animations were created at JPL (Jim Blinn - 1980).
• Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report (August 10, 1995).
• Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report (August 11, 1995).

August 12, 1995

• Added Observations made by the Lick Observatory (August 8 - 12, 1995).
• November 1995 Sun Crossing is Very Unusual (Bob Victor, August 12, 1995).
• Today's New Images:
  • Hubble Image of the Second Ring Plane Crossing (August 10, 1995).
  • European Southern Observatory Images of Second Ring Plane Crossing (August 10, 1995).
  • University of Hawaii of Second Ring Plane Crossing (August 11, 1995).
• Updated link to Hubble Space Telescope.

August 11, 1995

• Today's New Image:
  • Saturn Image taken by Nick James (July 16, 1995).

August 10, 1995

• Today's New Images:
  • Six University of Hawaii Images of Saturn (August 10, 1995).

August 9, 1995

• Today's New Images:
  • Three University of Hawaii Images of Saturn (August 9, 1995).

August 8, 1995

• Two Saturn Moons May Be Existing Satellites (August 8, 1995).

August 7, 1995

• Added new Saturn observations made by Daniel Fischer (July 1995).

July 28, 1995

• Added additional information on the New Saturn Moon Discoveries (July 28, 1995).
• Hubble Discovers New Saturn Moons (NASA - July 28, 1995).
• Today's New Images:
  • Hubble Image of New Saturn Moon (July 28, 1995).

July 26, 1995

• Four New Saturn Satellites Discovered by Hubble! (July 26, 1995).

July 24, 1995

• Added new Saturn observations made by Matt Will (July 16, 1995).

June 27, 1995

• Added more information to the Historical Background of Saturn's Rings.

June 16, 1995

• Today's New Image:
  • Texas A&M Image of Saturn (June 13, 1995).

June 13, 1995

• Added a link to the AMOS Home Page (Phillips Laboratory).

June 7, 1995

• Today's New Image:
  • Image of Predicted Star Occultation with Saturn's Rings (Courtesy of Amanda Bosh).

June 6, 1995

• Today's New Image:
  • Phillips Laboratory Image of Saturn (May 25, 1995).

June 5, 1995

• Today's New Images:
  • Hubble Image of Saturn's Rings Edge-On (May 22, 1995).
  • Hubble Images of Saturn's Rings Edge-On (May 22, 1995).
  • Hubble Images of Saturn's Rings Edge-On (May 22, 1995).
• Hubble Captures Saturn's Rings Edge-On (NASA - June 5, 1995).

June 2, 1995

• Added Matt Will's Saturn observations.
• Today's New Image:
  • Cassini Approaching Saturn (22k) (Courtesy of David Seal).

June 1, 1995

• Today's New Images:
  • Catalina Observatory Image of Saturn (May 22, 1995).

May 27, 1995

• Added the following Saturn animations:
  • Voyager 2 Flyby of Saturn (Quicktime, 822K)
  • Voyager Ring "Spokes" Animation (Quicktime, 1.02 MB)
  • Voyager 2 Stellar Occulation by Saturn's Rings (Quicktime, 1.01 MB)
  • Pic du Midi Saturn Animation (FLI, 732K)

May 26, 1995

• Saturn's Thin Rings (Sky & Telescope - May 26, 1995)

May 25, 1995

• Created a Hubble Space Telescope home page describing the mission and its instruments.
• Today's New Images:
  • Pic du Midi Image of Saturn (May 22, 1995).
  • Pic du Midi Image of Saturn (May 23, 1995).

May 24, 1995

• Added a section for observations by individuals to the Saturn Observations page.
• Today's New Images:
  • Saturn-Earth-Sun Graphic (Courtesy of Julius Benton)
  • Texas A&M Image of Saturn (May 21, 1995).
  • Texas A&M Images of Saturn (May 21-22, 1995).
• Added the following Saturn observations:
  • McDonald Observatory Saturn Observations (May 22, 1995).
  • Julius Benton Saturn Observations (May 13-21, 1995).
  • Ralphe Neill Saturn Observations (May 22, 1995).

May 23, 1995

• Today's New Images:
  • University of Hawaii Image of Saturn (May 22, 1995).
  • Grove Creek Image of Saturn

May 22, 1995

• Today's New Image:
  • University of Hawaii Image of Saturn's E Ring (May 21, 1995).

May 21, 1995

• Rings Disappear! (Sky & Telescope - May 19, 1995).
• This Home Page Selected as Cool NASA Site of the Week!
• Today's New Images:
  • University of Hawaii Image of Saturn (May 20, 1995).
  • Lund Observatory Image of Saturn
• The Saturn Fact Sheet went through a major overhaul. Take a look at the new version.

May 20, 1995

• Today's New Images:
  • University of Hawaii Deconvolved Images of Saturn (May 14, 1995).

May 19, 1995

• Today's New Images:
  • University of Hawaii Images of Saturn (May 14, 1995).

May 18, 1995

• Added a link to a NASA Press Release on Saturn's disappearing rings. (May 18, 1995).
• Added a link to the Terrile Lecture at Griffith Observatory. Rich Terrile discovered a new Saturn moon, Atlas, in 1980, and is currently the Pluto Express project scientist.

May 17, 1995

• Added a link to the Cassini Educators Conference
• Added the following animation:
  • Hubble Animation of Titan

May 16, 1995

• Created a Computer-Generated Images of Saturn page.
• Added the following new images:
  • Voyager 2 image of Prometheus and Pandora shepherding the F Ring.
  • Catalina Observatory image of Saturn taken in the early 1970's
  • Computer Generated Voyager 2 Saturn flyby images

May 15, 1995

• Added another Cassini animation:
  • Cassini Flyby of Titan and Saturn.

May 14, 1995

• Added the following animation:
  • Cassini Flyby of Titan and Saturn.
• Added a link to the Voyager Saturn Discoveries.

May 13, 1995

• Added the following images:
  • Hubble Space Telecope Images of Titan.
  • Catalina Observatory images of Saturn during the ring plane crossing in 1979-1980.

May 12, 1995

• CNN will be showing a program on the Saturn Ring Plane Crossing.
• Added the following observations plans:
  • Hubble's WFPC-2 Observations of Saturn's Ring Atmosphere (Courtesy of Rob Landis).
  • University of Hawaii's observations plans (Courtesy of Richard Wainscoat).
• Added a link to Mapping Titan from Ring Plan Occultations (Ames Research Center).

May 10, 1995

• Created a Saturn Animations page.

May 9, 1995

• Added Saturn Observation Forms you can use to record your observations (Courtesy of Julius Benton).
• Updated Hubble Space Telescope's observing plans for an Occultation by Saturn near the Ring-Plane Crossing of the Sun (Courtesy of Amanda Bosh).
• Added a Postscript image of the expected star occultation by Saturn and its rings (Courtesy of Amanda Bosh).

May 7, 1995

• Added the following new images:
  • Four additional Pioneer 11 images of Saturn.
  • Six additional Voyager images of Saturn.
  • Three additional Voyager images of Saturn's rings.

May 5, 1995

• Added the following Hubble Space Telescope image:
  • Hubble image of the giant white spot which erupted on Saturn in 1990
• Added several more planned Hubble Space Telescope observations for the Saturn ring plane crossings (Courtesy of Rob Landis).
• Added a link to the Space Telescope Electronic Information Service home page.

May 3, 1995

• Saturn Ring Plane Crossing home page is released.

Saturn Ring Plane Crossing Home Page

Please direct questions and comments about this Home Page to
Ron Baalke
ron@jpl.nasa.gov