The international Cassini-Huygens mission is poised to begin an extensive tour of Saturn, its majestic rings and 31 known moons.
The Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a critical six-minute trajectory correction maneuver May 27 to put it on course with its first encounter, Saturn's outermost moon Phoebe, set for June 11.
NASA and European Space Agency officials will discuss the Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission next Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT.
Both Cassini and the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope snapped spectacular pictures of the planet and its magnificent rings.
The Cassini spacecraft caught two storms in the act of merging into one larger storm on the ringed planet.
The camera aboard the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft sent its best color postcard back to Earth of the ringed world.