Here are the Most Heart-Stopping Photos of Saturn from the Cassini Mission

The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm on Nov. 27, 2012. Taken using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light.

Saturn's lonely moon, Mimas on Nov. 30, 2004.

The rings of Saturn captured by Cassini before it entered the orbit on 21 Jun. 2004.

A view of Saturn's moon Dione, taken during a close flyby on Jun. 16, 2015.

The moons Titan, Mimas, and Rhea, captured by Cassini in this image released on Jun. 22, 2015.

A geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus on Nov. 30, 2010.

A huge northern storm on Saturn In mid-Sept. 2004.

Chasms on Dione. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 11, 2015.

Pandora on the edge of Saturn's ring on Nov. 8, 2009.

View of Saturn's rings as they surround the planet.

The Earth and the moon photographed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jul. 19, 2013.

Pale, icy Dione, taken on Oct. 11, 2005.

Red arcs in the northern area of Tethys on April 2015.

An aurora on Saturn. The composite image was made from 65 individual observations by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on Nov. 1, 2008. The observations were each six minutes long.

The Cassini spacecraft captured the storms at Saturn's north pole in this false color image released in April 2013. The storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green. Low-lying clouds circling inside the hexagonal feature appear in orange. A second, smaller vortex pops out in teal at the lower right of the image. The rings of Saturn appear in vivid blue at the top right.

Saturn's moon Enceladus brightly reflects sunlight before a backdrop of the planet's rings.

The Cassini spacecraft observed three of Saturn's moons set against the night side of the planet in this image from April 2011.

Phoebe, captured during Cassini's flyby on Jun. 11, 2004.

Five moons of Saturn dominated by Rhea in the foreground on Jan. 11, 2011.

The Cassini spacecraft takes one of its last good looks at Iapetus, a Saturnian moon.

Saturn's moon Hyperion, taken during a close flyby on May 31, 2015. This flyby marks the mission's final close approach to Saturn's largest irregularly shaped moon.

The Cassini spacecraft captures a glimpse of the moon Atlas shortly after emerging from Saturn's shadow on Jan. 23, 2014.

Mimas, Dione and Titan on May 27, 2015. The image is taken using a spectral filter which preferentially admits wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 728 nanometers

A swing high above Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed this stately view of the golden-hued planet and its main rings on Oct. 10, 2013.