Images from Cassini

In the four years since NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn and began snapping pictures, Cassini's cameras have sent nearly 140,000 images back to researchers on Earth.

The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft's mission at Saturn has been extended by two years, allowing the plucky probe to continue scouting the planet and its exotic medley of moons.

The success of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn has resulted in its being extended. The joint United States-European project was originally scheduled to end in July, but the probe will now remain in space for another two years. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched 11 years ago to...