This week, images from the Cassini spacecraft revealing the secrets of the ringed planet went on display at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. Cassini, a joint mission of Nasa, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency, has been sending back images since 2004.

Here, Carl Murray a member of the Cassini Imaging Team from Queen Mary College London, takes us on a tour of Saturn, its arcs and moons - including Titan, which appears to have geological features similar to Earth's.

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The exhibition continues until the end of August: www.nmm.ac.uk/cassini

Cassini Imaging - central laboratory for operations: http://ciclops.org

Slideshow production: Kathryn Westcott and Phil Coomes.
Publication 22 June 2009.

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