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Imagery from Saturn becomes a breathtaking glimpse of a neighbouring world
NASA’s Cassini Mission was launched in 1997 and has been exploring Saturn and its moons since 2004. It has provided humanity not only with priceless scientific information, but awe-inspiring images of the massive ringed planet. In Cassini Mission, created by artfully sequencing footage from NASA’s archive, the director Chris Abbas transforms the once unimaginably distant Saturn, named millennia ago for the Roman god of time, into something both mysterious and strangely palpable.
Director: Chris Abbas
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Biology
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Engineering
From simple motors to levitating trains – how design shapes innovation
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Ecology and environmental sciences
The tree frog die-off that sparked a global mystery – and revealed a dark truth
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Film and visual culture
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Astronomy
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Knowledge
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Physics
Groundbreaking visualisations show how the world of the nucleus gives rise to our own
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Earth science and climate
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Physics
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