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How to use Cassini Grand Finale 3D Explorer
- Open the Cassini Grand Finale 3D Explorer and wait for the canvas to paint.
- Drag to orbit the view and scroll or pinch to zoom in on Saturn, the rings, and Titan.
- Drag the phase slider from 0 to 99 to move the spacecraft to any point on the 2016-2017 endgame timeline.
- Press Play to animate the full mission timeline continuously, or Pause to stop and inspect a phase.
- Click Saturn, the rings, or Titan to refresh the facts panel with the current mission phase.
The facts panel lists the real published NASA/JPL dates and figures for each phase - see the explorer's numbers table for the full reference.
Companion guide for the Cassini Grand Finale 3D Explorer, covering the phase slider and Play/Pause controls in detail so you can move straight to the mission phase you want to see.
The explorer itself runs entirely client-side in the browser with the vendored three.js engine - no account, no install, and no scene data leaves your device. For the wider picture, the Space 3D collection also has a DART Asteroid Deflection explorer for another real spacecraft-trajectory mission and a Titan Methane Lakes explorer for the moon Cassini studied for 13 years.
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