NASA will host a Google+ Hangout at 3:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Dec. 4, to discuss images of Saturn taken by the agency’s Cassini spacecraft. The Hangout also will look ahead to the next few years of the Cassini mission.

The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency’s website.

The panelists are:

— Kunio Sayanagi, Cassini imaging team associate, Hampton University, Va.

— Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead, Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

— Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.

— Earl Maize, Cassini program manager, JPL

Reporters and the public can ask questions on the Google+ Hangout event page, in the chat box on the Ustream site and via Twitter using the hashtag #askCassini. Reporters can email questions to Veronica McGregor at veronica.c.mcgregor@jpl.nasa.gov.

The Google+ Hangout will be available at:

http://bit.ly/askcassini

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

The event will be streamed live on Ustream with a moderated chat available at:

http://www.ustream.com/nasajpl2

For more information about the Cassini mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/cassini