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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This map of Titan's surface illustrates the regions that will be imaged by NASA's Cassini during the spacecraft's close flyby of the smog-enshrouded moon on April 16, 2005.
PIA06218:
Cassini's April 16 Flyby of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-15 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's bright moon Enceladus hovers here in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in front of a rings darkened by Saturn's shadow.
PIA06628:
Sideways Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-18 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft offers this lovely comparison between two of Saturn's satellites, Dione and Tethys, which are similar in size but have very different surfaces.
PIA06629:
Sister Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-19 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The ancient and battered surface of Saturn's moon Rhea shows a notable dark swath of territory near the eastern limb in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06630:
Dark Patch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three of Saturn's moons crowd together off the left edge of Saturn's rings.
PIA06631:
Moons off the Port Bow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-21 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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In this infrared view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Saturn's cratered moon Tethys shows a faint, dark band across its equatorial region.
PIA06632:
Banded Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn's moon Tethys from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the contrast between the more heavily cratered region near the top and the more lightly cratered plains toward the bottom part of the image and near the limb.
PIA06633:
North and South on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-25 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The distinctive, wispy system of fractures on the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione shows a great deal of contrast in this ultraviolet view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06634:
Far off Cracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These three views of Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft illustrate how different the same place can look in different wavelengths of light.
PIA06227:
Cassini's Three Views of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color composite was created with images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's closest flyby of Titan on April 16, 2005.
PIA06229:
Cassini's Views of Titan: False Color Composite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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During its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on April 16, NASA's Cassini spacecraft came within 1,025 kilometers (637 miles) of the moon's surface and found that the outer layer of the thick, hazy atmosphere is brimming with complex hydrocarbons.
PIA07865:
Titan's Upper Atmosphere: A "Factory" of Hydrocarbons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-26 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
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The small ring moon Atlas is seen here, on the far side of Saturn's immense ring system. NASA's Cassini spacecraft was only 0.6 degrees above the ring plane when this image was taken.
PIA06635:
Straight Across the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-28 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the cratered surface of Saturn's moon Rhea, with impact craters near the terminator thrown into sharp relief.
PIA06637:
Rhea's Relief
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-29 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The Sun also rises on Saturn's moon Dione, seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Wispy fractured terrain lies along the limb taken on March 12, 2005.
PIA06638:
Daybreak on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Helene, seen here with Saturn's nearly edge-on rings, orbits 60 degrees ahead of Dione and is called a 'Trojan' moon. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on March 12, 2005.
PIA06639:
Dione's Companion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-03 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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Small and asteroid-like in appearance, Epimetheus is seen here with Saturn's nearly edge-on rings in the distance. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on March 12, 2005.
PIA06640:
Rubble Moon?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-04 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The large Tirawa impact basin on Saturn's moon Rhea is visible at the two o'clock position in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06641:
Big Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A scene straight out of science fiction, this fantastic view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows, from left to right, Saturn's moon's Mimas, Dione and Rhea, on the far side of Saturn's nearly edge-on rings.
PIA06642:
Amazing Icy Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-06 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Several distinct craters on Saturn's moon Hyperion can be seen here in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, as well as a protruding feature, perhaps a mountain, near the center.
PIA06643:
Hyperion's Nose
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Mimas poses with the larger moon Dione in this handsome portrait captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06644:
Mimas and Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's chaotically tumbling moon Hyperion is captured in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06645:
What's the Spin?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-11 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows one of the huge impact basins on the terminator of Saturn's moon Iapetus and a smaller, but still fairly large, crater near the southern bright-dark boundary.
PIA06646:
Details in the Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione occults part of Saturn's distant rings while Tethys hovers below, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06647:
Pair to Compare
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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With this false-color view, NASA's Cassini spacecraft presents the closest look yet at Saturn's small moon Epimetheus (epp-ee-MEE-thee-uss).
PIA06226:
Epimetheus: Up-Close and Colorful
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini magnetometer instrument detected an atmosphere around Enceladus during the Feb. 17, 2005, flyby and again during a March 9, 2005, flyby. This audio file is based on the data collected from that instrument.
PIA07869:
Sounds of Enceladus Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Confirmation that a small moon orbits within the Keeler gap in Saturn's rings is made all the more exciting by this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in which the disk of the 7 kilometer-wide body is resolved for the first time.
PIA06237:
Wavemaker Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's celestial sleuthing has paid off with this time-lapse series of images which confirmed earlier suspicions that a small moon was orbiting within the narrow Keeler gap of Saturn's rings.
PIA06238:
Discovery of the Wavemaker (animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's celestial sleuthing has paid off with a series of images which confirmed earlier suspicions that a small moon was orbiting within the narrow Keeler gap within Saturn's rings.
PIA06239:
Discovery of the Wavemaker
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-13 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Looking closely at Saturn's moon Rhea during a somewhat distant flyby, NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides this view of what appears to be a bright, rayed and therefore relatively young crater.
PIA06648:
Great White Splat
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-16 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Two large impact basins, including the 450-kilometer-wide Odysseus basin, mark the face of Saturn's moon Tethys, as shown in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06649:
Tethys and Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-17 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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From just beneath the ringplane, Saturn's rings take on a strange and unfamiliar appearance, as Saturn's battered moon Mimas looks on. This image was taken in polarized green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA06650:
Near the Ringplane
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-18 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Enceladus is seen here against the darkness of the planet's night side. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on March 11, 2005.
PIA06651:
Pencil-thin Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-19 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The moon Dione is eclipsed here by the narrow band of Saturn's rings, which in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows one of the interesting ways that they transmit light.
PIA06652:
F Ring Edges
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-20 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's icy moon Enceladus hovers above Saturn's exquisite rings in this color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06653:
Bright Ice, Dirty Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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The great eye of Saturn's moon Mimas, a 130-kilometer-wide impact crater called Herschel, stares out from the battered moon, as shown in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06654:
Mimas Stares Back
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. NASA's Cassini spacecraft conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's rings on May 3, 2005.
PIA07875:
Small Particles in Ring A
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-31 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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A string of three of Saturn's icy moons encircles the planet in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07510:
Saturn's Derby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-01 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This unmagnified view of Saturn's moon Dione captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the moon's bright, wispy terrain, along with several large impact craters.
PIA07511:
Dramatic Moon
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Saturn's moon Rhea displays one of its more prominent features here: a bright, rayed crater which was seen at much higher resolution in an image taken two weeks earlier by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07514:
Rhea's Bright Splat
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Saturn's brightly sunlit moon Rhea commands the foreground in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07517:
Sun-Drenched Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This spectacular and disorienting maze of lines is a Cassini portrait of the gas giant Saturn, its rings and its small, icy moon Mimas. This view was obtained in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07515:
Moon Against the Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Three very different worlds crowd the frame in this unique view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which although partly overexposed, provides a splendid look at several major targets of interest for the mission.
PIA07518:
One View, Multiple Worlds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-10 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
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From a viewing angle slightly above the ringplane, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied Saturn's moon Atlas, which orbits Saturn between the broad A ring and the thin F ring.
PIA07516:
Embedded Atlas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's hazy moon Titan appears to drift above Saturn's ringplane in this view taken only a tenth of a degree above the rings. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on March 25, 2005.
PIA07519:
Titan Beyond the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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On Oct. 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew over Saturn's moon Titan at less than 1,200 kilometers at closest approach. Cassini acquired several infrared images with spatial resolution ranging from a few tens of kilometers to 2 kilometers per pixel.
PIA07961:
Map of Titan in Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Details of the circular feature, which scientists think is an ice volcano, which could be a source of methane in Titan's atmosphere, show up at wavelengths larger than 1.3 microns. Images were taken during NASA's Cassini Oct. 26, 2004, flyby of Titan.
PIA07963:
Titan Volcano in Several Infrared Wavelengths
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color mosaic of Saturn's largest moon Titan, obtained by NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows what scientists interpret as an icy volcano.
PIA07965:
Titan Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-14 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's climb to progressively higher elevations reveals the 'negative' side of Saturn's rings.
PIA07520:
What's That Speck?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's atmosphere is essentially transparent at wavelengths visible to the human eye, but when the view through the atmosphere is oblique. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07521:
Funhouse Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This montage of four images of Saturn's knotted F ring shows different locations around the ring, even though all taken within a few hours of each other. These images were taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07522:
Four Views of the F Ring
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The shepherd moon, Pandora, is seen here alongside the narrow F ring that it helps maintain. Pandora is 84 kilometers (52 miles) across. NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this view from about four degrees above the ringplane.
PIA07523:
Pandora's Flocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn's night side in this view, capturing a glimpse of Dione's tortured surface in the foreground and a far-off view of Epimetheus beyond Saturn.
PIA07525:
Aligned Moons
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The bright crescent of Saturn's moon Dione skims along just above Saturn's ringplane as storms churn in the planet's atmosphere below. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on May 5, 2005.
PIA07526:
Soft Storms
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The story of the solar system is written upon the faces of its many worlds, such as Saturn's icy moon Rhea, seen here in an image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07527:
Rhea's Memory
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Saturn's moon Pan is seen here orbiting within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A ring in two differently processed versions of the same image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07528:
Revealing Pan's Influence
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This close-up look at Saturn's moon Janus reveals spots on the moon's surface which may be dark material exposed by impacts. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on May 20, 2005.
PIA07529:
Spots on Janus
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This is one of NASA's Cassini spacecraft's closest views to date of Saturn's F ring shepherd moon Pandora. At least one crater is visible on the surface of this moon, which is thought to be an icy rubble pile, loosely bound together by gravity.
PIA07530:
Off Pandora's Shoulder
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to survey the small worlds that orbit near Saturn's rings, capturing this view of Epimetheus. The moon's lumpy, irregular topography can be seen here, along with several impact craters.
PIA07531:
Brush with Epimetheus
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's Encke Gap (325 kilometers, or 200 miles wide) whose center is 133,590 kilometers (83,010 miles) from Saturn. This division in the rings is home to the small moon called Pan.
PIA07533:
Resonant Effects
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Although it is far too cold for blossoming flowers, summer does bring storm clouds and presumably rain to Titan's south polar region, as shown in the image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06241:
Clouds in the Distance Animation Icon
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Although it is far too cold for blossoming flowers, summer does bring storm clouds and presumably rain to Titan's south polar region, as shown in the image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06242:
Clouds in the Distance
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Saturn's moon Mimas, whose low density suggests that it is primarily composed of ice, has a flattened or oblate shape reminiscent of Saturn's. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on May 20, 2005.
PIA07534:
Not Quite Round
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Saturn's icy moon Tethys displays a very old impact basin here, just southeast of its giant canyon system, Ithaca Chasma. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on May 20, 2005.
PIA07535:
Icy Scars
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Saturn's moon Tethys, named for a sea goddess, shows off two of its more puzzling features in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Ithaca Chasma, near lower right, stretches for more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) across the moon's surface.
PIA07536:
Tethys Mysteries
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This sweeping view of Saturn's rings offers a look at how the planet's moons help shape and maintain this structure, making Saturn the jewel of the solar system. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07537:
Splendid Striations
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Three of Saturn's icy moons are seen here, along with the magnificent water-ice rings and the cold gaseous envelope of the planet's atmosphere. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on June 1, 2005.
PIA07538:
Saturn's Icy Realm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-11 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Rhea displays two large impact features here, along the terminator (the boundary between day and night), plus a superb rayed crater to the east. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07539:
Diversity of Impacts
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-12 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Prometheus is seen here emerging from the darkness of Saturn's shadow. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera, at a distance of approximately 2.1 million kilometers from Saturn.
PIA07540:
Solar Eclipses…Daily
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Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus hovers between the A and F rings as if suspended on an invisible thread, while bright clouds drift in Saturn's atmosphere approximately 130,000 kilometers beyond. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07541:
Shepherd of Ice
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During a recent pass of Saturn's moon Titan, one of more than 40 during NASA's Cassini's planned four-year mission, the spacecraft acquired this infrared view of the bright Xanadu region and the moon's south pole.
PIA07542:
Clues in the Bright and Dark
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This anaglyph from images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a dramatic, 3-D view of one of the deep fractures nicknamed 'tiger stripes' on Saturn's moon Enceladus which are located near the moon's south pole, spray jets of water ice.
PIA11687:
Baghdad Sulcus in 3-D
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When NASA's Cassini gazes down at Saturn's rings with the Sun directly behind the spacecraft, an unusual phenomenon called the 'opposition effect' can be seen. The effect is visible here as a bright region, near right, toward the inner edge of the A ring.
PIA07543:
Rings At Opposition
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Saturn's moon, Hyperion, looking a bit like a sponge, pops into view in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06245:
Pop-Up Moon (non-stereo version)
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This frame from a movie sequence provides the record of NASA's Cassini spacecraft's first close brush with Hyperion, Saturn's chaotically tumbling moon.
PIA06243:
Encountering Hyperion (Movie) Animation Icon
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Saturn's moon Hyperion pops into view in this stereo anaglyph created from NASA's Cassini images; differing views are helpful in interpreting the moon's irregular shape. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA06244:
Pop-Up Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-15 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This map of the surface of Enceladus illustrates the regions that will be imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its planned very close flyby on July 14, 2005.
PIA06246:
Closer to Enceladus
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Saturn's moons Prometheus and Pandora are captured here in a single image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken from less than a degree above the dark side of Saturn's rings.
PIA07544:
F Ring Shepherds
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The majesty of Saturn overwhelms in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's moon Tethys glides past in its orbit, and the icy rings mask the frigid northern latitudes with their shadows.
PIA07545:
Fantasy Made Real
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This is NASA's Cassini spacecraft's best look yet at the Trojan moon Telesto (24 kilometers, or 15 miles across), which orbits Saturn about 60 degrees ahead of the much larger Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665 miles across).
PIA07546:
Trojan Telesto
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Saturn's moons Helene and tiny Polydeuces (not seen here) are Trojan moons of Dione, orbiting about 60 degrees ahead of and behind, the much larger moon. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 20, 2005.
PIA07547:
Helene from Afar
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers through the icy particles that comprise Saturn's rings as Prometheus sits perched on the planet's limb (edge).
PIA07548:
Prometheus On the Edge
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Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus reveals its elongated, irregular form to NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this image. The moon's long axis points toward Saturn.
PIA07549:
Lumpy Prometheus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Far above the howling winds of Saturn, its icy moons circle the planet in silence. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Mimas near the upper right, while Tethys hovers at the bottom.
PIA07553:
Wind World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-26 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn's moon Enceladus captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, looks toward the moon's terminator and shows a distinctive pattern of continuous, ridged, slightly curved and roughly parallel faults within the moon's southern polar latitudes.
PIA06247:
Tiger Stripes Up Close
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This dramatic scene from NASA's Cassini spacecraft illustrates an array of processes on Saturn's moon Enceladus, a once geologically active world.
PIA06248:
Craters and Cracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-26 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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As NASA's Cassini spacecraft approached the intriguing ice world of Enceladus for its extremely close flyby on July 14, 2005, the spacecraft obtained images in several wavelengths that were used to create this false-color composite view.
PIA06249:
Enceladus In False Color
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The tortured southern polar terrain of Saturn's moon Enceladus appears strewn with great boulders of ice in these two fantastic views -- the highest resolution images obtained so far by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of any world.
PIA06250:
Boulder-Strewn Surface
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The tortured southern polar terrain of Enceladus appears strewn with great boulders of ice in this fantastic view, one of the highest resolution images obtained so far by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of any world.
PIA06252:
Boulder-Strewn Surface -- Narrow Angle Camera View
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As it swooped past the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus on July 14, 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft acquired increasingly high-resolution views of this puzzling ice world.
PIA06253:
Zooming In On Enceladus (Movie) Animation Icon
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As it swooped past the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus on July 14, 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft acquired high resolution views of this puzzling ice world.
PIA06254:
Zooming In On Enceladus (Mosaic)
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This view of Saturn's moon Rhea captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the tremendous bright splat that coats much of the moon's leading hemisphere.
PIA07554:
Rhea's Bright Blemish
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This richly textured look at Saturn's moon Tethys from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the huge crater Odysseus and its central mountain in relief, as well as many smaller impact sites.
PIA07557:
Texture of Tethys
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These views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken two hours apart, demonstrate the dramatic variability in the structure of Saturn's intriguing F ring.
PIA07558:
Two F Ring Views
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This artist concept shows the detection of a dynamic atmosphere on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. NASA's Cassini magnetometer instrument is designed to measure the magnitude and direction of the magnetic fields of Saturn and its moons.
PIA06430:
Enceladus Atmosphere (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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During the July 14, 2005, flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini ultraviolet imaging spectrograph made the first direct detection of an atmosphere, first suggested by Cassini magnetometer measurements.
PIA06431:
Enceladus Atmosphere -- Star Struck
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This image shows the surprise that startled NASA Cassini scientists on the composite infrared spectrometer team when they got their first look at the infrared (heat) radiation from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA06432:
Enceladus Temperature Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows the warmest places in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The unexpected temperatures were discovered by NASA's Cassini composite infrared spectrometer during a close flyby on July 14, 2005.
PIA06433:
Warm Fractures on Enceladus
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This map of the surface of Saturn's moon Mimas illustrates the regions that were imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the spacecraft's flyby of the moon on Aug. 2, 2005.
PIA06255:
Mimas: Closer Than Ever Before
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The most detailed images ever taken of Saturn's moon Mimas by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, show it to be one of the most heavily cratered Saturnian moons, with little if any evidence for internal activity.
PIA06256:
A World of Hurt
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False color images of Saturn's moon, Mimas, reveal variation in either the composition or texture across its surface.
PIA06257:
Mimas Showing False Colors #1
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