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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A pair of Saturn's moons appear insignificant compared to the immensity of the planet. Enceladus is at left, Epimetheus appears as a tiny black speck on the far left in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14587:
Tiny by the Terminator
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-02 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Tethys orbits in front of the wide shadows cast by the rings onto the planet for this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Tethys appears just below the rings near the center of the image.
PIA14589:
Before Wide Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn and Dione appear askew in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, with the north poles rotated to the right, as if they were threaded along on the thin diagonal line of the planet's rings.
PIA14593:
Dione on a Diagonal
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks small here, pictured to the right of the gas giant as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14597:
Beside a Giant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-03-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines Saturn and the planet's northern hemisphere, which was ravaged by a huge storm for much of 2011.
PIA14601:
Quieted Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Even in a peaceful looking scene such as this one of Saturn and its moon Tethys, NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals clues about how Saturn is ever-changing; scars are seen here of the huge storm that raged through much of 2011.
PIA14609:
Serene Scene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Compared to the gas giant, the two moons shown on either side of Saturn seem particularly small in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Tethys and Pandora are also present but barely visible.
PIA14614:
Enormous Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A particularly strong jet stream churns through Saturn's northern hemisphere in this false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Clouds associated with the jet stream can be seen at upper right about a third of the way down from the top.
PIA14916:
Strong Jet in False Colors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes an angled view toward Saturn, showing the southern reaches of the planet with the rings on a dramatic diagonal. The moon Enceladus appears as a small, bright speck in the lower left of the image.
PIA14627:
Angling Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's north polar hexagon basks in the Sun's light now that spring has come to the northern hemisphere. Many smaller storms dot the north polar region and Saturn's signature rings put in an appearance in the background.
PIA14646:
Hexagon and Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn's richly dynamic atmosphere rewards viewers with unique and fascinating structures with every new observation.
PIA14656:
Staring at Storms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The north pole of Saturn, in the fresh light of spring, is revealed in this color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The north pole was previously hidden from the gaze of Cassini.
PIA14945:
Spring at the North Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This spectacular, vertigo inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red.
PIA14946:
Enter the Vortex ... in Psychedelic Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes full advantage of the sunlight to capture these amazing views of the north polar hexagon and myriad storms, large and small, that comprise the weather systems in the polar region.
PIA14661:
Summer is Coming!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The area within Saturn's north polar hexagon is shown by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to contain myriad storms of various sizes, not the least of which is the remarkable and imposing vortex situated over the planet's north pole.
PIA17122:
Stormy North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, this image shows Saturn's polar jet stream.
PIA17141:
Saturn's Polar Jet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The globe of Saturn, seen here in natural color, is reminiscent of a holiday ornament in this wide-angle view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA17175:
Painted Lines on an Ornament
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Winter is approaching in the southern hemisphere of Saturn and with this cold season has come the familiar blue hue that was present in the northern winter hemisphere at the start of NASA's Cassini mission.
PIA17176:
'Tis the Season
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Just as Saturn's famous hexagonal shaped jet stream encircles the planet's north pole, the rings encircle the planet, as seen from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's position high above.
PIA17147:
Round and Round
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn, which appears as only a thin, lit crescent, broken only by the shadows of its rings, poses gracefully for NASA's Cassini spacecraft cameras.
PIA17156:
Crescent Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's winds race furiously around the planet, blowing at high speeds which form distinct belts and zones which encircle the planet's pole, as well as its famous hexagon as seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA17160:
Circles on Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn appears to NASA's Cassini's cameras as a thin, sunlit crescent in this unearthly view. Citizens of Earth, being so much closer to the Sun than Saturn, never get to enjoy a view of Saturn like this without the aid of our robot envoys.
PIA18276:
Saturn Imitates the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's many cloud patterns, swept along by high-speed winds, look as if they were painted on by some eager alien artist in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18280:
Painted Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Although it looks like a simple hexagon, this feature surrounding Saturn's north pole is really a manifestation of a meandering polar jet stream. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18287:
Wavy Polar Jet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's surface is painted with swirls and shadows. Each swirl here is a weather system, reminding us of how dynamic Saturn's atmosphere is. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18311:
Swirls and Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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From a distance Saturn seems to exude an aura of serenity and peace in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. In spite of this appearance, Saturn is an active and dynamic world. Mimas is seen to the upper-right of Saturn.
PIA18314:
Serene Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-08-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Thanks to the illumination angle, Mimas (right) and Dione (left) appear to be staring up at a giant Saturn looming in the background as captured in this image by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18331:
Looking Up to the Giant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-22 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This montage of images from NASA's Cassini orbiter shows the precise location of the north pole on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.
PIA20015:
Enceladus North Pole Montage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-09-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's northern hemisphere in 2016, as that part of the planet nears its northern hemisphere summer solstice in May 2017. Saturn's year is nearly 30 Earth years long.
PIA21046:
Saturn, Approaching Northern Summer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-09-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie is one of many exposures taken by NASA's Cassnii spacecraft. Cassini stared at Saturn for nearly 44 hours on April 25 to 27, 2016, to obtain exposures showing just over four Saturn days. A movie is available at the Photojournal.
PIA21047:
Staring at Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-10-31 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn appears as a serene globe amid tranquil rings in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. In reality, the planet's atmosphere is an ever-changing scene of high-speed winds and evolving weather patterns, punctuated by occasional large storms.
PIA20502:
View from Above
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-10-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These two natural color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the changing appearance of Saturn's north polar region between 2012 and 2016.
PIA21049:
Changing Colors in Saturn's North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-11-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Saturn's north polar region displaying its beautiful bands and swirls. Where they meet and flow past each other, the bands' interactions produce many eddies and swirls.
PIA20507:
Saturn's 'Watercolor' Swirls
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-12-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was obtained about two days before its first close pass by the outer edges of Saturn's main rings during its penultimate mission phase.
PIA21052:
Over Saturn's Turbulent North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-12-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This collage of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's northern hemisphere and rings as viewed with four different spectral filters; each is sensitive to different wavelengths of light and reveals clouds and hazes at different altitudes.
PIA21053:
Saturnian Hexagon Collage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-12-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Sunlight truly has come to Saturn's north pole. The whole northern region is bathed in sunlight in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, late 2016, feeble though the light may be at Saturn's distant domain in the solar system.
PIA20513:
Basking in Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-01-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This view, seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows Saturn's daylit side, which no Earth-based telescope could capture. A spacecraft in orbit, like Cassini, can capture stunning scenes that would be impossible from our home planet.
PIA20517:
Peeking over Saturn's Shoulder
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The north pole of Saturn sits at the center of its own domain. Around it swirl the clouds, driven by the fast winds of Saturn, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20520:
At the Center
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Although only a sliver of Saturn's sunlit face is visible in this view, the mighty gas giant planet still dominates the view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20530:
Sliver of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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When imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft at infrared wavelengths that pierce the planet's upper haze layer, the high-speed winds of Saturn's atmosphere produce watercolor-like patterns.
PIA20528:
Watercolor World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie sequence of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the view as Cassini swooped over Saturn during the first of its Grand Finale dives between the planet and its rings on April 26, 2017.
PIA21441:
Cassini's 'Porthole' Movie of Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's hexagonal polar jet stream is the shining feature of almost every view of the north polar region of Saturn. The region, in shadow for the first part of NASA's Cassini mission, now enjoys full sunlight.
PIA21327:
Hail the Hexagon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These natural color views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft compare the appearance of Saturn's north-polar region in June 2013 and April 2017.
PIA21611:
Saturn's Hexagon as Summer Solstice Approaches Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers toward a sliver of Saturn's sunlit atmosphere while the icy rings stretch across the foreground as a dark band.
PIA21334:
Saturnian Dawn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The light of a new day on Saturn illuminates the planet's wavy cloud patterns and the smooth arcs of the vast rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA21336:
Dawn's Early Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This mosaic combines views captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it made the first dive of the mission's Grand Finale on April 26, 2017, and shows details in bands and swirls in the atmosphere.
PIA21617:
Cassini "Noodle" Mosaic of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the near-infrared images in this mosaic on June 29, 2017, as it raced toward the gap between Saturn and its rings.
PIA21622:
Cassini Near-Infrared "Noodle" Mosaic of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-31 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini saw Saturn's northern hemisphere reach its summer solstice in mid-2017, bringing continuous sunshine to the planet's far north. The solstice took place on May 24, 2017.
PIA21337:
Good Old Summer Time
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These turbulent clouds are on top of the world at Saturn. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn's north pole on April 26, 2017, the day it began its Grand Finale.
PIA21343:
Top of the World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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With this view, NASA's Cassini captured one of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance. The Saturn system has been Cassini's home for 13 years, but that journey is nearing its end.
PIA21345:
So Far from Home
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Saturn's northern hemisphere was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017. It is among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth.
PIA21892:
Saturn: Before the Plunge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This monochrome view is the last image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. It looks toward the planet's night side, lit by reflected light from the rings, and shows the location at which the spacecraft would enter the planet's atmosphere hours later.
PIA21895:
Impact Site: Cassini's Final Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Stunning views like this image of Saturn's night side are only possible thanks to our robotic emissaries like NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
PIA21350:
Goodbye to the Dark Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's cloud belts moving around the planet in a circular path with the wandering, hexagon-shaped polar jet stream breaking the mold. The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
PIA21348:
Circles and Hexagons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Reflected sunlight is the source of the illumination for visible wavelength images such as this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA21351:
The North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, NASA's Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by firing the shutters of its wide-angle camera and capturing this last, full mosaic of Saturn and its rings.
PIA17218:
A Farewell to Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn looks toward the planet's night side, lit in golden hues by sunlight reflected from the rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA21903:
Final Frontier
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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In this image, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sees Saturn and its rings through a wispy haze of Sun glare.
PIA17185:
Glare on the Window
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings cast dark bands across cloud tops in the northern hemisphere. Near the pole, an elongated shadow can be seen from Saturn's moon Tethys. Icy moons Dione (front right) and Enceladus (back right) are also seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18320:
A Stage for Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These images of Saturn's south pole, taken by two different instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, show the hurricane-like storm swirling there and features in the clouds at various depths surrounding the pole.
PIA08333:
Saturn's Surprisingly Stormy South
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows false-color spectral mapping images of Saturn's A, B and C rings.
PIA23170:
Infrared Eye Yields New Spectral Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-03 Saturn W. M. Keck Observatory
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These side-by-side false-color images show Saturn's heat emission. The data were taken on Feb. 4, 2004, from the W. M. Keck I Observatory, Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The prominent hot spot at the bottom of each image is at Saturn's south pole.
PIA07007:
Red-Hot Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-03 Saturn W. M. Keck Observatory
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This is the sharpest image of Saturn's temperature emissions taken from the ground; it is a mosaic of 35 individual exposures made at the W.M. Keck I Observatory, Mauna Kea, Hawaii on Feb. 4, 2004.
PIA07008:
Saturn's Hot Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The varying temperatures of Saturn's rings are depicted here in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06425:
Saturn's Rings, Cold and Colder
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-07 Saturn IRTF
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These two images, taken with NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, capture two different phases of this wave oscillation at Saturn's equator.
PIA10358:
Saturn's Infrared Temperature Snapshot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's magnetosphere is seen for the first time in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on June 21, 2004.
PIA06345:
Behold Saturn's Magnetosphere!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-11 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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During its final targeted flyby of Titan on April 22, 2017, NASA's Cassini radar mapper got the mission's last close look at the moon's surface.
PIA21626:
Cassini's Final Titan Radar Swath
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Galileo
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Solid-State Imaging
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These images compare surface features observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft at the Xanadu region on Saturn's moon Titan (left), and features observed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on Jupiter's cratered moon Callisto (right).
PIA13896:
Titan and Callisto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This graph illustrates the series of sonic booms that took place when NASA's Cassini spacecraft crossed Saturn's bow shock.
PIA06347:
Entering Saturn's Magnetosphere with a Boom
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This artist concept shows how NASA's Cassini spacecraft is able to detect radio signals from lightning on Saturn.
PIA06414:
Detecting Lightning From Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The speckles in this graph are radio signals from lightning in Saturn's atmosphere detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06417:
Lightning, Crackles and Pops
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions, which have been monitored by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The radio waves are closely related to the auroras near the poles of the planet.
PIA07966:
Eerie Sounds of Saturn's Radio Emissions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions, which have been monitored by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The radio waves are closely related to the auroras near the poles of the planet. These auroras are similar to Earth's northern and southern lights.
PIA07967:
Bizarre Sounds of Saturn's Radio Emissions Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Lightning sounds from Saturn can be heard via radio signals received by the radio and plasma wave science instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA02166:
Lightning Sounds from Saturn (Audio)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This spectrogram and video show a changing pattern of radio waves from Saturn known as Saturn Kilometric Radiation, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft around March 2010.
PIA13767:
Saturn's Radio Period Crossover Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-07-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured sounds of lightning striking at Saturn on March 15, 2011, during the largest and most intense storm observed up-close at Saturn.
PIA14310:
Lightning Strikes at Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Comparison of data from NASA's Cassini's radio and plasma science instrument, which can detect ring particles striking the spacecraft as it crosses the plane of the rings, on Dec. 18, 2016 (at top) and on April 26, 2017 (at bottom).
PIA21446:
The Sound of Science: Comparison of Cassini Ring Crossings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This colorful spectrogram represents data collected by the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument onboard NASA's Cassini's spacecraft as it crossed through Saturn's D ring on May 28, 2017.
PIA21620:
Cassini's First D-Ring Crossing
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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.
PIA07872:
Small Particles in Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini instruments provide complementary information about the structure of Saturn's rings. Narrow and wide angle cameras provide images in the visible region of the electromagnetic, spectrum much like a digital camera does.
PIA07874:
Multiple Eyes of Cassini
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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.
PIA07873:
Radio Occultation: Unraveling Saturn's Rings
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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 2005-05-23 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.
PIA07960:
Waves and Small Particles in Ring A
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained new images of Saturn's auroral emissions, which are similar to Earth's Northern Lights.
PIA06436:
Saturn's Auroras
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-03-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Glowing like a neon lasso, Saturn's aurora is seen spinning above Saturn's north pole over the course of most of a Saturn day in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Mary 25, 2007.
PIA11832:
Ultraviolet Aurora Movie Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted a glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn's north pole that marks the presence of an electrical circuit that connects Saturn with its moon Enceladus. Movie available at the Photojournal.
PIA13764:
Movie of Enceladus "Footprint" on Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'true color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981. The moons Rhea and Dione appear as blue dots to the south and southeast of Saturn, respectively.
PIA00030:
Saturn With Rhea and Dione (True Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-13 Earth Voyager
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These six narrow-angle color images were made from the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by NASA's Voyager 1, which was more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic.
PIA00453:
Solar System Portrait - Views of 6 Planets
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-28 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'false color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981, when the spacecraft was 33.9 million kilometers (21 million miles) from the planet.
PIA01143:
Saturn With Rhea and Dione (false color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn storms observed by NASA's Voyager, Aug. 5, 2004. Voyager 1 and 2 observed radio signals from lightning which were interpreted as being from a persistent, low-latitude storm system.
PIA01364:
Saturn Taken from Voyager 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Saturn Voyager
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This false color picture of Saturn's northern hemisphere was assembled from ultraviolet, violet and green images obtained Aug. 19, 1998 by NASA's Voyager 2. The several weather patterns evident include three spots flowing westward.
PIA01365:
Saturn's Northern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Saturn Voyager
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This comparison shows Saturn's north temperate region as viewed Nov. 5, 1980, by Voyager 1, and Aug. 21 by its sister craft, Voyager 2, from a range of 3.1 million miles. A gigantic storm system in the planet's atmosphere is featured.
PIA01375:
Saturn's North Temperate Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-13 Saturn Voyager
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This image of Saturn from NASA's Voyager 2, obtained Aug. 21 from a distance of 3.4 million miles, shows further evidence of weather patterns at all latitudes. A stream of clouds is moving in the westward flow.
PIA01376:
Voyager 2 Image of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-13 Saturn Voyager
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This photographic mosaic of Saturn is the result of the processing of three green-filter frames obtained Aug. 20, 1980, when NASA's Voyager 2 was 5.7 million kilometers (3.4 million miles) from the planet.
PIA01377:
Photographic Mosaic of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-13 Saturn Voyager
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The extensive ribbonlike cloud structure in Saturn's atmosphere is visible in this image from NASA's Voyager 2, obtained Aug. 23, 1980 from a range of 2.5 million kilometers (1.6 million miles).
PIA01378:
Saturn's Ribbonlike Cloud Structure
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn and its satellites Tethys (outer left), Enceladus (inner left) and Mimas (right of rings) are seen in this mosaic of images taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Oct. 30, 1980 from a distance of 18 million kilometers (11 million miles).
PIA01383:
Saturn and its Satellites Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-06 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this high-resolution image of Saturn's F-ring Aug. 26, 1980 from a distance of 51,500 kilometers (32,000 miles). This closeup view shows that the ring is made up of at least four distinct components.
PIA01387:
Image of Saturn's F-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-05 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this picture of Saturn's faint inner D-ring Aug. 25, 1981, about 1 hour 48 minutes before the spacecraft's closest approach to Saturn. The range was 195,400 kilometers (121,300 miles) .
PIA01388:
Saturn's Faint Inner D-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-18 S Rings Voyager
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This view shows some detail and differences in the complex system of rings. This was one of the first pictures obtained once NASA's Voyager 2 resumed returning images Aug. 29, 1979 after its scan platform was commanded to view Saturn.
PIA01389:
View of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-05 S Rings Voyager
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This composite image shows two views of the outer edge of Saturn's B-ring (left) and the inner part of the Cassini Division (right) in the rings as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 25, 1981.
PIA01390:
Outer edge of Saturn's B-ring
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