Your search criteria found 671 images
Target is Saturn
Go to PIAxxxxx:
Refine this list of images by:
Target:
Mission:
Spacecraft:
Instrument:
Click on an image for detailed information
Click on a column heading to sort in ascending or descending order
My
List
Addition Date Target Mission InstrumentSort Ascending Size
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1024x1024x1
Storm Alley's latest, greatest resident, the recent lightning-producing storm seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Earth-based observers churns away.
PIA08142:
Against the Current
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.05 MB)     JPEG (109.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
678x695x1
This view of high southern latitudes on Saturn shows very linear clouds at top, usually indicative of stable prevailing winds, and two turbulent, swirling features farther south. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft
PIA08151:
Turbulent Down South
Full Resolution:     TIFF (471.9 kB)     JPEG (71.21 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1024x1024x1
This atmospheric close-up shows a bright, somewhat distorted feature in Saturn's southern hemisphere as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08152:
Strange Shape
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.05 MB)     JPEG (130.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
802x777x1
Long, thin streamers of cloud arc gracefully across this view of Saturn's southerly latitudes as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08153:
Seeking the Cloud Tops
Full Resolution:     TIFF (624 kB)     JPEG (105.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
660x690x1
Gaseous Saturn rotates quickly -- once every approximately 10.8 hours -- and its horizontal cloud bands rotate at different rates relative to each other as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08154:
Bright Vortex
Full Resolution:     TIFF (456.1 kB)     JPEG (83.83 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
788x846x1
Streamers, swirls and vortices roll across the dynamic face of Saturn as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08155:
Psychedelic Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (667.6 kB)     JPEG (57 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
649x700x1
Bright, high altitude clouds, like those imaged here, often appear more filamentary or streak-like than clouds imaged at slightly deeper levels in Saturn's atmosphere. This view from NASA's Cassini also shows one of the many 'cat's eye' vortices.
PIA08156:
Cat-Eyed Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (455 kB)     JPEG (43.43 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
801x454x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the Saturnian horizon as Dione and Janus glide past.
PIA08158:
Sidelong at Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (364.3 kB)     JPEG (30.23 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1024x1024x1
Three of Saturn's moons are captured with the planet in this exquisite family portrait. At top, Saturn is bedecked with the shadows of its innermost rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08161:
Worlds in Orbit
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.05 MB)     JPEG (23.15 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
924x597x1
The bright whorls and small-scale specks of convective clouds drift through a region just north of Saturn's bright equatorial band. Observers have seen major storms develop in this region in the past 15-20 years as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08162:
Rotating Flow
Full Resolution:     TIFF (552.5 kB)     JPEG (84.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
804x616x1
Four of Saturn's many and varied moons crowd this single frame from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08182:
A Multitude of Moons
Full Resolution:     TIFF (496 kB)     JPEG (29.58 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1460x533x3
This comparison view shows a common, large vortex on Saturn as it plows through the atmosphere as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08179:
Round and Round They Go
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.339 MB)     JPEG (105.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1008x1008x1
Three large and impressive vortices, including two that appear to be interacting, are captured here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as they swirl through Saturn's active southern latitudes.
PIA08181:
Storms Roll Past
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.017 MB)     JPEG (67.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
747x653x1
The brilliant supergiant star, Rigel, emerges from behind the haze of Saturn's upper atmosphere in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08187:
Help from Orion
Full Resolution:     TIFF (488.6 kB)     JPEG (12.78 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1021x715x1
The small, dark form of Janus cruises along in front of bright Saturn. The edge-on rings cast dramatic shadows onto the northern hemisphere as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08184:
Ring Moon, Ring Shadows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (731 kB)     JPEG (18.73 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
508x778x1
The dark shadows that drape Saturn's northern latitudes are split by three familiar bright gaps as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08190:
Sun Through the Shadows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (395.8 kB)     JPEG (26.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
993x770x1
This view was taken from above the ringplane and looks toward the unlit side of the rings. Here, the probe gazes upon Titan in the distance beyond Saturn and its dark and graceful rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08196:
A Sight to Behold
Full Resolution:     TIFF (765.6 kB)     JPEG (25.76 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
907x390x1
The plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus continue to gush icy particles into Saturn orbit, making this little moon one of a select group of geologically active bodies in the solar system as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08197:
A Moon's Telltale Tail
Full Resolution:     TIFF (354.3 kB)     JPEG (13.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
728x1000x1
Saturn's atmosphere produces beautiful and sometimes perplexing features. The bright feature below center may be a rare crossing of a feature from a zone to a belt, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08198:
Curious Clouds
Full Resolution:     TIFF (729 kB)     JPEG (29.22 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
676x542x1
An enhanced close-up view shows at least two distinct jets spraying a mist of fine particles from the south polar region of Enceladus. This image shows the night side of Saturn and the active moon against dark sky as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08199:
Scattered Ice, Scattered Light
Full Resolution:     TIFF (367 kB)     JPEG (21.48 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
This oblique view of Saturn shows what may be localized upwellings in the clouds of Saturn's southern hemisphere. This view looks toward the unlit side of the rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08200:
Saturn Aslant
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (30.56 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
880x794x1
The long, gently meandering character of the clouds in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a tracer of the generally stable flow of Saturn's atmosphere.
PIA08206:
Saturn's Streamers
Full Resolution:     TIFF (699.7 kB)     JPEG (36.78 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
774x558x1
A great vortex rolls through high southern latitudes on Saturn, whirling twisted contours into the clouds. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 2.8 million kilometers from Saturn.
PIA08210:
Stirred-up Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (432.6 kB)     JPEG (22.11 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this arresting view of Saturn just before Epimetheus crossed into the blinding glare of the planet's sunlit crescent and was lost.
PIA08218:
A Captivating Vision
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (27.69 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
801x550x1
The unlit side of the rings glows with scattered sunlight as two moons circle giant Saturn. The light reaching NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this view has traveled many paths before being captured.
PIA08220:
Light from Many Paths
Full Resolution:     TIFF (441.2 kB)     JPEG (16.12 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
737x719x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to profile the haze structure and opacity in Saturn's upper atmosphere with images like this, which captures Rigel, a star in Orion whose brightness is well-known, as it passes behind the planet.
PIA08238:
Cassini: the Profiler
Full Resolution:     TIFF (530.7 kB)     JPEG (31.68 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
This spectacular image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's clouds looks obliquely across the high northern latitudes. The Sun is low on the horizon here, making the vertical extent of the clouds easier to see. Cloud bands surrounding the vortex,
PIA08821:
Swirling With Shadows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (70.57 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1022x956x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns a grand and unique vista of Saturn's horizon, reminiscent of the views of our own planet from Earth orbit.
PIA08828:
View Out the Window
Full Resolution:     TIFF (978.2 kB)     JPEG (48.51 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1012x903x1
Weather whirls on an alien world. Bright clouds swim in giant banks and shoals in Saturn's dreamlike atmosphere. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA08830:
Cloud Sketches
Full Resolution:     TIFF (915 kB)     JPEG (53.52 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
496x496x1
The smooth, linear contours and long, gently meandering character of the clouds in this view of Saturn suggest stable prevailing winds at these latitudes, from 57 to 67 degrees north on Saturn as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08876:
Smooth Sailing
Full Resolution:     TIFF (246.5 kB)     JPEG (42.53 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
488x488x1
This close-up view of Saturn's atmosphere shows a circular vortex surrounded by numerous attendant bright clouds. Some blurring due to spacecraft motion is apparent as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08873:
Round Vortex
Full Resolution:     TIFF (238.6 kB)     JPEG (25.37 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1016x1016x1
Stars trail across the background during this exposure, timed to capture the faint light from Saturn's D ring features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08900:
Rings in Orbit
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.034 MB)     JPEG (71.53 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1010x868x1
Using images like the one presented here, NASA's Cassini imaging scientists have made a major finding about the mechanism powering the general circulation of Saturn.
PIA08368:
Powering Saturn's Jets
Full Resolution:     TIFF (877.8 kB)     JPEG (123.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
957x999x3
In Saturn's bluish north, day ends for the dreamy white clouds that stretch here into twilight as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08932:
My Blue Heaven
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.872 MB)     JPEG (35.11 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
Contorted clouds wriggle across high northern latitudes in this exquisitely detailed close-up of Saturn's atmosphere. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA08935:
Writhing Windforms
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (120.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
984x984x1
Bright, circular cloud features waltz through the turbid atmosphere of Saturn in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09001:
Cloud Phantoms
Full Resolution:     TIFF (969.5 kB)     JPEG (58.92 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1018x690x1
The dramatic plane of Saturn's rings is indeed a huge expanse. Gazing straight across the vertical center of this view, NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes in more than 200,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) from one side of the rings to the other.
PIA09002:
Across the Disk
Full Resolution:     TIFF (703.3 kB)     JPEG (49.18 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
508x508x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies smooth, sometimes wavy, contours in the banded east-west flowing clouds of Saturn. This view shows clouds in Saturn's northern mid-latitudes.
PIA09009:
Flowing Gracefully
Full Resolution:     TIFF (258.6 kB)     JPEG (16.38 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1014x1014x1
A great vortex, ringed by bright clouds, rolls through the southern skies of Saturn in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09012:
Stormy Spot
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.029 MB)     JPEG (56.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has a peek beneath the hazes in Saturn's upper atmosphere at the swirling vortices that lurk below. Many vortices can be seen in this image, varying in size from small to large.
PIA09734:
The Storms Within
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (59.71 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
Saturn's rings divide this scene, casting graceful shadows onto the planet. Below, bright clouds hint at the turbulent world beneath the haze. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09736:
Above and Below
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (36.69 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
Bright clouds twist and twirl in the fast-moving and turbulent winds in the Saturnian north. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 13, 2007.
PIA09741:
Tempest Tossed
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (106.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1012x1012x1
Monster storms, or vortices, swirl in the roiling atmosphere of giant Saturn. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 14, 2007.
PIA09745:
Raging Vortices
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.025 MB)     JPEG (110 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1021x614x1
Large vortices edge their way along the turbulent boundary between east-west flowing cloud bands. This view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft is centered on a region 22 degrees south of Saturn's equator.
PIA09749:
Storms on the Border
Full Resolution:     TIFF (627.7 kB)     JPEG (88.02 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1016x1016x1
Incredible gales blow in Saturn's twisted atmosphere. Winds in this region of Saturn have been measured at greater than 360 kilometers per hour, faster than the most powerful hurricanes on Earth. This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09755:
Whirlwinds of Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.034 MB)     JPEG (113.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
Clouds and vortices churn in this beautiful, close-up view of Saturn. This image is part of a series of important of NASA's Cassini observations designed to provide information about winds and convection on Saturn.
PIA09778:
Monitoring the Maelstrom
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (92.29 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
508x508x1
Giant vortices swirl in the dim northern latitudes of Saturn in this imaged captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The high northern latitudes are slowly coming to light as Saturn heads into northern hemisphere spring.
PIA09787:
Northern Storms
Full Resolution:     TIFF (258.6 kB)     JPEG (12.03 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes into the blustery, ever changing atmosphere of Saturn as the tiny shadow of Epimetheus drifts across the cloud tops. The view looks toward a region in Saturn's atmosphere 24 degrees north of the planet's equator.
PIA09792:
Shadow Spot
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (84.14 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
455x665x1
Looking down through the A ring and Cassini Division, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the bright limb of Saturn on Dec. 12, 2007.
PIA09820:
Peering Through the Plane
Full Resolution:     TIFF (303.1 kB)     JPEG (18.93 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
On Jan. 29, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft examined the Maxwell Gap, the large, dark division at center, which is surrounded on either side by the broad, isolated and bright ring regions, or 'plateaus,' of Saturn's outer C ring.
PIA09857:
Maxwell's Namesake
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (79.24 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-06-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1012x1012x1
Sinuous clouds and hurricane-sized vortices mingle in Saturn's northern skies. This image was acquired with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on May 23, 2008.
PIA10413:
Storms of the High North
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.025 MB)     JPEG (73.58 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1024x1024x1
Twirling vortices swim through a vast ocean of hydrogen and helium in Saturn's far north. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 23, 2008.
PIA10416:
Paisley Skies
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.05 MB)     JPEG (95.99 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-31 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1014x1014x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers into the clouds of Saturn to spy dual whirling vortices. The view is centered on a region 33 degrees north of the planet's equator.
PIA10437:
Dual Vortices
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.029 MB)     JPEG (123.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1014x1014x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes wispy whorls and streams of clouds as they flow across the face of Saturn. A line of vortices churns across the top of the scene.
PIA10440:
Cloudflow
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.029 MB)     JPEG (236.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1014x1014x1
Swirling clouds drift like phantoms in Saturn's murky depths. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on June 20, 2008.
PIA10444:
Beneath the Haze
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.029 MB)     JPEG (197.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1014x1014x1
This bizarre scene from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the cloud-streaked limb of Saturn in front of the planet's B ring. The ring's image is warped near the limb by the diffuse gas in Saturn's upper atmosphere.
PIA10442:
Limb Scan
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.029 MB)     JPEG (77.84 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
994x994x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft continued to track Saturn's moon Prometheus after it disappeared behind the planet, capturing a few fortunate, high-resolution views of the clouds in Saturn's high north.
PIA10465:
Saturn Gets in the Way
Full Resolution:     TIFF (989.3 kB)     JPEG (74.57 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1017x677x1
Shadows reveal the topography of Saturn's south polar vortex. At high resolution, a new, inner ring of isolated, bright clouds is seen. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 15, 2008.
PIA11103:
The Yet Yawning Gulf
Full Resolution:     TIFF (689.4 kB)     JPEG (157.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1853x1455x1
This detailed Cassini view of the monstrous vortex at Saturn's south pole provides valuable insight about the mechanisms that power the planet's atmosphere. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 14, 2008.
PIA11104:
Convection in Saturn's Southern Vortex
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.699 MB)     JPEG (316.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1013x1018x3
The serene beauty of Saturn invites NASA's Cassini spacecraft's gaze as the spacecraft hurtles through this dynamic system, studying the giant planet's rings, moons, atmosphere, and magnetosphere.
PIA10497:
Saturn in Recline
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.098 MB)     JPEG (41.38 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1010x1010x1
Clouds swirl about in Saturn's active atmosphere. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Oct. 29, 2008.
PIA10534:
Swirls
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.021 MB)     JPEG (52.19 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1004x1004x1
The shadow of Saturn's moon Enceladus cast onto the planet's atmosphere appears like a drop of black ink on a canvas of Saturnian storms. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on June 20, 2008.
PIA11461:
A Shadow Amid the Storms
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.009 MB)     JPEG (182.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-05-14 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
715x710x1
Although Epimetheus appears to be lurking above the rings here, it's actually just an illusion resulting from NASA's Cassini spacecraft viewing angle on July 26, 2015. In reality, Epimetheus and the rings both orbit in Saturn's equatorial plane.
PIA11492:
Belittled Moon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (508.4 kB)     JPEG (8.342 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took a break from imaging Saturn's rings as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox and snapped this close-up of the planet's atmosphere, revealing detailed and elaborate patterns in the clouds of the northern hemisphere.
PIA11596:
Atmospheric Intricacies
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (94.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
480x345x3
An aurora, shining high above the northern part of Saturn, moves from the night side to the day side of the planet in this frame from a movie recorded by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11681:
Northern Aurora in Motion Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (497.6 kB)     JPEG (9.247 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
A large storm roils Saturn's atmosphere on the left of this NASA Cassini spacecraft image. This view looks toward a region centered at 24 degrees south of the planet's equator.
PIA12522:
Oval of a Storm
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (98.83 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
806x1600x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the first lightning flashes on Saturn. The storm that generated the lightning lasted from January to October 2009, making it the longest-lasting lightning storm known in the solar system.
PIA12575:
First Lightning Flashes on Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.291 MB)     JPEG (59.92 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1176x1176x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks at Belet, a dark region on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The Cassini spacecraft looks at Belet, a dark region on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
PIA12615:
Behold Belet
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.385 MB)     JPEG (57.84 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1016x1016x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers through the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, to examine the dark region Belet. This large region on the moon's surface has a low albedo, meaning it reflects little light.
PIA12647:
Belet Close-Up
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.034 MB)     JPEG (185 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1004x1004x1
Clouds in Saturn's atmosphere create an intricate pattern reminiscent of whipped cream swirling in coffee in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12721:
Coffee and Cream Clouds
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.009 MB)     JPEG (83.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1018x1018x1
Saturn's moon Mimas casts a elliptical shadow on the planet south of the larger, wider shadows cast by the planet's rings. Mimas and the rings are not shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12737:
Shadows on Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.038 MB)     JPEG (52.12 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1016x1016x1
Shadows cast by Saturn's rings darken the southern hemisphere of the planet and give a truncated appearance to the bottom of this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12763:
Cut Off by Shadows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.034 MB)     JPEG (53.08 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-07-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
3000x2049x3
These false-color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle a day in the life of a huge storm that developed from a small spot that appeared 12 weeks earlier in Saturn's northern mid-latitudes.
PIA12825:
A Day in the Life
Full Resolution:     TIFF (18.44 MB)     JPEG (430.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1004x940x1
A quartet of Saturn's moons, from tiny to huge, surround and are embedded within the planet's rings in this Cassini composition. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in the background, and the moon's north polar hood is clearly visible.
PIA14579:
In, Around, Beyond Rings
Full Resolution:     TIFF (944.9 kB)     JPEG (17.08 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
8792x2208x3
These false-color mosaics from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the changing appearance of the huge storm that developed from a small spot in Saturn's northern hemisphere.
PIA14903:
Encircling a Giant Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (58.24 MB)     JPEG (29 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
8382x610x3
The biggest, most long-lasting Saturnian storm seen by either NASA's Cassini or Voyager spacecraft roils the atmosphere of the gas giant in this nearly true-color mosaic of Cassini images.
PIA14904:
Nearly True Color Storm Close-Up
Full Resolution:     TIFF (15.34 MB)     JPEG (23.33 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
4931x1800x3
These two false-color views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show detailed patterns that change during one Saturn day within the huge storm in the planet's northern hemisphere.
PIA14906:
Churning Psychedelia Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (26.63 MB)     JPEG (737.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
6080x1616x3
With kaleidoscopic forms and hues, these two false-color views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the patterns that come and go in the course of one Saturn day within the huge storm in the planet's northern hemisphere.
PIA14907:
Kaleidoscopic Rainbows Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (29.48 MB)     JPEG (8.213 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1004x1004x1
The shadow of the moon Mimas creates a smudge on the southern hemisphere of Saturn in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Mimas does not appear here, but it does cast its shadow on the planet in the lower left of the image.
PIA14603:
Smudge of a Shadow
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.009 MB)     JPEG (89.23 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1023x1021x1
One of the glittering trails caused by small objects punching through Saturn's F ring is highlighted in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These trails show how the F ring, the outermost of Saturn's main rings, is constantly changing.
PIA15500:
Glittering Trail in Saturn's F Ring Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.046 MB)     JPEG (32.85 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
491x400x1
In this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the gravitational pull of Saturn's moon Prometheus creates patterns in Saturn's F ring.
PIA15501:
F Ring Patterns Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (196.8 kB)     JPEG (5.388 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1024x1024x1
This image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft around the time it went into orbit around Saturn in 2004 shows a short trail of icy particles dragged out from Saturn's F ring.
PIA15502:
Small Trail at Saturn Orbit Insertion
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.05 MB)     JPEG (40.05 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1985x1312x1
This image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows trails that were dragged out from Saturn's F ring by objects about a half mile (1 kilometer) in diameter.
PIA15503:
Classic Trails or Mini-Jets
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.607 MB)     JPEG (82.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1320x1301x1
This image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows some of the more bizarre trails that were dragged out from Saturn's F ring by objects about a half mile (1 kilometer) in diameter.
PIA15504:
Exotic Trails or Mini-Jets
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.719 MB)     JPEG (48.78 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
3500x2500x1
The constant change in Saturn's wavy, wiggly F ring is on display in this image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image shows a view looking directly down onto the ring with the planet removed from the center.
PIA15505:
Wavy, Wiggly Ring
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.76 MB)     JPEG (243.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
2244x1063x1
This figure examines a particularly strong jet stream and the eddies that drive it through the atmosphere of Saturn's northern hemisphere. Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft were used to create this figure.
PIA14917:
Eddy-Powered Jet stream
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.388 MB)     JPEG (176.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-07-18 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1283x429x3
These false-color mosaics from NASA's Cassini spacecraft capture lightning striking within the huge storm that encircled Saturn's northern hemisphere for much of 2011.
PIA14921:
Lightning in Blue
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.652 MB)     JPEG (43.94 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1001x1001x3
The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14944:
The Rose Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.007 MB)     JPEG (83.82 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1016x1016x1
This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Epimetheus, which orbits Saturn well outside of the F ring's orbit.
PIA17123:
Going Rogue?
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.033 MB)     JPEG (66.15 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1016x1016x1
The vortex at Saturn's north pole, seen here in the infrared by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, takes on the menacing look.
PIA17145:
The Maelstrom
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.033 MB)     JPEG (104.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1016x1016x1
Like a giant eye for the giant planet, Saturn's great vortex at its north pole appears to stare back at Cassini as NASA's Cassini spacecraft stares at it.
PIA18273:
The Eye of Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.033 MB)     JPEG (82.23 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1003x1011x3
On March 13, 2006 Cassini's narrow-angle camera captured this look at Saturn and its rings, seen here nearly edge on. The frame also features Mimas and tiny Janus (above the rings), and Tethys (below the rings).
PIA18323:
Postcard from the Ring Plane
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.585 MB)     JPEG (26.01 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-08-31 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
Saturn's moon Dione crosses the face of the giant planet in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Astronomers call this phenomenon a transit.
PIA18330:
Entranced by a Transit
Full Resolution:     TIFF (788.6 kB)     JPEG (30.86 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
During its final close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini orbiter shows this view featuring the nearly parallel furrows and ridges of the feature named Samarkand Sulci.
PIA17209:
Frozen Fractures
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (210.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1024x1024x1
NASA's Cassini orbiter shows its final close flyby of Enceladus to focus on the icy moon's craggy, dimly lit limb, with the planet Saturn beyond.
PIA17210:
Ice and Atmosphere
Full Resolution:     TIFF (482.7 kB)     JPEG (34.64 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1020x1020x1
NASA's Cassini orbiter peered out over the northern territory on Saturn's moon Enceladus, during its final close flyby of Enceladus, on Dec. 19, 2015.
PIA17211:
Features of the North
Full Resolution:     TIFF (419.6 kB)     JPEG (63.38 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2016-12-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
501x442x1
This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one of the highest-resolution views ever taken of Saturn's moon Pandora.
PIA21055:
Pandora Up Close
Full Resolution:     TIFF (117.6 kB)     JPEG (10.45 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1667x2500x3
This montage of views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three of Saturn's small ring moons: Atlas (top), Daphnis (middle) and Pan (bottom) at the same scale for ease of comparison.
PIA21449:
Small Wonders
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.517 MB)     JPEG (128.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
1011x885x3
This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the rings beyond Saturn's sunlit horizon, where a thin haze can be seen along the limb.
PIA21621:
Haze on the Horizon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.228 MB)     JPEG (30.07 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
500x500x1
NASA's Cassini gazed toward high southern latitudes near Saturn's south pole to observe ghostly curtains of dancing light, Saturn's southern auroras, or southern lights.
PIA21623:
Southern Auroras Over Saturn Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (162.7 kB)     JPEG (14.36 kB)
Retrieve Previous Set  Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Current Set   Jump to a Following Set   Retrieve Next Set 
 1-100   101-200   201-300   301-400   401-500   501-600   601-700 
Currently displaying images: 501 - 600 of 671