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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This frame from a movie from NASA's Cassini mission shows a polar projection of the curious six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as 'the hexagon' in the infrared.
PIA17654:
Looking Down on the Hexagon in Infrared Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Artist's rendering of NASA's Cassini spacecraft observing a sunset through Titan's hazy atmosphere.
PIA18410:
Cassini Observes Sunsets on Titan (Artist's Rendering)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This near-infrared, color view from NASA'S Cassini orbiter shows the sun glinting off of Titan's north polar seas.
PIA18432:
Specular Spectacular
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The view was obtained during NASA's Cassini orbiter's flyby on July 24, 2012, also called the 'T85' flyby by the Cassini team. This was the most intense specular reflection that Cassini had seen to date.
PIA18433:
Sunglint on a Hydrocarbon Lake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-04 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during the mission's 'T-114' flyby on Nov. 13, 2015, looks toward terrain that is mostly on the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Titan.
PIA20016:
Peering Through Titan's Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Each of these two montages shows four synthetic views of Titan created using data acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft between 2004 and 2015. With each flyby, a brief opportunity to add small pieces to the overall mapping coverage of Titan.
PIA20022:
Working Toward 'Seamless' Infrared Maps of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This montage of images, made from data obtained by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows the location on Saturn where the NASA spacecraft entered Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017.
PIA21896:
Impact Site: Infrared Image Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These six infrared images of Saturn's moon Titan created using data acquired by the VIMS instrument onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft represent some of the clearest, most seamless-looking global views of the icy moon's surface produced so far.
PIA21923:
Seeing Titan with Infrared Eyes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation shows clear bright spots on Saturn's moon, Titan, that have been interpreted as evidence of dust storms.
PIA22483:
Spotting Dust Storms on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This compilation of images from nine flybys of Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2009 and 2010 captures three instances when clear bright spots suddenly appeared in images.
PIA22484:
Dust Storms on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-18 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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New composite images made from NASA's Cassini spacecraft data are the most detailed global infrared views ever produced of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA24023:
Enceladus in the Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This infrared global map of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus was created using images acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA24027:
Enceladus in the Infrared (Map View)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-09-24 Moon Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft observations of Earth's moon on Aug. 19, 1999 show water and hydroxyl at all latitudes on the surface, even areas exposed to direct sunlight.
PIA12228:
Cassini's Look at Water on the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-05-24 S Rings Voyager
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This wide-angle image of Saturn's rings was taken Aug. 26 just before NASA's Voyager 2's crossing of the plane of these complex structures. The spacecraft was 103,000 kilometers (64,000 miles) from the rings when it acquired this image.
PIA00534:
Wide-Angle Image of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Iapetus Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's outermost large moon, Iapetus, has a bright, heavily cratered icy terrain and a dark terrain, as shown in this NASA Voyager 2 image taken on Aug. 22, 1981.
PIA00348:
Iapetus Bright and Dark Terrains
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-13 S Rings Voyager
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Both the limb of Saturn and the shadow of its ring system are seen through the transparent C-ring in this striking picture taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 9, 1980. Gaps and regions of high transparency are seen throughout the C-ring, especially in the a
PIA01374:
Saturn's Ring System
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-05 S Rings Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-25 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 high-resolution view of Saturn's rings on Aug. 23, 1981, at a range of 3.3 million kilometers (2 million miles). The planet's limb is visible through the C-ring and the inner part of the B-ring.
PIA01962:
High-resolution View of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-23 S Rings Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This view of Saturn's A-ring was obtained Aug. 23, when NASA's Voyager 2 was about 2.8 million kilometers (1.7 million miles) from the planet.
PIA01988:
Saturn's A-Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-10 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 took this photograph of Saturn on Oct. 18, 1980, 34 million kilometers (21.1 million miles) from the planet.
PIA02225:
Saturn Approach - Full Disk
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-07 S Rings Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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When seen from the unlit side, the rings of Saturn present a much different appearance from that familiar to telescopic observers, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA02241:
Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-07 S Rings Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This detailed mosaic of the underside of the Cassini Division was obtained by NASA's Voyager 1 with a resolution of about 10 kilometers.
PIA02242:
Mosaic of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 S Rings Voyager
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Eight hours after its closest approach to Saturn on Nov. 12, 1980, NASA's Voyager 1 took this picture of the planet's ring system.
PIA02269:
Saturn's Ring System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 S Rings Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This narrow-angle camera image of Saturn's B Ring and Cassini Division was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 through the Clear filter from a distance of 12.6 million km on 3 November 1980.
PIA02289:
Saturn's B rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-30 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
Voyager
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This map of the surface of Saturn's moon Iapetus, generated from images taken by NASA's Voyager spacecraft, illustrates the imaging coverage planned during Cassini's flyby on Dec. 31, 2004.
PIA06165:
Iapetus' New Year's Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 S Rings Voyager
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Possible variations in chemical composition from one part of Saturn's ring system to another are visible in this archival image from NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA01486:
Composition Differences within Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-04 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
 Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph
Imaging Science Subsystem
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In this ultraviolet image of Hyperion, produced using data taken NASA's Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph during the September 2005 close flyby, brightness contrasts are due to both topographic and compositional variations across the surface.
PIA09216:
Hyperion's Icy Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-23 Phoebe Cassini-Huygens
 UVIS
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On the right, the ultraviolet image of Saturn's moon Phoebe, taken from a distance of 31,000 kilometers shows an irregular surface and bright crater region (white area). The image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06401:
Phoebe in Ultraviolet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The best view of Saturn's rings in the ultraviolet indicates there is more ice toward the outer part of the rings, than in the inner part, as shown in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA05075:
Saturn's A Ring From the Inside Out
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's orbital insertion on June 30 show definite compositional variation within the rings.
PIA05076:
Saturn's C and B Rings From the Inside Out
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This false color image of two density waves in Saturn's A ring was made from the stellar occultation observed by NASA's Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrograph when the spacecraft was 6.3 million kilometers (4 million miles) from Saturn.
PIA06994:
Catching Saturn's Ring Waves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 UVIS
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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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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 2005-08-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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On July 11, 2005, NASA's Cassini ultraviolet imaging spectrograph observed the star Bellatrix as it passed behind Enceladus, as seen from the spacecraft.
PIA03552:
Enceladus Atmosphere Not Global
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The left image is a false-color view of Saturn's A ring from the ultraviolet imaging spectrograph instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA03556:
Clumps in the A Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-06 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image is a false-color ultraviolet view of Saturn's B ring and A ring, separated by a large gap known as the Cassini Division. The images were processed from data taken by the ultraviolet imaging spectrograph aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08036:
Star-Crossed Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color image of Saturn's main rings was made by combining data from multiple star occultations using NASA's Cassini ultraviolet imaging spectrograph.
PIA09210:
Mapping Clumps in Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-05 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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The leading hemisphere of Enceladus displays a remarkably fresh-looking surface in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 30, 2007.
PIA09970:
Exposing Iapetus' Dark Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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These images show the bright-dark boundary region on Saturn's moon Iapetus at far-ultraviolet wavelengths, viewed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 10, 2007.
PIA10009:
Two Ultraviolet Views of Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-26 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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New structure, density and composition measurements of Enceladus' water plume were obtained when NASA's Cassini spacecraft's Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph observed the star zeta Orionis pass behind the plume Oct. 24, 2007, as seen in this image.
PIA10354:
Stellar Data on Plume Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-26 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Jets of high-density gas detected by NASA's Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph on Saturn's moon Enceladus match the locations of dust jets determined from Cassini images, labeled here with Roman numerals.
PIA10355:
Gas and Dust Jets Match Up
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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 Enceladus 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.
PIA13763:
Enceladus "Footprint" on Saturn
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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 2011-04-20 Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's concept based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows a glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn's north pole that occurs at the 'footprint' of the magnetic connection between Saturn and its moon Enceladus.
PIA13765:
Electrical Circuit Between Saturn and Enceladus (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Cassini used its Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph to capture this final view of ultraviolet auroral emissions in Saturn's north polar region on Sept. 14, 2017.
PIA21899:
Polar Lights at Saturn Bid Cassini Farewell Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-31 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 THEMIS
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This image released on August 31, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Lycus Sulci, a lowlying area of ridges and valleys found to the northwest of Olympus Mons on Mars. Sulci are subparallel furrow and ridges.
PIA06844:
Lycus Sulci
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This depression within Cassini Crater contains several slope streaks. The darkest streaks are assumed to be younger than the lighter streaks on Mars as seen by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA09049:
Slope Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Dark slope streaks are visible on the rim of this unnamed crater located on the floor of Cassini Crater in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA14997:
Dark Slope Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-01 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows rough ice in the southern part of Saturn's moon Enceladus. It was created using synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 6, 2011.
PIA15170:
Enceladus Sparkle Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-01 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This image using synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows grooves in the southern part of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA15171:
Groovy Enceladus Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-01 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this view of the south polar area of Saturn's moon Enceladus in visible and near-visible (ultraviolet and infrared) light and synthetic-aperture radar (SAR).
PIA15172:
Southern Enceladus in Radar View Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-29 Io Cassini-Huygens
Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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Two tall volcanic plumes and the rings of red material they have deposited onto surrounding surface areas appear in images taken of Jupiter's moon Io by NASA's Galileo and Cassini spacecraft in late December 2000 and early January 2001.
PIA02588:
Galileo and Cassini Image Two Giant Plumes on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-10-04 Io Galileo
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Backlit views show a giant volcanic plume as a bulge on the crescent edge of Jupiter's moon Io, and more fully lit views reveal rings where sulfur-rich plume material has fallen back to the ground, in images captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA02592:
Northern Plume and Plume Deposits on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-28 Io Galileo
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This mosaic of Tvashtar Catena on Jupiter's moon Io, taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on Oct. 16, 2001, completes a series of views depicting changes in the region over a period of nearly two years. A catena is a chain of volcanic craters.
PIA03529:
Galileo's Last View of Tvashtar, Io
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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 2008-01-31 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Radio signals sent by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to Earth through Saturn's rings revealed the presence of highly unusual regular formations of densely grouped ring particles.
PIA10232:
Saturn's Ring Rhythm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-31 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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For an Earth observer on May 3, 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft appeared to pass behind the rings, then Saturn, then the rings again (the red line).
PIA10233:
Saturn's Ring Rhythm #2
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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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Lightning sounds from Saturn can be heard via radio signals received by the radio and plasma wave science instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Lightning Sounds from Saturn (Audio)
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This frame from a video demonstrates the hiss-like radio noise generated by electrons moving along magnetic field lines from the Saturnian moon Enceladus to a glowing patch of ultraviolet light on Saturn.
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Hiss from Aurora Caused by Enceladus
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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.
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Saturn's Radio Period Crossover Animation Icon
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This graphic demonstrates the hiss-like radio noise generated by electrons moving along magnetic field lines from the Saturnian moon Enceladus to a glowing patch of ultraviolet light on Saturn.
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Hiss from Aurora Caused by Enceladus Animation Icon
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This graphic shows how Saturn and its moon Enceladus are electrically linked. Magnetic field lines, invisible to the human eye but detectable by the fields and particles instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Saturn and Enceladus Electrical Link Animation Icon
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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.
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Lightning Strikes at Saturn
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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).
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The Sound of Science: Comparison of Cassini Ring Crossings
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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.
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Cassini's First D-Ring Crossing
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Details in radiation belts close to Jupiter are mapped from measurements that NASA's Cassini spacecraft made of radio emission from high-energy electrons moving at nearly the speed of light within the belts.
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Inner Radiation Belts of Jupiter
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Two different instruments aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft combined their observations to create a more detailed portrait of the Hotei Regio area on Saturn's moon Titan.
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Looking for Ice Volcano Flows at Hotei Regio
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Two different instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft combined their observations to create a more detailed portrait of the Hotei Regio area on Saturn's moon Titan. Blue lines on top show the location of channels that stand out in the bottom of image.
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Channels and Minerals at Hotei Regio
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This frame from a movie is based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and shows a flyover of an area of Saturn's moon Titan known as Sotra Facula. Scientists believe Sotra is the best case for an ice volcano, or cryovolcano, region on Titan.
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Flyover of Sotra Facula, Titan Animation Icon
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the location of an area known as Sotra Facula on Saturn's moon Titan. Scientists believe the Sotra Facula region makes the best case for a cryovolcanic, or ice volcano, region on Titan.
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Global View of Sotra Facula, Titan
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These side-by-side images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the feature named Tortola Facula on Saturn's moon Titan.
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Tortula Facula
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This map of Saturn's moon Titan identifies the locations of mountains named by the International Astronomical Union. By convention, mountains on Titan are named for mountains from Middle-earth, the fictional setting in fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Mountains of Titan
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A dense network of small rivers or swampy areas appears to connect some of the seas on Saturn's moon Titan, as seen in this comparison of data of the same area from two instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Titan Wetlands
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Three new small lakes, 100 to 300 square miles (a few hundreds of square kilometers) in surface area, have been identified on Saturn's moon Titan in data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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A Sprinkling of Little Lakes
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To create the first global, topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, scientists analyzed data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a mathematical process called splining.
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Two Views of Titan's Topography
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This map of Saturn's moon Titan identifies the locations of mountains that have been named by the International Astronomical Union.
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Mountains of Titan Map - 2016 Update
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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).
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Titan and Callisto
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft carried the European Space Agency's Huygens probe to Saturn and released it in December 2004. The magenta cross in both images shows the best estimate of the actual Huygens landing site.
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Pinpointing Huygens Landing Site
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This set of composite images was constructed from the best NASA Cassini radar data and visual and infrared mapping spectrometer data obtained from all the Titan flybys up to the most recent flyby on Oct 25 (T20).
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Infrared and Radar Views of Titan
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This image composite from NASA's Cassini spacecraft contains a radar image taken during a February 2005 (T3) flyby. A faint fan of material seems to originate at the crater.
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Infrared and Radar Views of Titan #2
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This radar image of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan was acquired on October 26, 2004, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew over. Brighter areas may correspond to rougher terrains and darker areas are thought to be smoother.
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Diversity on Titan
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This graph, produced using preliminary altimetry data from NASA's Cassini radar instrument, shows relative surface heights on Titan. This region of Titan is remarkably flat.
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Topography on Titan
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Saturn's moon Titan shows a sharp contrast between its smooth and rough edges in a new false-color radar image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Radar Shows Titan Live and in Color
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This synthetic aperture radar image of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan was acquired on Oct. 26, 2004, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew over. Dark regions may represent areas that are smooth, made of radar-absorbing materials.
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Oozing Across Titan
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As Cassini scientists work to understand the newly-exposed surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, they have found an interesting arrowhead-shaped feature, shown in the center of this synthetic aperture radar image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Follow the Arrow
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This image is a portion of the swath acquired by NASA's Cassini Titan radar mapper on Feb. 15, 2005, on the mission's second opportunity to image the surface with radar. The optically bright region is named Xanadu.
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Cat Scratches
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A huge annular feature with an outer diameter of approximately 440 kilometers (273 miles) appears in this image taken with NASA's Cassini Titan radar mapper. It resembles a large crater or part of a ringed basin.
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Circus Maximus
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This area imaged by NASA's Cassini radar system during the spacecraft's third close flyby of Titan on Feb. 15, 2005, is just to the east of the Circus Maximus impact feature.
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Huygens Landing Site Similarities
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Although most of the region observed by NASA's Cassini radar instrument in the February close flyby of Titan is very different from the regions imaged in October, this image shows a complex of bright hills and ridges surrounded by a dark plain.
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Dark Terrain
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a crater, approximately 60 kilometers (37 miles) in diameter, on the very eastern end of the radar image strip taken by the Cassini orbiter on its third close flyby of Titan.
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Impact Crater with Ejecta Blanket
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