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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's shadow stretches across the rings in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06538:
The Adventure Ahead
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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As NASA's Cassini spacecraft swung around to the dark side of the planet during its first close passage after orbit insertion, the intrepid spacecraft spied three ring moons whizzing around the planet.
PIA06529:
From the Dark Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken during Cassini's very close approach to Titan on Dec. 13, 2004. The view shows pronounced banding in the Titan atmosphere.
PIA06152:
Second Titan Targeted Flyby #2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken during Cassini's very close approach to Titan on Dec. 13, 2004. Bright streaks of cloud in Titan's southern hemisphere are visible.
PIA06153:
Second Titan Targeted Flyby #3
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft pierced Saturn's ring plane on Dec. 14, 2004, and swiped this sidelong glance at the planet and its magnificent rings.
PIA06557:
Sideswiping Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-16 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Dione against the globe of Saturn as it approached the icy moon for its close rendezvous on Dec. 14, 2004.
PIA06155:
Dione and Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-22 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's southern hemisphere shines in the light of a summer morning in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06544:
Saturn's Summer Tilt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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During its time in orbit, NASA's Cassini has spotted many beautiful cat's eye-shaped patterns. These patterns occur in places where the winds and the atmospheric density at one latitude are different from those at another latitude.
PIA07600:
Flowing "Cat's Eye"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-28 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Even from afar, NASA's Cassini spacecraft's cameras reveal a tremendous amount of detail in the planet's rings.
PIA06548:
Rings from Afar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this image of the European Space Agency's Huygens probe about 12 hours after its release from the orbiter.
PIA06998:
Cassini Snaps Image of ESA's Huygens Probe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Atmospheric features in Saturn's north polar region are revealed in spectacular detail in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06567:
Rings Around the Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The turbulent boundaries between dark belts and bright zones are seen prominently in this processed image of Saturn's southern atmosphere captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06568:
Swirls in the South
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this revealing view, which shows that Saturn's hydrogen- and helium-rich atmosphere is a dynamic place, filled with spots, ovals and swirling vortices and filaments of gas.
PIA06569:
Spotting the Storms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a highly detailed look at the feathery, wavelike patterns in the cloud bands of Saturn's southern hemisphere.
PIA06570:
Feathery Belts and Zones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's shadow stretched across the sunlit southern surface of its rings.
PIA06573:
The Giant's Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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From its station nearly 1.2 billion kilometers (746 million miles) from Earth, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sends holiday greetings to Earth with this lovely color portrait of Saturn and two of its moons.
PIA06164:
Cassini's Holiday Greetings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's northern hemisphere is presently a serene blue, more befitting of Uranus or Neptune, as seen in this natural color image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06177:
Saturn's Blue Cranium
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Titan's night side was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft very close flyby of the smoggy moon on Feb. 15, 2005.
PIA06184:
Titan's Night Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's large, smog-enshrouded moon Titan greets NASA's Cassini spacecraft in full color as the spacecraft makes its third close pass on Feb. 15, 2005.
PIA06183:
Hazy Days on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft offers this lovely, crisp view of Saturn, which shows detail in the planet's banded atmosphere, as well as the delicate ring system.
PIA06594:
Splendid Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's biggest and brightest moons are visible in this portrait captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06604:
Fantastic Planet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Dione and Enceladus orbit the mighty ringed planet Saturn, while two bright storms swirl in the atmosphere below.
PIA06606:
Serenity of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-22 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's whirling vortices and feathery cloud bands are the signs of a restless world. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this arresting view of the giant planet scored by bold shadows cast by the rings.
PIA06610:
Saturn at a Tilt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Viewed nearly edge-on, Saturn's rings appear dark and pencil-thin against the backdrop of the planet's swirling clouds. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Feb. 18, 2005.
PIA06619:
Southern Face of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The ringed planet wears a broad grin in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, as the icy rings cast long, sweeping shadows across the northern hemisphere.
PIA06624:
Saturn's Smile
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Although the Huygens probe has now pierced the murky skies of Titan and landed on its surface, much of the moon remains for NASA's Cassini spacecraft to explore.
PIA06220:
New Titan Territory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This fascinating movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the changing shapes of features in the outer haze layers of Titan's atmosphere.
PIA06223:
Titan's Shifting Hazes Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Less than 20 minutes after NASA's Cassini spacecraft close approach to Titan on March 31, 2005, its cameras captured this view of Saturn through Titan's upper atmosphere.
PIA06225:
Saturn Through the Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three of Saturn's moons crowd together off the left edge of Saturn's rings.
PIA06631:
Moons off the Port Bow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These three views of Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft illustrate how different the same place can look in different wavelengths of light.
PIA06227:
Cassini's Three Views of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image composite was created with images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's closest flyby of Titan on April 16, 2005.
PIA06228:
Cassini's Views of Titan: Monochrome View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color composite was created with images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's closest flyby of Titan on April 16, 2005.
PIA06229:
Cassini's Views of Titan: False Color Composite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This natural color composite was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's April 16, 2005, flyby of Titan.
PIA06230:
Cassini's View of Titan: Natural Color Composite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-18 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Enceladus is seen here against the darkness of the planet's night side. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on March 11, 2005.
PIA06651:
Pencil-thin Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows an up-close look at Saturn's atmosphere, revealing wavelike structures in the planet's constantly changing clouds.
PIA06655:
Waves on Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This poetic wide-angle camera view of Saturn reveals several small, dark storms in the southern latitudes, where storm activity has been prevalent since before NASA's Cassini spacecraft arrived in orbit.
PIA06658:
Sunlit South
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-31 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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A string of three of Saturn's icy moons encircles the planet in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07510:
Saturn's Derby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-01 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This unmagnified view of Saturn's moon Dione captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the moon's bright, wispy terrain, along with several large impact craters.
PIA07511:
Dramatic Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows an amazing close-up of Saturn's rings, revealing their incredible variety.
PIA07512:
Scanning the Rings
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This close-up image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers directly through regions of the A, B and C rings (from top to bottom here) to glimpse shadows of the very same rings cast upon the planet's atmosphere.
PIA07513:
Looking Through the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-06 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Rhea displays one of its more prominent features here: a bright, rayed crater which was seen at much higher resolution in an image taken two weeks earlier by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07514:
Rhea's Bright Splat
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's climb to progressively higher elevations reveals the 'negative' side of Saturn's rings.
PIA07520:
What's That Speck?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These two images, taken 10 minutes apart, demonstrate NASA's Cassini spacecraft's ability to see the different depths of Saturn's immense atmosphere, using an array of specially designed spectral filters.
PIA07524:
Probing Saturn's Atmosphere
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn's night side in this view, capturing a glimpse of Dione's tortured surface in the foreground and a far-off view of Epimetheus beyond Saturn.
PIA07525:
Aligned Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-22 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The bright crescent of Saturn's moon Dione skims along just above Saturn's ringplane as storms churn in the planet's atmosphere below. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on May 5, 2005.
PIA07526:
Soft Storms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-23 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The story of the solar system is written upon the faces of its many worlds, such as Saturn's icy moon Rhea, seen here in an image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07527:
Rhea's Memory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-24 Pan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Pan is seen here orbiting within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A ring in two differently processed versions of the same image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07528:
Revealing Pan's Influence
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-30 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft swung in close to Saturn as it rounded the planet's night side, beginning another orbit and moving to progressively higher elevations in order to study the rings.
PIA07532:
Toward the Dayside
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Three of Saturn's icy moons are seen here, along with the magnificent water-ice rings and the cold gaseous envelope of the planet's atmosphere. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on June 1, 2005.
PIA07538:
Saturn's Icy Realm
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When NASA's Cassini gazes down at Saturn's rings with the Sun directly behind the spacecraft, an unusual phenomenon called the 'opposition effect' can be seen. The effect is visible here as a bright region, near right, toward the inner edge of the A ring.
PIA07543:
Rings At Opposition
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-19 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The majesty of Saturn overwhelms in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's moon Tethys glides past in its orbit, and the icy rings mask the frigid northern latitudes with their shadows.
PIA07545:
Fantasy Made Real
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the unlit side of Saturn's splendid rings made visible by sunlight filtering through the rings from the lit side.
PIA07551:
Dim on the Darkside
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Far above the howling winds of Saturn, its icy moons circle the planet in silence. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Mimas near the upper right, while Tethys hovers at the bottom.
PIA07553:
Wind World
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The tortured southern polar terrain of Saturn's moon Enceladus appears strewn with great boulders of ice in these two fantastic views -- the highest resolution images obtained so far by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of any world.
PIA06250:
Boulder-Strewn Surface
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This wide-angle view is one of the highest resolution images yet acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft and shows what appears to be a geologically youthful, tectonically fractured terrain.
PIA06251:
Boulder-Strewn Surface -- Wide Angle Camera View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-03 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The 'opposition effect' can be seen in this image of Saturn's B ring from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The bright spot occurs where the angle between the spacecraft, the Sun and the rings is near zero.
PIA07556:
Opposition View
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the unlit face of Saturn's rings, visible via scattered and transmitted light.
PIA07559:
Luminescent Rings
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Saturn poses with Tethys in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The C ring casts thin, string-like shadows on the northern hemisphere. Above that lurks the shadow of the much denser B ring.
PIA07560:
Saturn and Tethys
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This close-up view is NASA's Cassini spacecraft's best look yet at Saturn's tenuous innermost D ring. The narrow ringlet visible here is named 'D68' and is the innermost discrete feature in the D ring.
PIA07568:
D is for "Dust"
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Swirling cloud bands, delicate ring shadows and icy moons make the Saturn system a place of supreme natural beauty. Even NASA's Cassini spacecraft's remarkable images can only provide the slightest sense of the experience of actually being there.
PIA07569:
Supreme Beauty
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As NASA's Cassini spacecraft approached Titan on Aug. 21, 2005, it captured this natural color view of the moon's orange, global smog.
PIA07729:
Looking on the Brightside of Titan
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This processed image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's flyby of Titan reveals mid-latitudes on the moon's Saturn-facing side. Bazaruto Facula is visible with a dark unnamed crater at its center.
PIA07730:
Titan's Sideways Cipher
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The extreme contrast in this view of the unlit side of Saturn's rings captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft is intentional. Contrast-enhanced views like this are used to look for spokes, but so far, none have been seen by Cassini.
PIA07576:
On the Lookout for Spokes
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This magnificent view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down upon, and partially through, Saturn's rings from their unlit side. The densest part of the rings occults the bright globe of Saturn.
PIA07578:
Diagnostic Darkness
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This infrared view of Saturn's southern hemisphere shows the bright, high altitude equatorial band at the top, and the dark bull's-eye that marks the planet's south pole. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA07585:
Image Compression
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The latitude bands and swirling storms of Saturn, always intriguing to scientists, often are exquisitely beautiful as well. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on July 31, 2005.
PIA07588:
Vortex Variety
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This frame from a movie, shows Saturn's rotation in three different spectral filters, demonstrates NASA's Cassini spacecraft's ability to probe various levels within the planet's outer cloud layers.
PIA07590:
Three Views of Saturn (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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After much anticipation, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has finally spotted the elusive spokes in Saturn's rings. Spokes are the ghostly radial markings discovered in the rings by NASA's Voyager spacecraft 25 years ago.
PIA07731:
Finally . . . Spokes!
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These two images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken 23 minutes apart, show many vortices and turbulent wakes in Saturn's atmosphere. They also show the overall filamentary structure of the flow in the atmosphere.
PIA07594:
"2-D" Flow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn's rings captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals not one but two of the four narrow ringlets in the Encke Gap (325 kilometers, or 200 miles, wide). The innermost of the two ringlets is much brighter and full of clumps.
PIA07595:
Clumps for Encke
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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There is much to examine in close-ups of Saturn's atmosphere, like this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Scientists are interested in the bright, turbulent-looking, thin boundary between the large-scale features in the upper half of image.
PIA07599:
Saturnian Meteorology
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The thin and meandering ribbon-like filaments seen here are indicative of two-dimensional turbulence. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 20, 2005.
PIA07605:
Mesmerizing Meanders
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Speeding toward pale, icy Dione, Cassini's view is enriched by the tranquil gold and blue hues of Saturn in the distance. The horizontal stripes near the bottom of the image are Saturn's rings.
PIA07744:
Ringside with Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Zooming in closer and closer, this frame from a movie chronicles NASA's Cassini spacecraft targeted flyby of Dione, with Saturn and its lovely rings forming a dramatic backdrop.
PIA07749:
Ice Moon Rendezvous Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft close looks at Saturn to frame a view encompassing the entire C ring. In the dark region closer to the planet lies the much dimmer D ring. The bright B ring wraps around the left side of the scene.
PIA07613:
Framing the C Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-04 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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In this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Saturn's moon Mimas is a mere pinprick of light, while the nearly edge-on rings and the ghostly globe of Saturn steal the scene.
PIA07624:
Bright Rings for Southern Skies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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From Saturn orbit, NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides a perspective on the ringed planet that is never seen from Earth. In our skies, Saturn's disk is always nearly fully illuminated by the sun. From this vantage point Cassini can see both hemispheres.
PIA07629:
A Privileged View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-23 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft prepared for its rendezvous with Saturn's moon, Dione, on Oct. 11, 2005, capturing the brilliant, cratered iceball in front of its shadow-draped planet.
PIA07637:
On Approach to Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This brooding portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the southwest limb (edge) of the cold gas giant and the thread-like cloud features lurking there.
PIA07646:
Pensive Saturn
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Feathery cloud bands fill Saturn's crescent in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Features in the atmosphere are visible all the way to the terminator, the boundary between night and day, where the Sun's rays are coming in almost horizontally.
PIA07648:
Clear Sky on High
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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In the nick of time, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this image of the eastern rim of Saturn's moon Rhea's bright, ray crater. The impact event appears to have made a prominent bright splotch on the leading hemisphere of Rhea.
PIA07764:
Catch that Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows craters within craters cover the scarred face of Saturn's moon Rhea in this oblique, high-resolution view of terrain on the moon's western hemisphere.
PIA07765:
Craters, Craters Everywhere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A gorgeous close-up from NASA's Cassini spacecraft at the Saturnian atmosphere reveals small, bright and puffy clouds with long filamentary streamers that are reminiscent of the anvil-shaped Earthly cirrus clouds that extend downwind of thunderstorms.
PIA07650:
Movement in the Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-14 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings throw imposing shadows and relegate parts of the planet's northern regions to darkness. Three thin and bright arcs in this scene captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft represent three well-known gaps in the immense ring system.
PIA07652:
Gaps in the Darkness
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Sunlight reflects off the bright, frozen surfaces of the billions and billions of particles comprising Saturn's rings to brighten the planet's southern skies. Particles in Saturn's rings are too small to be seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this image.
PIA07654:
One Moon Among Billions
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An oval-shaped feature, wider than Earth and with streamers extending out to the east and west, swirls in Saturn's southern hemisphere. This image was taken in wavelengths of polarized infrared light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA07656:
Storm Down Under
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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In this magnificent view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, delicate haze layers high in the atmosphere encircle the oblate figure of Saturn.
PIA07669:
Seeing High in the Sky
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Cool and icy Dione floats in front of giant Saturn bedecked in a dazzling array of colors in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07771:
Dazzling Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Few sights in the solar system are more strikingly beautiful than softly hued Saturn embraced by the shadows of its stately rings.
PIA07772:
The Face of Beauty
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft briefly turned its gaze from Saturn and its rings and moons to marvel at the Carina Nebula, a brilliant region 8,000 light years from our solar system and more than 200 light years across.
PIA07773:
Cassini's Galactic Aspirations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This moody portrait of Saturn captured by NASA's Cassini orbiter shows a razor-thin ringplane bisecting the clouds of the bright equatorial region. The rings cast dark, shadowy bands onto the planet's northern latitudes.
PIA07673:
Tilted Giant
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As the ringed giant tugged on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, urging it to make yet another orbit, the intrepid spacecraft took in this all-encompassing panorama.
PIA07676:
Slightly Sideways Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looked toward the darkened night side of Saturn to capture the eerie glow of the rings, which, not being blocked by the planet's bulk, remained brilliant in full sunlight.
PIA07695:
Rings Against a Dark Planet
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This view of Titan, captured by NASA's Cassini spacraft on Dec. 26. 2005, reveals structure in the moon's complex atmosphere.
PIA07700:
Titanic Complexity (Color)
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This view of Titan reveals structure in the moon's complex atmosphere. The geometry of NASA's Cassini spacecraft's view of Titan during this flyby was similar to that of Voyager 1's pass in 1980.
PIA07701:
Titanic Complexity
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Saturn's moon Enceladus hangs like a single bright pearl against the golden-brown canvas of Saturn and its icy rings in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08128:
A Pearl at Dusk
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward giant Saturn and its moon Tethys, while a large and powerful storm rages in the planet's southern hemisphere. The storm was observed by the Cassini spacecraft beginning in late Jan. 2006.
PIA08144:
The Storm Continues
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-18 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The tilted crescent of Saturn displays lacy cloud bands here along with a bright equatorial region and threadlike ring shadows on the northern hemisphere as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08159:
A Complex Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This view of the ringed planet shows its tilt relative to the plane of its orbit around the Sun as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08160:
Viewing Saturn from the Plane
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Dreamy colors ranging from pale rose to butterscotch to sapphire give this utterly inhospitable gas planet a romantic appeal. Shadows of the rings caress the northern latitudes whose blue color is presumed to be a seasonal effect as seen by NASA's Cassini
PIA08166:
Saturn's Subtle Spectrum
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