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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures this dual portrait of an apparently dead moon and one that is very much alive. Tethys, shows no signs of recent geologic activity. Enceladus is covered in fractures and faults and spews icy particles into space.
PIA07664:
Envious Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Epimetheus and Janus are lit here by reflected 'greylight' from Saturn. The Sun brightens only thin slivers of the moons' surfaces as seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07663:
A Dark Duo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-28 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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A crescent Tethys shows off its great scar, Ithaca Chasma, for which the moon is renowned. The lit surface visible here is on the moon's Saturn-facing hemisphere. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07662:
A Truly Grand Canyon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-26 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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Although it is no longer uncharted land, the origin of the dark territory of Cassini Regio on Iapetus remains a mystery. The view from NASA's Cassini looks down onto the northern hemisphere of Iapetus and shows terrain on the moon's leading hemisphere.
PIA07660:
A Moon with Two Dark Sides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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With its thick, distended atmosphere, Titan's orange globe shines softly, encircled by a thin halo of purple light-scattering haze as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07774:
Titan's Halo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Carina Nebula Cassini-Huygens
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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 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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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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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 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Dione is partly occulted by Saturn's rings in this nearly edge-on view, taken from less than a tenth of a degree above the ringplane. The side of the rings nearer to NASA's Cassini spacecraft was masked by Saturn's shadow at the time and appears dark.
PIA07658:
Slicing Through Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Gazing across the ringplane, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spots a Saturn-lit Mimas and the tiny Trojan moon Helene. Only the bright crescent on Mimas' eastern limb is lit by the Sun; the moon's night side is illuminated by Saturnshine.
PIA07657:
Small Worlds of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The searing arc of light seen here is Saturn's icy F ring, seen nearly edge-on. In the background, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Rhea is lit by reflected light from Saturn and the rings, with only the slightest sliver of light at its bottom.
PIA07655:
Bright Arc of Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-16 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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During a non-targeted flyby by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Nov. 26, 2005, Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer measured the spectrum of the plumes originating from the south pole of the icy moon.
PIA06443:
Enceladus Plume
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-09 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's sibling moons, Rhea and Dione, pose for NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this view. Even at this distance, it is easy to see that Dione (below) appears to have been geologically active in the more recent past, compared to Rhea (above).
PIA07649:
Seeing Double
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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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 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's cratered, icy moons, Rhea and Dione, come alive with vibrant color that reveals new information about their surface properties. Images in the Dione false-color view were acquired on Aug. 1, 2005 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07769:
Color Variation Across Rhea and Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This giant mosaic reveals Saturn's icy moon Rhea in her full, crater-scarred glory. The images in this mosaic were taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera during a close flyby on Nov. 26, 2005.
PIA07763:
Rhea: Full Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's impact-pummeled moon Hyperion stares back at NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this six-image mosaic, taken during the spacecraft's close approach on Sept. 26, 2005.
PIA07761:
Cosmic Blasting Zone
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-30 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Gray and barren Rhea drifts beneath Saturn's more colorful rings. Bright wispy markings on the trailing hemisphere of Rhea are just visible curling along the western limb in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07642:
Rhea in Profile
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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A target of intense interest to Cassini mission scientists is Enceladus, whose wrinkled and frozen crescent is seen here with Saturn's rings. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini narrow-angle camera on Oct. 13, 2005.
PIA07641:
Wrinkled Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-28 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Recent Cassini images of Saturn's moon Enceladus backlit by the sun show the fountain-like sources of the fine spray of material that towers over the south polar region. This image was acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 27, 2005.
PIA07758:
Fountains of Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-28 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This NASA Cassini image of Saturn's moon Enceladus backlit by the sun shows the fountain-like sources of the fine spray of material that towers over the south polar region.
PIA07759:
Fountains of Enceladus - Image #2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-28 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The Sun's rays strike the terrains near the terminator on Tethys at low angles, throwing features there into sharp relief. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini narrow-angle camera on Oct. 13, 2005.
PIA07640:
Rough Sphere of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-25 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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Impact-battered Mimas steps in front of Saturn's rings, showing off its giant 130-kilometer (80-mile) wide crater Herschel. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini narrow-angle camera on Oct. 13, 2005.
PIA07639:
Herschel Sees the Sun
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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 2005-11-22 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the soft appearance of Dione's wispy terrains belies their true nature. They are, in fact, complex systems of crisp, braided fractures that cover the moon's trailing hemisphere.
PIA07636:
Captivating Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea floats below the innermost regions of Saturn's amazing rings in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view of the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Rhea allows a glimpse of the wispy terrain that covers the trailing hemisphere of Rhea.
PIA07635:
Sleek Rings, Rugged Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The 'H'-shaped region Fensal-Aztlan is faintly visible on Saturn's murky moon Titan in this enhanced clear-filter view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07634:
The Land Beneath the Murk
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-17 Calypso Cassini-Huygens
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This color image taken on Sept. 23, 2005 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides the best look yet at Saturn's moon Calypso, a Trojan (trailing moon) of the larger moon Tethys.
PIA07633:
Colorful Cratered Calypso
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-16 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini's best close-up view of Saturn's F ring shepherd moon, Pandora, shows that this small ring-moon is coated in fine dust-sized icy material in this image taken on Sept. 5, 2005.
PIA07632:
Pandora's Color Close-up
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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 2005-11-09 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione is about to swing around the edge of the thin F ring in this color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Sept. 20, 2005. More than one thin strand of the F ring's tight spiral can be seen here.
PIA07627:
Wisps in Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Looking back toward the sun brings out the thin haze than hovers 500 kilometers (310 miles) above Saturn's moon Titan. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 24, 2005.
PIA07626:
Titan's Ultraviolet Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This view looks up toward the sunlit side of Saturn's rings, as Dione and Pandora trundle by. NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this image in visible light with its narrow-angle camera on Sept. 16, 2005.
PIA07625:
Dione and Pandora
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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 2005-11-02 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft offers up this nice view of the craters Odysseus (at the top) and Melanthius (at the bottom) on Saturn's moon Tethys.
PIA07622:
Big Bangs on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-28 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views the far-off wispy canyons of Saturn's moon Dione and sees an interesting dichotomy between the bright wisps and the bright south polar region at the bottom.
PIA07618:
Dione's Canyonlands
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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 2005-10-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to prove that the closer the view of the myriad worlds constituting the Saturn system, the more interesting and varied the views become.
PIA07748:
In the Groove
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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As it departed its encounter with Saturn's moon Dione, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sailed above an unreal landscape blasted by impacts. The rising Sun throws craters into sharp contrast and reveals steep crater walls.
PIA07745:
Icy Crescent
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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 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea's distinctive bright and relatively fresh-rayed crater lies in stark contrast to the large, round basin which sits along the terminator (the boundary between day and night) in this unmagnified view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07609:
Crater Contrast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-14 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's shadow spreads across the rings here, extending beyond the F ring and its tenuous, flanking ringlets. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft catches Saturn's moon Mimas on its day-long sojourn around the planet.
PIA07608:
Rubbing-out the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-13 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The dramatic Ithaca Chasma carves an enormous gash for more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) across Saturn's moon Tethys. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07607:
Gazing at Icy Canyons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-12 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This half-lit view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft beautifully captures the ponderously old and cratered surface of Saturn's icy moon Rhea. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across.
PIA07606:
Half-Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-10 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Pandora glides in front of the narrow F ring, making the moon's oblong outline visible. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft also shows the A ring, Cassini Division, B ring, and part of the C ring.
PIA07604:
Pandora Occults the F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Naming features on other worlds, scientists like to follow themes, and Dione is no exception. Dione possesses numerous features with names from Virgil's 'Aeneid.' This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Aug. 25, 2005.
PIA07603:
Virgil's Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-06 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Pandora is almost overwhelmed by the brightness of the F ring in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The F ring's bright core displays kinks and is flanked by fainter ringlets.
PIA07602:
Brilliant F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-05 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Prometheus poses here with its latest creation: a dark, diagonal gore in the tenuous material interior to Saturn's F ring. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 20, 2005.
PIA07601:
Drawing the Drapes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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This stunning false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface. The view was obtained during NASA's Cassini close flyby on Sept. 26, 2005.
PIA07740:
Odd World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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As NASA's Cassini spacecraft sped away from its close encounter with Saturn's moon Hyperion on Sept. 26, 2005, it took this parting shot of the battered moon's shadowy limb.
PIA07739:
Hyperion: Parting Glance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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With this full-disk mosaic, NASA's Cassini presented the best view yet of the south pole of Saturn's moon Tethys, taken on Sept. 24, 2005. The giant rift Ithaca Chasma cuts across the disk.
PIA07738:
Tethys in Full View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color image is among the closest of NASA's Cassini images of Tethys' icy surface taken during the Sept. 24, 2005 flyby.
PIA07737:
"Hi-Res" on Tethys - False Color
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This view is among the closest Cassini images of Tethys' icy surface taken during the Sept. 24, 2005 flyby. This image is a clear-filter view and is the highest resolution image acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the encounter.
PIA07736:
"Hi-Res" on Tethys
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The northern polar region of Saturn's moon Tethys seen in this NASA Cassini flyby image is a ponderously ancient surface. Above the prominent peaked crater Telemachus are the remnants of a very old crater named Teiresias.
PIA07735:
Old Northern Terrains
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This view of the surface of Saturn's moon Tethys, taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's close approach to the moon on Sept. 24, 2005, reveals an icy land of steep cliffs.
PIA07734:
Steep Scarps
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This clear-filter view of Saturn's moon Titan reveals a region of cloud activity at high southern latitudes. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 31, 2005.
PIA07597:
Faint Southern Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-28 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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Small, multi-faceted Epimetheus wanders into NASA's Cassini spacecraft's field of view, while Saturn's dark shadow cuts across the ringplane. Only a sliver of the outer A ring is seen here, including the narrow Keeler Gap.
PIA07596:
Lonely Gem
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's prying infrared vision allows details of Saturn's storm-ridden hydrogen atmosphere to be revealed as never before.
PIA07593:
Stormy Days
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-22 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
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The 'flying saucer' in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is the small moon Atlas (20 kilometers, 12 miles across), whose shadowy profile reveals its flattened shape.
PIA07592:
A Shadowy Figure
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-19 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The profile of the 450-kilometer-wide (280-mile) crater Odysseus makes this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft look as if someone sliced off a chunk of Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665 miles across).
PIA07589:
Profile of Odysseus
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-14 Telesto Cassini-Huygens
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The blob of light seen here is Saturn's moon Telesto, which shares its orbital path with the much larger moon Tethys. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 1, 2005.
PIA07586:
Squinting at Telesto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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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 2005-09-09 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Rhea is an alien ice world, but in this frame-filling view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft it is vaguely familiar. Here, Rhea's cratered surface looks in some ways similar to our own Moon, or the planet Mercury.
PIA07583:
Frame-Filling Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-08 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Prometheus has just passed and gravitationally disturbed some of the fine particulate material in the F ring, creating the sheared gap visible in the inner strands of the ring. The image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07582:
Passing Lane
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Dione's southern polar region contains fractures whose softened appearance suggests that they have different ages than the bright braided fractures seen in the image to the north. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 1, 2005.
PIA07581:
Older Southern Fractures?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-06 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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The Roman god Janus is usually depicted with two faces, one looking forward and one behind. Janus is captured here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, showing two faces of its own.
PIA07580:
The Two Faces of Janus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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From just outside the faint edge of Saturn's F ring, the moon Pandora keeps watch over her fine-grained flock as seen by NASA's Cassini orbiter.
PIA07579:
Keeping Things in Check
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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Temperature changes mapped with NASA's Cassini's composite and infrared spectrometer throughout Saturn's main rings show the ring temperatures decreasing with the increase of the Sun-spacecraft-ring angle on both the lit and unlit sides of the rings.
PIA03562:
Slower Spinning Rings #2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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NASA's Cassini composite infrared spectrometer obtained temperature maps of Saturn's main rings (A, B and C) that showed ring temperatures decreasing with increasing solar phase angle on both the lit and unlit sides of the rings.
PIA03561:
Slower Spinning Rings #1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's clouds and hazes at three different levels in the atmosphere are depicted in the image on the right, as observed by the visual infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA03559:
A 3-D View of Saturn's Clouds and Hazes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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New images provided by the visual infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal a diverse array of clouds in the depths of Saturn.
PIA03558:
A New View of Saturn - Black and White
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New images provided by the visual infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal a diverse array of clouds in the depths of Saturn.
PIA03557:
A New View of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-01 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals there is more of Saturn's moon Tethys here than is apparent at first glance. A slim crescent is all that is visible of the moon's sunlit side, but the left half of the image is dimly lit by 'Saturnshine.'
PIA07577:
Tethys in the Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-31 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-30 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The giant Tirawa impact basin straddles the day and night boundary on Saturn's moon Rhea in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07575:
Tirawa at Twilight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer
Cosmic Dust Analyzer
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This plot shows results from NASA's Cassini's ion neutral mass spectrometer and cosmic dust analyzer, obtained during the spacecraft's close approach to Enceladus on July 14, 2005.
PIA03553:
Water Vapor & Particles Over Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-26 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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As the closest-orbiting of Saturn's intermediate-sized moons, Mimas is occasionally captured against the planet's dim and shadowed northern latitudes. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 18, 2005.
PIA07573:
First Quarter Mimas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-25 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks upward at the south polar region on Rhea during a recent distant encounter. Rhea's icy surface is so heavily saturated with impact craters that the moon's limb, or edge, has a rugged, bumpy appearance.
PIA07572:
Above Rhea's South Pole
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While close to Saturn in its orbit, NASA's Cassini spacecraft stared directly at the planet to find Saturn's moon Pandora in the field of view. The F ring shepherd moon is gliding towards the right in this scene.
PIA07570:
Pandora Glides Along
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-18 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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From 34 degrees above Saturn's equatorial plane, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazed down at Saturn's moon Epimetheus.
PIA07567:
Looking Down on Epimetheus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-17 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Like the rest of Rhea's surface, the southern polar region of this Saturn moon has been extensively re-worked by cratering over the eons. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows most sizeable craters have smaller, younger impact sites within them.
PIA07566:
Rhea: Polar View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's equatorial latitudes are distinctly different in character from its south polar region, as shown in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The bright region toward the right side of Titan's disk is Xanadu.
PIA07565:
Dawn at the Huygens Site
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Epimetheus, seen here from just beneath the ring plane, along with Saturn's intriguing F ring.
PIA07561:
Epimetheus on the Outside
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-05 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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During its close flyby of Saturn's moon Mimas on Aug. 2, 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught a glimpse of Mimas against the broad expanse of Saturn's rings.
PIA06412:
Mimas Against the Rings
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False color images of Saturn's moon, Mimas, reveal variation in either the composition or texture across its surface.
PIA06257:
Mimas Showing False Colors #1
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During its approach to Mimas on Aug. 2, 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera obtained multi-spectral views of the moon from a range of 228,000 kilometers (142,500 miles).
PIA06258:
Up Close to Mimas
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This false color image of Saturn's moon Mimas from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals variation in either the composition or texture across its surface.
PIA06259:
Mimas Showing False Colors #2
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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 2005-08-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This richly textured look at Saturn's moon Tethys from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the huge crater Odysseus and its central mountain in relief, as well as many smaller impact sites.
PIA07557:
Texture of Tethys
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-01 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn's moon Rhea captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the tremendous bright splat that coats much of the moon's leading hemisphere.
PIA07554:
Rhea's Bright Blemish
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This image shows the warmest places in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The unexpected temperatures were discovered by NASA's Cassini composite infrared spectrometer during a close flyby on July 14, 2005.
PIA06433:
Warm Fractures on Enceladus
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This image shows the surprise that startled NASA Cassini scientists on the composite infrared spectrometer team when they got their first look at the infrared (heat) radiation from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA06432:
Enceladus Temperature Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Far above the howling winds of Saturn, its icy moons circle the planet in silence. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Mimas near the upper right, while Tethys hovers at the bottom.
PIA07553:
Wind World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-28 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Turbulent swirls churn in Saturn's atmosphere while the planet's rings form a dazzling backdrop. The rings' complex structure is clearly evident in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07552:
Beyond the Limb
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