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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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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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 2006-02-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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During a recent flyby of Titan, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looked beyond the utterly overcast moon and spied clear, distant Rhea in the blackness.
PIA08204:
From Cloudy to Clear
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Prominent dark areas found in the Titan's equatorial region appear to contain vast and continuous dune fields, discovered by NASA's Cassini Radar experiment and likely composed of particles that drop from Titan's unique, smoggy atmosphere.
PIA08231:
Saturn's View of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This remarkably clear view from that flyby shows the moon's characteristically dark mid-latitudes, and more southern terrain than NASA's Cassini spacecraft has usually been able to glimpse.
PIA08246:
Outbound View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's murky atmosphere shines as a halo of scattered light in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 10, 2006.
PIA08268:
Titan's Halo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-19 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Looking toward high northern latitudes on Titan, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies a banded pattern encircling the pole.
PIA08879:
The Banded North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Straining to make out the surface of Titan through its murky atmosphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide angle camera manages to exploit one of the infrared spectral windows where the particulate smog is transparent enough for a peek.
PIA08893:
Murky World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Titan taken on Feb. 25, 2007 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveals a giant lake-like feature in Titan's North Polar Region.
PIA08363:
Giant Lake on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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From high above Titan's northern hemisphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes an oblique view toward the mid-latitude dark regions that gird the giant moon.
PIA08925:
Northern View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's fast-rotating atmosphere creates circumpolar bands in the north as seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on March 26, 2007.
PIA08928:
Northern Bands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Sunlight scatters through Titan's atmosphere, illuminating high hazes and bathing the entire moon in a soft glow in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on May 12, 2007.
PIA08964:
Titan's Cocoon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Bright mid-latitude clouds near the bottom of this view hint at the ongoing cycling of methane on Titan in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on May 13, 2007.
PIA08966:
Weather Without Water
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-31 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Within the windswept wastes of Titan's equatorial dune desert lies the 1,700-km (1,050-mi) wide bright region called Adiri, seen here at center. NASA's intrepid Huygens probe landed off the northeastern edge of Adiri in January 2005.
PIA08995:
Above Adiri
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This celestial circle of light is produced by the glow of sunlight scattered through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere as the Sun is occulted by Titan. This image was taken in visible blue light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA09007:
Ring of Twilight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Three of Saturn's diverse family of moons are captured in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan hovers above the thin line of the rings. Epimetheus is a mere speck at far left. Enceladus sits in front of the ringplane from Cassini's view.
PIA09016:
Trio Near the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This stirring scene captures some of the grandeur of the Saturn system while also allowing a simultaneous glimpse beneath the hazes that cover both Saturn and Titan. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 1, 2007.
PIA09726:
Window Into Worlds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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While on final approach for its Sept. 2007 close encounter with Saturn's moon Iapetus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spun around to take in a sweeping view of the Saturn System.
PIA08387:
The View from Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-31 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and the large, equatorial bright region at center called Adiri. The Huygens probe landing site is in view here, east of Adiri.
PIA09804:
Adiri in View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's hazy orange globe hangs before NASA's Cassini spacecraft, partly illuminated -- a world with many mysteries yet to be uncovered.
PIA09833:
A World of Questions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this color portrait of Saturn and Titan only a few minutes before the haze-enshrouded moon slipped behind the planet's enormous bulk.
PIA09856:
Titan Slips Away
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Titan emerges from behind Saturn, while Tethys streaks into view, in this colorful scene captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's shadow darkens the far arm of the rings near the planet's limb.
PIA09864:
Moons on the Move
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-31 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers at the smooth globe of Titan, wrapped in its photochemical haze. The moon's thin, detached, high-altitude haze layer is best viewed at shorter wavelengths of light, as in this violet light image and ultraviolet views.
PIA09869:
Violet Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-04 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Titan captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows banding in the atmosphere of the moon's northern hemisphere. Like the planet Venus, Titan's atmosphere rotates faster than its surface, a characteristic called 'super rotation.'
PIA10418:
Banded Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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In the distance beyond Saturn's icy rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft glimpses faint details on the surface of Titan. In the foreground, the B ring displays several dark spokes.
PIA10459:
Far from Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-10 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Surface details on Titan are seen faintly through the murky haze of the moon's atmosphere. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on July 30, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light.
PIA10466:
World Beneath the Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Four moons huddle near Saturn's multi-hued disk. Titan, Janus, Mimas, and Prometheus are captured in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 26, 2007.
PIA10487:
Many Colors, Many Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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As Saturn advances its orbit toward equinox and the sun gradually moves northward on the planet, the motion of Saturn's ring shadows and the changing colors of its atmosphere continue to transform the face of Saturn as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11141:
Saturn ... Four Years On
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-01-07 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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In Saturn's shadow, the southern hemisphere of Enceladus is lit by sunlight reflected first off of the rings and then onto the nightside of the planet. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA10551:
Enceladus in Eclipse
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-01-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Light from the star Beta Crucis (Mimosa) breaks through the plane of the A ring in the center of this image of a stellar occultation taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 24, 2008.
PIA10559:
A Star Shines Through
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The orbits of Dione and Titan bring them together in one frame in this distant glimpse from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Jan. 28, 2009.
PIA11463:
Two Moons, One Picture
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-05-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals Titan's upper-most atmospheric hazes, creating the appearance of a halo around Saturn's largest moon. Also visible in this image are hints of atmospheric banding around Titan's north pole.
PIA11485:
Hazy Halo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of a dimly lit Titan as Saturn's largest moon was eclipsed by the planet.
PIA11508:
Titan in Eclipse
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down on Titan's north pole and unveils the moon's upper-most atmospheric hazes, creating the appearance of a halo around Saturn's largest moon.
PIA11526:
Atmospheric Halo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-31 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down on the north pole of Titan, showing night and day in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's largest moon.
PIA11548:
Colorful Northern Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Seasonal changes in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon are captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which shows Titan with a slightly darker top half and a slightly lighter bottom half.
PIA11603:
Two Halves of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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In the top right of NASA's Cassini image, the southern end of Titan's huge lake of liquid hydrocarbons called Kraken Mare is visible near the moon's north pole.
PIA11626:
Titan's Northern Lake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-18 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The shadow of Saturn's largest moon darkens a huge portion of the gas giant planet. Titan is not pictured here, but its shadow is elongated in the bottom right of the image.
PIA11648:
Enormous Elongated Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark region of Belet on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. This large region on the moon has a low albedo, meaning it diffusely reflects little light.
PIA12559:
Dark Belet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-10 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines the characteristics of Titan's atmosphere as it peers at Saturn's largest moon using a filter sensitive to visible violet light.
PIA12695:
Atmospheric Aspects
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Four of Saturn's moons join the planet for a well balanced portrait. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is in the lower left. Tethys appears in upper right. The smaller moons Pandora and Epimetheus are barely visible here.
PIA12718:
Quartet and Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views Saturn with a selection of its moons in varying sizes. Also seen here are Titan (center), Enceladus (far right), Pandora, barely detectable as a speck on the far left, has been brightened by a factor of two.
PIA12756:
Moons Small to Large
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-07-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines Titan's north polar hood, the part of the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon appearing dark at the top of this image.
PIA12775:
Above Titan's North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-02 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's atmosphere makes Saturn's largest moon look like a fuzzy orange ball in this natural color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan's north polar hood is visible at top, and a faint blue haze also can be detected above the south pole at bottom.
PIA14602:
Hazy Orange Orb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, appears deceptively small paired here with Dione, Saturn's fourth-largest moon, in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14912:
True Colors, Deceptive Sizes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks small here, pictured to the right of the gas giant as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14597:
Beside a Giant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Light and dark halves of Titan are visible in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft which illustrates the seasonal changes in the northern and southern hemispheres.
PIA14610:
Splitting Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn's largest moon and captures the halo-like ring produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere.
PIA14613:
Hazy Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-07-16 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Enceladus is partially eclipsed by the planet in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft which also features the moon Titan in the distance.
PIA14617:
Eclipsing a Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in this natural color view of Titan and Saturn from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14922:
Colorful Colossuses and Changing Hues
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn's largest moon and sees sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere and forming a ring of color.
PIA14924:
A Ring of Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The recently formed south polar vortex stands out in the color-swaddled atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in this natural color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14925:
Polar Vortex in Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-10-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan shows us its active polar atmosphere with the north polar hood and south polar vortex both on display in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14630:
Titan's Varied Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-01-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft simultaneously peers through the haze in Titan's equatorial region down to its surface and captures the vortex of clouds hovering over its south pole just to the right of the terminator on the moon's dark side.
PIA14645:
Senkyo and Vortex
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-07 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers down though layers of haze to glimpse the lakes of Titan's northern regions. Titan has a hydrological cycle similar to Earth's, but instead of water, Titan's lakes and seas are filled with liquid methane and ethane.
PIA17159:
Looking Down on Lakes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the trailing hemisphere of Titan. Titan's south polar vortex mimics the moon itself, creating an elegant crescent within a crescent.
PIA17163:
Titan's Crescents
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-02 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's polar vortex stands illuminated where all else is in shadow in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA17169:
High Vortex
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The view from NASA's Cassini orbiter shows Titan's crescent nearly encircling Saturn's disk due to the small haze particles high in its atmosphere refracting the incoming light of the distant Sun.
PIA18291:
Mimicking the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan may be a 'large' moon -- its name even implies it -- but it is still dwarfed by its parent planet, Saturn. As it turns out, this is perfectly normal. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18326:
Not So Titanic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-08-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Thanks to the illumination angle, Mimas (right) and Dione (left) appear to be staring up at a giant Saturn looming in the background as captured in this image by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18331:
Looking Up to the Giant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan and Saturn share a hazy appearance in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, though Saturn is a gas giant with no solid surface to speak of, and Titan's atmosphere is a blanket surrounding an icy, solid body.
PIA18335:
Veiled Worlds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-06-06 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Distant Titan, its northern hemisphere drenched in the sunlight of late spring, hangs above Saturn's rings in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20484:
Rings Interrupted
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-05 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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From high above Saturn's northern hemisphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes over the planet's north pole, with its intriguing hexagon and bullseye-like central vortex.
PIA21331:
Mimas Dwarfed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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In this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, individual layers of haze can be distinguished in the upper atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
PIA21902:
Twilight Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These two views of Saturn's moon Titan show the southern polar vortex, a huge, swirling cloud that was first observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2012.
PIA18431:
Spectral Map of Titan with Polar Vortex
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie shows how data from two different instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft can be combined to give an integrated view of Titan's surface.
PIA07785:
Comparing Notes on Titan -- Radar & Imaging Science Subsystem Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This frame from a movie shows a quick succession of multiple products of Titan's surface from NASA's Cassini orbiter and the European Space Agency's Huygens probe.
PIA06435:
Huygens Landing Site (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This map of Titan's surface illustrates the regions that will be imaged by NASA's Cassini during the spacecraft's close flyby of the smog-enshrouded moon on April 16, 2005.
PIA06218:
Cassini's April 16 Flyby of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-11-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
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The first global geologic map of Titan is based on radar and visible-light images from NASA's Cassini mission, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017.
PIA23174:
First Global Geologic Map of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-01-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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These updated maps of Saturn's moon Titan, consisting of data from NASA's Cassini imaging science subsystem, include Cassini's August 2008 imaging of the moon's northern hemisphere.
PIA11146:
Maps of Titan - January 2009
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-24 Helix Nebula Spitzer Space Telescope
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An expanded image of the Helix nebula lends a festive touch to the fourth anniversary of the launch of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA09962:
Spitzer Celebrates Fourth Anniversary with Celestial Fireworks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-03 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Near Infrared Spectrometer
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The false-color composite image of the Stephan's Quintet galaxy cluster is made up of data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and a ground-based telescope in Spain.
PIA02587:
A Shocking Surprise in Stephan's Quintet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This graph shows data acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it flew by Titan at an altitude of 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) on Oct. 26, 2004 revealing a diversity of hydrocarbons in the high atmosphere above Titan.
PIA06980:
Lots of Hydrocarbons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This graph shows data acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it flew by Titan at an altitude of 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) on Oct. 26, 2004 revealing the amount of light nitrogen in the atmosphere of Titan is much less than that around other planets.
PIA06981:
Case of the Lost Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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During its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on April 16, NASA's Cassini spacecraft came within 1,025 kilometers (637 miles) of the moon's surface and found that the outer layer of the thick, hazy atmosphere is brimming with complex hydrocarbons.
PIA07865:
Titan's Upper Atmosphere: A "Factory" of Hydrocarbons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Images from the magnetospheric imaging instrument and the ion and neutral camera onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal aspects of the interactions between Saturn's dynamic population of hot energetic ions and the clouds of cold neutral atoms.
PIA06409:
Neutral Gas Cloud Around Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-07 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (NAC)
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of the floor of a l.2-km diameter crater in the Mare Frigoris.
PIA13106:
Mare Frigoris Constellation Region of Interest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-10 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Color of the Moon
PIA13517:
Color of the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's magnetosphere is seen for the first time in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on June 21, 2004.
PIA06345:
Behold Saturn's Magnetosphere!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The magnetospheric imaging instrument onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently discovered a new radiation belt just above Saturn's cloud tops, up to the inner edge of the D-ring.
PIA06421:
New Radiation Belt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This is an artist's concept of the Saturnian plasma sheet based on data from the magnetospheric imaging instrument on NASA's Cassini. It shows Saturn's embedded 'ring current,' an invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in the planet's magnetic field.
PIA10084:
Artist Concept of Particle Population in Saturn's Magnetosphere
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Like Earth, Saturn has an invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in its magnetic field. This feature is known as a 'ring current.' This ring current has been imaged with a special camera on NASA's Cassini's sensitive to energetic neutral atoms.
PIA10094:
Saturn's "Ring Current"
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This image was taken with NASA's Cassini Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument's ion and neutral camera, showing Saturn's dynamic 'ring current,' which is an invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in the magnetic field of the planet.
PIA10095:
Saturn's "Ring Current" Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-21 Mercury MESSENGER
 MDIS - Narrow Angle
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Stop Hitting Me
PIA18441:
Stop Hitting Me
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-10 Mercury MESSENGER
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Crossing Cliffs
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Crossing Cliffs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-10-08 Pluto New Horizons
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Pluto's haze layer shows its blue color in this picture taken by NASA's New Horizons. The high-altitude haze is thought to be similar in nature to that seen at Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA19964:
Pluto's Blue Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-19 NuSTAR
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This diagram illustrates why NASA's NuSTAR can see radioactivity in the remains of exploded stars for the first time. The observatory detects high-energy X-ray photons that are released by a radioactive substance called titanium-44.
PIA17840:
The Creation of Titanium in Stars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-07 NuSTAR
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NASA's NuSTAR has made the most precise measurements yet of a radioactive element, called titanium-44, in the supernova remnant called 1987A.
PIA19335:
Tracing Titanium's Escape
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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.
PIA06988:
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.
PIA06989:
Topography on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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.
PIA06992:
Radar Shows Titan Live and in Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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.
PIA06993:
Oozing Across Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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.
PIA06995:
Follow the Arrow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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.
PIA07009:
Cat Scratches
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
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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.
PIA07365:
Circus Maximus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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.
PIA07366:
Huygens Landing Site Similarities
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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.
PIA07367:
Dark Terrain
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