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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of Saturn with its rings barely visible. Normally, astronomers see Saturn with its rings tilted. Earth was almost in the plane of Saturn's rings, thus the rings appear edge-on.
PIA01272:
Edge-on View of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-09-26 Titan Hubble Space Telescope
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Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. Images were captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during 14 observing runs between Oct. 4 - 18.
PIA01465:
Hubble Observes Surface of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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These NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03156:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03158:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1996
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03159:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1997
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03160:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1998
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03161:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1999
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03162:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 2000
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-01-06 Hubble Space Telescope
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The discovery of likely Eta Carinae 'twins' in other galaxies will help scientists better understand this brief phase in the life of a massive star with images such as this from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
PIA20294:
WFPC2 Image of the Variable Star Eta Carinae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-07 Earth WATSON
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During 2019 field tests near Greenland's Summit Station,the WATSON instrument is put through its paces to seek out signs of life, or biosignatures, 360 feet (110 meters) down a borehole.
PIA24169:
WATSON's Field Test in Greenland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-07 Earth WATSON
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The tether attached to the top of WATSON and the drill also acts as the power cable and data feed. Care must be taken to ensure a tight connection between the tether and instrument, else the instrument could be lost in the ice.
PIA24170:
Preparing WATSON for Borehole Descent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-07 Earth WATSON
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WATSON produced this fluorescence map of a borehole in Greenland's ice. The left panel shows nebulous blobs of biosignatures, and the right panel shows a colorized version, grouping together similar organic chemicals.
PIA24140:
Fluorescence Map of a Greenland Borehole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This three-panel image shows one of Titan's most prominent impact craters in an infrared-wavelength image, radar image and in the false-color image. The Cassini radar imaged this crater during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's third flyby of Titan.
PIA07868:
Titan Crater in Three Views
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Piercing the ubiquitous layer of smog enshrouding Titan, these images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer reveals an exotic surface covered with a variety of materials in the southern hemisphere.
PIA06404:
Titan's Surface Revealed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Piercing the ubiquitous layer of smog enshrouding Titan, these images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer reveals an exotic surface covered with a variety of materials in the southern hemisphere.
PIA06405:
Titan's Surface Revealed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Piercing the ubiquitous layer of smog enshrouding Titan, these images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer reveals an exotic surface covered with a variety of materials in the southern hemisphere.
PIA06406:
Titan's Surface Revealed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Piercing the ubiquitous layer of smog enshrouding Titan, these images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer reveals an exotic surface covered with a variety of materials in the southern hemisphere.
PIA06407:
Titan's Surface Revealed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The glow of Titan's extensive atmosphere shines in false colors in this view of Saturn's gas-enshrouded moon acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer during the July 2, 2004, flyby.
PIA06418:
Glowing Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The glow of Titan's extensive atmosphere shines in false colors in this view of Saturn's gas-enshrouded moon acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer during the July 2, 2004, flyby.
PIA06419:
Glowing Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the surface of Titan at two different infrared wavelengths revealing complex landforms with sharp boundaries.
PIA06982:
Behold Titan's Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer clearly shows surface features on Titan. It also shows the landing site of Cassini's piggybacked Huygens probe.
PIA06983:
Titan's Complex Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Evidence of changing weather patterns in the skies over Titan's southern region are revealed in these false color images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's visual infrared mapping spectrometer.
PIA06996:
Spying Titan's Weather
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Titan's limb and surface was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's visual infrared mapping spectrometer on Dec. 13, 2004 from a vantage point some 158,000 kilometers (98,177 miles) above the night side of Titan.
PIA06997:
Haze Silhouettes Against Titan's Glow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This map of a portion of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan shows predictions for the areas that will be covered by selected combinations of images anticipated from the camera on Huygens probe as it descends through Titan's atmosphere.
PIA07229:
Expected Footprints of 36-Image Panoramas from Huygens Camera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found an unusual bright, red spot on Titan. This dramatic color (but not true color) image was taken during the April 16, 2005, encounter with Titan.
PIA07877:
Red Spot on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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On Oct. 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew over Saturn's moon Titan at less than 1,200 kilometers at closest approach. Cassini acquired several infrared images with spatial resolution ranging from a few tens of kilometers to 2 kilometers per pixel.
PIA07961:
Map of Titan in Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Details of the circular feature, which scientists think is an ice volcano, which could be a source of methane in Titan's atmosphere, show up at wavelengths larger than 1.3 microns. Images were taken during NASA's Cassini Oct. 26, 2004, flyby of Titan.
PIA07963:
Titan Volcano in Several Infrared Wavelengths
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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From infrared images that show variations in brightness and texture, a geological map of the circular feature, thought to be a volcano, has been obtained using NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer.
PIA07964:
Geologic Map of Titan Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This high-resolution infrared image was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's closest approach to Titan on Oct. 26, 2004. These images were obtained by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument. This feature might be a volcano.
PIA07962:
Infrared Image of Titan Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color mosaic of Saturn's largest moon Titan, obtained by NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows what scientists interpret as an icy volcano.
PIA07965:
Titan Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-10 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The three mosaics shown here were composed with data from NASA's Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer taken during the last three Titan flybys.
PIA02145:
Mapping Titan's Changes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-10 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie of Titan shows data taken with NASA's Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer during the last three flybys of Titan.
PIA02146:
An Infrared Movie of Titan Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-10 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This global infrared map of Titan was composed with data from NASA's Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer taken during the last two Titan flybys.
PIA02147:
An Infrared Map of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This composite image, composed of two images taken with NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows a crescent view of Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA08733:
Titan's Crescent View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image depicts Saturn's moon Titan as seen by NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer after closest approach on a July 22, 2006, flyby.
PIA08736:
Clouds over Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft recorded these infrared images of Titan's northern hemisphere.
PIA08739:
Ethane Clouds Over Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This composite image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a massive mountain range running just south of Titan's equator. Near the center of the image, the mountain range runs from southeast to northwest.
PIA09032:
Titan's Sierras
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a composite of several images taken during two separate Titan flybys on Oct. 9 (T19) and Oct. 25 (T20). The large circular feature near the center of Titan's disk may be the remnant of a very old impact basin.
PIA09034:
Exposing Titan's Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image set from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken at a distance of 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) from Titan and shows two views of an area riddled by mountain ranges that were probably produced by tectonic forces.
PIA09033:
Large Tectonic Complex
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer has imaged a huge cloud system covering the north pole of Titan.
PIA09171:
Titan's Giant North Pole Cloud
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Change is detected on Saturn's moon Titan, in these three composite images from data taken during flybys in October 2005, January 2006 and March 2006 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11700:
Titan's Chilly Volcanoes?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This infrared projection map of Titan was composed from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, visual and infrared mapping spectrometer.
PIA11701:
Infrared Map of Titan's Active Regions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This infrared image taken by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Hotei Arcus, a region on Saturn's moon Titan where changes in brightness have been measured several times during the last four years.
PIA11839:
Hotei Arcus in Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Lots of clouds are visible in this infrared image of Saturn's moon Titan. These clouds form and move much like those on Earth, but in a much slower, more lingering fashion, new results from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show.
PIA12004:
Titan's Lingering Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This infrared image of Saturn's moon Titan shows a large burst of clouds in the moon's south polar region. These clouds form and move much like those on Earth, but in a much slower, more lingering fashion.
PIA12005:
Titan's South Polar Cloud Burst
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2009, shows the first flash of sunlight reflected off a hydrocarbon lake on Saturn's moon Titan. The glint off a mirror-like surface is known as a specular reflection.
PIA12481:
Reflection of Sunlight off Titan Lake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This pair of false-color images, made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows clouds covering parts of Saturn's moon Titan in yellow, while Titan's hazy atmosphere appears magenta.
PIA13400:
Clouds Clearing around Titan's North Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This graphic, constructed from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the percentage of cloud coverage across the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. The color scale from black to yellow signifies no cloud coverage to complete cloud coverage.
PIA13401:
Mapping Titan's Cloud Coverage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-07-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained these false-color images of a circular feature in a region known as Xanadu on Saturn's moon Titan. The images show Titan in infrared wavelengths of radiation.
PIA14311:
Circular Feature at Xanadu, Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-23 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This series of false-color images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the dissolving cloud cover over the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, allowing scientists to see the underlying northern lakes and seas, including Kraken Mare.
PIA15230:
Snapshots of Titan's North Polar Cloud
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-23 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This series of images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows several views of the north polar cloud covering Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA15231:
Changes in Titan's North Polar Cloud
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show one of the large seas and a bounty of smaller lakes on Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA16844:
Titan Lake Country
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-23 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color mosaic, made from infrared data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveals the differences in the composition of surface materials around hydrocarbon lakes at Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
PIA17470:
Titan's Northern Lakes: Salt Flats?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Artist's rendering of NASA's Cassini spacecraft observing a sunset through Titan's hazy atmosphere.
PIA18410:
Cassini Observes Sunsets on Titan (Artist's Rendering)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This near-infrared, color view from NASA'S Cassini orbiter shows the sun glinting off of Titan's north polar seas.
PIA18432:
Specular Spectacular
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The view was obtained during NASA's Cassini orbiter's flyby on July 24, 2012, also called the 'T85' flyby by the Cassini team. This was the most intense specular reflection that Cassini had seen to date.
PIA18433:
Sunglint on a Hydrocarbon Lake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-04 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during the mission's 'T-114' flyby on Nov. 13, 2015, looks toward terrain that is mostly on the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Titan.
PIA20016:
Peering Through Titan's Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Each of these two montages shows four synthetic views of Titan created using data acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft between 2004 and 2015. With each flyby, a brief opportunity to add small pieces to the overall mapping coverage of Titan.
PIA20022:
Working Toward 'Seamless' Infrared Maps of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These six infrared images of Saturn's moon Titan created using data acquired by the VIMS instrument onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft represent some of the clearest, most seamless-looking global views of the icy moon's surface produced so far.
PIA21923:
Seeing Titan with Infrared Eyes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation shows clear bright spots on Saturn's moon, Titan, that have been interpreted as evidence of dust storms.
PIA22483:
Spotting Dust Storms on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This compilation of images from nine flybys of Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2009 and 2010 captures three instances when clear bright spots suddenly appeared in images.
PIA22484:
Dust Storms on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-02-23 Titan Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained this wide-angle image of the night side of Titan on Aug. 25, 1979. This is a view of Titan's extended atmosphere. the bright orangish ring being caused by the atmosphere's scattering of the incident sunlight.
PIA01393:
Night Side of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Titania Voyager
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This high-resolution color composite of Titania was made from NASA's Voyager 2 images taken Jan. 24, 1986, as the spacecraft neared its closest approach to Uranus. A large, trenchlike feature is seen near the terminator.
PIA00036:
Titania High-Resolution Color Composite
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Titania Voyager
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On Jan. 24, 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 returned the highest-resolution picture of Titania, Uranus' largest satellite. Abundant impact craters of many sizes pockmark the ancient surface; most prominent features are fault valleys that stretch across Titania.
PIA00039:
Titania - Highest Resolution Voyager Picture
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-09-25 Titan Voyager
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Titan, the largest of Saturn's 14 known satellites, shows little more than the upper layers of clouds covering the moon in this picture from NASA's Voyager 1, taken on November 4, 1980 at a range of 12 million kilometers (7,560,000 miles).
PIA00733:
Titan's Brighter Southern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Uranus Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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These two pictures of Uranus were compiled from images recorded by NASA's Voyager 2 on Jan. 1O, 1986. This view is toward the planet's pole of rotation, which lies just left of center. The image on the right is a false-color image.
PIA01360:
Uranus, Toward the Planet's Pole of Rotation
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-20 Oberon Voyager
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Montage of Uranus' five largest satellites taken by NASA's Voyager 2. From to right to left in order of decreasing distance from Uranus are Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Ariel, and Miranda.
PIA01361:
Uranus - Montage of Uranus' Five Largest Satellites
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-06-22 Miranda Voyager
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This 'family portrait' of Uranus' five largest moons was compiled from images sent back Jan. 20, 1986, by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Even in these distant views, the satellites exhibit distinct differences in appearance.
PIA01975:
Uranus - Family Portrait
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-06-19 Titania Voyager
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The terminator region of Titania, one of Uranus' five large moons, was captured in this Voyager 2 image obtained in the early morning hours of Jan. 24, 1986.
PIA01978:
Uranus Moon - Titania
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-06-19 Titania Voyager
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Voyager 2 obtained this full-disk view of Uranus' moon Titania in the early morning hours of Jan. 24, 1986, from a distance of about 500,000 kilometers (300,000 miles). Many circular depressions, probably impact craters, are visible in this clear-filter.
PIA01979:
Full-disk View of Titania
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-03-16 Titan Voyager
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Titan's thick haze layer is shown in this enhanced image from NASA's Voyager 1, taken Nov. 12, 1980 at a distance of 435,000 kilometers (270,000 miles).
PIA02238:
Titan's Thick Haze Layer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 Titan Voyager
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This narrow-angle camera image from NASA's Voyager 2 of Titan was taken through the Clear filter from a distance of 0.9 million km on 25 August 1981.
PIA02290:
Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Earth Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 was launched on Aug. 20, 1977 from the NASA Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida where it was propelled into space on a Titan/Centaur rocket.
PIA01480:
Voyager 2 Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on August 12, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Tartarus Montes. The small hills and ridges in this image are the montes (mountains) of the Tartarus region of Mars.
PIA06821:
The Naming of Things: Tartarus Montes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on August 13, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Promethei Terra, part of the southern highlands of Mars. This mosaic shows the cratered terrain that is typical of this region.
PIA06822:
Promethei Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-31 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image released on August 31, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Lycus Sulci, a lowlying area of ridges and valleys found to the northwest of Olympus Mons on Mars. Sulci are subparallel furrow and ridges.
PIA06844:
Lycus Sulci
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from Sept 1, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Hebes Chasma on Mars, part of a smaller chasma system located north of the main Valles Marineris with both walls of the canyon visible. Chasma is a deep, elongated, steep-sided depression.
PIA06847:
Hebes Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-01 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This image using synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows grooves in the southern part of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA15171:
Groovy Enceladus Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Moon Galileo
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These color visualizations of the Moon were obtained by NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it left the Earth after completing its first Earth Gravity Assist. The images were acquired Dec. 8-9, 1990.
PIA00075:
Moon Color Visualizations
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Moon Galileo
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This false-color mosaic of part of the Moon was constructed from 54 images taken by the imaging system aboard NASA's Galileo as the spacecraft flew past the Moon on December 7, 1992.
PIA00129:
Moon - False Color Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-02-05 Moon Galileo
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This false-color mosaic was constructed from a series of 53 images taken through three spectral filters by NASA's Galileo's imaging system as the spacecraft flew over the northern regions of the Moon on December 7, 1992.
PIA00131:
Moon - False Color Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Moon Galileo
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This false-color photograph is a composite of 15 images of the Moon taken through three color filters NASA's Galileo's solid-state imaging system during the spacecraft's passage through the Earth-Moon system on December 8, 1992.
PIA00132:
Moon - False Color Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-06 Jupiter Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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These images show the apparent edge (limb) of the planet Jupiter as seen through both the violet filter (top frame) and an infrared filter (756 nanometers, bottom frame) of the Solid State Imaging (CCD) system aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01195:
Hazes near Jupiter's Limb (60 degrees North, 315 degrees West)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-06 Jupiter Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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These images show the apparent edge (limb) of the planet Jupiter as seen through both the violet filter (first and third frames) and an infrared filter (2nd and fourth frames) of the Solid State Imaging (CCD) system aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01197:
Haze observations near Jupiter's Limb at 60 degrees North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-09 InSight
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This artist's rendering shows a cutaway of the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure instrument, or SEIS, which will fly as part of NASA's Mars InSight lander.
PIA22320:
Cutaway of SEIS (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-16 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Test operators in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitor some of the first motions by the robotic arm on the Mars rover Curiosity after installation in August 2010. The arm is shown in a partially extended position.
PIA13388:
Curiosity Mars Rover Flexes its Robotic Arm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-16 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Robotic Arm (MSL)
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NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, stretches its robotic arm upward during tests on a tilt table in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labotatory.
PIA13389:
Arm Stretch by Curiosity Mars Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-16 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Robotic Arm (MSL)
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Testing of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sept. 3, 2010, included movements of the arm while the rover was on a table tilted to 20 degrees to simulate a sloped surface on Mars.
PIA13390:
Tilt-Table Testing for Curiosity's Robotic Arm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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Two different instruments aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft combined their observations to create a more detailed portrait of the Hotei Regio area on Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA12848:
Looking for Ice Volcano Flows at Hotei Regio
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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Two different instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft combined their observations to create a more detailed portrait of the Hotei Regio area on Saturn's moon Titan. Blue lines on top show the location of channels that stand out in the bottom of image.
PIA12849:
Channels and Minerals at Hotei Regio
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This frame from a movie is based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and shows a flyover of an area of Saturn's moon Titan known as Sotra Facula. Scientists believe Sotra is the best case for an ice volcano, or cryovolcano, region on Titan.
PIA13695:
Flyover of Sotra Facula, Titan Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the location of an area known as Sotra Facula on Saturn's moon Titan. Scientists believe the Sotra Facula region makes the best case for a cryovolcanic, or ice volcano, region on Titan.
PIA13696:
Global View of Sotra Facula, Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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These side-by-side images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the feature named Tortola Facula on Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA13895:
Tortula Facula
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-12-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This map of Saturn's moon Titan identifies the locations of mountains named by the International Astronomical Union. By convention, mountains on Titan are named for mountains from Middle-earth, the fictional setting in fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien.
PIA16598:
Mountains of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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A dense network of small rivers or swampy areas appears to connect some of the seas on Saturn's moon Titan, as seen in this comparison of data of the same area from two instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA16845:
Titan Wetlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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Three new small lakes, 100 to 300 square miles (a few hundreds of square kilometers) in surface area, have been identified on Saturn's moon Titan in data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA16846:
A Sprinkling of Little Lakes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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To create the first global, topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, scientists analyzed data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a mathematical process called splining.
PIA16849:
Two Views of Titan's Topography
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This map of Saturn's moon Titan identifies the locations of mountains that have been named by the International Astronomical Union.
PIA20024:
Mountains of Titan Map - 2016 Update
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Galileo
 Radar Mapper
Solid-State Imaging
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These images compare surface features observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft at the Xanadu region on Saturn's moon Titan (left), and features observed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on Jupiter's cratered moon Callisto (right).
PIA13896:
Titan and Callisto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft carried the European Space Agency's Huygens probe to Saturn and released it in December 2004. The magenta cross in both images shows the best estimate of the actual Huygens landing site.
PIA03569:
Pinpointing Huygens Landing Site
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