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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This montage of images, made from data obtained by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows the location on Saturn where the NASA spacecraft entered Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017.
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Impact Site: Infrared Image Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini gazed toward high southern latitudes near Saturn's south pole to observe ghostly curtains of dancing light, Saturn's southern auroras, or southern lights.
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Southern Auroras Over Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This colorful spectrogram represents data collected by the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument onboard NASA's Cassini's spacecraft as it crossed through Saturn's D ring on May 28, 2017.
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Cassini's First D-Ring Crossing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This mosaic combines views captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it made the first dive of the mission's Grand Finale on April 26, 2017, and shows details in bands and swirls in the atmosphere.
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Cassini "Noodle" Mosaic of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These natural color views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft compare the appearance of Saturn's north-polar region in June 2013 and April 2017.
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Saturn's Hexagon as Summer Solstice Approaches Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie sequence of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the view as Cassini swooped over Saturn during the first of its Grand Finale dives between the planet and its rings on April 26, 2017.
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Cassini's 'Porthole' Movie of Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-09-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie is one of many exposures taken by NASA's Cassnii spacecraft. Cassini stared at Saturn for nearly 44 hours on April 25 to 27, 2016, to obtain exposures showing just over four Saturn days. A movie is available at the Photojournal.
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Staring at Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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Ultraviolet and infrared images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope show active and quiet auroras at Saturn's north and south poles.
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Dance of Saturn's Auroras Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie from NASA's Cassini mission shows a polar projection of the curious six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as 'the hexagon' in the infrared.
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Looking Down on the Hexagon in Infrared Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an infrared movie from NASA's Cassini mission shows the churning of the curious six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as 'the hexagon'.
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Hexagon in Silhouette Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This colorful view from NASA's Cassini mission, known as 'the hexagon,' is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole.
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In Full View: Saturn's Streaming Hexagon Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
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This image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the clouds of a hurricane-like storm, which circulate around the north pole of Saturn out to 88.5 degrees north latitude. The clouds at the very center are spinning rapidly.
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Saturn Hurricane Movie Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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The Rose Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation depicts the shearing of an initially circular cloud of debris as a result of the particles in the cloud having differing orbital speeds around Saturn based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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A Race Around Saturn (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-01-31 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the swirling clouds in a vortex spawned by a great northern storm on Saturn. The clouds are moving in a clockwise direction.
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Swirling Vortex Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-10-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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This image from an animation shows 'beacons' of hot air seen in the infrared that appeared during a great springtime storm on Saturn from January 2011 to March 2012.
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Infrared Hotspots in a Monster Saturn Storm Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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In this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the gravitational pull of Saturn's moon Prometheus creates patterns in Saturn's F ring.
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F Ring Patterns Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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One of the glittering trails caused by small objects punching through Saturn's F ring is highlighted in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These trails show how the F ring, the outermost of Saturn's main rings, is constantly changing.
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Glittering Trail in Saturn's F Ring Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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With kaleidoscopic forms and hues, these two false-color views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the patterns that come and go in the course of one Saturn day within the huge storm in the planet's northern hemisphere.
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Kaleidoscopic Rainbows Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These two false-color views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show detailed patterns that change during one Saturn day within the huge storm in the planet's northern hemisphere.
PIA14906:
Churning Psychedelia Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These false-color mosaics from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the changing appearance of the huge storm that developed from a small spot in Saturn's northern hemisphere.
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Encircling a Giant Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted a glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn's north pole that marks the presence of an electrical circuit that connects Saturn with its moon Enceladus. Movie available at the Photojournal.
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Movie of Enceladus "Footprint" on Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Radio and Plasma Wave Science Instrument
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This spectrogram and video show a changing pattern of radio waves from Saturn known as Saturn Kilometric Radiation, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft around March 2010.
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Saturn's Radio Period Crossover Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This frame from a movie, made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows Saturn's southern aurora shimmering over approximately 20 hours as the planet rotates. The video is available at the Photojournal.
PIA13404:
Dancing Southern Lights of Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the first of its kind, shows lightning on Saturn's night side flashing in a cloud that is illuminated by light from Saturn's rings.
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Lightning Flashing on Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini, made possible only as Saturn's north pole emerged from winter darkness, shows new details of a jet stream that follows a hexagon-shaped path and has long puzzled scientists.
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Spring Reveals Saturn's Hexagon Jet Stream Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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An aurora, shining high above the northern part of Saturn, moves from the night side to the day side of the planet in this frame from a movie recorded by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11681:
Northern Aurora in Motion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-03-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Glowing like a neon lasso, Saturn's aurora is seen spinning above Saturn's north pole over the course of most of a Saturn day in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Mary 25, 2007.
PIA11832:
Ultraviolet Aurora Movie Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This near-infrared image of Saturn's north pole shows a giant cyclone, encircled by a hexagon feature. A movie was created from several images, taken by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Infrared Movie of Saturn's North Polar Region Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The 60th moon of Saturn reveals itself in a sequence of images. The series of images was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on May 30, 2007.
PIA08369:
Sixty for Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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The depths of the north pole of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini Orbiter reveals a dynamic, active planet lurking underneath the ubiquitous cover of upper-level hazes.
PIA09187:
Spinning Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft stares deep into the swirling hurricane-like vortex at Saturn's south pole, where the vertical structure of the clouds is highlighted by shadows.
PIA08332:
Looking Saturn in the Eye Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-22 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The slim crescent of the moon Rhea glides silently onto the featureless, golden face of Saturn in this mesmerizing color movie. Images were acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera, at a distance close to 221,000 kilometers from Rhea.
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Rhea Transits Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie, shows Saturn's rotation in three different spectral filters, demonstrates NASA's Cassini spacecraft's ability to probe various levels within the planet's outer cloud layers.
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Three Views of Saturn (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions, which have been monitored by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The radio waves are closely related to the auroras near the poles of the planet. These auroras are similar to Earth's northern and southern lights.
PIA07967:
Bizarre Sounds of Saturn's Radio Emissions Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions, which have been monitored by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The radio waves are closely related to the auroras near the poles of the planet.
PIA07966:
Eerie Sounds of Saturn's Radio Emissions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's celestial sleuthing has paid off with this time-lapse series of images which confirmed earlier suspicions that a small moon was orbiting within the narrow Keeler gap of Saturn's rings.
PIA06238:
Discovery of the Wavemaker (animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie, showing six of Saturn's small ring-region moons as they raced around the planet, was made from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 15, 2004.
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Race of the Moons Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Zigzagging kinks and knots dance around Saturn in this frame from a movie of the F ring from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06144:
Tilt and Whirl Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A small new found object, temporarily designated S/2004 S 3, has been seen orbiting Saturn's outer F ring. This is a frame from a movie sequence of 18 images taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on June 21, 2004.
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to uncover new wonders within the Saturn system with its discovery of two new moons orbiting between Mimas and Enceladus.
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Cassini Uncovers New Moon Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to uncover new wonders within the Saturn system with its discovery of two new moons orbiting between Mimas and Enceladus.
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Cassini Uncovers New Moons Animation Icon
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This image of Saturn's southern hemisphere taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft cameras shows a banded appearance due to winds, as well as dark cyclonic ovals.
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Saturn Movie Close-Up Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Saturn's southern hemisphere taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft cameras shows a banded appearance due to winds, as well as dark cyclonic ovals.
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Saturn Movie Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Wind-blown clouds and haze high in Saturn's atmosphere are captured in this image taken by NASA's Cassini narrow angle camera in February 2004.
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High Winds Aloft on Saturn Animation Icon
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