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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn and two of its moons, Tethys (above) and Dione, were photographed by NASA's Voyager 1 on November 3, 1980, from 13 million kilometers (8 million miles).
PIA00024:
Saturn With Tethys and Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'true color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981. The moons Rhea and Dione appear as blue dots to the south and southeast of Saturn, respectively.
PIA00030:
Saturn With Rhea and Dione (True Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Dione Voyager
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Many impact craters -- the record of the collision of cosmic debris -- are shown in this mosaic from NASA's Voyager 1 of Saturn's moon Dione.
PIA00028:
Dione Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Enceladus Voyager
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This color image mosaic from NASA's Voyager 2 shows the water-ice-covered surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's icy moons. Enceladus' diameter of just 500 km would fit across 

the state of Arizona,
PIA00347:
Voyager 2 Color Image of Enceladus, Almost Full Disk
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Saturn Voyager
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This enhanced-color picture from NASA's Voyager shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Tethys, Dione, and Rhea are visible against the darkness of space, and 

another smaller satellite (Mimas) is visible against Saturn's cloud tops.
PIA00349:
Saturn and 4 Icy Moons, Enhanced Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Saturn Voyager
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This approximate natural-color image from NASA's Voyager 2 shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Three satellites Tethys, Dione, and Rhea are visible against the darkness of space.
PIA00400:
Saturn and 4 Icy Moons in Natural Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this false-color image of Saturn on Junary 4, 1998, providing detailed information on the clouds and hazes in Saturn's atmosphere.
PIA01268:
An Infrared View of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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This series of 10 Hubble Space Telescope images, taken on Nov. 21, 1995, captures several small moons orbiting Saturn. Hubble snapped the five pairs of images while the Earth was just above the ring plane and the Sun below it.
PIA01271:
Moons Around Saturn
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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 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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Saturn's magnificent ring system is seen tilted edge-on in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture taken on August 10, 1995.
PIA01273:
Hubble again views Saturn's Rings Edge-on
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured Saturn on May 22, 1995 as the planet's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This ring-plane crossing occurs approximately every 15 years when the Earth passes through Saturn's ring plane.
PIA01275:
Saturn's Rings Edge-on
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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This sequence of images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on May 22, 1995, documents a rare astronomical alignment, Saturn's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This occurs when the Earth passes through Saturn's ring plane.
PIA01276:
Hubble Views Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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This sequence of images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on May 22, 1995, documents a rare astronomical alignment, Saturn's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This occurs when the Earth passes through Saturn's ring plane.
PIA01277:
Hubble Views Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing (Satellites Labeled)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-28 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'false color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981, when the spacecraft was 33.9 million kilometers (21 million miles) from the planet.
PIA01143:
Saturn With Rhea and Dione (false color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Saturn Voyager
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This montage of images of the Saturnian system was prepared from an assemblage of images taken by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft during its Saturn encounter in November 1980.
PIA01482:
Saturn System Montage
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-08 Dione Voyager
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This picture of Saturn's satellite Dione was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 9, 1980 from a distance of 2.6 million miles. Light and dark patches are visible on the moon's surface, reminiscent of features seen on Jupiter's satellite Ganymede.
PIA01373:
Saturn's Satellite Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-13 Dione Voyager
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Many large impact craters are seen in this view of the Saturnian moon Dione taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980 from a range of about 240,000 kilometers (149,000 miles).
PIA01366:
The Saturnian Moon Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn storms observed by NASA's Voyager, Aug. 5, 2004. Voyager 1 and 2 observed radio signals from lightning which were interpreted as being from a persistent, low-latitude storm system.
PIA01364:
Saturn Taken from Voyager 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-03-06 Tethys Voyager
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This photograph taken on Aug. 26, 1981, from NASA's Voyager 2 of Tethys shows objects about 5 kilometers (3 miles) in size and is one of the best images of the Saturnian satellite returned by the spacecraft or its predecessor, Voyager 1.
PIA01397:
Photograph of Saturns' Satellite Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-11 Saturn Voyager
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This family portrait shows the smaller satellites of Saturn as viewed by NASA's Voyager 2 during its swing through the Saturnian system.
PIA01954:
Collage of Saturn's Smaller Satellites
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-25 Saturn Voyager
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In this image from NASA's Voyager 2 of Saturn, obtained Aug. 11, 1981, from a range of 14.7 million kilometers (9.1 million miles), north is at the upper right edge of the disc. Seen above the planet are the satellites Dione (right) and Enceladus.
PIA01959:
Voyager 2 Image of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-10 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 took this photograph of Saturn on Oct. 18, 1980, 34 million kilometers (21.1 million miles) from the planet.
PIA02225:
Saturn Approach - Full Disk
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-09 Dione Voyager
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This image of Dione from NASA's Voyager 1, seen here against the disk of Saturn, is a bright, white, icy object like the other inner satellites.
PIA02244:
Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 Dione Voyager
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Circular impact craters up to about 100 kilometers in diameter are seen in this view of Saturn's icy moon Dione. The image was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 from a range of 790,000 kilometers.
PIA02265:
Dione - Circular Impact Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft in a Jet Propulsion Laboratory assembly room in 1997.
PIA04603:
Cassini Spacecraft in a JPL Assembly Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-12-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A cold, dusky Saturn looms in the distance in this striking, natural color view of the ringed planet and five of its icy satellites. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini's narrow angle camera on Nov. 9, 2003, from a distance of 111.4 million kilometers.
PIA04913:
Looming Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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As NASA's Cassini closes in on Saturn, its view is growing sharper with time and now reveals new atmospheric features in the planet's southern hemisphere.
PIA05385:
Spots on Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-19 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The icy, cratered surface of Saturn's moon Dione shows more than just its sunlit side in these two processed versions of the same image. The image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on July 2, 2004.
PIA05418:
Dark Side of Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The first artificial satellite in the Saturn system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, returned images of the natural moons following a successful insertion into orbit.
PIA05419:
Crescent Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's crescent moon Dione hangs before NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this magnified image taken on July 19, 2004.
PIA05436:
Streaking Away from Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn wears a halo of four moons in this wide angle camera image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on August 18, 2004.
PIA05435:
A Halo of Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A stately Saturn poses for a portrait with five of its moons, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06475:
Family Portrait
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-15 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Dione, a moon of Saturn, exhibit some of the interesting bright and dark markings for which it is renowned.
PIA06499:
Streaks on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-04 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's Dione shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft some of the bright wispy streaks that cover much of the moon's trailing hemisphere in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 28, 2004.
PIA06513:
Dione's Streaky Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-25 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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A gorgeous Dione poses for NASA's Cassini spacecraft, with shadowed craters and bright wispy streaks first observed by the Voyager spacecraft 24 years ago.
PIA06528:
Crisscrossing Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-13 Dione Cassini-Huygens
Composite Infrared Spectrometer
Imaging Science Subsystem
Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This frame from a computer animation shows the observations to be taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft spanning roughly a nine-hour period surrounding its upcoming flyby of Dione on Dec. 14, 2004.
PIA06149:
Dione Flyby Animation Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-13 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This map of Saturn's moon Dione, generated from Cassini images taken during the spacecraft's first two orbits of Saturn, illustrates the imaging coverage planned during NASA's Cassini spacecraft first Dione flyby on Dec. 14, 2004.
PIA06150:
First Flyby of Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-16 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Dione against the globe of Saturn as it approached the icy moon for its close rendezvous on Dec. 14, 2004.
PIA06155:
Dione and Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-16 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This incredible, high resolution view of Saturn's moon Dione was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft first close approach to the icy moon on Dec. 14, 2004.
PIA06156:
Dione Close-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-16 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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As it zoomed in on Saturn's moon Dione for a close flyby, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a set of images of the icy moon which have been combined into a mosaic here to provide a stunningly detailed global view.
PIA06162:
Dione's Surprise
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-16 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This very detailed image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft closest approach to Saturn's moon Dione on Dec. 14, 2004 is centered on the wispy terrain of the moon.
PIA06163:
Highest Resolution View of Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-20 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three sizeable impact craters, including one with a marked central peak, lie along the line that divides day and night on the Saturnian moon, Dione.
PIA06542:
Craters 'Twixt Day and Night
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Saturn's cratered moon Dione displays a large impact basin near its south pole in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 2, 2004.
PIA06545:
Powerful Impact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-31 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied Saturn's crater-covered moon Dione in this image from Dec. 8, 2004.
PIA06551:
Pocked Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-12 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Saturn's moon Dione from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a nice view of the crater Aeneas on the terminator taken on Dec. 10, 2004.
PIA06561:
Aeneas on the Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-04 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Rhea, seen here in natural color.
PIA06578:
Rhea in Natural Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-18 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that some of the linear features on Enceladus have a slightly different color from their surroundings.
PIA06187:
False Color Look at Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-24 Telesto Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Telesto is visible below and to the left of center in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06592:
Telesto: Companion of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-03 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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In this frame from a movie, NASA's Cassini spacecraft pointed its cameras toward Saturn's moon Dione to witness its distant sibling moon Rhea briefly pass behind in a series of 32 individual frames taken over 17 minutes.
PIA06199:
Cassini's Private Eclipse Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Dione and Enceladus orbit the mighty ringed planet Saturn, while two bright storms swirl in the atmosphere below.
PIA06606:
Serenity of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This captivating portrait captures Saturn's wispy moon Dione over the shoulder of smoggy Titan in a single inspiring scene taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 18, 2005.
PIA06607:
Art and Science
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-23 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Wispy streaks curl over the horizon on Saturn's moon Dione, caught here in a distant view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 18, 2005.
PIA06611:
Far-off Fractures
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-13 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the night side of Saturn's moon Dione on Feb. 18, 2005.
PIA06626:
Saturn-lit Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-18 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft offers this lovely comparison between two of Saturn's satellites, Dione and Tethys, which are similar in size but have very different surfaces.
PIA06629:
Sister Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-25 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The distinctive, wispy system of fractures on the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione shows a great deal of contrast in this ultraviolet view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06634:
Far off Cracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-29 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The Sun also rises on Saturn's moon Dione, seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Wispy fractured terrain lies along the limb taken on March 12, 2005.
PIA06638:
Daybreak on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Helene, seen here with Saturn's nearly edge-on rings, orbits 60 degrees ahead of Dione and is called a 'Trojan' moon. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on March 12, 2005.
PIA06639:
Dione's Companion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A scene straight out of science fiction, this fantastic view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows, from left to right, Saturn's moon's Mimas, Dione and Rhea, on the far side of Saturn's nearly edge-on rings.
PIA06642:
Amazing Icy Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Mimas poses with the larger moon Dione in this handsome portrait captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06644:
Mimas and Dione
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Saturn's moon Dione occults part of Saturn's distant rings while Tethys hovers below, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06647:
Pair to Compare
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-19 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The moon Dione is eclipsed here by the narrow band of Saturn's rings, which in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows one of the interesting ways that they transmit light.
PIA06652:
F Ring Edges
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-01 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This unmagnified view of Saturn's moon Dione captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the moon's bright, wispy terrain, along with several large impact craters.
PIA07511:
Dramatic Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn's night side in this view, capturing a glimpse of Dione's tortured surface in the foreground and a far-off view of Epimetheus beyond Saturn.
PIA07525:
Aligned Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-22 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The bright crescent of Saturn's moon Dione skims along just above Saturn's ringplane as storms churn in the planet's atmosphere below. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on May 5, 2005.
PIA07526:
Soft Storms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-21 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moons Helene and tiny Polydeuces (not seen here) are Trojan moons of Dione, orbiting about 60 degrees ahead of and behind, the much larger moon. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 20, 2005.
PIA07547:
Helene from Afar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-03 Dione Voyager
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Cracks, canyons, craters, and streaks are seen in this image of Saturn's icy moon, Dione, taken from Voyager 2 on August 3, 2005.
PIA18183:
Dione as seen by Voyager 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Dione's southern polar region contains fractures whose softened appearance suggests that they have different ages than the bright braided fractures seen in the image to the north. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 1, 2005.
PIA07581:
Older Southern Fractures?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Naming features on other worlds, scientists like to follow themes, and Dione is no exception. Dione possesses numerous features with names from Virgil's 'Aeneid.' This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Aug. 25, 2005.
PIA07603:
Virgil's Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This map of the surface of Saturn's moon Dione illustrates the regions that was imaged by Cassini during the spacecraft's very close flyby of the moon on Oct. 11, 2005.
PIA07743:
Cassini's Visit to Dione
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Speeding toward pale, icy Dione, Cassini's view is enriched by the tranquil gold and blue hues of Saturn in the distance. The horizontal stripes near the bottom of the image are Saturn's rings.
PIA07744:
Ringside with Dione
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As it departed its encounter with Saturn's moon Dione, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sailed above an unreal landscape blasted by impacts. The rising Sun throws craters into sharp contrast and reveals steep crater walls.
PIA07745:
Icy Crescent
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The cratered and cracked disk of Saturn's moon Dione looms ahead in this mosaic of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct.11, 2005, as it neared its close encounter with the icy moon.
PIA07746:
Dione in Full View
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The cratered and cracked disk of Saturn's moon Dione looms ahead in this mosaic of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 11, 2005, as it neared its close encounter with the icy moon.
PIA07747:
Dione in Full View - False Color
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to prove that the closer the view of the myriad worlds constituting the Saturn system, the more interesting and varied the views become.
PIA07748:
In the Groove
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Zooming in closer and closer, this frame from a movie chronicles NASA's Cassini spacecraft targeted flyby of Dione, with Saturn and its lovely rings forming a dramatic backdrop.
PIA07749:
Ice Moon Rendezvous Animation Icon
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views the far-off wispy canyons of Saturn's moon Dione and sees an interesting dichotomy between the bright wisps and the bright south polar region at the bottom.
PIA07618:
Dione's Canyonlands
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This brief movie catches Saturn's moon Tethys partially occulting the moon Dione. Images in this frame from a movie sequence were taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 11, 2005.
PIA07620:
Tethys Meets Dione (Animation) Animation Icon
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Tethys partially occulting the moon Dione. The difference in the surface brightness of the two moons is immediately apparent.
PIA07621:
Tethys Meets Dione
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Saturn's expansive rings separate the moon's Tethys (at the top) from Dione (at the bottom). This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 12, 2005.
PIA07623:
Moons with Separate Paths
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This view looks up toward the sunlit side of Saturn's rings, as Dione and Pandora trundle by. NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this image in visible light with its narrow-angle camera on Sept. 16, 2005.
PIA07625:
Dione and Pandora
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Saturn's moon Dione is about to swing around the edge of the thin F ring in this color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Sept. 20, 2005. More than one thin strand of the F ring's tight spiral can be seen here.
PIA07627:
Wisps in Color
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This excellent grouping of three moons Dione, Tethys and Pandora near the rings provides a sampling of the diversity of worlds that exists in Saturn's realm. This image was taken in visible blue light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07628:
Satellite Trio
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The moons Dione and Tethys face each other across the gulf of Saturn's rings. Here, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks on the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Tethys below and the anti-Saturn side of Dione above.
PIA07630:
The Face-off
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This map of the surface of Saturn's moon, Rhea, illustrates the regions that were imaged by NASA's Cassini during the spacecraft's close flyby of the moon on Nov. 26, 2005.
PIA07756:
Prime Time for Rhea
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the soft appearance of Dione's wispy terrains belies their true nature. They are, in fact, complex systems of crisp, braided fractures that cover the moon's trailing hemisphere.
PIA07636:
Captivating Dione
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft prepared for its rendezvous with Saturn's moon, Dione, on Oct. 11, 2005, capturing the brilliant, cratered iceball in front of its shadow-draped planet.
PIA07637:
On Approach to Dione
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Saturn's moon Dione's icy surface is scarred by craters at Carthage Linea in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 11, 2005.
PIA07638:
At Carthage Linea
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In a rare moment, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this enduring portrait of a near-alignment of four of Saturn's restless moons. Timing is critical when trying to capture a view of multiple bodies, like this one.
PIA07644:
When Moons Align
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This fanciful view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the Saturnian moons, Dione and Enceladus, from just beneath the ringplane. Enceladus is on the near side of the rings with respect to Cassini, and Dione is on the far side.
PIA07645:
Dione and Enceladus
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This giant mosaic reveals Saturn's icy moon Rhea in her full, crater-scarred glory. The images in this mosaic were taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera during a close flyby on Nov. 26, 2005.
PIA07763:
Rhea: Full Moon
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This montage shows four major icy moons of Saturn that NASA's Cassini spacecraft visited while surveying the Saturnian system during 2005. Largely of ice, they exhibit remarkably different geological histories and varied surface features.
PIA07767:
Season of Moons
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Saturn's cratered, icy moons, Rhea and Dione, come alive with vibrant color that reveals new information about their surface properties. Images in the Dione false-color view were acquired on Aug. 1, 2005 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07769:
Color Variation Across Rhea and Dione
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Saturn's sibling moons, Rhea and Dione, pose for NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this view. Even at this distance, it is easy to see that Dione (below) appears to have been geologically active in the more recent past, compared to Rhea (above).
PIA07649:
Seeing Double
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Viewing Saturn's rings very close to edge-on produces some puzzling effects, as these two images of the F ring demonstrate. Both images were taken using the clear spectral filters on NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07651:
On the Edge
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Gazing across the ringplane, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spots a Saturn-lit Mimas and the tiny Trojan moon Helene. Only the bright crescent on Mimas' eastern limb is lit by the Sun; the moon's night side is illuminated by Saturnshine.
PIA07657:
Small Worlds of Saturn
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Dione is partly occulted by Saturn's rings in this nearly edge-on view, taken from less than a tenth of a degree above the ringplane. The side of the rings nearer to NASA's Cassini spacecraft was masked by Saturn's shadow at the time and appears dark.
PIA07658:
Slicing Through Dione
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This frame from an animation show two crescent moons dance around Saturn as far-off Dione slips behind its
sibling moon Rhea. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view on Dec. 5, 2005.
PIA07770:
Rhea Eclipses Dione (Animation) Animation Icon
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Cool and icy Dione floats in front of giant Saturn bedecked in a dazzling array of colors in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07771:
Dazzling Color
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Dione was created using data taken during NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys.
PIA07776:
Map of Dione -- December 2005
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With the icy rings between them, Dione and Tethys each show off the prominent features for which they are known. Dione displays wispy fractures that adorn its trailing side. Tethys, closest to NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows its impact basin Odysseus.
PIA07659:
Children of Saturn
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