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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-29 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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This mosaic, created from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, looks straight at Saturn's moon Mimas' huge Herschel Crater revealing bright-walled craters, with floors and surroundings about 20 percent darker than the steep crater walls.
PIA12568:
Examining Herschel Crater
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The moon Rhea moves behind Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in this 'mutual event' imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Part of Rhea's southern hemisphere is also visible here through the haze of Titan's atmosphere.
PIA12599:
Hiding Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-26 Calypso Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's February 2010 encounter with Calypso yielded this incredibly detailed view of this Trojan moon. Irregularly shaped Calypso is one of two Trojan moons of the larger moon Tethys.
PIA12598:
Calypso Close Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-24 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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Craters give a rugged look to surface of Iapetus, especially in the large basin of Engelier visible along the southern limb of the moon in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12596:
Crater at the Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-23 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Atlas, just below the center of this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, orbits in the Roche Division between the A ring and thin F ring.
PIA12595:
Charting Atlas' Path
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Appearing like eyes on a potato, craters cover the dimly lit surface of the moon Prometheus in this high-resolution image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's early 2010 flyby.
PIA12593:
Cratered Spud
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-17 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes a look through the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon to spy light and dark in the area called Adiri on Titan.
PIA12591:
Zooming in on Adiri
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-15 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Both ancient and more recent surfaces are exposed in this view taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA12589:
Young and Old
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-12 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Odysseus Crater, with a size of epic proportions, stretches across a large northern expanse on Saturn's moon Tethys in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12588:
Epic Odysseus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Three of Saturn's small moons straddle the rings in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. From left to right are Pandora, Prometheus and, near the top right, Epimetheus.
PIA12587:
Tiny Trio
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-10 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft records Titan's seasonal hemispheric dichotomy, with the moon's northern half appearing slightly lighter than the southern half in this image.
PIA12586:
Titan's Changing Seasons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-08 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft pictures a crescent of Saturn's moon Rhea. Although craters dominate this particular view, the trailing hemisphere of Rhea also features wispy fractures.
PIA12584:
A Few Rhea Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-03 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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A crescent of Tethys displays two of the moon's large craters in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Penelope Crater can be seen at the top left. Antinous Crater is in the bottom left.
PIA12581:
Greek Drama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-02 Daphnis Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Daphnis casts a short shadow on the A ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraftabout six months after the planet's August 2009 equinox. Daphnis appears as a tiny bright dot in the Keeler Gap of the A ring near the center top.
PIA12580:
The Shortest of Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The small moon Janus is almost hidden between the planet's rings and the larger moon Rhea in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The northern part of Janus can be seen peeking above the rings.
PIA12558:
Hidden Janus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-24 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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The oblate shape of the moon Iapetus is particularly noticeable in this portrait; the two-toned surface of the moon Iapetus also stands out against the darkness of space in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12556:
Oblate Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-23 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed 'tiger stripes' near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA11688:
Bursting at the Seams: the Geyser Basin of Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-23 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This mosaic shows extraordinary details of tectonic deformation in the fractured south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where jets of water ice spray outward to form Saturn's E ring. The images were captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11686:
Enceladan Tectonics
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-23 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this high resolution image of the western hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus where newly created terrain of this geologically active moon's south polar region meets older, crater-filled terrain further north.
PIA11685:
New to Old on Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-23 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures this scene showing the bright crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus at top right. The center of the image reveals plumes of water ice spew out from fractures known as 'tiger stripes' near the south pole of the moon.
PIA11683:
Peaceful Portrait
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-23 Pan Cassini-Huygens
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Orbiting in the Encke Gap of Saturn's A ring, the moon Pan casts a shadow on the ring in this image taken about six months after the planet's August 2009 equinox by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12555:
Shadow from the Gap
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-19 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's potato-shaped moon Prometheus is rendered in three dimensions in this close-up from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. You will need 3-D glasses to view this image.
PIA12548:
Prometheus Popping in 3-D
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Saturn's potato-shaped moon Prometheus is shown in this close-up from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18186:
Prometheus Popping
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-17 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a 'mutual event' between Titan and Mimas in front of a backdrop of the planet's rings. This image was snapped shortly before Saturn's largest moon passed in front of and occulted the small moon Mimas.
PIA12551:
Big Obscures Small
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings occupy the space between two of the planet's moons in this image, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which shows the highly reflective moon Enceladus in the background and the smaller moon Janus in the fore.
PIA12550:
The Space Between
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-12 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Appearing like the swirls of marble, the wispy terrain of Saturn's moon Dione is captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in a dramatic display of light and dark. These wispy features are a system of braided canyons with bright walls.
PIA12553:
Wispy Marble
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-10 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a crescent of crater-covered surface on the moon Rhea. Lit terrain seen here is on the trailing hemisphere of Rhea. North on Rhea is up.
PIA12546:
Crescent of Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Two of Saturn's moons straddle the planet's rings in this color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Mimas is closest to NASA's Cassini spacecraft here. Epimetheus is on the far side of the rings. Saturn's shadow cuts across the middle of the rings.
PIA12543:
Color Between Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-03 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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The oblate moon Mimas displays the cratered surface of its anti-Saturn side in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12541:
Rugged Mimas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Bright spokes grace the B ring in this image which also includes the shadow of the moon Mimas and was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft about a month after Saturn's August 2009 equinox.
PIA12540:
Spoke/Shadow Combo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-01 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward a crescent of Saturn's dark and light moon, Iapetus.
PIA12539:
Eyeing Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-29 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Two of Saturn's icy moons pass each other in a mutual event recorded by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The smaller moon Enceladus passes in front of the larger moon Rhea.
PIA12538:
Enceladus Meets Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-28 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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The effects of the small moon Prometheus loom large on two of Saturn's rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft a short time before Saturn's August 2009 equinox.
PIA12537:
Affecting Two Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-26 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Janus, its rugged surface shown in shadow and light, passes before the planet's rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12535:
Janus Before the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-25 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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From NASA's Cassini spacecraft's perspective, Saturn's moon Dione passes in front of the moon Tethys in this mutual event.
PIA12534:
Passing Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-21 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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The cratered moon Mimas appears as if it has been hung like an ornament above Saturn's rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12532:
Mimas Globe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes at several albedo features on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Left to right are four dark regions: Fensal, Aztlan, Aaru and a part of Senkyo.
PIA12531:
Dark Quartet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-18 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The tortured terrain of Saturn's moon Dione is documented in this NASA Cassini spacecraft image. The wispy fractures on the moon's trailing hemisphere can be seen on the left, and cratered terrain on the moon's anti-Saturn side dominates the center.
PIA12529:
Scarred Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Tethys with its prominent Odysseus Crater silently slips behind Saturn's largest moon Titan and then emerges on the other side in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12528:
Tethys Slips Behind Titan
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Pandora and Prometheus, the shepherding moons of the F ring, orbit inside and outside the thin ring. The elongated, potato-like shapes of the two moons are both visible in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12527:
Potato Pair
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In this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the bright arc in Saturn's faint G ring contains a little something special. Although it can't be seen here, the tiny moonlet Aegaeon orbits within the bright arc.
PIA12525:
Faint Ring, Bright Arc
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-11 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's seasonal hemispheric dichotomy is chronicled in black and white, with the moon's northern half appearing slightly lighter than the dark southern half in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12524:
Halving Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-08 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea's trailing hemisphere shows off its wispy terrain on the left of this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft which includes Saturn's rings in the distance.
PIA12519:
Rings and Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-06 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines the rough dark-light dichotomy of the terrain on Saturn's moon Iapetus. Lit terrain seen here is on the Saturn-facing side of Iapetus.
PIA12521:
Iapetus' Puzzling Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-05 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's small moon Prometheus, slightly overexposed in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows off its potato-like shape as it orbits in the Roche Division between the A ring and thin F ring.
PIA12520:
Little Tuber Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The moon Enceladus passes behind the larger moon Tethys, as seen in this pair of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image on the left was taken a little more than a minute before the image on the right.
PIA12523:
Enceladus Behind Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-30 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
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The tiny moon Pandora appears beyond the bright disk of Saturn's rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Pandora orbits outside the F ring and, in this image, is farther from Cassini than the rings are.
PIA12516:
Beyond Bright Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-29 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea emerges after being occulted by the larger moon Titan in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12515:
Reappearing Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-28 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's shadow interrupts the planet's rings, leaving just thin slivers of the rings visible in this image, which shows a pair of the planet's small moons. Helene is in the center top of the image, Epimetheus is in the lower right.
PIA12514:
Splinters of Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-23 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The small moon Mimas passes in front of the larger moon Rhea which is partly obscured by Saturn's rings in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Go to the Photojournal to view the animation.
PIA11695:
Before a Veiled Rhea Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-23 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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Sunlight passing through the Cassini Division between Saturn's A and B rings sweeps across and illuminates the surface of the moon Janus in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Go to the Photojournal to view the animation.
PIA11694:
Ring Shadows on Janus Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A gaggle of moons parade around Saturn's rings in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft in which the large moon Rhea passes in front of the small moon Janus. Go to the Photojournal to view the animation.
PIA11693:
Moon Jumble Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-23 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The small moon Janus overtakes the larger moon Rhea in a dance played out before Saturn and its rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Go to the Photojournal to view the animation.
PIA11692:
Catching Big Sister Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-23 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The moon Tethys is upstaged by two smaller moons, Pandora and Prometheus, in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Go to the Photojournal to view the animation.
PIA11691:
Moons in Motion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-23 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn's largest moon as a circle of light is produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere. A detached, high-altitude global haze layer encircles the moon.
PIA12511:
Dark Side Ring of Light
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Tiny Daphnis appears as a bright dot in the Keeler Gap next to shadows cast by the moon and the edge waves it has created in the A ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft before Saturn's August 2009 equinox.
PIA12510:
Ripples from Daphnis
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Saturn's small moon Pan, brightly overexposed, casts a short shadow on the A ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft before the planet's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11647:
Stubby Shadow
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Saturn's moon Rhea passes in front of Dione, as seen from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These images are part of a 'mutual event' sequence in which one moon passes close to, or in front of, another.
PIA11646:
Dione Beyond Rhea
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Orbiting near the plane of Saturn's rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks across the span of the rings to spy the small moon Epimetheus. The brightest spoke is visible on the left of the image.
PIA11645:
Epimetheus, Rings and Spokes
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a couple of small moons in this image taken while the spacecraft was nearly in the plane of Saturn's rings.
PIA11643:
Mimas and Pan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-10 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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These two global images of Iapetus taken by NASA's Cassini's spacecraft show the extreme brightness dichotomy on the surface of this peculiar Saturnian moon.
PIA11690:
Global View of Iapetus' Dichotomy
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This false-color view taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one of a panel of three images of Saturn's moon Iapetus showing the boundary of the global 'color dichotomy' on the hemisphere of this moon facing away from Saturn.
PIA11689:
Color Dichotomy on Iapetus
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals the cratered surface of Mimas, a moon whose shape is flattened at the poles.
PIA11642:
Oblate Mimas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A pair of Saturn's moons, Pan and Janus, cast their shadows on the A ring in this NASA's Cassini spacecraft image taken about a month and a half after Saturn's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11641:
Two Pairs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-04 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Craters imprinted upon other craters record the long history of impacts endured by Saturn's moon Rhea; this image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11638:
Crater Upon Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-03 Daphnis Cassini-Huygens
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This image, which at first appears to show a serene scene, in fact reveals dramatic disturbances created in Saturn's A ring by its moon Daphnis as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11637:
Daphnis' Disturbances
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The low albedo feature known as Senkyo is visible through the haze of Titan's atmosphere in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11636:
Details of Dark Senkyo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The bright arc within Saturn's G ring is shown truncated by the shadow of the planet at the bottom of this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11635:
Slicing the Arc
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A moon's shadow strikes Saturn's rings near bright spokes on the B ring near the center of this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft about one month after the planet's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11634:
Shadow and Spokes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-26 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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Iapetus shows off its puzzling light and dark terrain in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Lit terrain seen here is on the Saturn-facing side of Iapetus.
PIA11632:
Iapetus' Terrain
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Saturn's moon Prometheus, orbiting near the streamer-channels it has created in the thin F ring, casts a shadow on the A ring in this image taken a little more than a week after the planet's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11631:
Streamer-channels and Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-23 Daphnis Cassini-Huygens
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Long shadows stretch away from the towering edge waves created by the gravity of the moon Daphnis in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft a little more than a week before Saturn's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11629:
Slanting Shadows
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Janus, Saturn's small moon named after the two-faced god, here displays two illuminated hemispheres taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11627:
Twice-lit Janus
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The small moon Pan casts a short shadow on Saturn's A ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox.
PIA11625:
Pan's Short Shadow
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the large Penelope crater on Saturn's moon Tethys. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11624:
Spotlight on Penelope
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In this image, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down on the north pole of Titan, and, although this view is centered on the leading hemisphere of the moon, the lit terrain seen here is mostly on the opposite, trailing hemisphere of the moon.
PIA11622:
Titan's Halo
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Saturn's moon Prometheus casts a shadow near a streamer-channel created by the moon in the thin F ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft about a month after the planet's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11621:
Shadow Between the Shepherds
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A crescent Iapetus shows, at the top right of this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, some of the dark terrain characterizing this unusual Saturnian moon.
PIA11620:
A Slice of Iapetus
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A pair of moon shadows and a series of spokes adorn this ring image taken about a month after Saturn's August 2009 equinox. The shadow of the moon Janus stretches across the middle of this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11618:
Shadows Side by Side
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers at the pitted surface of Saturn's small and irregularly-shaped moon Hyperion in this image taken on Sept. 5, 2009.
PIA11617:
Pitted Hyperion
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Bright sunlight on Rhea shows off the cratered surface of Saturn's second largest moon in this image captured by NASA's Cassini Orbiter. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 21, 2009.
PIA11615:
Reflecting on Icy Rhea
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Saturn's moon Prometheus casts a shadow on the narrow F ring in this image captured by NASA's Cassini Orbiter weeks after the planet's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11614:
Shadow on a Thin Ring
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About a month after Saturn's August 2009 equinox, shadows continue to grace the planet's rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini Orbiter. Pan runs through the center of this image.
PIA11612:
Shadows Still Seen
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The rings share this view with Saturn's moon Mimas, whose gravity influences the rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini Orbiter.
PIA11611:
Resonance Moon and Rings
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NASA's Cassini Orbiter sees Titan become obscured as it moves into eclipse by Saturn. Most of the light comes from refracted sunlight passing through the edge of Saturn's atmosphere.
PIA11610:
Eclipsing Titan
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NASA's Cassini Orbiter captures a far-off view of the two-toned surface of Saturn's moon, Iapetus.
PIA11609:
Shadow and a Wave
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NASA's Cassini Orbiter captures a far-off view of the two-toned surface of Saturn's moon, Iapetus. Scientists continue to investigate the nature of this moon's surface.
PIA11608:
Light-Dark Enigma
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Moon shadows are cast on Saturn's A ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini Orbiter almost a month after the planet's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11607:
Shadows on the A Ring
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NASA's Cassini Orbiter caught the shadow of the moon Prometheus as a small dark dot on Saturn just below the narrow shadow cast by the rings in the center of this image.
PIA11606:
Shadow Below Another
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Saturn's moons Prometheus and Pan cast a pair of shadows on the A ring in this image taken shortly after the planet's August 2009 equinox by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The gravity of potato-shaped Prometheus creates streamer-channels in the F ring.
PIA11604:
Prometheus and Pan Pair
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down at craters near the north pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Cratered surfaces on solar system moons indicate older terrains, while smooth surfaces are generally younger.
PIA11601:
Smooth and Rough Enceladus
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The shadows cast by Daphnis' attendant edge waves create a dark, jagged pattern on the A ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 28, 2009 as Saturn approached its August 2009 equinox.
PIA11600:
Jagged Shadows
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down on the cratered northern leading hemisphere of Saturn's moon, Dione, showing the moon's pockmarked surface.
PIA11599:
Dione's Cratered Surface
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A scalloped look is created in the edges of the Keeler Gap in Saturn's outer A ring as the moon Daphnis orbits in the gap in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Feb. 25, 2009.
PIA11598:
Pulchritudinous Perturbations
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the south pole and cratered surface of Saturn's moon Janus in this image taken by the narrow-angle camera.
PIA11597:
Janus' Cratered South
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The moon Pan casts a shadow on Saturn's outer A ring in this image taken as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox. NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this image on July 29, 2009.
PIA11595:
Round the Outside
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This ultraviolet view of Titan shows the moon's north polar hood and its detached, high-altitude haze layer. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 13, 2009.
PIA11594:
Titan's North Polar Hood
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The long shadow of a small moon cuts across Saturn's A ring and thin F ring as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11592:
Epimetheus' Long Shadow
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down on the north of Tethys and sees brightly illuminated Penelope Crater on the trailing hemisphere of the moon in this image taken on July 27, 2009.
PIA11591:
Bright Penelope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-09-29 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings cast a shadow on the moon Janus in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft made possible only around the time of the planet's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11590:
Rings Return the Favor
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