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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings cut across their own shadows on the planet and hide a tiny secret. Barely visible in the Encke Gap is the embedded moon Pan in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 18, 2007.
PIA09758:
Secretive Rings
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Following NASA's Cassini's highly successful flyby of Iapetus in Sept. 2007, the spacecraft repeatedly glanced back at the two-toned moon for some time. As Cassini receded from Iapetus, more and more of the bright trailing hemisphere rotated into view.
PIA09756:
Flyby Follow-up
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks upward from beneath the ringplane to spy the moon Mimas floating above the shadowed cloudtops of the Saturnian north in this image taken on Sept. 18, 2007.
PIA09754:
Shadowplay
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Two of Saturn's icy attendants, Pandora and Mimas, race past on their circuit of the ringed beauty in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 8, 2007.
PIA09752:
Saturn's Confidants
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini soars above the many pits and basins in the rolling landscape of Saturn's moon Iapetus. This mosaic view looks out onto an area close to the northern bright/dark boundary, but still within the dark region, Cassini Regio.
PIA08403:
Iapetan Geography
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The hummocky floor of a crater on Saturn's moon Rhea possesses a central peak and clusters of small craters as seen in this anaglyph from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08402:
Rhea's Pop-up Crater
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The cold, cratered landscape of Saturn's moon Tethys shines in stark relief in this crescent view. This view was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on June 29, 2007, from a distance of approximately 38,000 kilometers (24,000 miles).
PIA08401:
Frosty Scallops
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The vast expanse of the crater Odysseus spreads out below NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this mosaic view of Saturn's moon Tethys. Tethys is 1,071 kilometers (665 miles) across.
PIA08400:
The Crown of Tethys
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The murky orange disk of Saturn's moon Titan glides past -- a silent, floating sphere transiting Saturn. Titan is 5,150 kilometers (3200 miles) across. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was acquired from less than a degree above Saturn's ringplane.
PIA08398:
Titan Makes Contact
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The moon Prometheus slowly collides with the diffuse inner edge of Saturn's F ring in image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The oblong moon pulls a streamer of material from the ring and leaves behind a dark channel.
PIA08397:
Soft Collision Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft delivers this stunning vista showing small, battered Epimetheus and smog-enshrouded Titan, with Saturn's A and F rings stretching across the scene.
PIA08391:
Titan Beyond the Rings
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A hazy orb hangs in space, swathed in its dense cocoon of frigid atmosphere. Titan's global, detached, high-altitude haze layer is visible in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09748:
The Smog-bound Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-11 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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An icy moon drifts above the stormy skies of Saturn. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 15, 2007.
PIA09747:
Tethys Aloft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-10 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Views like this help identify the source locations for individual jets spurting ice particles, water vapor and trace organic compounds from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. This false-color view was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08386:
Jet Blue
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a high-resolution glimpse of the bright trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Iapetus.
PIA08384:
The Other Side of Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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Bright water ice forms the 'bed rock' on Iapetus, while the dark, presumably loose material apparently lies on top of the ice as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 10, 2007.
PIA08382:
Spotty Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied the transition region from Saturn's moon Iapetus' dark leading hemisphere to its bright trailing hemisphere is a complicated patchwork of craters and highlands, with low elevations filled in by dark material.
PIA08381:
A Complex Transition
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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Soaring above the alien, icy wastelands of Saturn's moon Iapetus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of the transition region from dark to bright terrain at southern middle latitudes that have been mosaicked together in this view.
PIA08380:
The Transition Zone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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This anaglyph, shows huge mountains on Saturn's moon Iapetus, imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its very close flyby in Sept. 2007. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA08379:
Towering Peaks of Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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This mosaic of Cassini images shows the smallest details ever observed on Saturn's moon Iapetus. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 10, 2007.
PIA08378:
Closest View of Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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This high-resolution view shows a vast range of crater sizes in the dark terrain of the leading hemisphere of Saturn's moon Iapetus. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 10, 2007.
PIA08377:
A Scene of Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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The slim crescent of Iapetus looms before NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it approaches the mysterious moon on Sept 10, 2007.
PIA08376:
Approaching Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Three of Saturn's closest-orbiting moons are captured here, rounding the rings. They include Atlas, Pandora, and Mimas, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 6, 2007.
PIA09744:
Cluster of Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's detached, high-altitude haze layer encircles its smoggy globe in this ultraviolet view, which also features the moon's north polar hood. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 2, 2007.
PIA09739:
Titan's Hazes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-25 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Two companion moons share the sky before NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Tethys is seen here with one of its two Trojan moons.
PIA09735:
Tethys and Calypso
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a gathering of three moons, Tethys, Rhea, and Pandora, near the rings' outer edge as the icy worlds dutifully march about Saturn.
PIA09733:
Parade of Moons
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The two moons pictured here each share their orbits with other bodies; Dione and Epimetheus taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09731:
Moons that Share
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-17 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Two icy moons meet on the sky in a 'mutual event' recorded by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The great brightness of Enceladus is rather obvious in comparison to Dione behind it.
PIA09729:
Enceladus and Dione
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Giant craters like the one seen in this view deform the shape of Hyperion, making it the largest irregularly-shaped body in the Saturn system. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09728:
Chiseled Away
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's nearly edge-on rings are caught between two moons, Dione and Pandora taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09727:
Crossing Dione
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft zooms in, for the first time, on the patchy, bright and dark mountains. The terrain seen here is located on the equator of Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007.
PIA08375:
The "Voyager" Mountains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-13 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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Dark material splatters the walls and floors of craters in the surreal, frozen wastelands of Iapetus as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 10, 2007.
PIA08374:
Inky Stains on a Frozen Moon
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NASA's Cassini surveys a bright landscape coated by dark material on Iapetus in this image taken on Sept. 10, 2007.
PIA08373:
Coated Craters
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The image, taken on Sept. 10, 2007, with NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows mountainous terrain that reaches about 10 kilometers (6 miles) high along the unique equatorial ridge of Iapetus.
PIA08372:
The Himalayas of Iapetus
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Dione looms large before the rings of Saturn in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09721:
Inclined Dione
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals details on the surface of small, irregularly shaped Helene in this close-up view, obtained during the spacecraft's closest encounter with this moon during its four-year primary mission.
PIA09015:
Helene of Troy
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Two of Saturn's moons, Mimas and Rhea, regard each other across a vast distance in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09013:
On Opposing Sides
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A string of icy moons stretches across the Saturn system in this view from nearly edge-on with the ringplane. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA09011:
Crowded Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-21 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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As NASA's Cassini spacecraft sets up for its September 2007 close encounter with the two-toned moon Iapetus, the spacecraft is seeing more of the moon's bright, trailing hemisphere.
PIA09010:
Unveiling Iapetus
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views from edge-on with the rings are perfect for capturing multiple Saturnian moons grouped closely.
PIA09008:
Cassini Scores a Triple
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This nearly equatorial view shows cratered regions on Enceladus in the central part of its leading hemisphere and high northern latitudes. This image was taken in polarized green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA09003:
Scars on an Active World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Dione floats in the sea of space, bisected by Saturn's edge-on ringplane. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 2, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.5 million kilometers from Dione.
PIA09000:
Skewered Moon
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft skims past Saturn's ringplane at a low angle, spotting two ring moons on the far side.
PIA08997:
Across the Dark Ringplane
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Off the shoulder of giant Saturn, a bright pinpoint marks the location of the ring moon Atlas (image center). Shadows cast by the C ring adorn the planet at upper right as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08996:
Sojourn at Saturn
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies two of the small, irregular moons that patrol the outer edges of Saturn's main rings.
PIA08994:
On Their Rounds
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This tilted look at Mimas highlights the many deep craters on the icy moon's trailing side. This image was taken in visible blue light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on June 12, 2007.
PIA08991:
Mimas Aslant
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The night side of Rhea shines softly in reflected light from Saturn, as captured in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. A similar effect, called Earthshine, can often be seen dimly illuminating the dark side Earth's moon.
PIA08986:
Rhea in Saturnshine
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The effects of three of Saturn's ring moons can be spotted in this single narrow-angle camera view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08985:
Three Meddlesome Moons
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snaps an excellent view of the leading side of Mimas and its distinguishing crater, Herschel. The moon's night side is partly lit by reflected light from Saturn
PIA08984:
A Major Hit
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Saturn's moon Prometheus pulls material from the tortured F ring in this detailed view. The aftereffects of the moon's other recent encounters with the ring are visible above as dark channels in the inner ringlet as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08979:
Ring Herding
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Saturn's Dione appears small and far off in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which manages to capture a detailed look at the moon's beautiful bright streaks, or 'linea.' The linea are a system of braided canyons that cut across the moon's face.
PIA08978:
Dione's Good Side
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Rhea sports an immense impact scar on its leading hemisphere, like several other major Saturnian moons. The impact basin, seen above center on the day-night dividing line, or terminator, is named Tirawa
PIA08976:
Tirawa on the Terminator
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Ithaca Chasma rips across Saturn's moon Tethys from north to south near the center of this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The moon's western limb is flattened, indicating the rim of the giant impact basin Odysseus.
PIA08974:
Band Becomes Bright
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the unilluminated side of Saturn's rings to spy on the moon Pan as it cruises through the Encke Gap.
PIA08972:
Tracking Pan
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After nearly three years at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to observe the planet's retinue of icy moons. Rhea's cratered face attests to its great age, while its bright wisps hint at tectonic activity in the past
PIA08970:
Accustomed to Her Face
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies an intriguing bright clump in Saturn's F ring. Also of interest is the dark gash that appears to cut through the ring immediately below the clump.
PIA08969:
Object of Interest
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Peering through Titan's thick haze, NASA's Cassini spacecraft glimpses boundaries between bright and dark terrain on the moon's trailing hemisphere. The bright terrain at bottom is in northwestern Adiri.
PIA08968:
Strange New World
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft surveys the battered surface of Saturn's icy moon Tethys. The great impact basin straddling the terminator is itself overprinted by many smaller impact sites.
PIA08967:
All Craters Great and Small
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies bright fractures in the icy crust of Dione. This view looks toward the northern hemisphere on Dione's anti-Saturn side.
PIA08960:
Wisps on Dione
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A small icy world plies the space between Saturn's A and F rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08957:
In-between Moon
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Peeking over the crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft views the towering plume of ice particles erupting from the moon's south polar region
PIA08954:
Icy Emanations
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft catches a glimpse of features that reveal important clues about processes occurring in Titan's atmosphere. The north polar stratosphere exhibits a banded appearance, as fast-moving clouds whirl around the giant moon.
PIA08953:
High Altitude Hints
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Janus floats above the meandering clouds of Saturn. A few of the large craters on the moon are just visible
PIA08951:
Janus Floats On
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views terrain on the bright, trailing side of Iapetus in natural color.
PIA08950:
On the Bright Side
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Prometheus pulls away from an encounter with Saturn's F ring, leaving behind a reminder of its passage. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on April 18, 2007.
PIA08947:
Hit and Run
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The F ring shepherd moon Prometheus touches the face of Saturn once more before moving off into blackness and continuing in its orbit. Images were obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on April 13, 2007.
PIA08944:
Prometheus Makes Contact
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft acquired this view of Titan on April 13, 2007, following a flyby of the Mercury-sized moon. Titan's equatorial dark regions are visible, along with faint, dark lineaments in the otherwise bland-looking terrain of the north.
PIA08943:
Titan "T28" View
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Across the expanse of Saturn's rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies two small moons in consort. Atlas is seen exterior to the bright outer edge of the A ring. Daphnis, below Atlas in this view, orbits Saturn within the narrow Keeler Gap.
PIA08941:
Ring Moon Rendezvous
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Giant pits cover the impact-eroded face of Saturn's moon, Hyperion, giving it a spongy appearance. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on April 12, 2007.
PIA08940:
Pitted Hyperion
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Grooves and deep craters adorn terrain at high southern latitudes on Saturn's moon, Dione, in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on March 23, 2007.
PIA08927:
Dione's Decorations
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Saturn's ring-embedded moons, Pan and Daphnis, are captured in an alignment they repeat with the regularity of a precise cosmic clock as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08926:
The Gap Moons
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The presence of the tiny ring moon Daphnis is betrayed by the edge waves it creates in the Keeler gap. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08924:
Moon's Signature
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Blazing like an icy torch, the plume of Saturn's moon Enceladus shines in scattered sunlight as the moon casts a shadow onto Saturn's E ring as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08921:
Casting a Shadow
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Sunlight makes visible the faint band called the E ring as two of Saturn's moons, Enceladus and Tethys, meet in the sky. Enceladus' brilliant plume of ice erupting from its south pole as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08919:
Moons in the Night
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The shepherd moon Prometheus is lit partly by reflected light from Saturn as it lurks near the heavily perturbed F ring as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08918:
Shifting Strands
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The high northern latitudes on Saturn's moon Enceladus show little detail from NASA's Cassini's distant vantage point, nearly 50 degrees above the moon's equator.
PIA08915:
Astral Pearl
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The oblong form of Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus glides by, trailing behind it wiggles in Saturn's ribbon-like F ring as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08914:
The Perturber
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is of the Odysseus impact basin which lies between night and day on Saturn's moon Tethys.
PIA08913:
Odysseus Into the Dark
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Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus draws a fresh streamer of material from the F ring as it passes the ring's interior edge as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08910:
Streamer Genesis
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The rapidly rotating clouds above Titan's northernmost latitudes stretch into streaks that circumscribe the pole. The ultraviolet spectral filter used to take this image allows NASA's Cassini spacecraft to view the moon's stratosphere.
PIA08907:
Circumpolar Bands
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Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus draws material from the F ring along an invisible thread of gravity. Near lower left is an identical feature the moon created on a previous pass near the ring as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08916:
Moon at Work
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Chaotically tumbling and seriously eroded by impacts, Hyperion is one of Saturn's more unusual satellites in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft .
PIA08904:
Unusual Hyperion
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Darkness sweeps over Iapetus as NASA's Cassini spacecraft watches the shadow of Saturn's B ring engulf the dichotomous moon. The image at left shows the unshaded moon, while at right, Iapetus sits in the shadow of the densest of Saturn's rings
PIA08902:
Cloaking Iapetus
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NASA's Cassini peers through the murky orange haze of Titan to spy what are believed to be bodies of liquid hydrocarbons, two of them as large as seas on Earth, near the moon's north pole.
PIA08365:
Exploring the Wetlands of Titan
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Two moons of Saturn, Pan and Pandora, rendezvous in the Saturnian skies above NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08897:
Helene and Mimas
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Bright icy fractures, or linea, cover the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon, Dione, in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 3, 2007.
PIA08895:
Dionean Linea
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This strikingly crisp view shows Atlas heading into Saturn's shadow at upper left. The moon's basic, elongated shape is easy to detect as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08887:
Toward the Shadow
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Daphnis cruises through the Keeler Gap, raising edge waves in the ring material as it passes. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08882:
Disturbances by Daphnis
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down under at the tortured south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, crossed by its 'tiger stripes,' or sulci, as the long, nearly parallel fractures are officially known.
PIA08881:
Icy Outpost?
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Titan bears a distinct east-west banded pattern in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft image taken on Dec. 25, 2006. The moon's halo -- its detached, high-altitude global haze layer is visible.
PIA08868:
Bands of Titan
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These two images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken about eight minutes apart, show clump-like structures and a great deal of dust in Saturn's ever-changing F ring.
PIA08863:
Breakup Captured?
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Bright undulations disturb a faint ringlet drifting through the center of the Encke Gap. This ring structure shares the orbit of the moon Pan as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08861:
The Bends
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Pan is seen in this color view as it sweeps through the Encke Gap with its attendant ringlets. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08857:
Pan's Progress
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Canyons and mountain peaks snake along the terminator on the crater-covered, icy moon Dione. A line of mountain ridges above center casts shadows toward the east as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08856:
Shadows on Ice
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Prometheus dips into the inner F ring at its farthest point from Saturn in its orbit, creating a dark gore and a corresponding bright streamer as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08849:
Act of Creation
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Prometheus interacts gravitationally with the inner flanking ringlets of the F ring, creating dark channels as it passes. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08847:
Moon and Its Handiwork
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The striated appearance of the F ring is immediately apparent in the region of the ring that trails behind the moon Prometheus as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08845:
The "Gore-y" Details
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Fine topographic detail and color variations are revealed in this 11-image, false color mosaic taken during NASA's Cassini's second close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, on March 9, 2005.
PIA08355:
Exploring Icy Canyons
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This mosaic provides the best view yet obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, showing terrain on the moon's sub-Saturn hemisphere -- the side of the moon that always faces toward Saturn.
PIA08352:
Improving the View of Titan
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Cassini peers around the hazy limb of Titan to spy the sunlit south pole of Saturn in the distance beyond in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 26, 2005.
PIA08351:
Peeking at Saturn
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