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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-20 3900x2860x3
Two prototypes for a NASA mission concept called SWIM are arranged beside a much smaller nonfunctioning model representing the final envisioned size of the robot: about 5 inches (12 centimeters) long.
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NASA's SWIM Prototypes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-20 3024x4032x3
A model of the final envisioned SWIM robot, right, sits beside a capsule holding an ocean-composition sensor. The sensor was tested on an Alaskan glacier in July 2023.
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Model of NASA's SWIM Robot on Glacial Ice in Alaska
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-20 3840x2160x3
A prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons is reflected in the water's surface during a pool test at Caltech in September, 2024.
PIA26423:
NASA's SWIM Robot Casts Reflection During Pool Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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This image is a simulation of how NASA's Europa Clipper will understand which areas of the Jovian moon Europa are warm and active by studying the moon's thermal emissions.
PIA26105:
Simulated View of Thermal Emissions from Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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Scientists think six icy moons in our solar system may currently host oceans of liquid water beneath their outer surfaces.
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Icy Moons in Our Solar System That May Have Oceans Now
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-31 ORCAA
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A group of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other institutions spent two weeks on a glacier in Alaska in July 2023 for a project called ORCAA.
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NASA JPL'S ORCAA Field Work in Alaska
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-14 Europa Galileo
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Another image of Jupiter's moon Europa captured in the 1990s by NASA's Galileo shows possible fault scarps adjacent to smooth areas that may have been produced by landslides.
PIA25499:
Europa's Surface: Up-Close Topography
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-14 Europa Galileo
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This view of Jupiter's moon Europa was captured in the 1990s by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The smooth slopes and nearby rubble may have been produced by landslides.
PIA25498:
Europa Close-Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-28 19088x12500x3
In the Sensing With Independent Micro-Swimmers (SWIM) concept, illustrated here, dozens of small robots would descend through the icy shell of a distant moon via a cryobot to the ocean below.
PIA25313:
SWIM Exploring a Subsurface Ocean (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-07 3814x1856x3
If a planet rotates too fast it will experience bulging around its midsection, as seen in this animated illustration of a brown dwarf, Jupiter, and Saturn.
PIA24376:
Flattening of Brown Dwarf, Jupiter and Saturn (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This infrared global map of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus was created using images acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA24027:
Enceladus in the Infrared (Map View)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-18 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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New composite images made from NASA's Cassini spacecraft data are the most detailed global infrared views ever produced of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA24023:
Enceladus in the Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-02-24 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration shows Saturn's icy moon Enceladus with the plume of ice particles, water vapor and organic molecules that sprays from fractures in the moon's south polar region.
PIA23175:
Enceladus Global View with Plume (Artist's Rendering)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-02-12 Earth Voyager
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This image shows an updated version of the iconic Pale Blue Dot image taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
PIA23645:
Pale Blue Dot Revisited
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-11-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Radar Mapper
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The first global geologic map of Titan is based on radar and visible-light images from NASA's Cassini mission, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017.
PIA23174:
First Global Geologic Map of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-10-02 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration shows the process of organic compounds making their way onto ice grains emitted in plumes from Saturn's moon Enceladus, where they were detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA23173:
Enceladus Organics on Grains of Ice (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-25 1920x1440x3
An illustration of the small robots that form Shapeshifter. Dubbed 'cobots,' they each have a propeller for flying and can combine to form a sphere, rolling on the ground to save energy.
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Transforming Cobots (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-25 875x700x3
An illustration of an early concept of Shapeshifter imagines the robots on Saturn's moon Titan. In the picture, the Shapeshifter breaks into smaller pieces that can investigate a methane waterfall from the sky.
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Illustration of Shapeshifter on Titan's Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-25 3342x1762x3
A prototype of the transforming robot Shapeshifter is tested in the robotics yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Shapeshifter is made of smaller robots that can morph into rolling spheres, flying drones, swimming submersibles, and more.
PIA23433:
Shapeshifter Prototype Rolls and Flies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-12 Jupiter Juno
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NASA's Juno spacecraft shows Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot, a storm that has been raging since at least the 1800s.
PIA23436:
A Storm of Change
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-06 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features such as those seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft around the moon's Winnipeg Lacus.
PIA23172:
Titan's Rimmed Lakes (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-06-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Saturn's rings, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, illustrates how textures in the rings can differ, even in close proximity.
PIA23171:
Texture in the Outer Cassini Division
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-06-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows false-color spectral mapping images of Saturn's A, B and C rings.
PIA23170:
Infrared Eye Yields New Spectral Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-06-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows evidence in the core region of the F ring, visible here, that a population of small objects impacted the rings at the same time and caused streaks of material to emerge.
PIA23169:
Mini-jets in the F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-06-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the sunlit side of Saturn's rings.
PIA23168:
Texture Belts
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-06-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows this enhanced-color image mosaic of Daphnis, one of the moons embedded in Saturn's rings.
PIA23167:
Embedded Moons Sculpt Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This graphic shows the ring moons inspected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in super-close flybys. The rings and moons depicted are not to scale.
PIA22772:
Cassini Moons Flybys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-12-06 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This global mosaic of Titan's surface was generated by combining 9,873 separate ISS images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over more than 13 years of Cassini operations at Saturn.
PIA22770:
Titan Mosaic: The Surface Under the Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-10-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration imagines the view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft during one of its final dives between Saturn and its innermost rings, as part of the mission's Grand Finale.
PIA22768:
Grand Finale: One of Cassini's Last Dives (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-10-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings as part of the mission's Grand Finale.
PIA22767:
Grand Finale: Cassini in the Gap (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-10-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn.
PIA22766:
Cassini orbiting Saturn (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This compilation of images from nine flybys of Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2009 and 2010 captures three instances when clear bright spots suddenly appeared in images.
PIA22484:
Dust Storms on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation shows clear bright spots on Saturn's moon, Titan, that have been interpreted as evidence of dust storms.
PIA22483:
Spotting Dust Storms on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Artist's concept of a dust storm on Saturn's moon, Titan.
PIA22482:
Dust Storms Raised by Strong Winds on Titan (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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During NASA's Cassini mission's final distant encounter with Saturn's giant moon Titan, the spacecraft captured this view of the enigmatic moon's north polar landscape of lakes and seas.
PIA22481:
Titan Lakes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-08-20 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Tethys disappearing behind Titan as observed by Cassini on Nov. 26, 2009. Tethys is about 660 miles (1,070 kilometers) across.
PIA22648:
Tête-à-tête
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-08-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that the rings of Saturn are made mostly of particles of water ice that range in size from smaller than a grain of sand to as large as mountains.
PIA14943:
Translucent Arcs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured five of Saturn's moons. Moons visible in this view: Janus; Pandora; Enceladus, Mimas & Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea.
PIA12797:
Group Portrait
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Roddy Crater on Mars, home to several large alluvial fans, which formed as water moved sediment from the mountainous crater rim and deposited it onto the flatter crater floor.
PIA22594:
Fans of Roddy Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These six infrared images of Saturn's moon Titan created using data acquired by the VIMS instrument onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft represent some of the clearest, most seamless-looking global views of the icy moon's surface produced so far.
PIA21923:
Seeing Titan with Infrared Eyes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows its view from orbit around Saturn on Jan. 2, 2010. The rings on the night side of the planet have been brightened significantly to more clearly reveal their features.
PIA12567:
Planet Six
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-06-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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On Aug. 17, 2015, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Odysseus crater with its ring of steep cliffs and the mountains that rise at its center, the most visually striking feature on Saturn's icy moon, Tethys.
PIA21613:
Mighty Odysseus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The detached haze layer that surrounds Titan is clearly visible against Saturn and its rings in the background, the haze growing more complex in its structure near the poles in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA19642:
A World All Its Own
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings cast dark bands across cloud tops in the northern hemisphere. Near the pole, an elongated shadow can be seen from Saturn's moon Tethys. Icy moons Dione (front right) and Enceladus (back right) are also seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18320:
A Stage for Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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On March 13, 2006 Cassini's narrow-angle camera captured this look at Saturn and its rings, seen here nearly edge on. The frame also features Mimas and tiny Janus (above the rings), and Tethys (below the rings).
PIA18323:
Postcard from the Ring Plane
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings display their subtle colors in this view captured on Aug. 22, 2009, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The ice particles that make up the rings range in size from smaller than a grain of sand to as large as mountains.
PIA22418:
Gravity's Rainbow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-09 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione drifts before the planet's rings, seen here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft almost edge on. For all their immense width, the rings are relatively paper-thin.
PIA17219:
Dione on the Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-02 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings cast shadows on the planet's cloud tops, providing a perfect backdrop for the brilliant sphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA17216:
Taking a Shine to Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's shadow sweeps across the rings in a view captured on Nov. 5, 2006 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Countless icy particles that make up the rings bask in full daylight.
PIA17199:
The Edge of the Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-12 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this striking view of Saturn's moon Dione on July 23, 2012. Its density suggests that about a third of the moon is made up of a dense core (probably silicate rock) with the remainder of its material being water ice.
PIA17197:
Dramatic Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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In this image, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sees Saturn and its rings through a wispy haze of Sun glare.
PIA17185:
Glare on the Window
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn looks toward the planet's night side, lit in golden hues by sunlight reflected from the rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA21903:
Final Frontier
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-12 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Enceladus drifts before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 1, 2009. The Sun provides striking illumination for the icy particles that make up both the rings and the jets.
PIA17144:
A Song of Ice and Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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In this view, Saturn's icy moon Rhea passes in front of Titan as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. While Rhea is a heavily-cratered, airless world, Titan's nitrogen-rich atmosphere is even thicker than Earth's.
PIA21904:
Contrasting Crescents
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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In this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, individual layers of haze can be distinguished in the upper atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
PIA21902:
Twilight Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings, made of countless icy particles, form a translucent veil in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's tiny moon Pan orbits within the Encke Gap in the A ring.
PIA21901:
Veil of Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-12-25 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Enceladus drifting before the rings, which glow brightly in the sunlight. Beneath its icy exterior shell, Enceladus hides a global ocean of liquid water.
PIA21900:
All Aglow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These two images illustrate just how far NASA's Cassini spacecraft traveled to get to Saturn. At left, one of the earliest images taken of the ringed planet. At right, one of Cassini's final images of Saturn.
PIA21353:
Alpha and Omega
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, NASA's Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by firing the shutters of its wide-angle camera and capturing this last, full mosaic of Saturn and its rings.
PIA17218:
A Farewell to Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image is of NASA's Cassini spacecraft's final observation of Saturn's icy moon Rhea on May 2, 2017. The spacecraft was at the time high above the plane of Saturn's rings, looking down at Rhea's northern hemisphere.
PIA21354:
Above Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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In this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, a bright and narrow ringlet located toward the outer edge of the C ring is flanked by two broader features called plateaus.
PIA21356:
So Long, C Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-06 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
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As NASA's Cassini hurtled toward its fatal encounter with Saturn, the spacecraft turned to catch this final look at Saturn's moon Pandora next to the thin line of the F ring.
PIA21355:
Pandora, the Would-Be Perturber
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Reflected sunlight is the source of the illumination for visible wavelength images such as this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA21351:
The North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's graceful lanes of orbiting ice (its iconic rings) wind their way around the planet to pass beyond the horizon in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA21352:
The Grace of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Cassini used its Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph to capture this final view of ultraviolet auroral emissions in Saturn's north polar region on Sept. 14, 2017.
PIA21899:
Polar Lights at Saturn Bid Cassini Farewell Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini obtained this panoramic view of Saturn's rings on Sept. 9, 2017, just minutes after it passed through the ring plane. The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
PIA21898:
Inside-Out Rings: View From Beneath
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn looms in the foreground of this mosaic of NASA's Cassini images, taken by the spacecraft on May 28, 2017. The planet is adorned by ring shadows. The icy rings emerge from behind the planet. Cassini ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
PIA21897:
Inside-Out Rings: Over the Limb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-16 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione is captured in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, half in shadow and half in light. Sinuous canyons carve interconnected paths across the moon's icy landscape. The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
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Half-lit Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's cloud belts moving around the planet in a circular path with the wandering, hexagon-shaped polar jet stream breaking the mold. The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
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Circles and Hexagons
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Stunning views like this image of Saturn's night side are only possible thanks to our robotic emissaries like NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
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Goodbye to the Dark Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-25 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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The brightly lit limb of a crescent Enceladus looks ethereal against the blackness of space as seen by NASA's Cassini's spacecraft. The rest of the moon, lit by light reflected from Saturn, presents a ghostly appearance.
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Phantom Limb
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft bids farewell to Saturn's yin-and-yang moon, Iapetus. This image is from the last set of observations Cassini made of this world of striking contrasts.
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Farewell to Iapetus
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This montage of images, made from data obtained by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows the location on Saturn where the NASA spacecraft entered Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017.
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Impact Site: Infrared Image Animation Icon
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This monochrome view is the last image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. It looks toward the planet's night side, lit by reflected light from the rings, and shows the location at which the spacecraft would enter the planet's atmosphere hours later.
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Impact Site: Cassini's Final Image
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This view of Saturn's A ring features a lone 'propeller,' one of many such features created by small moonlets embedded in the rings as they attempt, unsuccessfully, to open gaps in the ring material, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017.
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Lone Propeller
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This image of Saturn's outer A ring features the small moon Daphnis and the waves it raises in the edges of the Keeler Gap. The image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017. It is among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth.
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Daphnis' Final Appearance
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This image of Saturn's northern hemisphere was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017. It is among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth.
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Saturn: Before the Plunge
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This image of Saturn's rings was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017. It is among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth.
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Finale Ringscape
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As it glanced around the Saturn system one final time, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of the planet's giant moon Titan. These views were obtained by Cassini on Sept. 13, 2017. They are among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth.
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A Last Look at Titan
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Saturn's active, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus sinks behind the giant planet in a farewell portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view of Enceladus was taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017.
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Enceladus Setting Behind Saturn (Image & Movie)
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazed toward the northern hemisphere of Saturn to spy subtle, multi-hued bands in the clouds there.
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Dreamy Swirls on Saturn
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With this view, NASA's Cassini captured one of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance. The Saturn system has been Cassini's home for 13 years, but that journey is nearing its end.
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So Far from Home
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is the last dedicated observation of the Enceladus plume, taken Aug. 28, 2017.
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Last Enceladus Plume Observation Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one the highest-resolution color images of any part of Saturn's rings, to date, showing a portion of the inner-central part of the planet's B Ring.
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Colorful Structure at Fine Scales
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn's rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral density wave.
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Staggering Structure
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a 'spacecraft's eye' view of Enceladus during Cassini's recent flyby on Aug. 1, 2017.
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Nevertheless, It Moves Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These turbulent clouds are on top of the world at Saturn. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn's north pole on April 26, 2017, the day it began its Grand Finale.
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Top of the World
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This frame from a movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft offers a unique perspective on Saturn's ring system. Cassini from within the gap between the planet and its rings, looking outward.
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Cassini's 'Inside-Out' Rings Movie Animation Icon
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On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Neptune and that planet's largest moon Triton. The Cassini mission is publishing this image to celebrate the anniversary of that event.
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Neptune from Saturn
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NASA's Cassini gazes across the icy rings of Saturn toward the icy moon Tethys, whose night side is illuminated by Saturnshine, or sunlight reflected by the planet.
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Saturn-lit Tethys
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Clouds on Saturn take on the appearance of strokes from a cosmic brush thanks to the wavy way that fluids interact in Saturn's atmosphere in this false color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Cloudy Waves (False Color)
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During its final targeted flyby of Titan on April 22, 2017, NASA's Cassini radar mapper got the mission's last close look at the moon's surface.
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Cassini's Final Titan Radar Swath
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn's moon Titan in a view that highlights the extended, hazy nature of the moon's atmosphere.
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Highlighting Titan's Hazes
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These two views of Saturn's moon Titan exemplify how NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed the surface of this fascinating world.
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Two Titans
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The thin sliver of Saturn's moon Prometheus lurks near ghostly structures in Saturn's narrow F ring in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Many of the narrow ring's faint and wispy features result from its gravitational interactions with Prometheus.
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Prometheus and the Ghostly F Ring
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NASA's Cassini saw Saturn's northern hemisphere reach its summer solstice in mid-2017, bringing continuous sunshine to the planet's far north. The solstice took place on May 24, 2017.
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Good Old Summer Time
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NASA's Cassini gazed toward high southern latitudes near Saturn's south pole to observe ghostly curtains of dancing light, Saturn's southern auroras, or southern lights.
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Southern Auroras Over Saturn Animation Icon
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the near-infrared images in this mosaic on June 29, 2017, as it raced toward the gap between Saturn and its rings.
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Cassini Near-Infrared "Noodle" Mosaic of Saturn
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This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the rings beyond Saturn's sunlit horizon, where a thin haze can be seen along the limb.
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Haze on the Horizon
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This colorful spectrogram represents data collected by the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument onboard NASA's Cassini's spacecraft as it crossed through Saturn's D ring on May 28, 2017.
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Cassini's First D-Ring Crossing
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