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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-01 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
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Pandora is seen in this dramatic view, orbiting just beyond the outer edge of Saturn's F ring. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Feb. 18, 2005.
PIA06618:
Pandora at the Edge
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This sweeping view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft gives a sense of the awesome scale of the planet's disk-like ring system, which stretches far into the distance. The shepherd moon Prometheus maintains a lonely sojourn with the thin, outer F ring.
PIA06616:
I Can See for Miles and Miles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-29 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's small, irregularly-shaped moon Epimetheus orbits against the backdrop of the planet's rings, which are nearly edge-on in this view. The image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Feb. 18, 2005.
PIA06615:
Big Boulder
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-24 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft was nearly in the plane of Saturn's rings when it took this image of Janus.
PIA06612:
Janus Rides the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-15 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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One of Saturn's strange co-orbital moons, Epimetheus, was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this view.
PIA06605:
Epimetheus Alone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-11 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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The irregularly-shaped moon Janus and the small ring moon Atlas had just emerged from the darkness of Saturn's shadow when NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught this view of the two moons.
PIA06603:
Little Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows intriguing features resembling drapes and kinks, which are visible in this view of Saturn's thin F ring.
PIA06600:
In the Moon's Wake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three of Saturn's ring moons in a single view.
PIA06595:
Flock of Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-18 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Three of Saturn's moons appear almost like a string of pearls in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but looks are deceiving.
PIA06588:
String of Moons?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The oddball shapes of Saturn's small ring moons Prometheus and Epimetheus are discernible in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06587:
Irregular Pair
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows, from upper right to lower left, the thin C ring, multi-toned B ring, the dark Cassini Division, the A ring and narrow F ring.
PIA06586:
Bound to Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-15 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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Reflected light from Saturn dimly illuminates the night side of the cratered moon Mimas in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06585:
Outsider Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's most prominent feature, its dazzling ring system, takes center stage in this stunning natural color mosaic which reveals the color and diversity present in this wonder of the solar system.
PIA06175:
Panoramic Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-31 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a dramatic portrait painted by the Sun, the long thin shadows of Saturn's rings sweep across the planet's northern latitudes.
PIA06574:
Sun-striped Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie, showing six of Saturn's small ring-region moons as they raced around the planet, was made from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 15, 2004.
PIA06174:
Race of the Moons Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The sunlit face of Saturn's rings shows magnificent detail in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken in near infrared light.
PIA06563:
Light and Dark Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Variations in ring particle concentration give Saturn's brilliant rings the appearance of ripples in a pond in this close-up view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06543:
Rippled Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Saturn's outer C ring from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows large and sharp changes in brightness across the rings, owing to the extreme variations in ring particle concentrations at different distances from the planet.
PIA06540:
Plateaus and Gaps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn's outer C ring captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the extreme variations in brightness, along with the subtle, large-scale wavy variations discovered 24 years ago by NASA's Voyager spacecraft.
PIA06539:
Outer C Ring Detail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's inner C ring spreads across the field of view in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, showing the characteristic plateau and wave-like structure for which it is famed.
PIA06537:
Intricate C Ring Details
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Zigzagging kinks and knots dance around Saturn in this frame from a movie of the F ring from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06144:
Tilt and Whirl Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows subtle, wavelike patterns, hundreds of narrow features resembling a record's 'grooves' in Saturn's outer B-ring, and a noticeable abrupt change in overall brightness beyond the dark gap near the right.
PIA06535:
Outer B Ring Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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An intriguing knotted ringlet within the Encke Gap is the main attraction in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06534:
Mind the Gap
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-17 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn hosts its own miniature solar system, with an entourage of more than 30 moons. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's A and F rings.
PIA06522:
Atlas, Pandora and Janus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captures several important targets of NASA's Cassini mission: icy moons, rings, and the gaps in the rings that may contain small undiscovered moons.
PIA06501:
Moons and Gaps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied two members of Saturn's family rounding the rings in this image from Aug. 20, 2004.
PIA06497:
Rounding the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Gazing beyond Saturn's magnificent rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spotted the cause of the dark gap visible in the foreground of this image: Mimas, which is 398 kilometers (247 miles) wide.
PIA06495:
Eyeing the Culprit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's colorful rings sweep through this spectacular natural color view while two small moons look on.
PIA06485:
Musical Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's faintly banded atmosphere is delicately colored and its threadbare rings cross their own shadows in this marvelous natural color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06114:
Colorful Threads and Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-16 Mimas,S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Mimas hangs in the sky above Saturn's rings, as shown in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06478:
Hovering Mimas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A small new found object, temporarily designated S/2004 S 3, has been seen orbiting Saturn's outer F ring. This is a frame from a movie sequence of 18 images taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on June 21, 2004.
PIA06115:
New Object in F ring Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings appear golden as the planet's shadow drapes across nearly the whole span of the rings. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Mimas in the upper left corner.
PIA06424:
Golden Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's atmosphere is prominently shown with the rings emerging from behind the planet at upper right. The two moons on the left of the image, Mimas and Enceladus, were captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06423:
Bold Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn and its rings are prominently shown in this color image, along with three of Saturn's smaller moons. This image was taken on June 18, 2004, with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow angle camera, 8.2 million kilometers from Saturn.
PIA06422:
Pretty in Pink
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The image on the left was taken on Nov. 1, 1980, by NASA's Voyager spacecraft. It shows a narrow shadow cast on the equatorial region of Saturn's atmosphere by the rings. The image on the right was acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 10, 2004.
PIA06415:
Saturn's Ring Shadow, Then and Now
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The dark shadow of Saturn's southern hemisphere spreads across the planet's rings all the way to the Encke gap. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on June 21, 2004.
PIA05424:
Light and Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image of the lit face of Saturn's outer, or A ring was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shortly after crossing the ring plane after its orbit insertion burn.
PIA06709:
Rings Galore
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-22 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Nine days before it entered orbit, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this exquisite natural color view of Saturn's rings.
PIA05421:
Ringscape In Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a dramatic view of Saturn's rings draped by the shadow of Saturn.
PIA05417:
Rings and More Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's F ring.
PIA06351:
Streaming F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows in superb detail the region in Saturn's rings known as the Encke Gap. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06099:
The Encke Gap as Never Seen Before
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This is one of the first images of Saturn's F ring taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft after it successfully entered Saturn's orbit.
PIA06098:
Wide View of Saturn's F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This is one of the first images of Saturn's F ring taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft after it successfully entered Saturn's orbit.
PIA06097:
Cassini's First Picture of F Ring
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This image shows a close-up view of a density wave in Saturn's A ring. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06096:
Rings Full of Waves (zoom)
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This image shows three density waves in Saturn's A ring. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06095:
Rings Full of Waves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft after it successfully entered Saturn's orbit.
PIA06094:
Rippling Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows a bending wave (right) and density wave in Saturn's A ring, interior to the Encke Gap. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06093:
Two Waves in One Spectacular Image of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows the region of Saturn's rings known as the Cassini Division. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06092:
Cassini Captures the Cassini Division
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's peaceful beauty invites NASA's Cassini spacecraft for a closer look in this natural color view, taken during the spacecraft's approach to the planet.
PIA06077:
Ringworld Waiting
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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In this image, dark regions represent areas where NASA's Cassini spacecraft is seeing into deeper levels in Saturn's atmosphere.
PIA05413:
Saturn's Atmosphere and Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's magnificent rings show some of their intricate structure in this image taken on May 11, 2004, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow angle camera.
PIA05410:
Rings and Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Prometheus orbiting inside the planet's F-ring, which exhibits some of the knotted structure for which it is renowned.
PIA05402:
Prometheus and Knots in the F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The path that lies ahead for NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission is indicated in this image which illustrates where the spacecraft will be just 27 days from now, when it arrives at Saturn.
PIA06061:
Passage through the Ring Plane
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken May 21, 2004 displays the ringed planet's subtle, multi-hued atmospheric bands.
PIA06060:
Colorful Saturn, Getting Closer
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This image of Saturn captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows white feathery clouds near 45 degrees south latitude.
PIA05400:
Atmospheric Detail in the Near Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the multitude of grooves for which Saturn's rings are famed.
PIA05396:
Groovy Rings and Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft returned this image of Saturn on May 16, 2004, when its imaging science subsystem narrow-angle camera was too close to fit the entire planet in its field-of-view.
PIA05983:
Saturn from Far and Near (Cassini-Huygens)
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Hubble Space Telescope
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These images are from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken March 22 (top) and May 16, 2004, of Saturn's displays its familiar banded structure, with haze and clouds at various altitudes.
PIA05981:
Saturn from Far and Near
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings cast threadlike shadows on the planet's northern hemisphere. Note the translucent C ring, and thin outermost F ring. The image was taken with NASA's Cassini narrow angle camera in visible light on May 10, 2004.
PIA05394:
Rings and Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft shows two of Saturn's moons, Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles across) and Pandora (84 kilometers, or 52 miles across), shepherding the planet's narrow F-ring.
PIA05393:
Pandora and Prometheus Near F Ring
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As NASA's Cassini nears its rendezvous with Saturn, new detail in the banded clouds of the planet's atmosphere are becoming visible.
PIA05391:
Bands of Clouds and Lace
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NASA's Cassini has sighted Prometheus and Pandora, the two F-ring-shepherding moons whose unpredictable orbits both fascinate scientists and wreak havoc on the F ring.
PIA05387:
Prometheus and Pandora
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These images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show clumps seemingly embedded within Saturn's narrow, outermost F ring.
PIA05382:
Clumps in the F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-28 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn's rings are bright and its northern hemisphere defined by bright features as NASA's Voyager 2 approaches Saturn, which it will encounter on Aug. 25, 1981.
PIA03152:
Saturn's Atmospheric Changes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 S Rings Voyager
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This narrow-angle camera image of Saturn's F Ring was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 through the Clear filter while at a distance of 6.9 million km from Saturn on 8 November 1980.
PIA02293:
Saturn's F-Ring
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This narrow-angle camera image of Saturn's F Ring was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 through the Clear filter while at a distance of 0.75 million km from Saturn on 12 November 1980.
PIA02292:
Saturn's F-Ring
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NASA's Voyager 2 returned this wide-angle, clear-filtered image of the shadow of Saturn upon the rings just after engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory successfully commanded the camera platform to point to the planet.
PIA02285:
Saturn's Shadow Upon the Rings
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Saturn's F, or outermost ring was photographed from the un-illuminated face of the rings by NASA's Voyager 1 at a range of 750,000 kilometers (470,000 miles).
PIA02283:
Saturn's F Ring
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This narrow-angle camera image of Saturn's B Ring and Cassini Division was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 through the Clear filter from a distance of 12.6 million km on 3 November 1980.
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Saturn's B rings
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained this high-resolution picture of Saturn's rings Aug. 22, when the spacecraft was 4 million kilometers (2.5 million miles) away.
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Saturn's Rings - High Resolution
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Prominent dark spokes are visible in the outer half of Saturn's broad B-ring in this NASA Voyager 2 photograph taken on Aug. 3, 1981 from a range of about 22 million kilometers (14 million miles).
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Saturn's B-ring
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The three separate components of Saturn's F-ring are seen in this image taken by NASA's Voyager l on Nov. 12, 1980, from a range of 750,000 kilometers (466,000) miles.
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Saturn's F-ring
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The crescent of Saturn, the planet's rings and their shadows are seen in this NASA Voyager 1 image taken Nov. 13, 1980 at a distance of 1,500,000 kilometers (930,000 miles) as the spacecraft began to leave the Saturn system.
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Crescent of Saturn
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Eight hours after its closest approach to Saturn on Nov. 12, 1980, NASA's Voyager 1 took this picture of the planet's ring system.
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Saturn's Ring System
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NASA's Voyager 1 has found a 15th moon orbiting Saturn, visible near the bottom of this picture taken on Nov. 6, 1980, when the spacecraft was still 8 million kilometers (5 million miles) from Saturn.
PIA02263:
Saturn's 15th moon, 1980S28
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When seen from the unlit side, the rings of Saturn present a much different appearance from that familiar to telescopic observers, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA02241:
Saturn's Rings
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This detailed mosaic of the underside of the Cassini Division was obtained by NASA's Voyager 1 with a resolution of about 10 kilometers.
PIA02242:
Mosaic of Saturn's Rings
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This computer-assembled two-image mosaic of Saturn's rings, taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 6, 1980 at a range of 8 million kilometers (5 million miles), shows approximately 95 individual concentric features in the rings.
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Two-image Mosaic of Saturn's Rings
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This view of Saturn's A-ring was obtained Aug. 23, when NASA's Voyager 2 was about 2.8 million kilometers (1.7 million miles) from the planet.
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Saturn's A-Ring
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NASA's Voyager 1 looked back at Saturn on Nov. 16, 1980, four days after the spacecraft flew past the planet, to observe the appearance of Saturn and its rings from this unique perspective.
PIA01969:
Saturn and its Rings
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NASA's Voyager 2 returned this view of Saturn and its ring system Aug. 11, when the spacecraft was 13.9 million kilometers (8.6 million miles) away and approaching the large, gaseous planet at about l million km. (620,000 mi.) a day.
PIA01966:
Saturn and its Ring System
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This long exposure of the ring region about 150,000 to 200,000 kilometers (90,000 to 120,000 miles) from the center of Saturn captured the very faint G-ring, seen at left. NASA's Voyager 2 took this image on Aug. 26, 1981.
PIA01964:
Saturn's Ring Region
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NASA's Voyager 2 high-resolution view of Saturn's rings on Aug. 23, 1981, at a range of 3.3 million kilometers (2 million miles). The planet's limb is visible through the C-ring and the inner part of the B-ring.
PIA01962:
High-resolution View of Saturn's Rings
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Spokes are seen on the unlit side of Saturn's rings for the first time in this image from NASA's Voyager 2 wide-angle view obtained Aug. 28, 1981, from a distance of 3.4 million kilometers (2.1 million miles).
PIA01955:
Spokes on Side of Saturn's Rings
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The outer edge of Saturn's A-ring is detailed in this image obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 26, 1981, just half an hour before closest approach, at a range of about 51,000 kilometers (31,700 miles).
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Outer Edge of Saturn's A-ring
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NASA's Voyager 2 acquired this photograph of Saturn's A-ring Aug. 26, 1981, from a distance of 227,800 kilometers (141,500 miles). This view of the ring's outer edge shows a small bright, clumpy ring within the Encke Gap.
PIA01952:
Saturn's A-ring
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Saturn's F-ring and its inner shepherding satellite (1980S27) are pictured in this closeup of NASA's Voyager 2 image acquired Aug. 25,1981, from a range of 365,000 kilometers (227,000 miles).
PIA01951:
Saturn's F-ring and Inner Satellite
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This view shows some detail and differences in the complex system of rings. This was one of the first pictures obtained once NASA's Voyager 2 resumed returning images Aug. 29, 1979 after its scan platform was commanded to view Saturn.
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View of Saturn's Rings
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this high-resolution image of Saturn's F-ring Aug. 26, 1980 from a distance of 51,500 kilometers (32,000 miles). This closeup view shows that the ring is made up of at least four distinct components.
PIA01387:
Image of Saturn's F-ring
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This composite image shows two views of the outer edge of Saturn's B-ring (left) and the inner part of the Cassini Division (right) in the rings as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 25, 1981.
PIA01390:
Outer edge of Saturn's B-ring
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this picture of Saturn's faint inner D-ring Aug. 25, 1981, about 1 hour 48 minutes before the spacecraft's closest approach to Saturn. The range was 195,400 kilometers (121,300 miles)
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Saturn's Faint Inner D-ring
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Saturn and its satellites Tethys (outer left), Enceladus (inner left) and Mimas (right of rings) are seen in this mosaic of images taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Oct. 30, 1980 from a distance of 18 million kilometers (11 million miles).
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Saturn and its Satellites Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained this picture of Saturn's F-ring on Aug. 26, 1980, just before the spacecraft crossed the planet's ring plane. This edge-on view shows nearly 25` of the F-ring, with at least four distinct components visible.
PIA01382:
A View of Saturn's F-ring
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NASA's Voyager 2 discovered a 'kinky' ringlet inside the Encke Gap in Saturn's A-ring. These pictures show the thin ringlet at two different positions, photographed Aug. 25, 1980.
PIA01381:
Thin Ringlet of Saturn's A-ring
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This photograph captured by NASA's Voyager 2 photograph of the lit face of Saturn's B-ring was obtained Aug. 25, 1980. It shows the ring structure broken up into about 10 times more ringlets than had been previously suspected.
PIA01380:
A View of Saturn's B-ring
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Both the limb of Saturn and the shadow of its ring system are seen through the transparent C-ring in this striking picture taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 9, 1980. Gaps and regions of high transparency are seen throughout the C-ring, especially in the a
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Saturn's Ring System
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'false color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981, when the spacecraft was 33.9 million kilometers (21 million miles) from the planet.
PIA01143:
Saturn With Rhea and Dione (false color)
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