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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This radar image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Titan shows a semi-circular feature that may be part of an impact crater. Very few impact craters have been seen on Titan so far, implying that the surface is young.
PIA09175:
A New Crater on Titan?
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This radar image NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Titan shows Ganesa Macula, interpreted as a cryovolcano (ice volcano), and its surroundings. Cryovolcanism is thought to have been an important process on Titan and may still be happening today.
PIA09176:
Ganesa Macula
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation shows a mosaic of imagery from NASA's Cassini's radar instrument obtained during three flybys of Titan's north pole: T16 (July 22, 2006), T18 (Sept. 23, 2006) and T19 (Oct. 9, 2006)
PIA09177:
Titan Lakes Movie Animation Icon
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Looking toward high northern latitudes on Titan, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies a banded pattern encircling the pole.
PIA08879:
The Banded North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a spectacular view of Saturn's banded southern hemisphere and dark central polar storm, while its dazzling rings lie far beyond the horizon.
PIA08880:
Southern Exposure
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This radar image, obtained by NASA's Cassini's radar instrument during a near-polar flyby on Sept. 23, 2006, is the second scene that shows clear shorelines reminiscent of terrestrial lakes.
PIA09179:
Titan (T18) Viewed by Cassini's Radar - Sept. 23, 2006
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-21 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-22 Daphnis Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views Saturn's southern latitudes in colors of pastel yellow, spying a great, eye-shaped vortex just northward of the south polar region.
PIA08883:
Tempest-Tossed Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-26 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea displays a marked color contrast from north to south that is particularly easy to see in this extreme color-enhanced view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08886:
Drawing Out Details
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Three of the small worlds that hug the outer edges of Saturn's immense ring system are captured in portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08885:
Three Little Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This radar image, obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a near-polar flyby on Feb. 22, 2007, shows a big island smack in the middle of one of the larger lakes imaged on Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA09180:
Titan: Larger and Larger Lakes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-28 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft stares directly into the great Odysseus impact basin on Tethys. Peaks near the crater's center cast long shadows toward the east. The elevated eastern rim of the crater catches sunlight.
PIA08884:
Odysseus Out of Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The giant planet is a moody world whose disposition appears to change with he view. Its atmosphere rages with thunderous and hurricane-like storms. Its majestic rings spin a tale of ancient collisions and cataclysm
PIA08347:
The Lore of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie begins with a view of the sunlit side of the rings. As the spacecraft speeds from south to north, the rings appear to tilt downward and collapse to a thin plane.
PIA08356:
The Great Crossing Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft coasts beneath giant Saturn, staring upward at its gleaming crescent and icy rings.
PIA08357:
Magnificent Vista
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Magnificent blue and gold Saturn floats obliquely as one of its gravity-bound companions, Dione, hangs in the distance. The darkened rings seem to nearly touch their shadowy reverse images on the planet below as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08358:
Symmetry in Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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With pastel blues, pinks, greens and golds, Saturn displays a dazzling diversity of colors and hues as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08359:
Pastel Planet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Dark and sharply defined ring shadows appear to constrict the flow of color from Saturn's warmly hued south to the bluish northern latitudes as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08360:
Tourniquet Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Our robotic emissary, flying high above Saturn, captured this view of an alien copper-colored ring world. The overexposed planet has deliberately been removed to show the unlit rings alone as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08361:
Ring World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Surely one of the most gorgeous sights the solar system has to offer, Saturn sits enveloped by the full splendor of its stately rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08362:
Blinding Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This radar image, obtained by NASA's Cassini's radar instrument during a near-polar flyby on Feb. 22, 2007, shows dunes surrounding a bright feature on Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA09181:
Titan Features and Interactions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-02 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's Dione's leading hemisphere appears relatively smooth and placid here, compared to the fractured landscape on its trailing hemisphere in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 19, 2007.
PIA08888:
The Quiet Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies Pan speeding through the Encke Gap, its own private path around Saturn.
PIA08889:
Pan's Highway
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Bright equatorial clouds give way to darker southern bands in this infrared view taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft with a filter sensitive to methane absorption in Saturn's atmosphere
PIA08890:
Cosmic Contrast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A bright spoke extends across the unilluminated side of Saturn's B ring about the same distance as that from London to Cairo. The background ring material displays some azimuthal asymmetry as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08891:
Bent Spoke
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This beautiful look at Saturn south polar atmosphere, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the hurricane-like polar storm swirling there. Sunlight highlights its high cloud walls, especially around the 10 o'clock position.
PIA08892:
Seeing the Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Straining to make out the surface of Titan through its murky atmosphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide angle camera manages to exploit one of the infrared spectral windows where the particulate smog is transparent enough for a peek.
PIA08893:
Murky World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This dramatic close-up of Saturn's south pole shows the hurricane-like vortex that resides there. The entire polar region is dotted with bright clouds, including one that appears to be inside the central ring of the polar storm as seen by NASA's Cassini.
PIA08894:
The Center of Things
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-13 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Titan taken on Feb. 25, 2007 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveals a giant lake-like feature in Titan's North Polar Region.
PIA08363:
Giant Lake on Titan
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This image of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a near-polar flyby on Feb. 22, 2007, features dunes and lakes, one of which is larger than any lake on Earth and could be legitimately called a sea.
PIA09182:
Titan (T25) Viewed by Cassini's Radar - Feb. 22, 2007
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This frame from a movie taken by NASA's Cassini's radar instrument, shows bodies of liquid near Titan's north pole. These images show that many of the features commonly associated with lakes on Earth.
PIA09183:
Radar Shows Evidence of Seas Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This side-by-side image shows NASA's Cassini radar image of what is the largest body of liquid (on the left) ever found on Titan's north pole, compared to Lake Superior (on the right).
PIA09184:
Titan Sea and Lake Superior
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Rippling with detail, the southern hemisphere of Saturn comes to life in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Long, flowing streamers and bands of great contrast soften toward the pole, where a great hurricane-like storm resides.
PIA08896:
Rivers of Cloud
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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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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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From beneath the ringplane, NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes stock of Saturn's southern skies and peeks through the rings and beyond their shadows at the northern latitudes.
PIA08898:
South on Saturn
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The brick red, white and brown cloud bands of Jupiter are seen here from Saturn orbit by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08899:
Hello Again, Jupiter!
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Stars trail across the background during this exposure, timed to capture the faint light from Saturn's D ring features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08900:
Rings in Orbit
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The Cassini Division appears to emerge out of Saturn's shadow in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08901:
The Familiar Division
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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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Bright strands in Saturn's ever changing F ring emerge from the planet's shadow. The F ring usually has a single bright core but the section of the ring seen here appears to have a second bright strand as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08903:
F Ring Strands
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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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The brilliant core of the F ring displays a breakaway clump of material, possibly related to the other objects NASA's Cassini spacecraft has witnessed in the dynamic ring in the past few years of observations.
PIA08905:
Budding F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This nighttime view of Saturn's north pole reveals a dynamic, active planet below the normal cloud tops seen in visible light. Clearly revealed is the bizarre six-sided hexagon feature present at the north pole as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09185:
Saturn's North Pole Hexagon and Aurora
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This nighttime view of Saturn's north pole clearly shows a bizarre six-sided hexagon feature encircling the entire north pole as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09186:
Saturn's Strange Hexagon
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The depths of the north pole of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini Orbiter reveals a dynamic, active planet lurking underneath the ubiquitous cover of upper-level hazes.
PIA09187:
Spinning Saturn Animation Icon
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A bizarre six-sided feature encircling the north pole of Saturn has been spied by the VIMS on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This image is one of the first clear images ever taken of the north polar region as seen from a unique polar perspective.
PIA09188:
Saturn's Active North Pole
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A serene orb of ice is set against the gentle pastel clouds of giant Saturn. Rhea transits the face of the gas giant, whose darkened rings and their planet-hugging shadows appear near upper right as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08366:
Orb of Ice
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes in a sweeping view of Saturn's south polar region as the planet's shadow masks the rings and bright, icy Mimas looks on from left.
PIA08367:
Shadowcaster
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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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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the multiple strands of the ever-changing F ring, also sighting Atlas at its station just beyond the A ring edge. A few faint background stars are visible in this image.
PIA08906:
Atlas and the F Ring
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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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The F ring dissolves into a fuzzy stream of particles -- rather different from its usual appearance of a narrow, bright core flanked by dimmer ringlets. A bright clump of material flanks the ring's core as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08908:
Unfocused F Ring
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines the desolate, cratered crescent of Rhea, a surface so heavily bombarded over the eons that new craters are virtually guaranteed to form on top of older ones. The large Tirawa impact basin is visible here
PIA08909:
Rhea's Scars
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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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This infrared view from high above Saturn's ringplane highlights the contrast in the cloud bands, the dimly glowing rings and their shadows on the gas giant planet. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08911:
Classic Appeal
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows details of Saturn's outer A ring, including the Encke and Keeler gaps. The A ring brightens substantially outside the Keeler Gap.
PIA08912:
A Ring Waves
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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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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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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 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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Rhea brushes the stormy face of Saturn, an airless ice orb against the feathery bands of a gas giant as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08917:
Crossing Saturn
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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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Pan prepares to be engulfed by the darkness of Saturn's shadow, visible here as it stretches across the rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08920:
Taking the Plunge
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Prometheus speeds ahead of two dark gores in the F ring's inner edge. The ring's bright core swerves and twirls in its wake as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08922:
Ahead of the Pack
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes upward at the face of giant Saturn, seeing beyond the equator to where ring shadows fall across the bluish northern latitudes.
PIA08923:
Looking Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-23 Daphnis Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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From high above Titan's northern hemisphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes an oblique view toward the mid-latitude dark regions that gird the giant moon.
PIA08925:
Northern View
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-26 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-26 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on April 26, 2007. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 980 kilometers 609 miles) during the closest approach.
PIA04391:
Titan Radar Swath (T-29 Flyby - April 26, 2007)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's fast-rotating atmosphere creates circumpolar bands in the north as seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on March 26, 2007.
PIA08928:
Northern Bands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-30 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The rings of Saturn glow softly as sunlight from below wends its way through. Some of the Sun's light bounces off the rings' opposite side as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08929:
Suncatcher
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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High northern terrain on Titan is made visible by some image processing sleight of hand as seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on March 29, 2007.
PIA08930:
Seeing Farther North
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Held in gravity's embrace, Saturn's darkened, icy rings encircle the clouded gas giant as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08931:
In Saturn's Grasp
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In Saturn's bluish north, day ends for the dreamy white clouds that stretch here into twilight as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08932:
My Blue Heaven
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks across Saturn's cloud-dotted north and shadowed pole, and out across the lanes of ice that compose its rings.
PIA08933:
An Icy Composition
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Whorls, streamers and eddies in hues of orange, yellow, and tan play in the banded atmosphere of the gas giant, Saturn. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA08934:
Clouds Like Sandstone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Contorted clouds wriggle across high northern latitudes in this exquisitely detailed close-up of Saturn's atmosphere. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA08935:
Writhing Windforms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Using images like the one presented here, NASA's Cassini imaging scientists have made a major finding about the mechanism powering the general circulation of Saturn.
PIA08368:
Powering Saturn's Jets
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Colorful Saturn tilts its darkened ringplane toward NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Against the dark sky, the rings are made visible by the light that scatters through them toward the camera.
PIA08370:
At a Tilt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Brooding Saturn seems to be missing its rings, but their shadows on the planet betray their presence. The inner rings are in fact contained within this scene, but they are so tenuous as to be nearly invisible as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08936:
Dusky Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Fine, sharp-edged details and smooth gradients in the ring features of the Cassini Division are imaged here together at excellent resolution. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08937:
Diagonal Division
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-11 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes in the crater-strewn surface near Saturn's moon Dione's south pole in this natural color view. Long fractures slice across the surface here, as on other parts of the moon.
PIA08938:
Dione's Southern Face
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This strongly enhanced false color view is a departure from the familiar bluish north and golden south seen in natural color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08939:
Candy Stripes
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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Plumes of water vapor and other gases escape at high velocity from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, as shown in this artist concept.
PIA09209:
Shear Heating on Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-17 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft surveys Saturn's outstretched ring system in the infrared from a vantage point high above the planet's northern latitudes.
PIA08942:
Blue Expanse
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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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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Bright and dark terrains on Titan's trailing hemisphere are revealed by NASA's Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem in this mosaic of images taken during the T28 flyby in April 2007.
PIA08945:
Titan "T28" Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color image of Saturn's main rings was made by combining data from multiple star occultations using NASA's Cassini ultraviolet imaging spectrograph.
PIA09210:
Mapping Clumps in Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Atlas and Pan emerge from the far side of Saturn in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Light passing through the upper reaches of the planet's atmosphere is refracted, or bent, distorting the image of the rings beyond.
PIA08946:
Emergent Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-23 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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On May 12, 2007, NASA's Cassini spacecraft completed its 31st flyby of Saturn's moon Titan, which the team calls T30.
PIA09211:
Coasts and Drowned Mountains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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