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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-25 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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This close-up view of Saturn's moon Janus from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows what appear to be two large craters near the boundary between day and night.
PIA06613:
Janus: God of Beginnings
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Epimetheus is one of Saturn's 'co-orbital moons' because it shares nearly the same orbit as Janus at a distance of approximately 151,000 kilometers from Saturn. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA06614:
Epimethean Profile
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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 2005-03-30 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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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 2005-03-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This map of Titan's surface illustrates the regions that will be imaged by NASA's Cassini during the spacecraft's close flyby of the haze-covered moon on March 31, 2005.
PIA06219:
Cassini's T4 Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-31 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Mimas shines in reflected ultraviolet light from the Sun in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06617:
Moon Wears a Scar
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Viewed nearly edge-on, Saturn's rings appear dark and pencil-thin against the backdrop of the planet's swirling clouds. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Feb. 18, 2005.
PIA06619:
Southern Face of Saturn
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Though farther away from Cassini when the spacecraft acquired this image, Saturn's second-largest moon Rhea still dwarfs the brightest icy moon Enceladus in this scene. Image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA06620:
Rhea and Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Although the Huygens probe has now pierced the murky skies of Titan and landed on its surface, much of the moon remains for NASA's Cassini spacecraft to explore.
PIA06220:
New Titan Territory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-06 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Surface details on Titan are just visible in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Feb. 26, 2005. Bands in the atmosphere over Titan's extreme northern latitudes.
PIA06621:
Titan's Mask
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-07 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's crater-covered moon Tethys as it slid silently along in its orbit while Saturn's delicate rings sliced the view in two.
PIA06622:
Hanging Half-Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-08 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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The rugged surface of Saturn's irregular tumbling moon Hyperion is revealed in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06623:
Hyperion's Face
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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During a close flyby of Titan on March 31, 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft cameras got their best view to date of the region east of the bright Xanadu Regio.
PIA06222:
Titan Mosaic -- East of Xanadu
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This fascinating movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the changing shapes of features in the outer haze layers of Titan's atmosphere.
PIA06223:
Titan's Shifting Hazes Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's high haze layers are amazing. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this detailed view of the relatively faint haze in Titan's upper atmosphere as it receded from its close encounter on March 31, 2005.
PIA06224:
Titan's High Hazes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Less than 20 minutes after NASA's Cassini spacecraft close approach to Titan on March 31, 2005, its cameras captured this view of Saturn through Titan's upper atmosphere.
PIA06225:
Saturn Through the Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The ringed planet wears a broad grin in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, as the icy rings cast long, sweeping shadows across the northern hemisphere.
PIA06624:
Saturn's Smile
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-12 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Tethys turns like a great eye as the enormous crater Odysseus (450 kilometers or 280 miles across) rotates into NASA's Cassini spacecraft's view.
PIA06625:
Eye of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-13 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the night side of Saturn's moon Dione on Feb. 18, 2005.
PIA06626:
Saturn-lit Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This map of Titan's surface illustrates the regions that will be imaged by NASA's Cassini during the spacecraft's close flyby of the smog-enshrouded moon on April 16, 2005.
PIA06218:
Cassini's April 16 Flyby of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's ability to remain sharply pointed at its targets allowed this image of Saturn's faint, dusty G ring to be made.
PIA06627:
G Ring, Brightened by Time
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-15 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's bright moon Enceladus hovers here in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in front of a rings darkened by Saturn's shadow.
PIA06628:
Sideways Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-18 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft offers this lovely comparison between two of Saturn's satellites, Dione and Tethys, which are similar in size but have very different surfaces.
PIA06629:
Sister Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-19 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The ancient and battered surface of Saturn's moon Rhea shows a notable dark swath of territory near the eastern limb in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06630:
Dark Patch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three of Saturn's moons crowd together off the left edge of Saturn's rings.
PIA06631:
Moons off the Port Bow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-21 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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In this infrared view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Saturn's cratered moon Tethys shows a faint, dark band across its equatorial region.
PIA06632:
Banded Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn's moon Tethys from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the contrast between the more heavily cratered region near the top and the more lightly cratered plains toward the bottom part of the image and near the limb.
PIA06633:
North and South on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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During its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on April 16, NASA's Cassini spacecraft came within 1,025 kilometers (637 miles) of the moon's surface and found that the outer layer of the thick, hazy atmosphere is brimming with complex hydrocarbons.
PIA07865:
Titan's Upper Atmosphere: A "Factory" of Hydrocarbons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These three views of Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft illustrate how different the same place can look in different wavelengths of light.
PIA06227:
Cassini's Three Views of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image composite was created with images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's closest flyby of Titan on April 16, 2005.
PIA06228:
Cassini's Views of Titan: Monochrome View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color composite was created with images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's closest flyby of Titan on April 16, 2005.
PIA06229:
Cassini's Views of Titan: False Color Composite
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This natural color composite was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's April 16, 2005, flyby of Titan.
PIA06230:
Cassini's View of Titan: Natural Color Composite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-25 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The distinctive, wispy system of fractures on the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione shows a great deal of contrast in this ultraviolet view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06634:
Far off Cracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-26 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
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The small ring moon Atlas is seen here, on the far side of Saturn's immense ring system. NASA's Cassini spacecraft was only 0.6 degrees above the ring plane when this image was taken.
PIA06635:
Straight Across the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini imaging scientists use special images like this one, which shows the far side of Saturn's rings disappearing behind the planet's outer atmosphere, to probe the vertical structure of Saturn's high altitude haze.
PIA06636:
Rings' Disappearing Act
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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With this false-color view, NASA's Cassini spacecraft presents the closest look yet at Saturn's small moon Epimetheus (epp-ee-MEE-thee-uss).
PIA06226:
Epimetheus: Up-Close and Colorful
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Radar Mapper
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This three-panel image shows one of Titan's most prominent impact craters in an infrared-wavelength image, radar image and in the false-color image. The Cassini radar imaged this crater during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's third flyby of Titan.
PIA07868:
Titan Crater in Three Views
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini magnetometer instrument detected an atmosphere around Enceladus during the Feb. 17, 2005, flyby and again during a March 9, 2005, flyby. This audio file is based on the data collected from that instrument.
PIA07869:
Sounds of Enceladus Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-28 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the cratered surface of Saturn's moon Rhea, with impact craters near the terminator thrown into sharp relief.
PIA06637:
Rhea's Relief
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-29 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The Sun also rises on Saturn's moon Dione, seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Wispy fractured terrain lies along the limb taken on March 12, 2005.
PIA06638:
Daybreak on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-02 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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High-resolution images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's close encounter with Titan on April 16, 2005, provide still more examples of the complicated relationships between the dark and bright materials on Titan's surface.
PIA06231:
Jumbled Terrain
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It's hard not to speculate about the origins of the narrow, dark features seen in new images of Titan's surface captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06232:
Channels on Titan?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Helene, seen here with Saturn's nearly edge-on rings, orbits 60 degrees ahead of Dione and is called a 'Trojan' moon. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on March 12, 2005.
PIA06639:
Dione's Companion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-02 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A new image of Titan taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides a closer, clearer view of an interesting bright feature surrounded by darker material.
PIA06233:
Angular Bright Spot
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Titan reveals more complex patterns of bright and dark regions on the surface, including a small, dark, circular feature, completely surrounded by brighter material.
PIA06234:
Dark Spots on Titan
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Images of Titan's surface taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on April 16, 2005 flyby continue to reveal the incredibly intricate nature of the boundaries between dark and bright material.
PIA06235:
Bright-Dark Boundary Close-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-02 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This natural color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Titan's upper atmosphere -- an active place where methane molecules are being broken apart by solar ultraviolet light and the byproducts combine to form compounds like ethane and acetylene.
PIA06236:
Titan: Complex 'Anti-greenhouse'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-03 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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Small and asteroid-like in appearance, Epimetheus is seen here with Saturn's nearly edge-on rings in the distance. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on March 12, 2005.
PIA06640:
Rubble Moon?
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The large Tirawa impact basin on Saturn's moon Rhea is visible at the two o'clock position in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06641:
Big Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A scene straight out of science fiction, this fantastic view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows, from left to right, Saturn's moon's Mimas, Dione and Rhea, on the far side of Saturn's nearly edge-on rings.
PIA06642:
Amazing Icy Moons
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Several distinct craters on Saturn's moon Hyperion can be seen here in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, as well as a protruding feature, perhaps a mountain, near the center.
PIA06643:
Hyperion's Nose
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Mimas poses with the larger moon Dione in this handsome portrait captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06644:
Mimas and Dione
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Saturn's chaotically tumbling moon Hyperion is captured in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06645:
What's the Spin?
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Confirmation that a small moon orbits within the Keeler gap in Saturn's rings is made all the more exciting by this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in which the disk of the 7 kilometer-wide body is resolved for the first time.
PIA06237:
Wavemaker Moon
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's celestial sleuthing has paid off with this time-lapse series of images which confirmed earlier suspicions that a small moon was orbiting within the narrow Keeler gap of Saturn's rings.
PIA06238:
Discovery of the Wavemaker (animation) Animation Icon
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's celestial sleuthing has paid off with a series of images which confirmed earlier suspicions that a small moon was orbiting within the narrow Keeler gap within Saturn's rings.
PIA06239:
Discovery of the Wavemaker
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows one of the huge impact basins on the terminator of Saturn's moon Iapetus and a smaller, but still fairly large, crater near the southern bright-dark boundary.
PIA06646:
Details in the Dark
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Saturn's moon Dione occults part of Saturn's distant rings while Tethys hovers below, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06647:
Pair to Compare
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-13 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Looking closely at Saturn's moon Rhea during a somewhat distant flyby, NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides this view of what appears to be a bright, rayed and therefore relatively young crater.
PIA06648:
Great White Splat
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This stereographic projection of NASA's Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer images from the European Space Agency's Huygens probe combines 60 images in 31 triplets, projected from a height of 3,000 meters above the black 'lakebed' surface.
PIA07870:
Huygens Titan Mosaic #1
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This mosaic from NASA's Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer camera on the European Space Agency's Huygens probe combines 17 image triplets, projected from an altitude of 800 meters (2,625 feet).
PIA07871:
Huygens Titan Mosaic #2
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Two large impact basins, including the 450-kilometer-wide Odysseus basin, mark the face of Saturn's moon Tethys, as shown in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06649:
Tethys and Rings
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From just beneath the ringplane, Saturn's rings take on a strange and unfamiliar appearance, as Saturn's battered moon Mimas looks on. This image was taken in polarized green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA06650:
Near the Ringplane
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Enceladus is seen here against the darkness of the planet's night side. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on March 11, 2005.
PIA06651:
Pencil-thin Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-19 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The moon Dione is eclipsed here by the narrow band of Saturn's rings, which in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows one of the interesting ways that they transmit light.
PIA06652:
F Ring Edges
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-20 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's icy moon Enceladus hovers above Saturn's exquisite rings in this color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06653:
Bright Ice, Dirty Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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The great eye of Saturn's moon Mimas, a 130-kilometer-wide impact crater called Herschel, stares out from the battered moon, as shown in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06654:
Mimas Stares Back
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. NASA's Cassini spacecraft conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's rings on May 3, 2005.
PIA07872:
Small Particles in Saturn's Rings
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Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. NASA's Cassini spacecraft conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's rings on May 3, 2005.
PIA07873:
Radio Occultation: Unraveling Saturn's Rings
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NASA's Cassini instruments provide complementary information about the structure of Saturn's rings. Narrow and wide angle cameras provide images in the visible region of the electromagnetic, spectrum much like a digital camera does.
PIA07874:
Multiple Eyes of Cassini
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. NASA's Cassini spacecraft conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's rings on May 3, 2005.
PIA07875:
Small Particles in Ring A
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. NASA's Cassini spacecraft conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's rings on May 3, 2005.
PIA07960:
Waves and Small Particles in Ring A
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows an up-close look at Saturn's atmosphere, revealing wavelike structures in the planet's constantly changing clouds.
PIA06655:
Waves on Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings appear strangely warped in this view of the rings seen through the upper Saturn atmosphere. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was obtained using a near-infrared filter.
PIA06656:
Bending the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Infrared-bright spot discovered on Titan is the type of enigmatic feature that is best investigated by putting together many different types of information as possible. NASA's Cassini varied array of scientific instruments is equal to the task.
PIA07876:
Titan's Odd Spot Baffles Scientists
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The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found an unusual bright, red spot on Titan. This dramatic color (but not true color) image was taken during the April 16, 2005, encounter with Titan.
PIA07877:
Red Spot on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peeks at Saturn's relatively dark south pole, providing an up-close look at the haze-free upper atmosphere there.
PIA06657:
Close Look at the Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This poetic wide-angle camera view of Saturn reveals several small, dark storms in the southern latitudes, where storm activity has been prevalent since before NASA's Cassini spacecraft arrived in orbit.
PIA06658:
Sunlit South
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-30 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's little moon Atlas orbits Saturn between the outer edge of the A ring and the fascinating, twisted F ring. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft just barely resolves the disk of Atlas.
PIA06659:
A Glimpse of Atlas
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A string of three of Saturn's icy moons encircles the planet in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07510:
Saturn's Derby
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This unmagnified view of Saturn's moon Dione captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the moon's bright, wispy terrain, along with several large impact craters.
PIA07511:
Dramatic Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows an amazing close-up of Saturn's rings, revealing their incredible variety.
PIA07512:
Scanning the Rings
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This close-up image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers directly through regions of the A, B and C rings (from top to bottom here) to glimpse shadows of the very same rings cast upon the planet's atmosphere.
PIA07513:
Looking Through the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-06 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Rhea displays one of its more prominent features here: a bright, rayed crater which was seen at much higher resolution in an image taken two weeks earlier by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07514:
Rhea's Bright Splat
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Saturn's brightly sunlit moon Rhea commands the foreground in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07517:
Sun-Drenched Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This spectacular and disorienting maze of lines is a Cassini portrait of the gas giant Saturn, its rings and its small, icy moon Mimas. This view was obtained in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07515:
Moon Against the Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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On Oct. 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew over Saturn's moon Titan at less than 1,200 kilometers at closest approach. Cassini acquired several infrared images with spatial resolution ranging from a few tens of kilometers to 2 kilometers per pixel.
PIA07961:
Map of Titan in Infrared
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Details of the circular feature, which scientists think is an ice volcano, which could be a source of methane in Titan's atmosphere, show up at wavelengths larger than 1.3 microns. Images were taken during NASA's Cassini Oct. 26, 2004, flyby of Titan.
PIA07963:
Titan Volcano in Several Infrared Wavelengths
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From infrared images that show variations in brightness and texture, a geological map of the circular feature, thought to be a volcano, has been obtained using NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer.
PIA07964:
Geologic Map of Titan Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This high-resolution infrared image was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's closest approach to Titan on Oct. 26, 2004. These images were obtained by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument. This feature might be a volcano.
PIA07962:
Infrared Image of Titan Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Three very different worlds crowd the frame in this unique view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which although partly overexposed, provides a splendid look at several major targets of interest for the mission.
PIA07518:
One View, Multiple Worlds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color mosaic of Saturn's largest moon Titan, obtained by NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows what scientists interpret as an icy volcano.
PIA07965:
Titan Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-10 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
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From a viewing angle slightly above the ringplane, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied Saturn's moon Atlas, which orbits Saturn between the broad A ring and the thin F ring.
PIA07516:
Embedded Atlas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's hazy moon Titan appears to drift above Saturn's ringplane in this view taken only a tenth of a degree above the rings. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on March 25, 2005.
PIA07519:
Titan Beyond the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-14 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's climb to progressively higher elevations reveals the 'negative' side of Saturn's rings.
PIA07520:
What's That Speck?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's atmosphere is essentially transparent at wavelengths visible to the human eye, but when the view through the atmosphere is oblique. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07521:
Funhouse Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This montage of four images of Saturn's knotted F ring shows different locations around the ring, even though all taken within a few hours of each other. These images were taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07522:
Four Views of the F Ring
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The shepherd moon, Pandora, is seen here alongside the narrow F ring that it helps maintain. Pandora is 84 kilometers (52 miles) across. NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this view from about four degrees above the ringplane.
PIA07523:
Pandora's Flocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These two images, taken 10 minutes apart, demonstrate NASA's Cassini spacecraft's ability to see the different depths of Saturn's immense atmosphere, using an array of specially designed spectral filters.
PIA07524:
Probing Saturn's Atmosphere
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