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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Incredible swirling details in Saturn's northern clouds can be seen in this dazzling view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Shadows cast by the rings embrace the northern hemisphere.
PIA08987:
Northern Sights
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The night side of Rhea shines softly in reflected light from Saturn, as captured in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. A similar effect, called Earthshine, can often be seen dimly illuminating the dark side Earth's moon.
PIA08986:
Rhea in Saturnshine
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The effects of three of Saturn's ring moons can be spotted in this single narrow-angle camera view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08985:
Three Meddlesome Moons
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snaps an excellent view of the leading side of Mimas and its distinguishing crater, Herschel. The moon's night side is partly lit by reflected light from Saturn
PIA08984:
A Major Hit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies multiple spokes in Saturn's outer B ring. The precise origin and evolution of these transient features continue to provide ring scientists with intriguing puzzles to solve.
PIA08983:
Puzzling Spokes
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Graceful giant Saturn poses with a few of the small worlds it holds close. From this viewpoint NASA's Cassini spacecraft can see across the entirety of the planet's shadow on the rings, to where the ringplane emerges once again into sunlight.
PIA08982:
Nightside Vista
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-11 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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Epimetheus floats above Saturn's swirling skies in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on June 1, 2007.
PIA08981:
Above the Fray
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-10 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Enceladus appears as a rather bland orb in this far-off snapshot, but the dark markings, called sulci, long, roughly parallel fractures from which a spray of icy particles escapes into the void, are seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08980:
Exciting Orb
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Saturn's moon Prometheus pulls material from the tortured F ring in this detailed view. The aftereffects of the moon's other recent encounters with the ring are visible above as dark channels in the inner ringlet as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08979:
Ring Herding
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Saturn's Dione appears small and far off in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which manages to capture a detailed look at the moon's beautiful bright streaks, or 'linea.' The linea are a system of braided canyons that cut across the moon's face.
PIA08978:
Dione's Good Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes down toward Saturn's unilluminated ringplane to find Janus hugging the outer edge of rings.
PIA08977:
Waving to Janus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-04 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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In this ultraviolet image of Hyperion, produced using data taken NASA's Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph during the September 2005 close flyby, brightness contrasts are due to both topographic and compositional variations across the surface.
PIA09216:
Hyperion's Icy Surface
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This is a color map of the composition of a portion of Saturn's moon Hyperion's surface about 75 kilometers on a side. Map was made with data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Hyperion.
PIA09215:
Hyperion's Kaleidoscope of Color
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Hyperion, the eighth largest of Saturn's moons, is covered in craters and landslides. This color map shows the composition of a portion of Hyperion's surface determined with the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09214:
Organics Sprinkled on Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-04 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea sports an immense impact scar on its leading hemisphere, like several other major Saturnian moons. The impact basin, seen above center on the day-night dividing line, or terminator, is named Tirawa
PIA08976:
Tirawa on the Terminator
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-03 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Immense Saturn is visible through the A ring as Pan coasts along its private corridor as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08975:
A-Ring Odyssey
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-02 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Ithaca Chasma rips across Saturn's moon Tethys from north to south near the center of this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The moon's western limb is flattened, indicating the rim of the giant impact basin Odysseus.
PIA08974:
Band Becomes Bright
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward northern latitudes on Saturn and out across the ringplane. This infrared view probes clouds beneath the hazes that obscure the planet's depths in natural color views
PIA08973:
Depth Sounding
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-28 Pan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the unilluminated side of Saturn's rings to spy on the moon Pan as it cruises through the Encke Gap.
PIA08972:
Tracking Pan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Titan's surface highlights northwestern Shangri-la -- a large, equatorial dark region revealed by radar observations to be covered in longitudinal dune fields.
PIA08971:
In Shangri-la
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings reflect sunlight most strongly when Earth is located directly between Saturn and the sun. This mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a small bright spot moving from the outermost B ring across the Cassini Division.
PIA09213:
Cat's Eye Rings and Peek-a-boo Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-26 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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After nearly three years at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to observe the planet's retinue of icy moons. Rhea's cratered face attests to its great age, while its bright wisps hint at tectonic activity in the past
PIA08970:
Accustomed to Her Face
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-25 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies an intriguing bright clump in Saturn's F ring. Also of interest is the dark gash that appears to cut through the ring immediately below the clump.
PIA08969:
Object of Interest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Peering through Titan's thick haze, NASA's Cassini spacecraft glimpses boundaries between bright and dark terrain on the moon's trailing hemisphere. The bright terrain at bottom is in northwestern Adiri.
PIA08968:
Strange New World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-21 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft surveys the battered surface of Saturn's icy moon Tethys. The great impact basin straddling the terminator is itself overprinted by many smaller impact sites.
PIA08967:
All Craters Great and Small
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Bright mid-latitude clouds near the bottom of this view hint at the ongoing cycling of methane on Titan in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on May 13, 2007.
PIA08966:
Weather Without Water
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-19 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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Beside the swirling face of Saturn is the small, icy attendant, Mimas as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08965:
Regarding Mimas
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Sunlight scatters through Titan's atmosphere, illuminating high hazes and bathing the entire moon in a soft glow in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on May 12, 2007.
PIA08964:
Titan's Cocoon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-15 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's odd but ever-intriguing F ring displays multiple lanes and several bright clumps. The Keeler and Encke gaps are visible in the outer A ring, at right as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08963:
Odd Ring Out
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-14 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Wispy markings reach out across Rhea's surface from its trailing hemisphere. The bright markings appear to be fractures, like those found on Dione
PIA08962:
Rhea's Bright Wisps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's brilliant rings are accompanied here by a pack of small moons, Mimas, Janus, Pandora, and Prometheus, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on April 29, 2007.
PIA08961:
Entourage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-12 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies bright fractures in the icy crust of Dione. This view looks toward the northern hemisphere on Dione's anti-Saturn side.
PIA08960:
Wisps on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's A ring displays a marked asymmetry in brightness between the region nearer to NASA's Cassini spacecraft and the region farther from it. The A ring is the broad, bright section of the rings outside of the dark B ring.
PIA08959:
Difference on the Dark Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft view shows the interesting north-south asymmetry in Titan's atmosphere, which is thought to be a seasonal effect.
PIA08958:
Bright to Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A small icy world plies the space between Saturn's A and F rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08957:
In-between Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-06 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft investigates the craters and deep valleys on Dione during a close approach in April 2007.
PIA08956:
The Crater Gradient
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA'sCassini spacecraft shows a group of more than a dozen spokes in Saturn's outer B ring. The B ring displays the azimuthal asymmetry, or variation with longitude around the planet, that is characteristic of the spoke-forming region
PIA08955:
Spoke Set
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-04 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Peeking over the crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft views the towering plume of ice particles erupting from the moon's south polar region
PIA08954:
Icy Emanations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft catches a glimpse of features that reveal important clues about processes occurring in Titan's atmosphere. The north polar stratosphere exhibits a banded appearance, as fast-moving clouds whirl around the giant moon.
PIA08953:
High Altitude Hints
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-31 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Flying over the unlit side of Saturn's rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn's glow, represented in brilliant shades of electric blue, sapphire and mint green, while the planet's shadow casts a wide net on the rings.
PIA09212:
Neon Saturn
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Stunning details in Saturn's clouds suggest movement within bands of atmosphere as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08952:
Saturn Enhanced
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-30 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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Janus floats above the meandering clouds of Saturn. A few of the large craters on the moon are just visible
PIA08951:
Janus Floats On
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-29 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views terrain on the bright, trailing side of Iapetus in natural color.
PIA08950:
On the Bright Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-28 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Storms and cloud bands emerge from beneath Saturn's obscuring hazes in this infrared view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08949:
Banded Beauty
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-25 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn and its rings manifest a rich interplay between shadow and light in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The rings shine on their unilluminated side by virtue of scattered sunlight emerging from its passage through the ringplane.
PIA08948:
Tricks of Light
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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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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 2007-05-23 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 2007-05-22 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 2007-05-22 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 2007-05-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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 2007-05-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-16 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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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 2007-05-16 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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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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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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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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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 2007-05-09 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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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 2007-05-08 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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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 2007-05-07 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 2007-05-04 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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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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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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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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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 2007-04-27 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 2007-04-26 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
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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 2007-04-26 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 2007-04-25 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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 2007-04-24 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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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 2007-04-20 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 2007-04-19 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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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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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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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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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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The shepherd moon Prometheus is lit partly by reflected light from Saturn as it lurks near the heavily perturbed F ring as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08918:
Shifting Strands
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The high northern latitudes on Saturn's moon Enceladus show little detail from NASA's Cassini's distant vantage point, nearly 50 degrees above the moon's equator.
PIA08915:
Astral Pearl
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The oblong form of Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus glides by, trailing behind it wiggles in Saturn's ribbon-like F ring as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08914:
The Perturber
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is of the Odysseus impact basin which lies between night and day on Saturn's moon Tethys.
PIA08913:
Odysseus Into the Dark
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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 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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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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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-28 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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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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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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