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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-07 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Tethys shows off its tortured surface in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. At top left of image is huge Odysseus Crater. At bottom right is Ithaca Chasma, a series of scarps that runs north-south across the moon.
PIA14581:
Scarred Moon
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The sponge-like surface of Saturn's moon Hyperion is highlighted in this portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, captured during the spacecraft's flyby on Sept. 16, 2011.
PIA14580:
Spongy Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A quartet of Saturn's moons, from tiny to huge, surround and are embedded within the planet's rings in this Cassini composition. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in the background, and the moon's north polar hood is clearly visible.
PIA14579:
In, Around, Beyond Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-17 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes a close view of some of the southern terrain of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where newly created terrain is on display.
PIA14578:
The New South
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-26 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings lie in the distance as NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and its dark region called Shangri-La, east of the landing site of the Huygens Probe.
PIA14575:
East of Huygens
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A quintet of Saturn's moons come together in this portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Janus is seen on the far left, Pandora orbits near the middle, Enceladus appears above the center, and Rhea and Mimas are seen on the right side.
PIA14573:
Quintet of Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-05 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione coasts along in its orbit appearing in front of its parent planet in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The wispy terrain on the trailing hemisphere of Dione can be seen on the left of the moon here.
PIA14572:
Dione Up Front
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers down through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan to view the dark region called Belet. The large region called Belet has a low albedo, meaning it reflects little light.
PIA14571:
Belet Below the Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-22 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's fourth largest moon, Dione, appears like a solitary ornament suspended above the rings in view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The rings are closer to Cassini in this view, with Dione more distant.
PIA14570:
Dione Decoration
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-15 Helene Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's small, irregularly shaped moon Helene is strikingly illuminated in this close view captured by NASA's Cassini during the spacecraft's June 18, 2011, flyby.
PIA12779:
Dramatic Helene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-08 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views the cratered surface of Saturn's moon Tethys in front of the hazy orb of the planet's largest moon, Titan. Tethys is much closer than Titan to Cassini.
PIA12778:
Craters Before Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn's tiny moon Aegaeon within the G-ring arc. The moonlet Aegaeon (formerly known as S/2008 S 1) can't be seen in this image, but it orbits in the bright arc of Saturn's faint G ring shown here.
PIA12777:
Eye Toward Aegaeon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-07-25 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes one of its last good looks at Iapetus, a Saturnian moon known for its yin-yang-like, bright-and-dark color pattern.
PIA12776:
Southern Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-07-11 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's small, potato-shaped moon Prometheus appears embedded within the planet's rings near the center of this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft while the larger moon Mimas orbits beyond the rings.
PIA12774:
Planted Potato
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-07-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These false-color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle a day in the life of a huge storm that developed from a small spot that appeared 12 weeks earlier in Saturn's northern mid-latitudes.
PIA12825:
A Day in the Life
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-07-04 Helene Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this image of Saturn's moon Helene while completing the mission's second-closest encounter of the moon on June 18, 2011.
PIA12773:
High-Res Helene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings cut across this view of the planet's largest moon, Titan. Dark albedo features on Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across) and the moon's north polar hood are visible in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12772:
Slicing Before Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes three of Saturn's moons set against the darkened night side of the planet. Seen here are Rhea, closest to Cassini, Enceladus to right of Rhea, and Dione, left of Rhea.
PIA12771:
Bright Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-13 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Lit terrain seen here is in the area between the leading hemisphere and Saturn-facing side of Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across). North on Enceladus is up.
PIA12770:
Sliver of Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-30 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Thin lineaments cross back and forth, intersecting craters on the surface of Saturn's moon Rhea in this equatorial view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12768:
Crisscrossing Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A bright clump of material within Saturn's tenuous F ring stands out near the center top of this NASA Cassini spacecraft image.
PIA12766:
In a Thin Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-09 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft surveys the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus in this image, which shows newly created terrain in the upper right meeting older, cratered terrain in the lower left.
PIA12765:
Scanning Enceladus' Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-02 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn's largest moon and captures the halo-like ring produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere.
PIA12764:
Ethereal Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Shadows cast by Saturn's rings darken the southern hemisphere of the planet and give a truncated appearance to the bottom of this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12763:
Cut Off by Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-18 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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A crescent Enceladus, imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft from the night side, shows off its spectacular water ice plumes emanating from the south polar region of this moon of Saturn.
PIA12762:
Plumes and a Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-11 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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The right-hand limb of Saturn's moon Mimas appears flattened as Herschel Crater is viewed edge-on in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The planet's rings are in the background.
PIA12761:
Mimas' Flat Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-04 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea and Dione seem like dark and light fraternal twins in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, with each of these two Saturnian moons displaying a large crater oriented similarly in the northern hemisphere.
PIA12760:
Look-alike Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-28 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks past the cratered south polar area of Saturn's moon Rhea to spy the moon Dione and the planet's rings in the distance. Dione's 'wispy' terrain can be seen on the trailing hemisphere of that moon.
PIA12759:
Janus in the Way
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-21 Helene Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft imaged the surface of Saturn's moon Helene as the it flew by the moon on Jan. 31, 2011. Helene is a 'Trojan' moon of Dione, named for the Trojan asteroids that orbit 60 degrees ahead of and behind Jupiter as it circles the Sun.
PIA12758:
Flying by Helene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show changes caused by methane rain in the bright Adiri region near the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
PIA12819:
Brightening Adiri
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This series of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows changes on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, as the transition to northern spring brings methane rains to the moon's equatorial latitudes.
PIA12818:
Titanic Deluge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A huge arrow-shaped storm blows across the equatorial region of Titan in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, chronicling the seasonal weather changes on Saturn's largest moon.
PIA12817:
Titan's Arrow-Shaped Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows clouds in the mid-southern latitudes of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, one of a series of images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft a few months after fall began in the southern hemisphere.
PIA12813:
Titan's Moving Mid-Latitude Clouds Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Clouds move above Titan's large methane lakes and seas near the moon's north pole in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Methane clouds in the troposphere, the lowest part of the atmosphere, appear white here.
PIA12812:
Northern Clouds in Motion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Clouds move above the large methane lakes and seas near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12811:
Titan's Northern Polar Clouds Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicles the change of seasons as it captures clouds concentrated near the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Methane clouds in the troposphere, the lowest part of the atmosphere, appear white here.
PIA12810:
Equatorial Titan Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-14 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft watches over the northern latitudes of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus while the planet's rings peek through in the distance in this snapshot.
PIA12757:
Northern Reaches
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-28 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks past the cratered south polar area of Saturn's moon Rhea to spy the moon Dione and the planet's rings in the distance. Dione's 'wispy' terrain can be seen on the trailing hemisphere of that moon.
PIA12755:
Beyond Southern Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-14 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Enceladus reflects sunlight brightly while the planet and its rings fill the background in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Enceladus is one of the most reflective bodies in the solar system.
PIA12753:
Bright Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Wispy terrain reflects sunlight brightly in the lower left of this NASA Cassini image of the northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Dione.
PIA12752:
Trailing Wisps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-31 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's 'wispy' moon Dione lies in front of the cratered surface of the moon Tethys, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Dione is closest to the spacecraft here.
PIA12751:
Wisps Before Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-24 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks over cratered and tectonically deformed terrain on Saturn's moon Enceladus as the camera also catches a glimpse of the planet's rings in the background.
PIA12750:
Looking Over Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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At top of this image, Saturn's moon Dione may appear closer to the spacecraft because it is larger than the moon Enceladus in the lower left. However, Enceladus was actually closer to the spacecraft in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12749:
Dione's Deception
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-10 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a view of the southern latitudes of Saturn's tumbling moon Hyperion. Lit terrain seen here is mostly in the southern hemisphere of Hyperion. The south pole of the moon is near the bottom of the illuminated terrain.
PIA12748:
Somersaulting Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-27 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this high-resolution view of the cratered surface of Saturn's moon Rhea as the spacecraft flew by the moon on Oct. 17, 2010.
PIA12746:
Rhea's Northern Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Icy fractures on Saturn's moon Rhea reflect sunlight brightly in this high-resolution mosaic created from images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its March 2, 2010, flyby.
PIA12809:
Rhea's Western Wisps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Wispy fractures cut through cratered terrain on Saturn's moon Rhea in this high resolution, 3-D image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.
PIA12807:
Rhea's Fractured Terrain in 3-D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft watches a pair of Saturn's moons, showing the hazy orb of giant Titan beyond smaller Tethys. In the foreground of the image, Ithaca Chasma can be seen running roughly north-south on Tethys.
PIA12745:
Titan and Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-06 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this shot of cratered Dione as it flew by the Saturnian moon on Oct. 17, 2010. The large crater at the center of the image is Erulus.
PIA12743:
Eyeing Erulus Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Geologic faults among craters on Saturn's moon Tethys are depicted in this image captured during a flyby of the moon by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 14, 2010.
PIA12802:
Geology on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Small water ice particles fly from fissures in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus in this image taken during the Aug. 13, 2010, flyby of the moon by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12800:
Looming Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-29 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The two large craters on the right of this image are overprinted with smaller, more recent craters of Saturn's moon Rhea in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12742:
Superimposed Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Six of Saturn's moons orbiting within and beyond the planet's rings are collected in this Cassini spacecraft image; they include Enceladus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Daphnis, Pan, and Janus.
PIA12741:
Sextet of Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-15 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks across the surface of Saturn's moon Dione and details the 'wispy' terrain first chronicled by Voyager. This fractured terrain covers the trailing hemisphere of Dione.
PIA12740:
Looking Over Dione's Wisps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-08 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft turns the eye of its camera toward Saturn's moon Mimas and spies the large Herschel Crater which itself looks like the iris of an eye peering out into space.
PIA12739:
An Eye on Mimas
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Vertical structures in the variable outer edge of Saturn's B ring cast shadows in these two images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shortly after the planet's August 2009 northern vernal equinox.
PIA12796:
Long Spiky Shadows
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This image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the outer edge of Saturn's B ring, reveals the combined effects of a tugging moon and oscillations that can naturally occur in disks like Saturn's rings and spiral galaxies.
PIA12795:
Oscillations at B Ring Edge
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Keeping a close watch on the outer portion of Saturn's B ring, NASA's Cassini spacecraft records the complex inward and outward movement of the edge of the ring. This ring movement resembles the suspected behavior of spiral disk galaxies.
PIA12794:
Galactic Behavior for the Outer B Ring
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The outer edge of Saturn's B ring exhibits an unexpected feature in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image was obtained when the sun was over the planet's equator and lit the rings exactly exactly edge on.
PIA11669:
Strange Things Afoot in the B Ring
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Vertical structures, among the tallest seen in Saturn's main rings, rise abruptly from the edge of Saturn's B ring to cast long shadows on the ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft two weeks before the planet's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11668:
The Tallest Peaks
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