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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-25 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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During its July 2005 flyby of Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft acquired one very high-resolution image of the geologically young and active south polar region. This is our highest resolution view of Enceladus.
PIA10350:
South Polar Terrains of Enceladus - Highest Resolution View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Titan emerges from behind Saturn, while Tethys streaks into view, in this colorful scene captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's shadow darkens the far arm of the rings near the planet's limb.
PIA09864:
Moons on the Move
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Diverse cloud forms shift and spin in the far northern reaches of Saturn. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Feb. 18, 2008.
PIA09862:
The Turbulent North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-18 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's softly glowing rings shine in scattered sunlight in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 5 degrees above the ringplane.
PIA09860:
Rings Aglow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Shadows cast by Saturn's rings separate the planet's bright equatorial band from the darker northern latitudes. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Feb. 18, 2008.
PIA09859:
High Cloud, Low Cloud
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this color portrait of Saturn and Titan only a few minutes before the haze-enshrouded moon slipped behind the planet's enormous bulk.
PIA09856:
Titan Slips Away
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's southern hemisphere is glimpsed through the gossamer veil of its rings. Ring shadows adorn the low northern latitudes. This image was acquired with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Dec. 16, 2007.
PIA09854:
Shadowy Veil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's shepherd moons, Prometheus and Pandora, gravitationally herd the F ring's particles into a narrow thread. Prometheus is inside the ring's inner edge in this image take by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 26, 2008.
PIA09853:
Confining Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Sunlight scatters through Saturn's rings, emerging on the unilluminated side. Prometheus and Pandora are visible in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, respectively internal and external to the narrow F ring.
PIA09851:
Scattered Sunlight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Great circular vortices churn through Saturn's northern skies. The planet wears the shadow of its rings as a dark belt in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Just above that belt is the shadow of 181-kilometer (113-mile) wide Janus.
PIA09837:
Above the Storms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's hazy orange globe hangs before NASA's Cassini spacecraft, partly illuminated -- a world with many mysteries yet to be uncovered.
PIA09833:
A World of Questions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-06 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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On Jan 2, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft probed Saturn's atmosphere, peering beneath the hazes that obscure the flowing cloud bands at visible wavelengths.
PIA09831:
Probing the North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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As seasons change on Saturn, and sunlight creeps farther north, the region surrounding the north pole is steadily coming to light. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Jan. 2, 2008.
PIA09828:
Coming to Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-28 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A color portrait of Saturn's sunlight-scattering rings hosts a group of several moons including Eceladus, Pandora, and Mimas, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 22, 2007.
PIA09824:
Field of Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-17 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings sweep around the planet, throwing their dark shadows onto the northern hemisphere in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09817:
Contrast Across the Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward high northern latitudes on Saturn and the wild cloud forms that swirl there. The view was taken from about 23 degrees above the ringplane and looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings.
PIA09815:
Over Your Head
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-31 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and the large, equatorial bright region at center called Adiri. The Huygens probe landing site is in view here, east of Adiri.
PIA09804:
Adiri in View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A small moon travels its circuit just outside the main rings of Saturn. Epimetheus is absolutely dwarfed by the giant planet.This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 14, 2007.
PIA09802:
Alone with the Giant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn in NASA's Cassini era has proved to be an unexpectedly colorful place, compared to the browns and golds imaged by the two Voyager spacecraft.
PIA08396:
The Painted Globe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This colorful view, taken from edge-on with the ringplane by NASA's Cassini oribter on July 24, 2007, contains four of Saturn's attendant moons, brilliant Enceladus, irregular Hyperion, Epimetheus below the rings and between Tethys and Enceladus.
PIA08394:
Moon Patrol
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Just before Rhea slipped behind Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the moon in its disappearing act. Along with the partly obscured Rhea are Tethys, at right, and Enceladus, left of Tethys.
PIA09795:
Obscure Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-18 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn and Dione regard Enceladus, the object their gravitational tug-of-war in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 8, 2007.
PIA09798:
Key Players
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-14 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Dark ring shadows adorn the northern hemisphere of Saturn. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 22, 2007.
PIA09793:
Sliding Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Shadow-draped Saturn rests on its side as two icy moons glide past in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Dione hangs against the planet's bright southern hemisphere. Mimas is a bright speck against the unlit side of the rings, near lower right.
PIA09784:
Planet in Repose
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The fine, dust-sized particles of ice in the F ring and Encke Gap ringlets appear relatively bright, with the rings positioned almost directly between NASA's Cassini spacecraft and the Sun taken on Oct. 24, 2007.
PIA09777:
Bright "Dust"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's icy satellites, Tethys, Mimas, Janus, and Pandora wheel about the colorful giant planet, while the rings shine dimly in scattered sunlight in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 30, 2007.
PIA09776:
Solar System in Miniature
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn looks on as Tethys, Pandora, and Mimas round the rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 6, 2007.
PIA09773:
Circling Satellites
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-14 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Janus coasts past as NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes in a view of the unilluminated side of the rings. Bright regions within the rings appear so because they allow scattered sunlight to filter through.
PIA09771:
Filtering the Sun
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings create a brilliant halo around the turbulent giant planet. Here, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks into Saturn's clouds using a spectral filter.
PIA09769:
Masked by Methane
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns another dazzling postcard from its journey with this view of cloud-streaked Saturn and two of its moons, Enceladus and Mimas. This image was taken on Sept. 25, 2007.
PIA09767:
No Postage Required
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-06 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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On Oct. 1, 2007, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the small moon Atlas, accompanied by bright clumps of material in the F ring, as it gazed down at the unilluminated side of the rings.
PIA09765:
Darkside Beauty
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-05 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Bright, wispy fractures streak across Saturn's moon Dione's trailing side. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2007.
PIA09764:
Scratches on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Icy sentinels Tethys and Enceladus stand guard on Saturn's doorstep, defying the distant Sun in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 20, 2007.
PIA09762:
Cold Kingdom
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-25 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's incredible rings dwarf its moons in sheer scale. But all of their material, if compacted into a single body, would make a moon smaller than Enceladus, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft next to the planet's banded globe.
PIA09757:
Ice Spread Thin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this Saturn portrait from the distance of Iapetus, just before beginning its close encounter with the two-toned moon on Sept. 9, 2007.
PIA09753:
Snapshot from Afar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-17 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's density is so low, and its rotation is so fast, that the planet bulges around its waistline as is spins. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 2, 2007.
PIA09751:
Squashed as it Spins
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft sails low over the surface of Iapetus on approach to its close encounter with the enigmatic moon on Sept. 10, 2007.
PIA08404:
Flight over Iapetus Animation Icon
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The opposition effect, a brightness surge that is visible on Saturn's rings when the sun is directly behind NASA's Cassini spacecraft, is captured here as a colorful halo of light moving across Saturn's sunlit rings.
PIA08393:
Rainbow on the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Like a silvery pearl, an icy moon crosses the face of Saturn, while two of its siblings cast shadows onto the planet. Rhea hangs in the foreground in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Near upper left on Saturn is the small shadow of Mimas.
PIA08392:
Shadowing Saturn
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft regards the shadow-draped face of Saturn. The rings cast their mirror image onto the planet beyond.
PIA08390:
Grace and Beauty
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Saturn sits nested in its rings of ice NASA's Cassini spacecraft once again plunges toward the graceful giant.
PIA08388:
On the Final Frontier
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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While on final approach for its Sept. 2007 close encounter with Saturn's moon Iapetus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spun around to take in a sweeping view of the Saturn System.
PIA08387:
The View from Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-02 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea transits the banded clouds of the Ringed Planet. This image was taken in visible blue light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 13, 2007.
PIA09740:
Banded Giant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-27 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The pockmarked crescent of Tethys displays slightly darker terrain in a band at its equator. The rim of the great crater Odysseus lurks on the terminator. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA09737:
Tethys Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn sits with its attendants in the icy depths of the outer Solar System in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09732:
Kingdom of Saturn
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The moon Tethys cruises past, in front of Saturn's edge-on rings. The rings cast threadlike shadows onto the northern hemisphere of the planet. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09730:
Tethys Walks the Line
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This stirring scene captures some of the grandeur of the Saturn system while also allowing a simultaneous glimpse beneath the hazes that cover both Saturn and Titan. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 1, 2007.
PIA09726:
Window Into Worlds
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Two of Saturn's moons make appearances in this view in very different ways; Janus and Mimas captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09724:
Moonwatching
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A chevron-shaped pattern and bright vortices stand out in the turbulent Saturnian atmosphere. Such features are hallmarks of the boundary between alternating east-west flowing cloud bands. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09722:
In the Boundary
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Dione and Tethys appear on opposite sides of the rings slide past each other in this stately portrait of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09720:
Children of Saturn
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A lone moon hurtles past as NASA's Cassini spacecraft stares into the clouds of Saturn. Mimas happened to wander across the field of view in this image.
PIA09018:
Mimas in Transit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Three of Saturn's diverse family of moons are captured in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan hovers above the thin line of the rings. Epimetheus is a mere speck at far left. Enceladus sits in front of the ringplane from Cassini's view.
PIA09016:
Trio Near the Rings
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Two small portions of Saturn's F ring shine brilliantly in scattered sunlight as Rhea floats in the distance beyond. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA09014:
Darkside Lights
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This celestial circle of light is produced by the glow of sunlight scattered through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere as the Sun is occulted by Titan. This image was taken in visible blue light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA09007:
Ring of Twilight
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Prometheus glides across the scene from left to right, sculpting and perturbing particles in Saturn's F ring. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on June 28, 2007.
PIA09006:
The Agitator
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Rhea and Enceladus float across the field of view as bright clouds roll through the gas giant Saturn's skies in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09005:
Spellbinding Saturn
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Within the windswept wastes of Titan's equatorial dune desert lies the 1,700-km (1,050-mi) wide bright region called Adiri, seen here at center. NASA's intrepid Huygens probe landed off the northeastern edge of Adiri in January 2005.
PIA08995:
Above Adiri
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The shepherd moons Prometheus and Pandora drive the quirky F ring in its circuit of Saturn, while Mimas lurks in the distance. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA08993:
Mimas and the Shepherds
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A surge in brightness appears on the rings directly opposite the Sun in this image taken on June 12, 2007 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This opposition surge travels across the rings as the spacecraft watches.
PIA08992:
Surging Across the Rings
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Storms ringed by bright clouds swirl near the south pole of Saturn. This lateral view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures the bull's-eye pattern that surrounds the pole, where a monstrous, hurricane-like storm resides.
PIA08989:
Peeking Over the Pole
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The 60th moon of Saturn reveals itself in a sequence of images. The series of images was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on May 30, 2007.
PIA08369:
Sixty for Saturn Animation Icon
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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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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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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 2007-06-20 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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From beneath the ringplane, NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes stock of Saturn's southern skies and peeks through the rings and beyond their shadows at the northern latitudes.
PIA08898:
South on Saturn
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Rippling with detail, the southern hemisphere of Saturn comes to life in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Long, flowing streamers and bands of great contrast soften toward the pole, where a great hurricane-like storm resides.
PIA08896:
Rivers of Cloud
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This view of Titan taken on Feb. 25, 2007 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveals a giant lake-like feature in Titan's North Polar Region.
PIA08363:
Giant Lake on Titan
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This dramatic close-up of Saturn's south pole shows the hurricane-like vortex that resides there. The entire polar region is dotted with bright clouds, including one that appears to be inside the central ring of the polar storm as seen by NASA's Cassini.
PIA08894:
The Center of Things
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Straining to make out the surface of Titan through its murky atmosphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide angle camera manages to exploit one of the infrared spectral windows where the particulate smog is transparent enough for a peek.
PIA08893:
Murky World
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This beautiful look at Saturn south polar atmosphere, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the hurricane-like polar storm swirling there. Sunlight highlights its high cloud walls, especially around the 10 o'clock position.
PIA08892:
Seeing the Storm
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Bright equatorial clouds give way to darker southern bands in this infrared view taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft with a filter sensitive to methane absorption in Saturn's atmosphere
PIA08890:
Cosmic Contrast
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Surely one of the most gorgeous sights the solar system has to offer, Saturn sits enveloped by the full splendor of its stately rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08362:
Blinding Saturn
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Our robotic emissary, flying high above Saturn, captured this view of an alien copper-colored ring world. The overexposed planet has deliberately been removed to show the unlit rings alone as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08361:
Ring World
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Dark and sharply defined ring shadows appear to constrict the flow of color from Saturn's warmly hued south to the bluish northern latitudes as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08360:
Tourniquet Shadows
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With pastel blues, pinks, greens and golds, Saturn displays a dazzling diversity of colors and hues as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08359:
Pastel Planet
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