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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-14 Pan Cassini-Huygens
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Pan sits nestled in its gap, like a beacon on the far side of Saturn's rings. The especially bright region seen here is the Cassini Division. This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Mar. 4, 2008.
PIA09879:
Lighthouse Moon
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down onto high northern latitudes on Tethys, spying the enormous impact basin Odysseus. Lit terrain seen here is on the anti-Saturn side of Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665 miles across).
PIA09878:
Odysseus in the Light
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Faint ringlets abound in this view of Saturn's F and outer A rings. The oblong moon Pandora, overexposed in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Mar. 4, 2008, is also seen.
PIA09877:
Narrow Ice Lanes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-03 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this exquisite, close-up view of Saturn's moon Janus, looking toward the south polar region, on Feb. 20, 2008.
PIA09872:
Janus: Down South
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On Feb. 13, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft provided a window on the awesome scale of the Saturn system, with the giant planet dominating one of its smaller satellites. Just outside the main ring system, orbits Janus.
PIA09871:
Pebble in a Pond
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-28 Pan Cassini-Huygens
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Embedded in Saturn's A ring is saucer-shaped Pan. The moon is seen here with two of the diffuse ringlets with which it shares the Encke Gap. NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this image on Feb. 12, 2008.
PIA09868:
Encke Inhabitants
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-26 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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On Jan. 29, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft viewed Saturn's luminescent rings provide striking contrasts of light and darkness, as the irregular shape of Janus glides across the foreground.
PIA09866:
Saturn Noir
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-25 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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The plumes of water and other ice vapors jetting from the surface of Enceladus are one of the most exciting astronomical discoveries of the 21st century. This perspective view was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA10352:
Tiger Stripes on Enceladus - Fracture Zones and Plumes Sources
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-25 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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The topography of planetary surfaces tells us much about the geologic history and forces involved, and volcanically active Enceladus is no exception. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the oldest most heavily cratered terrains on the surface.
PIA10351:
Ancient Cratered Terrains on Enceladus - A Complex Deformation History
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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 2008-03-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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On Feb. 5, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft viewed the gauzy C ring of Saturn, with the cloud-streaked planet providing a dramatic backdrop.
PIA09863:
Seeing the C Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-19 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This southerly view of Saturn's moon Dione captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows enormous canyons extending from mid-latitudes on the trailing hemisphere, at right, to the moon's south polar region.
PIA09861:
A Stressed Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Swathed in its thick blanket of atmosphere, frigid Titan approaches the brilliant limb of Saturn, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09858:
Titan Approaches Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-14 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This three-image mosaic is the highest resolution view yet obtained of Enceladus' north polar region. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on March 12, 2008.
PIA08409:
The North Polar Region of Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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On Jan. 29, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft examined the Maxwell Gap, the large, dark division at center, which is surrounded on either side by the broad, isolated and bright ring regions, or 'plateaus,' of Saturn's outer C ring.
PIA09857:
Maxwell's Namesake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft stares at the Huygens Gap, the region between Saturn's outer B ring and the ringlets of the prominent Cassini Division in this view taken on Jan. 28, 2008.
PIA09855:
Inspecting the Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-06 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Prometheus shines brightly in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken on Jan. 22, 2008, as part of the ongoing campaign to precisely determine the orbits of Saturn's small moons.
PIA09852:
Orbit Quest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-04 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon, Daphnis and its entourage of edge waves are captured here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The wave pattern caused by Daphnis in the edges of the Keeler Gap can be likened to a standing ripple in a flowing stream.
PIA09850:
Among the Waves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-03 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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On Jan. 19, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the irregularly shaped icy moon Janus as it swings around Saturn.
PIA09849:
Janus in View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's F ring displays magnificent structure following the passage of Prometheus. Atlas is seen between the A and F rings, above center in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 23, 2008.
PIA09848:
Trailing Prometheus
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On Jan. 17, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Saturn's moon, Janus, in the foreground, with Dione in the distance beyond.
PIA09847:
Stepping Stone to Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A bright streak of cloud graces the northern skies of Titan. This is the second time NASA's Cassini spacecraft's imaging cameras have spotted clouds at 60 degrees north latitude on Titan.
PIA09846:
Alien Weather
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Two of Saturn's ring moons, Pan and Atlas, are captured in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, along with the signature of another. This image was taken not long after Prometheus passed, leaving a trail of dark gores in the inner edge of the F ring.
PIA09845:
Pan in the Fast Lane
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-25 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea drifts in front of Saturn. The battered, icy moon is seen here near the western limb of the planet's northern hemisphere. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 17, 2008.
PIA09844:
Background Planet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-22 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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Janus skirts the edges of Saturn's main rings. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has shown that this small moon and its co-orbital companion, Epimetheus, also share their orbit with a diffuse ring of fine particles.
PIA09843:
A True "Ring Moon"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-21 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings slice across this scene, obscuring the cracked face of Dione. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 17, 2008.
PIA09842:
Hiding Dione
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views Rhea and the bright, rayed crater that is likely one of the younger features on the moon's surface.
PIA09841:
The Rays of Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-19 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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As NASA's Cassini spacecraft studies the rings, an icy interloper happens past. At the top of the image taken on Jan. 17, 2008, between the spacecraft and the rings, is Epimetheus.
PIA09840:
Epimetheus in the Way
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-18 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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On Dec. 2, 1007, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied two of Saturn's small moons, Atlas and Epimetheus, that skirt the edges of the planet's rings.
PIA09839:
Herschel on the Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-15 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down from high latitude over Dione and the system of wispy fractures that coats the moon's trailing side.
PIA09838:
Dione Below
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On Jan. 17, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied two of Saturn's small moons, Atlas and Epimetheus, that skirt the edges of the planet's rings.
PIA09836:
Ring Rocks
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This view of Saturn's moon Tethys displays three of the moon's most notable surface features. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 14, 2008.
PIA09835:
The Triad of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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On Jan. 1, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft viewed two dark gores in Saturn's F ring demonstrate the gravitational influence of the shepherd moon Prometheus.
PIA09834:
Gravity of the Situation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Bright, icy canyons stretch across the surface of Dione. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Dione.
PIA09832:
Cracked-up Dione
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down over high northern latitudes on Saturn's moon, Dione. The view captures terrain stretching on the moon's Saturn-facing side.
PIA09830:
Battered Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-04 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A point of light flickers behind Saturn's rings as multiple instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft observed a stellar occultation of Antares (or alpha Scorpii) on Jan. 3, 2008.
PIA09829:
Flickering Antares
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-31 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes the wispy terrain that covers the trailing side of Rhea. North on Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) is up and rotated 27 degrees to the right.
PIA09827:
Trailing Rhea
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On Dec. 31, 2007, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured an intriguing feature in the perturbed core of Saturn's F ring.
PIA09826:
F Ring Knot
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines the icy, crater-saturated face of Rhea. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across).
PIA09825:
Icy Moonlight
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers closely at the layers of organic haze in Titan's upper atmosphere during a recent flyby. Planet-sized Titan is 5,150 kilometers (3,200 miles) across.
PIA09823:
Detached Haze
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A small ring-embedded moon coasts into view from behind shadow-draped Saturn. The rings' image is distorted near Saturn by the planet's upper atmosphere, to the right of Pan, as viewed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 22, 2007.
PIA09822:
Pan in View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-23 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft surveys the southern hemisphere on Dione's anti-Saturn side, spying a broad impact basin near bottom. Most of the medium-sized craters visible here have pointed central peaks.
PIA09821:
Rebounded Craters
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Looking down through the A ring and Cassini Division, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the bright limb of Saturn on Dec. 12, 2007.
PIA09820:
Peering Through the Plane
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down onto middle northern latitudes on Rhea. The large Tirawa basin is seen on the terminator at right.
PIA09819:
North on Rhea
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This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 8, 2007, shows the small moon Atlas clinging to the edge of Saturn's A ring. External to the moon is the thin and contorted F ring.
PIA09818:
Atlas Alone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Prometheus and Pandora, Saturn's F-ring shepherd moons are seen in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Dec. 6, 2007, which also features narrow ringlets in the Encke gap at left.
PIA09816:
Ring Herders
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The bright, perturbed core of Saturn's F ring displays several kink-like features. The core is flanked by dimmer, smoother ringlets. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 2, 2007.
PIA09814:
Subtle Kinks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-11 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's close flyby of Epimetheus in December 2007 returned detailed images of the moon's south polar region.
PIA09813:
Epimetheus Revealed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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On Dec. 21 1007, NASA's Cassini spacecraft viewed Saturn's two ring-embedded moons, Daphnis and Pan, along with clearly visible signs of their perturbing effects on the ring edges that border the gaps they inhabit.
PIA09812:
Daphnis and Pan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-09 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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On Dec. 2, 1007, NASA's Cassini spacecraft viewed the rugged surface of Mimas, half lit by the Sun, and half lit by reflected light from Saturn. On the sunlit western limb lies the great Herschel impact crater.
PIA09811:
Rough, Icy Mimas
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The small moon Prometheus appears from behind giant Saturn, accompanied by a warped view of the rings in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 30, 2007.
PIA09810:
Warp Zone
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Wispy markings on Rhea reach across the moon's icy surface. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Nov. 29, 2007.
PIA09809:
Wisp-covered Rhea
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down toward Janus, which hugs the outer edges of Saturn's rings. Janus orbits Saturn beyond the narrow core of the F ring in this image captured on Nov. 25, 2007.
PIA09808:
Facing Janus
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Across the darkened expanse of Saturn's rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied one of the F-ring shepherd moons, Pandora, in 2008.
PIA09807:
Spotting the Shepherd
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers through the fine, smoke-sized ice particles of Saturn's F ring toward the cratered face of Mimas in this captured on Nov. 18, 2007.
PIA09806:
A Wisp of Smoke
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken on Nov. 17, 2007, takes in the outer third of Saturn's C ring, from the Maxwell Gap, at center left, to the C-ring edge at lower right.
PIA09805:
Saturn's Outer C Ring
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught Prometheus in the act of pulling a new streamer out of the F ring's inner edge in this image captured on Nov. 14, 2007.
PIA09803:
Sculpting the F Ring
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft catches a glimpse of the bright fractures that adorn the trailing side of icy Dione, a moon of Saturn.
PIA09801:
Dione's Fractured Face
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A section of Saturn's perturbed F ring displays kinks in its bright strands. At left, edge waves in the Encke Gap, caused by the presence of Pan is seen, along with two faint ringlets. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 14, 2007.
PIA09800:
Bright Strands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-24 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The low illumination angle near the terminator makes visible the steep topography of craters on Rhea's battered surface. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Nov. 16, 2007.
PIA09799:
Rhea's Pitted Profile
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft watches a thin, bright sliver emerge from the hazy limb of Saturn. In one minute, the sliver ballooned into the full disk of Mimas in this image taken on Oct. 26, 2007.
PIA09797:
Mimas Emerges
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A transitional region in Saturn's atmosphere features long, linear cloud shapes, flanked to the north and south by more turbulent swirls. A dark vortex swirls ringed by bright clouds. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov.8, 2007.
PIA09796:
Cloud Detail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-17 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea is frozen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, captured just before it glided in front of Saturn's northern hemisphere. The wispy streaks on Rhea's trailing side are partly visible in the west.
PIA09794:
Rhea Detached
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes into the blustery, ever changing atmosphere of Saturn as the tiny shadow of Epimetheus drifts across the cloud tops. The view looks toward a region in Saturn's atmosphere 24 degrees north of the planet's equator.
PIA09792:
Shadow Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-12 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies Enceladus and Epimetheus near the limb of Saturn. Geologically active Enceladus is 505 kilometers across; smaller, more irregularly shaped Epimetheus is 116 kilometers across.
PIA09791:
Off Saturn's Shoulder
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-11 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's irregularly shaped moon Hyperion is completely covered with large pits from which much of its material has been blasted by impacts, never to return. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 21, 2007.
PIA09790:
Pummeled Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The spoke-forming region in the outer part of Saturn's B ring is often seen to exhibit the irregular, patchy appearance around the ring that is visible in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 21, 2007.
PIA09789:
B Ring Irregularities
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-07 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's dark-side rings glow in shades of brown and gold, contrasting with the more neutral appearance of the icy moon Tethys. This view was acquired with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Oct. 29, 2007.
PIA09788:
True Colors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-06 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
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These images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's moons Pan and Atlas, showing their distinctive 'flying saucer' shapes, owing to equatorial ridges not seen on the other moons of Saturn.
PIA08405:
Saturn's Saucer Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Giant vortices swirl in the dim northern latitudes of Saturn in this imaged captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The high northern latitudes are slowly coming to light as Saturn heads into northern hemisphere spring.
PIA09787:
Northern Storms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-05 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Enceladus is seen here, across the unilluminated side of Saturn's rings. This image was taken in polarized green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Oct. 27, 2007.
PIA09786:
Enceladus Afar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This low resolution view of Tethys provides scientists with useful information about the moon's surface properties, regardless of the image's small size. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA09785:
Ultraviolet Revelation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-30 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Dione floats past, with Saturn's rings beyond. This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across).
PIA09783:
Icy Traveler
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Seen here is the end result of the process that occurs every time the moon Prometheus closely approaches Saturn's F ring. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Oct. 25, 2007.
PIA09782:
Gores in the Strands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-28 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Tethys hangs before NASA's Cassini spacecraft, its great crater Odysseus in view. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665 miles across).
PIA09781:
Toward Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spies two icy denizens, Mimas and Epimetheus, of the Saturn System as they hurtle past in this image taken on Nov. 6, 2007.
PIA09780:
Saturnian Citizens
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Mimas coasts along in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 26, 2007.The rings are squashed into a narrow band from this viewing angle, foreshortening all of their radial features.
PIA09779:
Collapsed Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Clouds and vortices churn in this beautiful, close-up view of Saturn. This image is part of a series of important of NASA's Cassini observations designed to provide information about winds and convection on Saturn.
PIA09778:
Monitoring the Maelstrom
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-20 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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From a low angle above Saturn's rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft's view of an icy moon is partly obscured. The view looks toward Enceladus across the unilluminated side of the rings from less than a degree above the ringplane.
PIA09775:
Enceladus in Hiding
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-19 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Through the obscuring haze come glimpses of Titan's dune seas. The dark, equatorial region known as Shangri-la is visible here. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Oct. 19, 2007.
PIA09774:
Dark Lowlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-15 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Canyons slink southward on Dione, while bright-walled craters gleam in the sun. This image was taken in polarized green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2007.
PIA09772:
Facing Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-13 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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The leading hemisphere of Enceladus displays a remarkably fresh-looking surface in this recent view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. At this resolution, only a few craters can be made out in this wrinkled region of the geologically active moon's surface.
PIA09770:
A Fresh Face
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes a gathering of three moons, Mimas, Epimetheus, and Daphnis, near the rings of Saturn in this image taken on Oct. 3, 2007.
PIA09768:
Ring Tableau
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-07 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Around the equator on its leading side, Tethys wears a band of slightly darker surface material. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2007.
PIA09766:
Dark Belt of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The brilliant B ring ends abruptly at the Huygens Gap, the broad, dark band devoid of ring material at near left. This gap marks the inner edge of the Cassini Division, within which the five dim bands at left reside in this image taken by NASA's Cassini.
PIA09763:
B Ring Terminus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-31 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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With Enceladus nearly in front of the Sun from NASA's Cassini's viewpoint, its icy jets become clearly visible against the background. This view is roughly perpendicular to the direction of the linear 'tiger stripe' fractures from which the jets emanate.
PIA09761:
Icy Jets Aglow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-30 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Mimas and Pandora, as well as Herschel crater, as they hurtle around the vast icy disk of Saturn's rings, in this view taken on Sept. 19, 2007.
PIA09760:
Moon Harvest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The boundaries between eastward- and westward-flowing jet streams create turbulent, eddy-filled regions that pump energy into the never-ending gales on Saturn as captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09759:
Swarm of Swirls
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings cut across their own shadows on the planet and hide a tiny secret. Barely visible in the Encke Gap is the embedded moon Pan in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 18, 2007.
PIA09758:
Secretive Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-24 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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Following NASA's Cassini's highly successful flyby of Iapetus in Sept. 2007, the spacecraft repeatedly glanced back at the two-toned moon for some time. As Cassini receded from Iapetus, more and more of the bright trailing hemisphere rotated into view.
PIA09756:
Flyby Follow-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Incredible gales blow in Saturn's twisted atmosphere. Winds in this region of Saturn have been measured at greater than 360 kilometers per hour, faster than the most powerful hurricanes on Earth. This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09755:
Whirlwinds of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks upward from beneath the ringplane to spy the moon Mimas floating above the shadowed cloudtops of the Saturnian north in this image taken on Sept. 18, 2007.
PIA09754:
Shadowplay
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-18 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Two of Saturn's icy attendants, Pandora and Mimas, race past on their circuit of the ringed beauty in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 8, 2007.
PIA09752:
Saturn's Confidants
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-16 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides a crisp look at the fine material and detailed structure in the Cassini Division. Also seen rounding the ansa, or or outer edge of the rings, is Saturn's moon Mimas.
PIA09750:
Mimas and the Great Division
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Large vortices edge their way along the turbulent boundary between east-west flowing cloud bands. This view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft is centered on a region 22 degrees south of Saturn's equator.
PIA09749:
Storms on the Border
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini soars above the many pits and basins in the rolling landscape of Saturn's moon Iapetus. This mosaic view looks out onto an area close to the northern bright/dark boundary, but still within the dark region, Cassini Regio.
PIA08403:
Iapetan Geography
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The hummocky floor of a crater on Saturn's moon Rhea possesses a central peak and clusters of small craters as seen in this anaglyph from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08402:
Rhea's Pop-up Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The cold, cratered landscape of Saturn's moon Tethys shines in stark relief in this crescent view. This view was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on June 29, 2007, from a distance of approximately 38,000 kilometers (24,000 miles).
PIA08401:
Frosty Scallops
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The vast expanse of the crater Odysseus spreads out below NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this mosaic view of Saturn's moon Tethys. Tethys is 1,071 kilometers (665 miles) across.
PIA08400:
The Crown of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The murky orange disk of Saturn's moon Titan glides past -- a silent, floating sphere transiting Saturn. Titan is 5,150 kilometers (3200 miles) across. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was acquired from less than a degree above Saturn's ringplane.
PIA08398:
Titan Makes Contact
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