PDS logoPlanetary Data System
PDS Information
Find a Node - Use these links to navigate to any of the 8 publicly accessible PDS Nodes.

This bar indicates that you are within the PDS enterprise which includes 6 science discipline nodes and 2 support nodes which are overseen by the Project Management Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Each node is led by an expert in the subject discipline, supported by an advisory group of other practitioners of that discipline, and subject to selection and approval under a regular NASA Research Announcement.
Click here to return to the Photojournal Home Page Click here to view a list of Photojournal Image Galleries Photojournal_inner_header
Latest Images  |  Spacecraft & Technology  |  Animations  |  Space Images App  |  Feedback  |  Photojournal Search  
Your search criteria found 152 images
Mission
Go to PIAxxxxx:
Refine this list of images by:
Target:
Instrument:
Click on an image for detailed information
Click on a column heading to sort in ascending or descending order
My
List		 Addition DateSort Ascending Target Mission Instrument Size
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 2899x1014x3
Saturn's rings cast dark bands across cloud tops in the northern hemisphere. Near the pole, an elongated shadow can be seen from Saturn's moon Tethys. Icy moons Dione (front right) and Enceladus (back right) are also seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18320:
A Stage for Shadows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.986 MB)     JPEG (100.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1003x1011x3
On March 13, 2006 Cassini's narrow-angle camera captured this look at Saturn and its rings, seen here nearly edge on. The frame also features Mimas and tiny Janus (above the rings), and Tethys (below the rings).
PIA18323:
Postcard from the Ring Plane
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.585 MB)     JPEG (26.01 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1010x1013x3
In this image, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sees Saturn and its rings through a wispy haze of Sun glare.
PIA17185:
Glare on the Window
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.071 MB)     JPEG (58.12 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1020x1020x1
Stunning views like this image of Saturn's night side are only possible thanks to our robotic emissaries like NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
PIA21350:
Goodbye to the Dark Side
Full Resolution:     TIFF (508.2 kB)     JPEG (30.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1020x1020x1
The north pole of Saturn sits at the center of its own domain. Around it swirl the clouds, driven by the fast winds of Saturn, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20520:
At the Center
Full Resolution:     TIFF (452.8 kB)     JPEG (34.75 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-01-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1020x1020x1
This view, seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows Saturn's daylit side, which no Earth-based telescope could capture. A spacecraft in orbit, like Cassini, can capture stunning scenes that would be impossible from our home planet.
PIA20517:
Peeking over Saturn's Shoulder
Full Resolution:     TIFF (662.3 kB)     JPEG (29.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 3500x2500x1
The constant change in Saturn's wavy, wiggly F ring is on display in this image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image shows a view looking directly down onto the ring with the planet removed from the center.
PIA15505:
Wavy, Wiggly Ring
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.76 MB)     JPEG (243.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1320x1301x1
This image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows some of the more bizarre trails that were dragged out from Saturn's F ring by objects about a half mile (1 kilometer) in diameter.
PIA15504:
Exotic Trails or Mini-Jets
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.719 MB)     JPEG (48.78 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1985x1312x1
This image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows trails that were dragged out from Saturn's F ring by objects about a half mile (1 kilometer) in diameter.
PIA15503:
Classic Trails or Mini-Jets
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.607 MB)     JPEG (82.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1024x1024x1
This image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft around the time it went into orbit around Saturn in 2004 shows a short trail of icy particles dragged out from Saturn's F ring.
PIA15502:
Small Trail at Saturn Orbit Insertion
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.05 MB)     JPEG (40.05 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 491x400x1
In this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the gravitational pull of Saturn's moon Prometheus creates patterns in Saturn's F ring.
PIA15501:
F Ring Patterns Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (196.8 kB)     JPEG (5.388 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1023x1021x1
One of the glittering trails caused by small objects punching through Saturn's F ring is highlighted in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These trails show how the F ring, the outermost of Saturn's main rings, is constantly changing.
PIA15500:
Glittering Trail in Saturn's F Ring Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.046 MB)     JPEG (32.85 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-02 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1020x1020x1
Saturn's moon Tethys orbits in front of the wide shadows cast by the rings onto the planet for this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Tethys appears just below the rings near the center of the image.
PIA14589:
Before Wide Shadows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (38.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 960x734x3
Saturn's northern storm marches through the planet's atmosphere in the top right of this false-color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14900:
Scenic Shock
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.117 MB)     JPEG (51.21 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 977x738x3
This false-color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the tail of Saturn's huge northern storm. The head of the storm is beyond the horizon in this view.
PIA12829:
Storm Tail in False Color
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.166 MB)     JPEG (49.03 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 768x768x3
The head of Saturn's huge northern storm is well established in this view captured early in the storm's development by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in late 2010.
PIA12828:
Storm Head in False Color
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.772 MB)     JPEG (21.17 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 976x1016x3
Bright puffs and ribbons of cloud drift lazily through Saturn's murky skies. Saturn's clouds are overlain by a thick layer of haze in this image of pastel shades of yellow and blue from NASA's Cassini oribter taken on Apr. 15, 2008.
PIA09910:
Deep Clouds
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.979 MB)     JPEG (71.25 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1016x1021x3
A bright, powerful, lightning-producing storm churns and coasts along the lane of Saturn's southern hemisphere nicknamed 'Storm Alley' by scientists. This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08410:
Hissing Storm
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.116 MB)     JPEG (57.22 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1020x1020x1
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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (79.24 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1020x1020x3
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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.126 MB)     JPEG (61.78 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 455x665x1
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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (303.1 kB)     JPEG (18.93 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1018x1018x3
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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.113 MB)     JPEG (46.76 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1020x1020x1
Bright clouds twist and twirl in the fast-moving and turbulent winds in the Saturnian north. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 13, 2007.
PIA09741:
Tempest Tossed
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (106.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1020x1020x1
Saturn's rings divide this scene, casting graceful shadows onto the planet. Below, bright clouds hint at the turbulent world beneath the haze. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09736:
Above and Below
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (36.69 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 4088x2908x3
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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (35.66 MB)     JPEG (671 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1020x1924x3
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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.895 MB)     JPEG (76.31 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1008x2028x3
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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.141 MB)     JPEG (89.55 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1018x1012x3
Magnificent blue and gold Saturn floats obliquely as one of its gravity-bound companions, Dione, hangs in the distance. The darkened rings seem to nearly touch their shadowy reverse images on the planet below as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08358:
Symmetry in Shadow
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.095 MB)     JPEG (53.89 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1008x1008x1
The giant planet is a moody world whose disposition appears to change with he view. Its atmosphere rages with thunderous and hurricane-like storms. Its majestic rings spin a tale of ancient collisions and cataclysm
PIA08347:
The Lore of Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.017 MB)     JPEG (79.74 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1008x1008x3
NASA's Cassini spacecraft views Saturn's southern latitudes in colors of pastel yellow, spying a great, eye-shaped vortex just northward of the south polar region.
PIA08883:
Tempest-Tossed Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.052 MB)     JPEG (80.44 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 995x1017x1
The night skies of Saturn are graced by the planet's dazzling rings in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08252:
Night on Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.013 MB)     JPEG (42.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 801x550x1
The unlit side of the rings glows with scattered sunlight as two moons circle giant Saturn. The light reaching NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this view has traveled many paths before being captured.
PIA08220:
Light from Many Paths
Full Resolution:     TIFF (441.2 kB)     JPEG (16.12 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1020x1020x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this arresting view of Saturn just before Epimetheus crossed into the blinding glare of the planet's sunlit crescent and was lost.
PIA08218:
A Captivating Vision
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (27.69 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1024x1674x3
NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes in a wide-angle view of majestic, golden-hued Saturn ... home to our robotic spacecraft for two years now. The ringplane cuts across the center of Saturn's crescent which wears shadows cast by the icy rings.
PIA08213:
The Golden Giant
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.149 MB)     JPEG (40.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1020x1020x1
This oblique view of Saturn shows what may be localized upwellings in the clouds of Saturn's southern hemisphere. This view looks toward the unlit side of the rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08200:
Saturn Aslant
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (30.56 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 907x390x1
The plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus continue to gush icy particles into Saturn orbit, making this little moon one of a select group of geologically active bodies in the solar system as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08197:
A Moon's Telltale Tail
Full Resolution:     TIFF (354.3 kB)     JPEG (13.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 993x770x1
This view was taken from above the ringplane and looks toward the unlit side of the rings. Here, the probe gazes upon Titan in the distance beyond Saturn and its dark and graceful rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08196:
A Sight to Behold
Full Resolution:     TIFF (765.6 kB)     JPEG (25.76 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 752x776x1
The soft, sweeping shadows of Saturn's C ring cover bright patches of clouds in the planet's atmosphere. The shadow-throwing rings stretch across the view at bottom. The dark inner edge of the B ring is visible at top as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08191:
Shadow Strands
Full Resolution:     TIFF (584.4 kB)     JPEG (64.64 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 508x778x1
The dark shadows that drape Saturn's northern latitudes are split by three familiar bright gaps as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08190:
Sun Through the Shadows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (395.8 kB)     JPEG (26.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1021x715x1
The small, dark form of Janus cruises along in front of bright Saturn. The edge-on rings cast dramatic shadows onto the northern hemisphere as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08184:
Ring Moon, Ring Shadows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (731 kB)     JPEG (18.73 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1020x1020x1
This remarkably detailed view of Saturn's clouds reveals waves at the northern boundary of the bright equatorial zone, presumably associated both with the strong wind shear there. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on March 16, 2006.
PIA08168:
Waves and Shear
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (34.32 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1016x1002x3
Dreamy colors ranging from pale rose to butterscotch to sapphire give this utterly inhospitable gas planet a romantic appeal. Shadows of the rings caress the northern latitudes whose blue color is presumed to be a seasonal effect as seen by NASA's Cassini
PIA08166:
Saturn's Subtle Spectrum
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.058 MB)     JPEG (30.66 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1020x645x1
Two of Saturn's battered, icy companions, Tethys and Mimas, hover here, above the ringplane. A wide band of visible rings is in between the two moons in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07679:
Moons in Perspective
Full Resolution:     TIFF (658.8 kB)     JPEG (18.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 508x508x1
Whiffs of cloud dance in Saturn's atmosphere, while the dim crescent of Rhea hangs in the distance. The dark ringplane cuts a diagonal across the top left corner of this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07671:
Serenity Above, Tempests Below
Full Resolution:     TIFF (258.6 kB)     JPEG (20.74 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 508x508x1
Subtle features in Saturn's equatorial region and the nearly edge-on rings are captured in this view NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07670:
Watching Saturn's Winds
Full Resolution:     TIFF (258.6 kB)     JPEG (25.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1002x840x1
In this magnificent view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, delicate haze layers high in the atmosphere encircle the oblate figure of Saturn.
PIA07669:
Seeing High in the Sky
Full Resolution:     TIFF (842.8 kB)     JPEG (34.86 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1024x730x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has Mimas and Pandora on its side as it gazes across the ringplane at distant Tethys. The two smaller moons were on the side of the rings closer to Cassini when this image was taken.
PIA07661:
Choosing Sides
Full Resolution:     TIFF (748.5 kB)     JPEG (12.68 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1012x1016x3
Few sights in the solar system are more strikingly beautiful than softly hued Saturn embraced by the shadows of its stately rings.
PIA07772:
The Face of Beauty
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.089 MB)     JPEG (48.74 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1011x1011x3
Cool and icy Dione floats in front of giant Saturn bedecked in a dazzling array of colors in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07771:
Dazzling Color
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.071 MB)     JPEG (51.83 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 508x508x1
An oval-shaped feature, wider than Earth and with streamers extending out to the east and west, swirls in Saturn's southern hemisphere. This image was taken in wavelengths of polarized infrared light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA07656:
Storm Down Under
Full Resolution:     TIFF (258.6 kB)     JPEG (12.66 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1020x1020x1
A gorgeous close-up from NASA's Cassini spacecraft at the Saturnian atmosphere reveals small, bright and puffy clouds with long filamentary streamers that are reminiscent of the anvil-shaped Earthly cirrus clouds that extend downwind of thunderstorms.
PIA07650:
Movement in the Shadows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (68.78 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1006x643x1
This fanciful view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the Saturnian moons, Dione and Enceladus, from just beneath the ringplane. Enceladus is on the near side of the rings with respect to Cassini, and Dione is on the far side.
PIA07645:
Dione and Enceladus
Full Resolution:     TIFF (647.7 kB)     JPEG (14.33 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1020x1020x1
From Saturn orbit, NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides a perspective on the ringed planet that is never seen from Earth. In our skies, Saturn's disk is always nearly fully illuminated by the sun. From this vantage point Cassini can see both hemispheres.
PIA07629:
A Privileged View
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (33.16 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 508x501x1
This frame from a movie, shows Saturn's rotation in three different spectral filters, demonstrates NASA's Cassini spacecraft's ability to probe various levels within the planet's outer cloud layers.
PIA07590:
Three Views of Saturn (Animation) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (255 kB)     JPEG (36.38 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1008x1008x1
The latitude bands and swirling storms of Saturn, always intriguing to scientists, often are exquisitely beautiful as well. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on July 31, 2005.
PIA07588:
Vortex Variety
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.017 MB)     JPEG (49.77 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
 799x533x3
Temperature changes mapped with NASA's Cassini's composite and infrared spectrometer throughout Saturn's main rings show the ring temperatures decreasing with the increase of the Sun-spacecraft-ring angle on both the lit and unlit sides of the rings.
PIA03562:
Slower Spinning Rings #2
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.279 MB)     JPEG (37.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
 1600x1602x3
NASA's Cassini composite infrared spectrometer obtained temperature maps of Saturn's main rings (A, B and C) that showed ring temperatures decreasing with increasing solar phase angle on both the lit and unlit sides of the rings.
PIA03561:
Slower Spinning Rings #1
Full Resolution:     TIFF (7.703 MB)     JPEG (157.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1020x1020x1
Saturn poses with Tethys in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The C ring casts thin, string-like shadows on the northern hemisphere. Above that lurks the shadow of the much denser B ring.
PIA07560:
Saturn and Tethys
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (38.85 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 UVIS
 637x348x3
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained new images of Saturn's auroral emissions, which are similar to Earth's Northern Lights.
PIA06436:
Saturn's Auroras
Full Resolution:     TIFF (666 kB)     JPEG (14.74 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1008x1008x1
Believe it or not, this extreme close-up of Saturn's swirling clouds was acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft from more than one million kilometers (621,370 miles) from the gas giant planet.
PIA07555:
Atmospheric Illusion
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.017 MB)     JPEG (78.94 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1020x1020x1
Far above the howling winds of Saturn, its icy moons circle the planet in silence. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Mimas near the upper right, while Tethys hovers at the bottom.
PIA07553:
Wind World
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.042 MB)     JPEG (48.92 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 995x1021x1
This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the unlit side of Saturn's splendid rings made visible by sunlight filtering through the rings from the lit side.
PIA07551:
Dim on the Darkside
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.017 MB)     JPEG (65.12 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1018x953x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft's keen vision, with its variety of spectral filters, allows for revealing views of the eastward- and westward-flowing cloud bands that encircle the ringed giant, Saturn.
PIA07550:
Bright Bands
Full Resolution:     TIFF (971.3 kB)     JPEG (46.54 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 760x592x1
When NASA's Cassini gazes down at Saturn's rings with the Sun directly behind the spacecraft, an unusual phenomenon called the 'opposition effect' can be seen. The effect is visible here as a bright region, near right, toward the inner edge of the A ring.
PIA07543:
Rings At Opposition
Full Resolution:     TIFF (450.6 kB)     JPEG (21.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 977x967x1
Three of Saturn's icy moons are seen here, along with the magnificent water-ice rings and the cold gaseous envelope of the planet's atmosphere. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on June 1, 2005.
PIA07538:
Saturn's Icy Realm
Full Resolution:     TIFF (946 kB)     JPEG (45.46 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1024x1024x1
This sweeping view of Saturn's rings offers a look at how the planet's moons help shape and maintain this structure, making Saturn the jewel of the solar system. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07537:
Splendid Striations
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.05 MB)     JPEG (51.01 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 871x889x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn's night side in this view, capturing a glimpse of Dione's tortured surface in the foreground and a far-off view of Epimetheus beyond Saturn.
PIA07525:
Aligned Moons
Full Resolution:     TIFF (775.3 kB)     JPEG (19.85 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 2040x986x1
These two images, taken 10 minutes apart, demonstrate NASA's Cassini spacecraft's ability to see the different depths of Saturn's immense atmosphere, using an array of specially designed spectral filters.
PIA07524:
Probing Saturn's Atmosphere
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.014 MB)     JPEG (62.02 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 842x718x1
Saturn's atmosphere is essentially transparent at wavelengths visible to the human eye, but when the view through the atmosphere is oblique. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07521:
Funhouse Atmosphere
Full Resolution:     TIFF (605.4 kB)     JPEG (23.67 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1020x956x1
This spectacular and disorienting maze of lines is a Cassini portrait of the gas giant Saturn, its rings and its small, icy moon Mimas. This view was obtained in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07515:
Moon Against the Shadows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (976.3 kB)     JPEG (58.65 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1017x667x1
This poetic wide-angle camera view of Saturn reveals several small, dark storms in the southern latitudes, where storm activity has been prevalent since before NASA's Cassini spacecraft arrived in orbit.
PIA06658:
Sunlit South
Full Resolution:     TIFF (679.2 kB)     JPEG (34.47 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 876x1000x1
Saturn's rings appear strangely warped in this view of the rings seen through the upper Saturn atmosphere. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was obtained using a near-infrared filter.
PIA06656:
Bending the Rings
Full Resolution:     TIFF (877.1 kB)     JPEG (75.82 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Radio Science Subsystem
 1833x1023x3
Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. NASA's Cassini spacecraft conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's rings on May 3, 2005.
PIA07960:
Waves and Small Particles in Ring A
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.634 MB)     JPEG (148.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Radio Science Subsystem
 1833x1023x3
Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. NASA's Cassini spacecraft conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's rings on May 3, 2005.
PIA07875:
Small Particles in Ring A
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.634 MB)     JPEG (112.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Radio Science Subsystem
 5776x864x3
NASA's Cassini instruments provide complementary information about the structure of Saturn's rings. Narrow and wide angle cameras provide images in the visible region of the electromagnetic, spectrum much like a digital camera does.
PIA07874:
Multiple Eyes of Cassini
Full Resolution:     TIFF (14.97 MB)     JPEG (502.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Radio Science Subsystem
 3200x2400x3
Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. NASA's Cassini spacecraft conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's rings on May 3, 2005.
PIA07873:
Radio Occultation: Unraveling Saturn's Rings
Full Resolution:     TIFF (23.04 MB)     JPEG (664.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Radio Science Subsystem
 3200x2400x3
Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. NASA's Cassini spacecraft conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's rings on May 3, 2005.
PIA07872:
Small Particles in Saturn's Rings
Full Resolution:     TIFF (23.04 MB)     JPEG (739.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 942x767x1
Saturn's moon Dione occults part of Saturn's distant rings while Tethys hovers below, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06647:
Pair to Compare
Full Resolution:     TIFF (723.5 kB)     JPEG (12.88 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1556x296x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft's celestial sleuthing has paid off with a series of images which confirmed earlier suspicions that a small moon was orbiting within the narrow Keeler gap within Saturn's rings.
PIA06239:
Discovery of the Wavemaker
Full Resolution:     TIFF (461.3 kB)     JPEG (21.54 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1008x534x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft's celestial sleuthing has paid off with this time-lapse series of images which confirmed earlier suspicions that a small moon was orbiting within the narrow Keeler gap of Saturn's rings.
PIA06238:
Discovery of the Wavemaker (animation) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (539 kB)     JPEG (37.98 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 744x328x1
Confirmation that a small moon orbits within the Keeler gap in Saturn's rings is made all the more exciting by this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in which the disk of the 7 kilometer-wide body is resolved for the first time.
PIA06237:
Wavemaker Moon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (244.5 kB)     JPEG (20.83 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1020x628x1
A scene straight out of science fiction, this fantastic view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows, from left to right, Saturn's moon's Mimas, Dione and Rhea, on the far side of Saturn's nearly edge-on rings.
PIA06642:
Amazing Icy Moons
Full Resolution:     TIFF (641.4 kB)     JPEG (11.61 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 974x590x1
Saturn's moon Helene, seen here with Saturn's nearly edge-on rings, orbits 60 degrees ahead of Dione and is called a 'Trojan' moon. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on March 12, 2005.
PIA06639:
Dione's Companion
Full Resolution:     TIFF (575.5 kB)     JPEG (16.77 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 360x504x1
NASA's Cassini imaging scientists use special images like this one, which shows the far side of Saturn's rings disappearing behind the planet's outer atmosphere, to probe the vertical structure of Saturn's high altitude haze.
PIA06636:
Rings' Disappearing Act
Full Resolution:     TIFF (181.9 kB)     JPEG (6.754 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1024x1024x1
This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three of Saturn's moons crowd together off the left edge of Saturn's rings.
PIA06631:
Moons off the Port Bow
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.05 MB)     JPEG (13.58 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 512x512x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft's ability to remain sharply pointed at its targets allowed this image of Saturn's faint, dusty G ring to be made.
PIA06627:
G Ring, Brightened by Time
Full Resolution:     TIFF (262.6 kB)     JPEG (23.35 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 931x786x1
Less than 20 minutes after NASA's Cassini spacecraft close approach to Titan on March 31, 2005, its cameras captured this view of Saturn through Titan's upper atmosphere.
PIA06225:
Saturn Through the Haze
Full Resolution:     TIFF (542.1 kB)     JPEG (15.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1016x1016x1
Viewed nearly edge-on, Saturn's rings appear dark and pencil-thin against the backdrop of the planet's swirling clouds. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Feb. 18, 2005.
PIA06619:
Southern Face of Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (731.7 kB)     JPEG (37.25 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-22 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 988x971x3
Saturn's whirling vortices and feathery cloud bands are the signs of a restless world. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this arresting view of the giant planet scored by bold shadows cast by the rings.
PIA06610:
Saturn at a Tilt
Full Resolution:     TIFF (721.5 kB)     JPEG (68.15 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1032x828x1
This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows intriguing features resembling drapes and kinks, which are visible in this view of Saturn's thin F ring.
PIA06600:
In the Moon's Wake
Full Resolution:     TIFF (395.4 kB)     JPEG (24.68 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 896x386x1
This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three of Saturn's ring moons in a single view.
PIA06595:
Flock of Moons
Full Resolution:     TIFF (112 kB)     JPEG (18.87 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 1018x872x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft offers this lovely, crisp view of Saturn, which shows detail in the planet's banded atmosphere, as well as the delicate ring system.
PIA06594:
Splendid Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (309.6 kB)     JPEG (28.05 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
 1006x1006x3
Saturn's atmosphere and its rings are shown here in a false color composite made from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in near infrared light through filters that sense different amounts of methane gas.
PIA06197:
The Dragon Storm
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.294 MB)     JPEG (53.89 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
 1028x697x1
A collection of new ring phenomena, first observed in the sequence of images taken of the dark side of Saturn's rings immediately after NASA's Cassini spacecraft entered orbit, may be evidence of the clumping and aggregation of ring particles.
PIA06195:
New Ring Phenomena
Full Resolution:     TIFF (369.6 kB)     JPEG (125.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
 800x400x1
Images taken of Saturn's rings by NASA's Cassini spacecraft immediately after it entered orbit around Saturn have turned up circumstantial evidence that an unseen moon may be orbiting dead center in the narrow Keeler gap in Saturn's outer A ring.
PIA06194:
Fingerprints of an Unseen Moon?
Full Resolution:     TIFF (80.67 kB)     JPEG (13.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
 8888x4544x3
While cruising around Saturn in early October 2004, Cassini captured a series of images that have been composed into the largest, most detailed, global natural color view of Saturn and its rings ever made.
PIA06193:
The Greatest Saturn Portrait ...Yet
Full Resolution:     TIFF (28.28 MB)     JPEG (5.663 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-18 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1024x1024x1
Three of Saturn's moons appear almost like a string of pearls in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but looks are deceiving.
PIA06588:
String of Moons?
Full Resolution:     TIFF (597.7 kB)     JPEG (67.83 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1024x1024x1
The oddball shapes of Saturn's small ring moons Prometheus and Epimetheus are discernible in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06587:
Irregular Pair
Full Resolution:     TIFF (468.7 kB)     JPEG (33.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 1024x832x1
This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows, from upper right to lower left, the thin C ring, multi-toned B ring, the dark Cassini Division, the A ring and narrow F ring.
PIA06586:
Bound to Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (655.7 kB)     JPEG (74.05 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 5890x1000x3
Saturn's most prominent feature, its dazzling ring system, takes center stage in this stunning natural color mosaic which reveals the color and diversity present in this wonder of the solar system.
PIA06175:
Panoramic Rings
Full Resolution:     TIFF (14.19 MB)     JPEG (443.2 kB)
 Current Set   Jump to a Following Set   Retrieve Next Set 
 1-100   101-200 
Currently displaying images: 1 - 100 of 152