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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This synthetic aperture radar image was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its pass by Titan's south pole on Dec. 20, 2007.
PIA10219:
Flowing Liquids on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This synthetic aperture radar image was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its recent pass by Titan's south pole on Dec. 20, 2007.
PIA10218:
Radar Images Titan's South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-08 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image, created with data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's composite infrared spectrometer shows the unexpected 'hot spot' at Saturn's north pole. Scientists were surprised to find that the north pole is home to a hot, cyclonic vortex.
PIA10217:
Saturn's North Pole Hot Spot and Hexagon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-07 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-04 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-03 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-02 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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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 2007-12-28 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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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 2007-12-26 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-25 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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 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 2007-12-24 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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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 2007-12-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Dec. 20, 2007. South Polar Region, Western Mezzoramia.
PIA01854:
Titan Radar Swath (T-39 Flyby - Dec. 20, 2007)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-20 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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 2007-12-18 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 2007-12-17 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 2007-12-14 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 2007-12-13 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 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This is a computer simulation of the final stage of the growth of a 'clump' in Saturn's rings. The gravity from a hypothesized moonlet (solid gray sphere in frame center) has collected smaller ring particles (black) to form a temporary aggregation.
PIA10083:
Clumpy Moons Animation Icon
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This is an artist concept of the view from NASA's Cassini during the star occultation that detected 'Mittens,' the small object to the right of the star.
PIA10082:
"Staring Mittens" (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This is an artist concept of a close-up view of Saturn's ring particles. The planet Saturn is seen in the background (yellow and brown).
PIA10081:
Saturn's Recycling Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image was taken with NASA's Cassini Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument's ion and neutral camera, showing Saturn's dynamic 'ring current,' which is an invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in the magnetic field of the planet.
PIA10095:
Saturn's "Ring Current" Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Like Earth, Saturn has an invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in its magnetic field. This feature is known as a 'ring current.' This ring current has been imaged with a special camera on NASA's Cassini's sensitive to energetic neutral atoms.
PIA10094:
Saturn's "Ring Current"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This is an artist's concept of the Saturnian plasma sheet based on data from the magnetospheric imaging instrument on NASA's Cassini. It shows Saturn's embedded 'ring current,' an invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in the planet's magnetic field.
PIA10084:
Artist Concept of Particle Population in Saturn's Magnetosphere
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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 2007-12-03 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 2007-11-30 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 2007-11-22 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 2007-11-20 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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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 2007-11-15 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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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 2007-11-13 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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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 2007-11-09 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 2007-11-08 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 2007-11-07 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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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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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 2007-11-02 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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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 2007-10-31 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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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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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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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 2007-10-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This set of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a close-up view of two propeller structures in Saturn's A ring. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 20, 2005.
PIA10080:
Propeller Close Up
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured eight new propeller-like features within Saturn's A ring in what may be the propeller 'hot zone' of Saturn's rings.
PIA10079:
Propeller Belt
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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This global digital map of Titan was created using images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's imaging science subsystem. Images were filter centered at 938 nanometers, allowing researchers to examine albedo variations across the surface of Titan.
PIA08399:
Map of Titan - October 2007
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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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The moon Prometheus slowly collides with the diffuse inner edge of Saturn's F ring in image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The oblong moon pulls a streamer of material from the ring and leaves behind a dark channel.
PIA08397:
Soft Collision 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 delivers this stunning vista showing small, battered Epimetheus and smog-enshrouded Titan, with Saturn's A and F rings stretching across the scene.
PIA08391:
Titan Beyond the Rings
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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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A scan across Saturn's incredible halo of ice rings yields a study in precision and order in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08389:
Expanse of Ice
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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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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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A hazy orb hangs in space, swathed in its dense cocoon of frigid atmosphere. Titan's global, detached, high-altitude haze layer is visible in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09748:
The Smog-bound Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-11 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Cassini's radar instrument finds lakes in the southern hemisphere of Titan during the most recent Titan flyby. NASA's Cassini spacecraft completed its 37th flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on Oct. 2, 2007.
PIA10018:
Radar Sees Lakes in Titan's Southern Hemisphere
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This false-color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows all synthetic-aperture radar images to date of Titan's north polar region. Approximately 60 percent of Titan's north polar region, above 60 degrees north latitude, is now mapped with radar.
PIA10008:
Titan's North Polar Region Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-11 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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An icy moon drifts above the stormy skies of Saturn. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 15, 2007.
PIA09747:
Tethys Aloft
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Views like this help identify the source locations for individual jets spurting ice particles, water vapor and trace organic compounds from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. This false-color view was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08386:
Jet Blue
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This map of the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows the correlation between jet sources identified in NASA's Cassini imaging data and hot spots on the surface located by the composite infrared spectrometer instrument.
PIA08385:
Enceladus Jet Sources
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Captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 7, 2007, Saturn's narrow F ring displays two bright strands, flanked by fainter material. The continuing evolution of this quirky ring is an ongoing subject of study for Cassini scientists.
PIA09746:
F-ring Evolution
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