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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie sequence shows highlights of NASA's Cassini spacecraft's Sept. 26, 2005, flyby of the odd, icy moon Hyperion.
PIA07742:
Flight to Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color view, acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 26, 2005, shows Saturn's moon Hyperion's crater, Meri. Meri is overprinted by a couple of smaller craters.
PIA07768:
Color Variation on Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-12 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft represents the best view yet of Saturn's battered and chaotically rotating little moon Hyperion.
PIA05433:
Tumbling Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-28 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught this glimpse of Hyperion as the moon tumbled chaotically in its orbit around Saturn.
PIA06486:
Hyperion From Afar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-22 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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As it approached Saturn near the end of its second orbit, NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught this view of the small, irregularly shaped moon Hyperion (266 kilometers, or 165 miles, across).
PIA06504:
Day and Night on Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-24 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals the odd shape of Saturn's moon Hyperion and an intriguing variation in brightness across its surface.
PIA06527:
Oddball Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-13 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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This unusual view of Saturn's moon Hyperion from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows just how strangely shaped this tumbling little moon is.
PIA06562:
Strange Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-18 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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As it loops around Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft periodically gets a good view of Saturn's moon Hyperion.
PIA06608:
Hyperion Hoopla
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-08 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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The rugged surface of Saturn's irregular tumbling moon Hyperion is revealed in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06623:
Hyperion's Face
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-06 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Several distinct craters on Saturn's moon Hyperion can be seen here in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, as well as a protruding feature, perhaps a mountain, near the center.
PIA06643:
Hyperion's Nose
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's chaotically tumbling moon Hyperion is captured in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06645:
What's the Spin?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-15 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon, Hyperion, looking a bit like a sponge, pops into view in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06245:
Pop-Up Moon (non-stereo version)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-11 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie sequence provides the record of NASA's Cassini spacecraft's first close brush with Hyperion, Saturn's chaotically tumbling moon.
PIA06243:
Encountering Hyperion (Movie) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-11 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Hyperion pops into view in this stereo anaglyph created from NASA's Cassini images; differing views are helpful in interpreting the moon's irregular shape. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA06244:
Pop-Up Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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As NASA's Cassini spacecraft sped away from its close encounter with Saturn's moon Hyperion on Sept. 26, 2005, it took this parting shot of the battered moon's shadowy limb.
PIA07739:
Hyperion: Parting Glance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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This stunning false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface. The view was obtained during NASA's Cassini close flyby on Sept. 26, 2005.
PIA07740:
Odd World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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This high-resolution mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that Hyperion truly has a surface different from any other in the Saturn system. The images were taken during Cassini's close flyby of Hyperion on Sept. 26, 2005.
PIA07741:
Hyperion's Unusual Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's impact-pummeled moon Hyperion stares back at NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this six-image mosaic, taken during the spacecraft's close approach on Sept. 26, 2005.
PIA07761:
Cosmic Blasting Zone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-03 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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The tumbling and irregularly shaped moon Hyperion rotates away from NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this image taken during a 

distant encounter on Dec. 23, 2005. Hyperion (174 miles across) is covered with closely packed and deeply etched pits.
PIA07683:
Rough and Tumble Hyperion (Movie) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-03 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's tumbling and irregularly shaped moon Hyperion hangs before NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this image taken during a distant encounter in Dec. 2005.
PIA07684:
Rough and Tumble Hyperion (Still)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-04 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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This extreme false-color view of Saturnian moon Hyperion shows color variation across the impact-blasted surface of the tumbling moon in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft .
PIA08236:
Eroded Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-10 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Unlike most of the dull grey moons in the Solar System, Hyperion's color is a rosy tan and looks like a spongy potato, as shown is this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08240:
Rosy Tan Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-14 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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This color view of Saturnian moon Hyperion shows off the dark pits that cover this strangely shaped moon as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08309:
Hyperion's Pitted Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Hyperion appears to tumble toward NASA's Cassini in this frame from a movie that shows variations in color across the moon's surface.
PIA08349:
Multicolor Hyperion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-26 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Chaotically tumbling and seriously eroded by impacts, Hyperion is one of Saturn's more unusual satellites in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft .
PIA08904:
Unusual Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-15 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Giant pits cover the impact-eroded face of Saturn's moon, Hyperion, giving it a spongy appearance. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on April 12, 2007.
PIA08940:
Pitted Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-14 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Giant craters like the one seen in this view deform the shape of Hyperion, making it the largest irregularly-shaped body in the Saturn system. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09728:
Chiseled Away
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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 2009-11-05 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers at the pitted surface of Saturn's small and irregularly-shaped moon Hyperion in this image taken on Sept. 5, 2009.
PIA11617:
Pitted Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-26 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Myriad shadows cover the pitted surface of Saturn's small moon Hyperion in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which shows the moon's south pole on the right.
PIA12619:
Pitted Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-10 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a view of the southern latitudes of Saturn's tumbling moon Hyperion. Lit terrain seen here is mostly in the southern hemisphere of Hyperion. The south pole of the moon is near the bottom of the illuminated terrain.
PIA12748:
Somersaulting Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-31 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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The sponge-like surface of Saturn's moon Hyperion is highlighted in this portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, captured during the spacecraft's flyby on Sept. 16, 2011.
PIA14580:
Spongy Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-21 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks at Saturn's highly irregular moon Hyperion in this view from the spacecraft's flyby of the moon on Aug. 25, 2011.
PIA14583:
Odd Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-03-19 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes at Saturn's far-off moon Hyperion which has an irregular shape, and it tumbles through its orbit.
PIA14600:
Distant Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-22 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a rare family photo of three of Saturn's moons that couldn't be more different from each other. Shown here are Tethys (center), Hyperion (upper left), and Prometheus (lower left).
PIA18283:
The Odd Trio
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-02 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini imaging scientists processed this view of Saturn's moon Hyperion, taken during a close flyby on May 31, 2015. This flyby marks the mission's final close approach to Saturn's largest irregularly shaped moon.
PIA17193:
Farewell to Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-02 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini imaging scientists processed this view of Saturn's moon Hyperion, taken during a close flyby on May 31, 2015. This flyby marks the mission's final close approach to Saturn's largest irregularly shaped moon.
PIA17194:
Spongy Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-08-15 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moons Tethys and Hyperion appear to be near neighbors in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, even though they are actually 930,000 miles apart here. Tethys is the larger body on the left.
PIA20493:
Distant Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-12-05 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 22, 2016, show's the moon Hyperion tumbles as it orbits Saturn. Hyperion's spin axis has a chaotic orientation in time.
PIA20512:
Chaos at Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-04 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph
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In this ultraviolet image of Hyperion, produced using data taken NASA's Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph during the September 2005 close flyby, brightness contrasts are due to both topographic and compositional variations across the surface.
PIA09216:
Hyperion's Icy Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-04 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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Hyperion, the eighth largest of Saturn's moons, is covered in craters and landslides. This color map shows the composition of a portion of Hyperion's surface determined with the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09214:
Organics Sprinkled on Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-04 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This is a color map of the composition of a portion of Saturn's moon Hyperion's surface about 75 kilometers on a side. Map was made with data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Hyperion.
PIA09215:
Hyperion's Kaleidoscope of Color
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