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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Using images like the one presented here, NASA's Cassini imaging scientists have made a major finding about the mechanism powering the general circulation of Saturn.
PIA08368:
Powering Saturn's Jets
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Colorful Saturn tilts its darkened ringplane toward NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Against the dark sky, the rings are made visible by the light that scatters through them toward the camera.
PIA08370:
At a Tilt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Brooding Saturn seems to be missing its rings, but their shadows on the planet betray their presence. The inner rings are in fact contained within this scene, but they are so tenuous as to be nearly invisible as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08936:
Dusky Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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This strongly enhanced false color view is a departure from the familiar bluish north and golden south seen in natural color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08939:
Candy Stripes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-31 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Stunning details in Saturn's clouds suggest movement within bands of atmosphere as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08952:
Saturn Enhanced
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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The 60th moon of Saturn reveals itself in a sequence of images. The series of images was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on May 30, 2007.
PIA08369:
Sixty for Saturn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Storms ringed by bright clouds swirl near the south pole of Saturn. This lateral view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures the bull's-eye pattern that surrounds the pole, where a monstrous, hurricane-like storm resides.
PIA08989:
Peeking Over the Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Bright, circular cloud features waltz through the turbid atmosphere of Saturn in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09001:
Cloud Phantoms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The dramatic plane of Saturn's rings is indeed a huge expanse. Gazing straight across the vertical center of this view, NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes in more than 200,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) from one side of the rings to the other.
PIA09002:
Across the Disk
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Rhea and Enceladus float across the field of view as bright clouds roll through the gas giant Saturn's skies in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09005:
Spellbinding Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies smooth, sometimes wavy, contours in the banded east-west flowing clouds of Saturn. This view shows clouds in Saturn's northern mid-latitudes.
PIA09009:
Flowing Gracefully
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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A great vortex, ringed by bright clouds, rolls through the southern skies of Saturn in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09012:
Stormy Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-31 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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A lone moon hurtles past as NASA's Cassini spacecraft stares into the clouds of Saturn. Mimas happened to wander across the field of view in this image.
PIA09018:
Mimas in Transit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Dione and Tethys appear on opposite sides of the rings slide past each other in this stately portrait of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09720:
Children of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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A chevron-shaped pattern and bright vortices stand out in the turbulent Saturnian atmosphere. Such features are hallmarks of the boundary between alternating east-west flowing cloud bands. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09722:
In the Boundary
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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This stirring scene captures some of the grandeur of the Saturn system while also allowing a simultaneous glimpse beneath the hazes that cover both Saturn and Titan. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 1, 2007.
PIA09726:
Window Into Worlds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has a peek beneath the hazes in Saturn's upper atmosphere at the swirling vortices that lurk below. Many vortices can be seen in this image, varying in size from small to large.
PIA09734:
The Storms Within
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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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
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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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
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Monster storms, or vortices, swirl in the roiling atmosphere of giant Saturn. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 14, 2007.
PIA09745:
Raging Vortices
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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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 2007-10-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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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 2007-11-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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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 2007-12-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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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 2007-12-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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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 2007-12-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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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 2008-01-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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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 2008-01-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward high northern latitudes on Saturn and the wild cloud forms that swirl there. The view was taken from about 23 degrees above the ringplane and looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings.
PIA09815:
Over Your Head
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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As seasons change on Saturn, and sunlight creeps farther north, the region surrounding the north pole is steadily coming to light. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Jan. 2, 2008.
PIA09828:
Coming to Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Great circular vortices churn through Saturn's northern skies. The planet wears the shadow of its rings as a dark belt in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Just above that belt is the shadow of 181-kilometer (113-mile) wide Janus.
PIA09837:
Above the Storms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This is an artist concept of the ring of debris that may orbit Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea. The suggested disk of solid material is exaggerated in density here for clarity.
PIA10246:
Artist Concept of Rhea Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's southern hemisphere is glimpsed through the gossamer veil of its rings. Ring shadows adorn the low northern latitudes. This image was acquired with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Dec. 16, 2007.
PIA09854:
Shadowy Veil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this color portrait of Saturn and Titan only a few minutes before the haze-enshrouded moon slipped behind the planet's enormous bulk.
PIA09856:
Titan Slips Away
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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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 2008-03-18 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's softly glowing rings shine in scattered sunlight in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 5 degrees above the ringplane.
PIA09860:
Rings Aglow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Diverse cloud forms shift and spin in the far northern reaches of Saturn. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Feb. 18, 2008.
PIA09862:
The Turbulent North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Titan emerges from behind Saturn, while Tethys streaks into view, in this colorful scene captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's shadow darkens the far arm of the rings near the planet's limb.
PIA09864:
Moons on the Move
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes the swirling features in Saturn's northern cloud bands. Ring-cast shadows darken the planet's northern hemisphere at increasingly lower latitudes.
PIA09867:
Flowing Cloud Bands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn looms large before NASA's Cassini spacecraft, its blustery cloud bands in restless motion. This view looks toward Saturn's mid-northern latitudes from about 37 degrees above the ringplane. Ring-cast shadows create dark bands across the planet.
PIA09874:
Scenic Overlook
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn dominates this colorful view in pastel hues of yellow, taken from a vantage point high above the rings. From here NASA's Cassini spacecraft can see the rings' far side, where the dark shadow of Saturn abruptly terminates their visibility.
PIA09876:
Over the Top
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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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
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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It is no Great Red Spot, but these two side-by-side views show the longest-lived electrical storm yet observed on Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The views were acquired more than three months after the storm was first detected.
PIA08411:
Saturn's Long-lived Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Two dark spots drift across the northern skies of Saturn in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The shadows are cast by the moons Tethys and Mimas. Tethys orbits farther from Saturn than Mimas and casts the larger of the two shadows here.
PIA09893:
Beauty Marks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-07 Saturn IRTF
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These two images, taken with NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, capture two different phases of this wave oscillation at Saturn's equator.
PIA10358:
Saturn's Infrared Temperature Snapshot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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The longest-lived continuously monitored electrical storm ever observed on Saturn continues to churn through the tempest-tossed region nicknamed 'Storm Alley.' This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on April 23, 2008.
PIA09900:
Continuing Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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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
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-06-11 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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With nearby Saturn looming large, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the bright distant moon Tethys in the icy blackness beyond.
PIA10401:
Distant Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-06-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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A line of dark vortices charge through Saturn's 'Storm Alley,' a region that has seen intensive storm activity since NASA's Cassini spacecraft began its observations of the planet in early 2004.
PIA10411:
Swirling Storms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-06-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Sinuous clouds and hurricane-sized vortices mingle in Saturn's northern skies. This image was acquired with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on May 23, 2008.
PIA10413:
Storms of the High North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-06-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Golden hues continue to creep northward on Saturn, subduing the blues and grays NASA's Cassini spacecraft witnessed upon arrival in mid-2004. This view was acquired from about 27 degrees above the ringplane.
PIA10414:
Chasing Away the Blues
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Twirling vortices swim through a vast ocean of hydrogen and helium in Saturn's far north. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 23, 2008.
PIA10416:
Paisley Skies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft studies the dynamics of Saturn's blustery cloud bands as spring approaches in the northern hemisphere. Janus casts its shadow onto Saturn at right, just above the curving shadow of the rings.
PIA10435:
Racing 'Round the North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-31 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers into the clouds of Saturn to spy dual whirling vortices. The view is centered on a region 33 degrees north of the planet's equator.
PIA10437:
Dual Vortices
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Myriad dark vortices, some large and some small, twirl in the high southern latitudes of Saturn. At left, the south polar vortex spins at the center of it all. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on June 23, 2008.
PIA10439:
Dance of the Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes wispy whorls and streams of clouds as they flow across the face of Saturn. A line of vortices churns across the top of the scene.
PIA10440:
Cloudflow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Bright fractures adorn the trailing side of Saturn's moon Dione. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the northern hemisphere of Dione (1,123 kilometers, or 698 miles across).
PIA10441:
Dione's Bright Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This bizarre scene from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the cloud-streaked limb of Saturn in front of the planet's B ring. The ring's image is warped near the limb by the diffuse gas in Saturn's upper atmosphere.
PIA10442:
Limb Scan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Swirling clouds drift like phantoms in Saturn's murky depths. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on June 20, 2008.
PIA10444:
Beneath the Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-18 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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In the low light near Saturn's north pole, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a partial view of the planet's unique hexagonal feature.
PIA10449:
Angles in the Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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A line of vortices rolls through the turbulent region on Saturn nicknamed 'Storm Alley' by Cassini scientists. This image was in hues of pastel yellow was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on July 23, 2008.
PIA10457:
Keep It Rolling
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft continued to track Saturn's moon Prometheus after it disappeared behind the planet, capturing a few fortunate, high-resolution views of the clouds in Saturn's high north.
PIA10465:
Saturn Gets in the Way
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks beyond Saturn's limb toward the icy face of Mimas, the innermost of the planet's major moons. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 3 degrees below the ringplane.
PIA10478:
Mimas Adrift
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's high north is a seething cauldron of activity filled with roiling cloud bands and swirling vortices. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 25, 2008.
PIA10480:
Saturn's Active Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's north polar hexagon appears to be a long-lived feature of the atmosphere, having been spotted in images of Saturn in the early 1980s, again in the 1990s, and then by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in the past several years.
PIA10486:
The Persistent Hexagon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Bright, high-altitude clouds interact with dark, deeper structures near Saturn's south pole. The image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 27, 2008.
PIA10488:
Forces from the Deep
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Shadows reveal the topography of Saturn's south polar vortex. At high resolution, a new, inner ring of isolated, bright clouds is seen. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 15, 2008.
PIA11103:
The Yet Yawning Gulf
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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This detailed Cassini view of the monstrous vortex at Saturn's south pole provides valuable insight about the mechanisms that power the planet's atmosphere. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 14, 2008.
PIA11104:
Convection in Saturn's Southern Vortex
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Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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These two images of Saturn show the entire south polar region, not just the little area around the core of the hurricane-like vortex. These images were captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 11, 2007.
PIA11214:
Saturn's South Polar Region Revealed
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Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This near-infrared image of Saturn's north pole shows a giant cyclone, encircled by a hexagon feature. A movie was created from several images, taken by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11215:
Infrared Movie of Saturn's North Polar Region Animation Icon
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Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This is a side-by-side view of large cyclones at both poles of Saturn obtained by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11216:
Infrared Images of Saturn's Poles
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Seasonal twilight is approaching for Saturn's south polar vortex—the giant hurricane-like storm swirling around the planet's southern pole. The image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 27, 2008.
PIA10490:
Change of Season
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ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks upward at the swirling clouds of Saturn's southern hemisphere. The C and B rings are seen at right, beyond the planet's nightside limb.
PIA10492:
Saturn from Below
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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From high above the ringplane, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a multitude of storms in the blustery cloud bands of Saturn's high north. This view looks toward the planet from about 72 degrees north of the equator.
PIA10495:
So Many Swirls
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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The serene beauty of Saturn invites NASA's Cassini spacecraft's gaze as the spacecraft hurtles through this dynamic system, studying the giant planet's rings, moons, atmosphere, and magnetosphere.
PIA10497:
Saturn in Recline
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Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This image of the northern polar region of Saturn shows both the aurora and underlying atmosphere, seen at two different wavelengths of infrared light as captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11396:
Saturn's Polar Aurora
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-13 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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The shadow of Tethys drifts across the face of Saturn. Nearby, shadows of the planet's rings form a darkened band above the equator in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 1, 2008.
PIA10512:
Moon Spot
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Long streamers of cloud encircle the south polar region of Saturn. Farther poleward, or toward lower left, faint, deeper atmospheric structures lurk beneath the haze. This view was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Oct. 2, 2008.
PIA10513:
Wrapped in Ribbons
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Clouds swirl about in Saturn's active atmosphere. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Oct. 29, 2008.
PIA10534:
Swirls
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's south pole, seen here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, is in twilight as Saturn nears equinox (August 2009). Soon, the pole will enter its 15-year-long night.
PIA10543:
Encroaching Darkness
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ISS - Wide Angle
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As Saturn advances its orbit toward equinox and the sun gradually moves northward on the planet, the motion of Saturn's ring shadows and the changing colors of its atmosphere continue to transform the face of Saturn as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11141:
Saturn ... Four Years On
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's north pole is littered with storms, as seen in this color view in hues of pastel yellow of the pole captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. A bit of the north polar hexagon is also visible at the upper-right.
PIA10553:
Stormy Pole
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's north pole retains its bluish hue in this true color Cassini image, even as northern winter is coming to an end. This image was acquired with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Nov. 29, 2008.
PIA10558:
A Blue Northern Mystery
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Cassini imaging scientists have waited years for the sun to reveal the hexagonal wave pattern in the clouds of Saturn's north pole, part of which can be seen at the top of this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA10568:
Slow Northern Reveal
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ISS - Wide Angle
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The hurricane-like vortex encircling Saturn's south pole is still visible in the top left of this image as it slowly slips into darkness with the planet's changing seasons. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA10572:
Seasons Conceal South Pole Storm
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ISS - Wide Angle
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A chef's bounty of colors is represented in this full color view of Saturn's northern hemisphere. Butternut, peach, and olive hues have replaced the azure blue of winter. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA10578:
Cornucopia of Color
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's north pole hexagon, seen here in an image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, has been around for awhile. It was seen in Voyager images in the early 1980s, in ground-based telescopic images in the 1990s, and now with Cassini.
PIA10583:
Unveiling the Hexagon
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ISS - Wide Angle
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The terminator nearly covers the south pole of Saturn and its stormy vortex in darkness. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Jan. 6, 2009.
PIA10585:
Vanishing Pole
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Intricate curlicues and circular patterns of storms swirl through the high latitudes near Saturn's south pole in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA10591:
Southern Storms
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's rings cast a dramatic shadow separating the blues and greens of the planet's northern hemisphere from the creamy pastels coloring the southern hemisphere. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA11453:
Shadow of Demarcation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-03-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
UVIS
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Glowing like a neon lasso, Saturn's aurora is seen spinning above Saturn's north pole over the course of most of a Saturn day in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Mary 25, 2007.
PIA11832:
Ultraviolet Aurora Movie Animation Icon
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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The shadow of Saturn's moon Enceladus cast onto the planet's atmosphere appears like a drop of black ink on a canvas of Saturnian storms. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on June 20, 2008.
PIA11461:
A Shadow Amid the Storms
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Although Epimetheus appears to be lurking above the rings here, it's actually just an illusion resulting from NASA's Cassini spacecraft viewing angle on July 26, 2015. In reality, Epimetheus and the rings both orbit in Saturn's equatorial plane.
PIA11492:
Belittled Moon
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ISS - Wide Angle
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This Saturn equinox, captured here in a mosaic of light and dark, is the first witnessed up close by an emissary from Earth, none other than our NASA's faithful robotic explorer, Cassini.
PIA11667:
The Rite of Spring
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft took a break from imaging Saturn's rings as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox and snapped this close-up of the planet's atmosphere, revealing detailed and elaborate patterns in the clouds of the northern hemisphere.
PIA11596:
Atmospheric Intricacies
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ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini Orbiter captured this natural color view of Saturn almost a month after the planet's August 2009 equinox. The shadow cast on the planet by the rings remains narrow.
PIA11613:
Post-Equinox Color
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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An aurora, shining high above the northern part of Saturn, moves from the night side to the day side of the planet in this frame from a movie recorded by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11681:
Northern Aurora in Motion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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This image from NASA's Cassini, made possible only as Saturn's north pole emerged from winter darkness, shows new details of a jet stream that follows a hexagon-shaped path and has long puzzled scientists.
PIA11682:
Spring Reveals Saturn's Hexagon Jet Stream Animation Icon
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn, stately and resplendent in this natural color view taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, dwarfs the icy moon Rhea. Rhea orbits beyond the rings on the right of the image. Tethys shadow is visible on the planet on the left of the image.
PIA12513:
Stately Saturn
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