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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This is an artists concept of NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI) maneuver, just after the main engine has begun firing.
PIA03883:
Artists's Conception of Cassini Saturn Orbit Insertion
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft in a Jet Propulsion Laboratory assembly room in 1997.
PIA04603:
Cassini Spacecraft in a JPL Assembly Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This radar image of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan was acquired on October 26, 2004, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew over. righter areas may correspond to rougher terrains and darker areas are thought to be smoother.
PIA06984:
'Black Cat' on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This map of Titan's surface illustrates the regions that will be imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the spacecraft's second close flyby of Titan on Dec. 13, 2004.
PIA06148:
Encountering Titan Again
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan presented this face as NASA's Cassini spacecraft approached for its second very close flyby of the mystery moon in December 2004.
PIA06154:
Approaching Titan Again
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This is an artist's concept of Saturn's rings and major icy moons. Saturn's rings make up an enormous, complex structure. From edge-to-edge, the ring system would not even fit in the distance between Earth and the Moon.
PIA03550:
Saturn's Rings (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The artist's concept shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descent sequence. The probe was delivered to Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA06434:
Huygens Descent Sequence (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This is an artist's interpretation of the area surrounding Huygens landing site, based on images and data returned Jan. 14, 2005. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
PIA06079:
Huygens Landing Site Revisited (Animation - Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A vertical corrugation in Saturn's almost transparent D ring can give rise to brightness variations. The diagonal lines (or arrows) correspond to lines of sight through the corrugated ring as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08326:
D Ring Sight Lines
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-16 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Plumes of water vapor and other gases escape at high velocity from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, as shown in this artist concept.
PIA09209:
Shear Heating on Enceladus
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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 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 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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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 2008-07-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This artist concept shows a mirror-smooth lake on the surface of the smoggy moon Titan. Cassini scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified ethane.
PIA11001:
Titan's Ethane Lake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-17 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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Presented here is a complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution Iapetus atlas, a project of NASA's Cassini Imaging Team.
PIA11115:
The Iapetus Atlas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-17 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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This global map of Saturn's moon Iapetus was created using images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage.
PIA11116:
Map of Iapetus - May 2008
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-17 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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Presented here is a cartographic map sheet which forms a high-resolution Mimas atlas, a project of NASA's Cassini Imaging Team.
PIA11117:
The Mimas Atlas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-17 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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This global map of Saturn's moon Mimas was created using images taken NASA's Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage.
PIA11118:
Map of Mimas - June 2008
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-03-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A short but fierce 'gullywasher' rainstorm of methane falls on the mountains surrounding the intriguing flows of Titan's Hotei Arcus in this artist's concept, based upon radar mapping data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn.
PIA11838:
Rainy Day at Hotei Arcus (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-24 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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These illustrations indicate possible ways in which the water vapor and ice particles in the plume of Saturn's moon Enceladus may be formed.
PIA12081:
Plume Vent Models
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-24 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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These drawings depict explanations for the source of intense heat that has been measured coming from Enceladus' south polar region. These models predict that water could exist in a deep layer as an ocean or sea and also near the surface.
PIA12080:
Melted Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-22 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Looking cool and serene, Saturn shares its soft glow with NASA's Cassini Orbiter. Also seen are Saturn's ring and its icy moon Tethys.
PIA12318:
World of Clouds and Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's golden, smog-like atmosphere and complex layered hazes appear to NASA's Cassini Oribter as a luminous ring around the planet-sized moon.
PIA12320:
Enigmatic Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-22 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini Orbiter peers toward the distant, icy plains of Saturn's moon Tethys. The planet's A and F rings slice across the top of this view.
PIA12319:
Cold Light from Afar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-11 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's illustration shows the likely interior structure of Saturn's moon Titan deduced from gravity field data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12843:
Titan's Cool and Sluggish Interior (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's concept shows 'tides' on Titan raised by Saturn's gravity, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's gravitational pull on Titan, its largest moon, varies as Titan orbits along an elliptical path around the planet every 16 days.
PIA15606:
Squeezing and Stretching Titan (Author's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's concept shows a possible scenario for the internal structure of Titan, as suggested by data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Scientists have been trying to determine what is under Titan's organic-rich atmosphere and icy crust.
PIA15607:
Inside Titan (Author's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Inspired by data from NASA's Cassini mission, this artist's impression of Saturn's moon Titan shows the change in observed atmospheric effects before, during and after equinox in 2009.
PIA16481:
Titan's Changing Seasons (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-01-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's concept envisions what hydrocarbon ice forming on a liquid hydrocarbon sea of Saturn's moon Titan might look like.
PIA16634:
Floating Ice on Titan Lakes?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's impression by the European Space Agency shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft exploring the magnetic environment of Saturn. The image is not to scale.
PIA16739:
Cassini at Saturn's Bow Shock (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration shows 'quasi-parallel' (top) and 'quasi-perpendicular' (bottom) magnetic field conditions at a planetary bow shock. Bow shocks are shockwaves created when the solar wind blows on a planet's magnetic field.
PIA16825:
Magnetic Fields and Bow Shocks (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's concept illustrates how charged water particles flow into the Saturnian atmosphere from the planet's rings, causing a reduction in atmospheric brightness.
PIA16842:
Saturn's Ring 'Rain' (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration depicts the shearing of an initially circular cloud of debris as a result of the particles in the cloud having differing orbital speeds around Saturn.
PIA14941:
A Race Around Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation depicts the shearing of an initially circular cloud of debris as a result of the particles in the cloud having differing orbital speeds around Saturn based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14942:
A Race Around Saturn (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration shows the various steps that lead to the formation of the aerosols that make up the haze on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
PIA17240:
The Formation of Titan's Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-11-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This collage includes about 1,600 images submitted by members of the public as part of the NASA Cassini mission's 'Wave at Saturn' campaign.
PIA17679:
The Faces of 'Wave at Saturn'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's concept shows a possible model of Titan's internal structure that incorporates data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. A model of Cassini is shown making a targeted flyby over Titan's cloudtops; Saturn and Enceladus appear at upper right.
PIA14445:
Layers of Titan (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-28 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This graphic shows a 3-D model of 98 geysers whose source locations and tilts were found in a NASA Cassini imaging survey of Enceladus' south polar terrain by the method of triangulation.
PIA17186:
Geyser Basin in 3-D Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-28 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's rendering shows a cross-section of the ice shell immediately beneath one of Enceladus' geyser-active fractures, illustrating the physical and thermal structure and the processes ongoing below and at the surface.
PIA17189:
What Lies Beneath: Close Up View (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-28 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's rendering shows a regional cross-section of the ice shell underlying Enceladus' south polar terrain, illustrating our current knowledge of the physical and thermal structure and processes ongoing below and at the surface.
PIA17190:
What Lies Beneath: Regional View (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Scientists modeled how methane rainfall runoff would interact with the porous, icy crust of Saturn's moon Titan and found that a subsurface methane 'aquifer' might have its composition changed over time due to the formation of materials called clathrates.
PIA18417:
Titan's Subsurface Reservoirs (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This diagram depicts conditions observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a flyby in Dec. 2013, when Saturn's magnetosphere was highly compressed, exposing Titan to the full force of the solar wind.
PIA19055:
Titan Observed Naked in the Solar Wind
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This cutaway view of Saturn's moon Enceladus is an artist's rendering that depicts possible hydrothermal activity that may be taking place on and under the seafloor of the moon's subsurface ocean, based on published results from NASA's Cassini mission.
PIA19058:
Enceladus: Possible Hydrothermal Activity (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-11 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration depicts potential origins of methane found in the plume of gas and ice particles that sprays from Saturn's moon, Enceladus, based on research by scientists working with the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer on NASA's Cassini mission.
PIA19059:
Trapping of Methane In Enceladus' Ocean
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-14 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This graphic plots the source locations of geysers scientists have located on Enceladus' south polar terrain, with the 36 most active geyser sources marked and color coded by the behavior of the grains erupting from the geysers.
PIA17192:
Tendril-producing Geysers on Enceladus' South Polar Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-15 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is of the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus showing a global liquid water ocean between its rocky core and icy crust.
PIA19656:
Global Ocean on Enceladus (Artist's Rendering)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-10-26 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's rendering showing a cutaway view into the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus. NASA's Cassini spacecraft discovered the moon has a global ocean and likely hydrothermal activity.
PIA20013:
Enceladus (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-04-26 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This labeled graphic illustrates how different organic compounds make their way to the seas and lakes on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
PIA20026:
Organic Compounds in Titan's Seas and Lakes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-09-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Scientists from NASA's Cassini mission suggested in a 2016 paper that the appearance of a cloud of dicyanoacetylene (C4N2) ice in Titan's stratosphere may be explained by 'solid-state' chemistry taking place inside ice particles.
PIA20715:
"Solid State" Chemistry in Titan Ice Particles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Artist's concept of a dust storm on Saturn's moon, Titan.
PIA22482:
Dust Storms Raised by Strong Winds on Titan (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-10-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn.
PIA22766:
Cassini orbiting Saturn (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-10-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings as part of the mission's Grand Finale.
PIA22767:
Grand Finale: Cassini in the Gap (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-10-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration imagines the view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft during one of its final dives between Saturn and its innermost rings, as part of the mission's Grand Finale.
PIA22768:
Grand Finale: One of Cassini's Last Dives (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This graphic shows the ring moons inspected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in super-close flybys. The rings and moons depicted are not to scale.
PIA22772:
Cassini Moons Flybys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-06 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features such as those seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft around the moon's Winnipeg Lacus.
PIA23172:
Titan's Rimmed Lakes (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-10-02 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration shows the process of organic compounds making their way onto ice grains emitted in plumes from Saturn's moon Enceladus, where they were detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA23173:
Enceladus Organics on Grains of Ice (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-02-24 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This illustration shows Saturn's icy moon Enceladus with the plume of ice particles, water vapor and organic molecules that sprays from fractures in the moon's south polar region.
PIA23175:
Enceladus Global View with Plume (Artist's Rendering)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-23 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Terra
 ASTER
Radar Mapper
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Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the sizes and patterns of dunes on Saturn's moon Titan vary as a function of altitude and latitude (left). Images of Earth dunes Oman and Kalahari are shown at right as seen by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA15225:
Dune Patterns
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-23 Phoebe Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows thermal radiation from the day and night sides of Saturn's moon Phoebe.
PIA06402:
Phoebe's Radiation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-23 Phoebe Cassini-Huygens
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A montage of maps of Saturn's moon Phoebe shows surface temperatures at various times of day as determined by the composite infrared spectrometer onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the June 11, 2004, Phoebe flyby.
PIA06403:
Phoebe Temperature Maps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These graphs illustrate wind strength (bottom) and temperature above Saturn. The data were acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's composite infrared spectrometer when Saturn had just begun summer in its southern hemisphere.
PIA06346:
High Above Saturn's Cloud Tops
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-23 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This map shows a dramatically improved view of heat radiation from a warm fissure near the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. It was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its Nov. 21, 2009, flyby of that moon.
PIA12448:
Zooming in on heat at Baghdad Sulcus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-10 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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This image of the infrared heat radiation from Saturn's moon Iapetus was obtained by NASA's Cassini composite infrared spectrometer instrument 16 hours before Cassini's closest approach to this mysterious moon.
PIA07004:
Iapetus Thermal Radiation Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-10 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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This temperature map of Saturn's moon Iapetus is constructed from observations of Iapetus's infrared heat radiation taken with NASA's Cassini composite infrared spectrometer instrument during the Dec. 31, 2004 flyby.
PIA07005:
Iapetus Temperature Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-10 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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This plot shows how daytime temperatures at low latitudes on the dark material on Saturn's moon Iapetus vary with time of day.
PIA07006:
Iapetus Temperature Variation Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows the surprise that startled NASA Cassini scientists on the composite infrared spectrometer team when they got their first look at the infrared (heat) radiation from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA06432:
Enceladus Temperature Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This graphic shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft's path, or ground track, as it crossed over the surface of Enceladus near the time of closest approach during the flyby on July 14, 2005.
PIA07723:
Enceladus: The Plot Thickens
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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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
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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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
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-22 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini composite infrared spectrometer captured its first view of the infrared heat radiation emanating from the 'tiger stripe' fractures at the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus since the discovery of the hot spot 16 months earlier.
PIA09037:
Enceladus Keeps the Home Fires Burning
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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This image compares midday temperatures on Saturn's moon Iapetus, recorded by the composite infrared spectrometer instrument during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's close Sept. 10, 2007 flyby.
PIA10012:
Warm and Dry on Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-10 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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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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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 2008-03-26 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's March 12, 2008, flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus provided the best view yet of the heat radiation from the active south pole of the satellite.
PIA10360:
Stripes and Heat Map Side-by-Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-26 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Heat radiating from the entire length of 150 kilometer long fractures is seen in this best-yet heat map of the active south polar region of Saturn's ice moon Enceladus. Measurements obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's Composite Infrared Spectrometer.
PIA10361:
Jet Spots in Tiger Stripes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-24 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows the location of NASA's Cassini's most precise measurements so far of the surface temperatures at the active 'tiger stripe' fractures that cut the south polar region of Enceladus.
PIA12082:
Warm Tiger Stripes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained shifting stratospheric temperatures. The difference between the temperatures from 2005-2008 is shown in the middle, with red indicating warming in the stratosphere and blue indicating cooling.
PIA13043:
Changing Temperatures in Saturn's Stratosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have enabled scientists to make the highest-resolution heat intensity maps yet for the hottest part of a 'tiger stripe' fissure on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA13620:
Hot and Narrow Tiger Stripe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows a high-resolution heat intensity map of part of the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA13621:
Tiger Stripe Split Ends
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-07 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This graphic, using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows how the south polar terrain of Saturn's moon Enceladus emits much more power than scientists had originally predicted.
PIA13891:
Enceladus the Powerhouse
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Measurements by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal temperatures in a high layer of Saturn's atmosphere known as the stratosphere and show the dramatic effects of the massive storm deep below.
PIA14120:
Taking the Temperature of a Saturn Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-10-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from an animation shows 'beacons' of hot air seen in the infrared that appeared during a great springtime storm on Saturn from January 2011 to March 2012.
PIA16190:
Infrared Hotspots in a Monster Saturn Storm Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted two features shaped like the 1980s video game icon 'Pac-Man' on moons of Saturn. One was observed on the moon Mimas in 2010 and the latest was observed on the moon Tethys.
PIA16198:
A Pair of 'Pac-Men'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-02-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This sequence of maps shows varying surface temperatures on Saturn's moon Titan at two-year intervals, from 2004 to 2016. The measurements were made by the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20020:
Titan Temperature Lag Maps & Animation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini data presented in this view appear to confirm a region of warm atmospheric descent into the eye of a hurricane-like storm locked to Saturn's south pole.
PIA08334:
The Hole at the Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This frame from a computer animation shows the observations to be taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its second close approach to Titan on Monday, Dec. 13, 2004.
PIA06147:
Titan 'TB' Flyby Animation Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-13 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a computer animation shows the observations to be taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft spanning roughly a nine-hour period surrounding its upcoming flyby of Dione on Dec. 14, 2004.
PIA06149:
Dione Flyby Animation Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a computer animation shows the planned observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft spanning roughly a two-day period surrounding its first very close approach to Titan.
PIA06119:
Titan Flyby Animation Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-23 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This image, combining data from the imaging science subsystem and composite infrared spectrometer aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows pockets of heat appearing along one of the mysterious fractures in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA11696:
Enceladus' Warm Baghdad Sulcus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-29 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft's imaging science subsystem visible-light mosaic of Mimas from previous flybys on the left. The right-hand image shows new infrared temperature data mapped on top of the visible-light image.
PIA12867:
Bizarre Temperatures on Mimas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-31 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft approaching Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. It shows the highest resolution images obtained of the moon's surface.
PIA03554:
Enceladus Animation Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This picture is a composite of 30 images from ESA's Huygens probe. They were taken from an altitude varying from 13 kilometers down to 8 kilometers when the probe was descending towards its landing site.
PIA07235:
Titan Descent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This composite was produced from images returned, January 14, 2005, by the ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. As the probe descended, it drifted over a plateau heading towards its landing site in a dark area.
PIA07230:
Composite of Titan's Surface Seen During Descent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This composite was produced from images returned, January 14, 2005, by the ESA's Huygens probe during its descent to land on Titan showing the boundary between the lighter-colored uplifted terrain, marked with drainage channels, and darker lower areas.
PIA07231:
Varied Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image was returned on Jan 14, 2005, by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. This colored view, following processing to add reflection spectra data, gives a better indication of the actual color.
PIA07232:
First Color View of Titan's Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A view of ESA's Huygens' landing site based on initial, best-guess estimates. Scientists on the Huygens Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer science team are still working to refine the exact location of the probe's landing site.
PIA07233:
First 'Best-Guess' View of Huygens Landing Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation is made up from a sequence of images taken by NASA's Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) instrument on board ESA's Huygens probe, during its successful descent to Titan on Jan. 14, 2005.
PIA07234:
Descent Through Clouds to Surface Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This mosaic of three frames from NASA's Huygens Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) instrument provides unprecedented detail of the high ridge area including the flow down into a major river channel from different sources.
PIA07236:
Mosaic of River Channel and Ridge Area on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A single image from NASA's Huygens Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) instrument of a dark plain area on Titan, seen during descent to the landing site, that indicates flow around bright 'islands.'
PIA07237:
'Islands' on a Dark Plain
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