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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The large dark patch seen on this image at high latitudes surrounding Titan's north pole, is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's radar system, and most likely a hydrocarbon lake.
PIA01942:
Titan's Great Lakes?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks through the dense B ring toward a distant star in an image from a recent stellar occultation observation.
PIA08281:
Light from a Flickering Star
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-17 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft zooms in on Mimas, pitted by craters and slightly out-of-round. Cassini images taken during a flyby of Mimas in August 2005 showed the moon's battered surface up close.
PIA08289:
Mimas in View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-18 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed a never-before-seen level of detail in Saturn's F ring, including evidence for the perturbing effect of small moonlets orbiting in or close to the ring's bright core.
PIA08290:
F Ring Dynamism
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-19 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Tethys has a crater-saturated surface, where older, larger basins have been completely overprinted by newer, smaller impacts. This view was captured in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA08291:
Target: Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Multiple faint, streamer-like objects can be seen in this high resolution Cassini spacecraft view of the F ring's bright core. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA08292:
A Compelling Case
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-23 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Bright fractures creep across the surface of icy Dione. This extensive canyon system is centered on a region of terrain that is significantly darker that the rest of the moon in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 27, 2006.
PIA08293:
Dione's Creeping Canyons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This close-up view of the core of Saturn's narrow outlying F ring provides an unprecedented look at the fine scale structure of this highly perturbed ring as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08294:
Shearing Core
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-26 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides this dramatic portrait of Janus against the cloud-streaked backdrop of Saturn.
PIA08296:
Superb Janus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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As ring particles emerge from the darkness of Saturn's shadow, they pass through a region of twilight. The Sun's light, refracted by the planet's atmosphere, peeks around the limb, followed shortly by the Sun itself as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08297:
Into the Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-30 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes down through the dark side of Saturn's rings toward the softly glowing planet. The night side southern hemisphere is lit by sunlight reflecting off the opposite side of the rings.
PIA08298:
Through the Blinds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-31 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Edge waves in the Keeler Gap betray the presence of the embedded moon Daphnis. At left lies the brilliant F ring with its flanking strands as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08299:
A Dead Giveaway
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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These side-by-side views of a star seen through Saturn's densely populated B ring show marked contrast between the region. Images were taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 26, 2006.
PIA08300:
The B Ring Variations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings are dark and elusive in this view from high above the ringplane, but their shadows on the planet give them away as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08301:
Dim Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-03 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This contrast-enhanced view shows a faint spoke in Saturn's B ring. These ghostly radial structures were imaged by NASA's Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s.
PIA08302:
Spoke Sighting
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-06 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied Saturn's shepherd moon, Prometheus, with two long streamers of material that it has pulled out of the F ring. When Prometheus comes close to the F ring in its orbit, the moon's gravity tugs on the ring particles.
PIA08303:
The Hand of Prometheus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's fine, innermost rings are seen silhouetted against the southern hemisphere of the planet before partially disappearing into shadow as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08304:
Golden Night on Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's bright ringlets seen here are populated with microscopic icy particles and are among the brightest features in the rings at high phase angles as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08305:
Bright in the Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The rings are awash in subtle tones of gold and cream in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft which shows the outer B ring, the Cassini Division and the inner part of the A ring.
PIA08306:
Colorful Division
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-10 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Bright streaks adorn the face of densely cratered Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08307:
Resplendent Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The A and F rings are alive with moving structures in view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Graceful drapes of ring material created by Prometheus are seen sliding by at left, while clumpy ringlets slip through the Encke Gap.
PIA08308:
Streamers and Clumps
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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 2006-11-15 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Bright, kinked ringlets fill the Encke Gap, while the F ring glows brilliantly and displays its signature knots and flanking, diffuse ringlets as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08310:
Encke's Kinks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-16 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus with a streamer it has created in the inner edge of the F ring. Prometheus comes close to the inner edge of the ring once per orbit, perturbing the ring particles there.
PIA08311:
Toying with Gravity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-17 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Looking down onto the northern hemisphere of geologically complex Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies softened, or 'relaxed,' craters and east-west trending fractures and faults.
PIA08312:
Relaxing on Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The spoke-producing region of the B ring displays fine-scale asymmetry in the azimuthal direction -- the direction along which the ring particles orbit Saturn -- from upper left to lower right across this image from NASA's Cassini.
PIA08313:
The Spoke Zone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-21 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Craters of all sizes litter the landscape on Saturn's Dione. The larger craters in this view display prominent central peak in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 12, 2006.
PIA08314:
Holey Dione!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-22 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
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Less intrusive than her sibling shepherd moon, Pandora nonetheless provides a gravitational influence that helps confine and perturb Saturn's F ring's shape. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08315:
The Other Shepherd
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A broad and ghostly spoke drifts past under NASA's Cassini spacecraft's gaze. The spoke-forming region of the B ring displays faint longitudinal variations in brightness, from left to right.
PIA08316:
The Search for Spokes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft stares deep into the swirling hurricane-like vortex at Saturn's south pole, where the vertical structure of the clouds is highlighted by shadows.
PIA08332:
Looking Saturn in the Eye Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These images of Saturn's south pole, taken by two different instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, show the hurricane-like storm swirling there and features in the clouds at various depths surrounding the pole.
PIA08333:
Saturn's Surprisingly Stormy South
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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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 2006-11-24 Pan Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moon Pan in the Encke gap shows hints of detail on the moon's dark side, which is lit by saturnshine -- sunlight reflected off Saturn.
PIA08317:
Brilliant Pan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-27 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Dione looks lovely half lit in this portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Just visible is a long canyon running southward just left of the terminator in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 29, 2006.
PIA08318:
North on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-28 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Daphnis drifts through the Keeler gap, at the center of its entourage of waves as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08319:
Edge Waves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This spectacular image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's clouds looks obliquely across the high northern latitudes. The Sun is low on the horizon here, making the vertical extent of the clouds easier to see. Cloud bands surrounding the vortex,
PIA08821:
Swirling With Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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From its unique perspective high above the planet, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down upon Saturn's murky northern hemisphere.
PIA08822:
On High
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns a grand and unique vista of Saturn's horizon, reminiscent of the views of our own planet from Earth orbit.
PIA08828:
View Out the Window
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-05 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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A ghostly view of Saturn's moon Enceladus reveals the specter of the moon's icy plume of fine particles. Scientists continue to monitor the plume, where mission planning allows, using NASA's Cassini spacecraft's imaging cameras.
PIA08829:
Out of the Noise
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Weather whirls on an alien world. Bright clouds swim in giant banks and shoals in Saturn's dreamlike atmosphere. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA08830:
Cloud Sketches
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Old spokes never die, they just fade away. This 'difference image' from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is actually a composite of two images of the B ring, taken about 45 seconds apart.
PIA08831:
Aging Spokes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Crescent Saturn is girded by its dark belt of ice in this marvelous portrait of the planet and the 'dark' side of its rings. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a mosaic of two images.
PIA08832:
Arc and Crescent
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Streaks of cloud are overlain with graceful ring shadows in this view of Saturn's northern latitudes as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08833:
Perfect Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Ringlets in the Encke Gap and flanking the bright F ring core are clearly visible as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08834:
World of Contrast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-13 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Enceladus shows off its tortured south polar terrain, which is crosscut by the roughly parallel furrows and ridges called sulci, or informally, 'tiger stripes.' This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08835:
Arabian Sulci
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-14 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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An extreme enhancement of the original image, presented at right, reveals the grainy region with greater clarity as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08836:
Intriguing Texture
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-15 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's sunlit rings gleam in the blackness as two icy moons cruise past in the foreground as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08837:
Encircling Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This composite image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a massive mountain range running just south of Titan's equator. Near the center of the image, the mountain range runs from southeast to northwest.
PIA09032:
Titan's Sierras
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a composite of several images taken during two separate Titan flybys on Oct. 9 (T19) and Oct. 25 (T20). The large circular feature near the center of Titan's disk may be the remnant of a very old impact basin.
PIA09034:
Exposing Titan's Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image set from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken at a distance of 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) from Titan and shows two views of an area riddled by mountain ranges that were probably produced by tectonic forces.
PIA09033:
Large Tectonic Complex
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This set of composite images was constructed from the best NASA Cassini radar data and visual and infrared mapping spectrometer data obtained from all the Titan flybys up to the most recent flyby on Oct 25 (T20).
PIA09035:
Infrared and Radar Views of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This image composite from NASA's Cassini spacecraft contains a radar image taken during a February 2005 (T3) flyby. A faint fan of material seems to originate at the crater.
PIA09036:
Infrared and Radar Views of Titan #2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-04 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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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 2006-12-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down at the unlit side of the rings as Pan heads into Saturn's shadow. The moon is accompanied by faint ringlets in the Encke Gap.
PIA08826:
Pan Speeds into Darkness
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Several spiral density waves in Saturn's A ring are seen in this detailed view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. There is a grainy texture visible between the brightness peaks in the most prominent wave.
PIA08824:
Spiral Density Waves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's shadow cloaks the faint D ring at the bottom of this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08825:
Science at the Shadow Boundary
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A recently discovered diffuse ringlet shines brightly in the Cassini Division as Mimas cruises past at bottom. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Nov. 18, 2006.
PIA08827:
A Faint Ring Shines
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NASA's Cassini came close to Saturn's small moon Helene on Feb. 25, 2006, acquiring this high-resolution view. This object seems to be buried in its own crater debris, like another Saturnian moon, Telesto
PIA08335:
Helene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Multiple jets of icy particles are blasted into space by the active venting on Saturn's moon Enceladus as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08336:
Ice Fountains
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Lit by reflected light from Saturn, Enceladus appears to hover above the gleaming rings, its well-defined ice particle jets spraying a continuous hail of tiny ice grains as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08337:
Brilliant Ice Dust
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione floats in the dark sky before NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Images taken from slightly different directions allow construction of stereo views, helpful in interpreting the complex topography of Saturn's moons. 3D glasses are necessary.
PIA08338:
Dione Anaglyph
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Craters on Saturn's moon Pandora exhibit clarity and depth in this anaglyph from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA08339:
Pandora Anaglyph
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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With its dazzling rings, Saturn radiates a beauty and splendor like no other known world. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured the cool crescent of Saturn from above the ringplane, with the planet's shadow cutting neatly across the many lanes of ice.
PIA08340:
Shadowlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Dione was created using data taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, with gaps in coverage filled in by NASA's Voyager spacecraft data.
PIA08341:
Map of Dione - December 2006
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Enceladus was created using data taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, with gaps in coverage filled in by NASA Voyager spacecraft data.
PIA08342:
Map of Enceladus - December 2006
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Rhea was created using data taken during NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys.
PIA08343:
Map of Rhea - December 2006
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Mimas was created using data taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, with gaps in coverage filled in by NASA's Voyager spacecraft data
PIA08344:
Map of Mimas - December 2006
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Tethys was created using data taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, with gaps in coverage filled in by NASA's Voyager spacecraft data.
PIA08345:
Map of Tethys - December 2006
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft watches Saturn's moon Janus and Epimetheus in their orbital dance as the F ring slides out of view.
PIA08348:
Janus-Epimetheus Swing Animation Icon
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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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The bright crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus slides past distant Rhea in this mutual event, or occultation, in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08350:
Enceladus Transits Rhea Animation Icon
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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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This global digital map of Titan was created using data taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS).
PIA08346:
Map of Titan - December 2006
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This mosaic provides the best view yet obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, showing terrain on the moon's sub-Saturn hemisphere -- the side of the moon that always faces toward Saturn.
PIA08352:
Improving the View of Titan
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Cassini peers around the hazy limb of Titan to spy the sunlit south pole of Saturn in the distance beyond in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 26, 2005.
PIA08351:
Peeking at Saturn
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Numerous blue-green fractures can be seen in this false-color mosaic taken during NASA's Cassini's second close flyby of Enceladus, on March 9, 2005.
PIA08354:
Fractured World
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A variety of surface ages is revealed in this 16-image mosaic taken during NASA's Cassini's first close flyby of Enceladus, on Feb. 17, 2005.
PIA08353:
Enceladus: Trailing Hemisphere
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Fine topographic detail and color variations are revealed in this 11-image, false color mosaic taken during NASA's Cassini's second close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, on March 9, 2005.
PIA08355:
Exploring Icy Canyons
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Only NASA's Cassini spacecraft could provide this enchanting, natural color view of crescent Saturn, which gazes down onto the unlit side of the planet's spectacular rings.
PIA08838:
Greetings from Saturn
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The fractured terrain so distinctive to Dione curves away toward the south in this view, which looks down at the moon's northern hemisphere. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 22, 2006.
PIA08839:
Down on Dione
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The fractured terrain so distinctive to Dione curves away toward the south in this view, which looks down at the moon's northern hemisphere as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08840:
The Rings' Variety
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This extreme false-color view of Mimas shows color variation across the moon's surface. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08841:
Multicolor Mimas
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This monochrome view of Saturn's moon Mimas shows color variation across the moon's surface as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08842:
Multicolor Mimas (Monochrome View)
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A close-up of the F ring shows dark gores in its interior faint ringlets following the passage of Prometheus. Each gore represents a single interaction of the moon with the F ring material as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08843:
Stretching the Gores
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Storms whip up the cloud bands of Saturn's southern hemisphere in this infrared view. Small fractions of the A and F rings are visible at right as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08844:
Saturnian Squiggles
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The striated appearance of the F ring is immediately apparent in the region of the ring that trails behind the moon Prometheus as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08845:
The "Gore-y" Details
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With the Sun directly behind NASA's Cassini, the spacecraft spies the opposition surge in Saturn's inner A ring. The opposition effect becomes visible from this special viewing geometrry.
PIA08846:
At Opposition
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Prometheus interacts gravitationally with the inner flanking ringlets of the F ring, creating dark channels as it passes. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08847:
Moon and Its Handiwork
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to image terrain on Iapetus that is progressively eastward of the terrain it has previously seen illuminated by sunlight.
PIA08848:
Brightside in View
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Prometheus dips into the inner F ring at its farthest point from Saturn in its orbit, creating a dark gore and a corresponding bright streamer as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08849:
Act of Creation
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Saturn's entire main ring system spreads out below NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this night side view, which shows the rings disappearing into the planet's shadow.
PIA08850:
The Vanishing Rings
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This view looks toward Rhea's north polar region, where icy fractures slither away toward the south as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08851:
Barren Pole
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This ringscape shows the outermost part of the rings' spoke-forming region, the other edge of the B ring, and the regular bands of material within the Cassini Division. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08852:
The Spoke Boundary
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
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The existence of oceans or lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan was predicted more than 20 years ago. But with a dense haze preventing a closer look it has not been possible to confirm their presence until NASA's Cassini flyby of July 22, 2006.
PIA09102:
Liquid Lakes on Titan
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This pair of images, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft radar mapper on two different Titan passes on Dec. 11, 2006 (T21 left), and Oct. 29, 2005 (T8 right), represent two different views of a field of dunes.
PIA09111:
Two Sides of Dunes
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This radar image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the entire scene in which hydrocarbon lakes were first discovered on Titan, near its north pole.
PIA09112:
Titan (T16) Viewed by Cassini's Radar - July 22, 2006
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft stares toward Saturn through its gauzy veil of rings. The great ice-particle screen acts like a filter here, attenuating the glare from the planet and making its high altitude haze easy to see.
PIA08853:
Veil of Ice
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The clouds of Saturn swirl, billow and merge. These bands are layered into stratified cloud decks consisting of droplets of ammonia, ammonium hydrosulfide and water set aloft in a sea of hydrogen and helium as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08854:
World of Swirl
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The image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Dec. 15, 2006. Both luminous and translucent, the C ring sweeps out of the darkness of Saturn's shadow and obscures the planet at lower left.
PIA08855:
Scintillating C Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Canyons and mountain peaks snake along the terminator on the crater-covered, icy moon Dione. A line of mountain ridges above center casts shadows toward the east as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08856:
Shadows on Ice
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