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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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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
Composite Infrared Spectrometer
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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 2005-09-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Dione's southern polar region contains fractures whose softened appearance suggests that they have different ages than the bright braided fractures seen in the image to the north. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 1, 2005.
PIA07581:
Older Southern Fractures?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-08 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Prometheus has just passed and gravitationally disturbed some of the fine particulate material in the F ring, creating the sheared gap visible in the inner strands of the ring. The image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07582:
Passing Lane
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-09 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's moon Rhea is an alien ice world, but in this frame-filling view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft it is vaguely familiar. Here, Rhea's cratered surface looks in some ways similar to our own Moon, or the planet Mercury.
PIA07583:
Frame-Filling Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Cassini's cameras were retargeted to capture the tiny Keeler Gap moon S/2005 S1, visible at the center and first discovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft a few months ago.
PIA07584:
Keeler Moon and Waves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-07 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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This map of Titan's surface illustrates the regions that were imaged by NASA's Cassini during the spacecraft's close flyby of Titan on Sept. 7, 2005.
PIA07728:
Cassini's Sept. 7, 2005, Titan Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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This infrared view of Saturn's southern hemisphere shows the bright, high altitude equatorial band at the top, and the dark bull's-eye that marks the planet's south pole. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA07585:
Image Compression
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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During its Sept. 7, 2005, flyby of Titan, NASA's Cassini spacecraft acquired images of territory on the moon's Saturn-facing hemisphere that were assembled to create this mosaic.
PIA07732:
Monitoring "Fensal-Aztlan"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-14 Telesto Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The blob of light seen here is Saturn's moon Telesto, which shares its orbital path with the much larger moon Tethys. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 1, 2005.
PIA07586:
Squinting at Telesto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-15 Pan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's moon Pan occupies the Encke Gap at the center of this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which also displays some of the A ring's intricate wave structure. Pan is 26 kilometers (16 miles) across.
PIA07587:
Pan's Corridor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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The latitude bands and swirling storms of Saturn, always intriguing to scientists, often are exquisitely beautiful as well. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on July 31, 2005.
PIA07588:
Vortex Variety
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-19 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The profile of the 450-kilometer-wide (280-mile) crater Odysseus makes this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft look as if someone sliced off a chunk of Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665 miles across).
PIA07589:
Profile of Odysseus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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This frame from a movie, shows Saturn's rotation in three different spectral filters, demonstrates NASA's Cassini spacecraft's ability to probe various levels within the planet's outer cloud layers.
PIA07590:
Three Views of Saturn (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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A grandiose gesture of gravity, Saturn's icy rings fan out across many thousands of kilometers of space. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 20, 2005.
PIA07591:
Sweeping Ring View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-22 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The 'flying saucer' in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is the small moon Atlas (20 kilometers, 12 miles across), whose shadowy profile reveals its flattened shape.
PIA07592:
A Shadowy Figure
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's prying infrared vision allows details of Saturn's storm-ridden hydrogen atmosphere to be revealed as never before.
PIA07593:
Stormy Days
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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After much anticipation, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has finally spotted the elusive spokes in Saturn's rings. Spokes are the ghostly radial markings discovered in the rings by NASA's Voyager spacecraft 25 years ago.
PIA07731:
Finally . . . Spokes!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This Synthetic Aperture Radar image of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 7, 2005.
PIA03563:
Shoreline on Titan?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that this bright terrain is cut by channels that are variable in width; they form both radial and branching networks. Such patterns are reminiscent of networks formed by rainfall on Earth.
PIA03565:
Titan's Rain Drains to the Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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Fluids have flowed and cut these deeply-incised channels into the icy surface of Titan as seen in this Synthetic Aperture Radar image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA03564:
Canyonlands of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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These two images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken 23 minutes apart, show many vortices and turbulent wakes in Saturn's atmosphere. They also show the overall filamentary structure of the flow in the atmosphere.
PIA07594:
"2-D" Flow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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This view of Saturn's rings captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals not one but two of the four narrow ringlets in the Encke Gap (325 kilometers, or 200 miles, wide). The innermost of the two ringlets is much brighter and full of clumps.
PIA07595:
Clumps for Encke
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-28 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Small, multi-faceted Epimetheus wanders into NASA's Cassini spacecraft's field of view, while Saturn's dark shadow cuts across the ringplane. Only a sliver of the outer A ring is seen here, including the narrow Keeler Gap.
PIA07596:
Lonely Gem
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This clear-filter view of Saturn's moon Titan reveals a region of cloud activity at high southern latitudes. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 31, 2005.
PIA07597:
Faint Southern Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-30 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks up from beneath the ringplane to spot Prometheus and Atlas orbiting between Saturn's A and F rings. Prometheus is 102 kilometers (63 miles) across. Atlas is 20 kilometers (12 miles) across.
PIA07598:
The In-Between Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This view of the surface of Saturn's moon Tethys, taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's close approach to the moon on Sept. 24, 2005, reveals an icy land of steep cliffs.
PIA07734:
Steep Scarps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The northern polar region of Saturn's moon Tethys seen in this NASA Cassini flyby image is a ponderously ancient surface. Above the prominent peaked crater Telemachus are the remnants of a very old crater named Teiresias.
PIA07735:
Old Northern Terrains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This view is among the closest Cassini images of Tethys' icy surface taken during the Sept. 24, 2005 flyby. This image is a clear-filter view and is the highest resolution image acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the encounter.
PIA07736:
"Hi-Res" on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This false-color image is among the closest of NASA's Cassini images of Tethys' icy surface taken during the Sept. 24, 2005 flyby.
PIA07737:
"Hi-Res" on Tethys - False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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With this full-disk mosaic, NASA's Cassini presented the best view yet of the south pole of Saturn's moon Tethys, taken on Sept. 24, 2005. The giant rift Ithaca Chasma cuts across the disk.
PIA07738:
Tethys in Full View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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As NASA's Cassini spacecraft sped away from its close encounter with Saturn's moon Hyperion on Sept. 26, 2005, it took this parting shot of the battered moon's shadowy limb.
PIA07739:
Hyperion: Parting Glance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This stunning false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface. The view was obtained during NASA's Cassini close flyby on Sept. 26, 2005.
PIA07740:
Odd World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This high-resolution mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that Hyperion truly has a surface different from any other in the Saturn system. The images were taken during Cassini's close flyby of Hyperion on Sept. 26, 2005.
PIA07741:
Hyperion's Unusual Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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This frame from a movie sequence shows highlights of NASA's Cassini spacecraft's Sept. 26, 2005, flyby of the odd, icy moon Hyperion.
PIA07742:
Flight to Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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There is much to examine in close-ups of Saturn's atmosphere, like this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Scientists are interested in the bright, turbulent-looking, thin boundary between the large-scale features in the upper half of image.
PIA07599:
Saturnian Meteorology
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-05 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Prometheus poses here with its latest creation: a dark, diagonal gore in the tenuous material interior to Saturn's F ring. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 20, 2005.
PIA07601:
Drawing the Drapes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-06 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's moon Pandora is almost overwhelmed by the brightness of the F ring in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The F ring's bright core displays kinks and is flanked by fainter ringlets.
PIA07602:
Brilliant F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Naming features on other worlds, scientists like to follow themes, and Dione is no exception. Dione possesses numerous features with names from Virgil's 'Aeneid.' This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Aug. 25, 2005.
PIA07603:
Virgil's Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-10 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's moon Pandora glides in front of the narrow F ring, making the moon's oblong outline visible. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft also shows the A ring, Cassini Division, B ring, and part of the C ring.
PIA07604:
Pandora Occults the F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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The thin and meandering ribbon-like filaments seen here are indicative of two-dimensional turbulence. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 20, 2005.
PIA07605:
Mesmerizing Meanders
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-12 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This half-lit view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft beautifully captures the ponderously old and cratered surface of Saturn's icy moon Rhea. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across.
PIA07606:
Half-Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-13 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The dramatic Ithaca Chasma carves an enormous gash for more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) across Saturn's moon Tethys. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07607:
Gazing at Icy Canyons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-14 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's shadow spreads across the rings here, extending beyond the F ring and its tenuous, flanking ringlets. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft catches Saturn's moon Mimas on its day-long sojourn around the planet.
PIA07608:
Rubbing-out the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Rhea's distinctive bright and relatively fresh-rayed crater lies in stark contrast to the large, round basin which sits along the terminator (the boundary between day and night) in this unmagnified view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07609:
Crater Contrast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-18 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's mid-B ring shows intriguing structure, the cause of which has yet to be explained by ring scientists. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a radial location located between 107,200 to 115,700 kilometers from Saturn.
PIA07610:
Mysterious B Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This close-up view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows an inner region of Saturn's C ring. It covers a radial location on the rings located approximately 78,000 to 80,500 kilometers (48,500 to 50,000 miles) from the center of the planet.
PIA07611:
Bright "Plateau"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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This map of the surface of Saturn's moon Dione illustrates the regions that was imaged by Cassini during the spacecraft's very close flyby of the moon on Oct. 11, 2005.
PIA07743:
Cassini's Visit to Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-01 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Tethys partially occulting the moon Dione. The difference in the surface brightness of the two moons is immediately apparent.
PIA07621:
Tethys Meets Dione
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Speeding toward pale, icy Dione, Cassini's view is enriched by the tranquil gold and blue hues of Saturn in the distance. The horizontal stripes near the bottom of the image are Saturn's rings.
PIA07744:
Ringside with Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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As it departed its encounter with Saturn's moon Dione, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sailed above an unreal landscape blasted by impacts. The rising Sun throws craters into sharp contrast and reveals steep crater walls.
PIA07745:
Icy Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The cratered and cracked disk of Saturn's moon Dione looms ahead in this mosaic of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct.11, 2005, as it neared its close encounter with the icy moon.
PIA07746:
Dione in Full View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The cratered and cracked disk of Saturn's moon Dione looms ahead in this mosaic of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 11, 2005, as it neared its close encounter with the icy moon.
PIA07747:
Dione in Full View - False Color
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to prove that the closer the view of the myriad worlds constituting the Saturn system, the more interesting and varied the views become.
PIA07748:
In the Groove
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Zooming in closer and closer, this frame from a movie chronicles NASA's Cassini spacecraft targeted flyby of Dione, with Saturn and its lovely rings forming a dramatic backdrop.
PIA07749:
Ice Moon Rendezvous Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-20 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's moon Prometheus chases Pandora in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but the outcome of their race has already been decided by gravity. Prometheus orbits closer to Saturn and thus moves faster than does Pandora.
PIA07612:
Racing Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft close looks at Saturn to frame a view encompassing the entire C ring. In the dark region closer to the planet lies the much dimmer D ring. The bright B ring wraps around the left side of the scene.
PIA07613:
Framing the C Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-24 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The Saturn moon Mimas is much smaller than Rhea, but the geometry of this scene exaggerates the actual differences in size. Here, Mimas is on the opposite side of the rings from Rhea and NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07614:
Misleading Perspective
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-25 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Outside the soft edge of Cassini's F ring, Epimetheus and Janus negotiate their nearly-shared orbit. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 8, 2005.
PIA07615:
Switcharoo Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The outer reaches of Saturn's Cassini Division merges with the inner A ring (at the right) in a region that is rich in structure. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini narrow-angle camera.
PIA07616:
The Cassini Division's Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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This map of Titan's surface illustrates the regions that will be viewed by the imaging cameras onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the spacecraft's close flyby of Titan on Oct. 28, 2005.
PIA07751:
Cassini's Oct. 28, 2005, Titan Flyby
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Radar Mapper
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These three radar passes from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Sept. 7, 2005 reveal a variety of geologic features, including impact craters, wind-blown deposits, channels, and cryovolcanic features.
PIA08110:
Titan Viewed by Cassini's Radar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This map of Saturn's moon Titan shows the location of the upcoming Oct. 28, 2005, Titan flyby and the areas mapped so far by NASA's Cassini Radar Mapper using its Synthetic Aperture Radar imaging mode.
PIA08111:
Titan Viewed by Cassini's Radar - Flat Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This mosaic of 15 NASA Cassini images of Saturn's F ring shows how the moon Prometheus creates a gore in the ring once every 14.7 hours, as it approaches and recedes from the F ring on its eccentric orbit.
PIA07750:
The Prometheus Effect
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-27 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows two of the largest craters on Saturn's icy moon Tethys: Odysseus in the northern hemisphere and Melanthius in the south.
PIA07617:
Hue and Contrast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-28 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views the far-off wispy canyons of Saturn's moon Dione and sees an interesting dichotomy between the bright wisps and the bright south polar region at the bottom.
PIA07618:
Dione's Canyonlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's restless clouds offer endless complexity, such as this small-scale repeating pattern which is superimposed a larger-scale wavelike modulation of the boundary between a bright zone and a darker belt. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08202:
Pattern Upon Pattern
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-31 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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The moon Enceladus seems to hover above the outer reaches of Saturn's B ring. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 15, 2005.
PIA07619:
Iceball Among Snowballs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-01 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This brief movie catches Saturn's moon Tethys partially occulting the moon Dione. Images in this frame from a movie sequence were taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 11, 2005.
PIA07620:
Tethys Meets Dione (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-02 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft offers up this nice view of the craters Odysseus (at the top) and Melanthius (at the bottom) on Saturn's moon Tethys.
PIA07622:
Big Bangs on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-03 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's expansive rings separate the moon's Tethys (at the top) from Dione (at the bottom). This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 12, 2005.
PIA07623:
Moons with Separate Paths
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-04 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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In this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Saturn's moon Mimas is a mere pinprick of light, while the nearly edge-on rings and the ghostly globe of Saturn steal the scene.
PIA07624:
Bright Rings for Southern Skies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This view looks up toward the sunlit side of Saturn's rings, as Dione and Pandora trundle by. NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this image in visible light with its narrow-angle camera on Sept. 16, 2005.
PIA07625:
Dione and Pandora
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Looking back toward the sun brings out the thin haze than hovers 500 kilometers (310 miles) above Saturn's moon Titan. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 24, 2005.
PIA07626:
Titan's Ultraviolet Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-09 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione is about to swing around the edge of the thin F ring in this color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Sept. 20, 2005. More than one thin strand of the F ring's tight spiral can be seen here.
PIA07627:
Wisps in Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This excellent grouping of three moons Dione, Tethys and Pandora near the rings provides a sampling of the diversity of worlds that exists in Saturn's realm. This image was taken in visible blue light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07628:
Satellite Trio
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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From Saturn orbit, NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides a perspective on the ringed planet that is never seen from Earth. In our skies, Saturn's disk is always nearly fully illuminated by the sun. From this vantage point Cassini can see both hemispheres.
PIA07629:
A Privileged View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-14 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The moons Dione and Tethys face each other across the gulf of Saturn's rings. Here, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks on the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Tethys below and the anti-Saturn side of Dione above.
PIA07630:
The Face-off
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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Large areas of this Cassini synthetic aperture radar image of Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft are covered by long, dark ridges.
PIA03567:
Dunes Galore
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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The geologic diversity of Titan's surface is well illustrated by this synthetic aperture radar image, obtained on Oct. 28, 2005, during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's ninth Titan fly-by and fourth radar pass.
PIA03568:
Diverse Geology
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft carried the European Space Agency's Huygens probe to Saturn and released it in December 2004. The magenta cross in both images shows the best estimate of the actual Huygens landing site.
PIA03569:
Pinpointing Huygens Landing Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This synthetic aperture radar image of Titan was taken on Oct. 28, 2005, as NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by at a distance of 1,350 kilometers (840 miles).
PIA03566:
Tectonic Features
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-04 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Like an ancient mariner charting the coastline of an unexplored wilderness, NASA's Cassini spacecraft's repeated encounters with Titan are turning a mysterious world into a more familiar place. These combined images were taken on Oct. 28, 2005.
PIA07752:
Naming New Lands - October Flyby (annotated)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-04 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Like an ancient mariner charting the coastline of an unexplored wilderness, NASA's Cassini spacecraft's repeated encounters with Titan are turning a mysterious world into a more familiar place. These combined images were taken on Sept. 7, 2005.
PIA07753:
Naming New Lands - September Flyby (annotated)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-04 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Like an ancient mariner charting the coastline of an unexplored wilderness, NASA's Cassini spacecraft repeated encounters with Titan are turning a mysterious world into a more familiar place.
PIA07754:
Naming New Lands - October Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-04 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft repeated encounters with Titan are turning a mysterious world into a more familiar place. This image shows more than half of Titan's Saturn-facing hemisphere at moderate resolution.
PIA07755:
Naming New Lands - September Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-17 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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This map of the surface of Saturn's moon, Rhea, illustrates the regions that were imaged by NASA's Cassini during the spacecraft's close flyby of the moon on Nov. 26, 2005.
PIA07756:
Prime Time for Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-15 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The dark Cassini Division, within Saturn's rings, contains a great deal of structure, as seen in this color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken on May 18, 2005.
PIA07631:
Graceful Lanes of Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-16 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini's best close-up view of Saturn's F ring shepherd moon, Pandora, shows that this small ring-moon is coated in fine dust-sized icy material in this image taken on Sept. 5, 2005.
PIA07632:
Pandora's Color Close-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-17 Calypso Cassini-Huygens
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This color image taken on Sept. 23, 2005 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides the best look yet at Saturn's moon Calypso, a Trojan (trailing moon) of the larger moon Tethys.
PIA07633:
Colorful Cratered Calypso
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The 'H'-shaped region Fensal-Aztlan is faintly visible on Saturn's murky moon Titan in this enhanced clear-filter view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07634:
The Land Beneath the Murk
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This map of Saturn's moon Titan shows the location mapped with NASA's Cassini radar mapper using its synthetic aperture radar imaging mode during the Oct. 28, 2005, flyby.
PIA03570:
Radar Swath of Oct. 28, 2005, Titan Flyby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This set of images shows the areas mapped so far on Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini radar mapper using its synthetic aperture radar imaging mode.
PIA03571:
Titan Viewed by Cassini's Radar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea floats below the innermost regions of Saturn's amazing rings in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view of the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Rhea allows a glimpse of the wispy terrain that covers the trailing hemisphere of Rhea.
PIA07635:
Sleek Rings, Rugged Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-22 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the soft appearance of Dione's wispy terrains belies their true nature. They are, in fact, complex systems of crisp, braided fractures that cover the moon's trailing hemisphere.
PIA07636:
Captivating Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-23 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft prepared for its rendezvous with Saturn's moon, Dione, on Oct. 11, 2005, capturing the brilliant, cratered iceball in front of its shadow-draped planet.
PIA07637:
On Approach to Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-24 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione's icy surface is scarred by craters at Carthage Linea in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 11, 2005.
PIA07638:
At Carthage Linea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-25 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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Impact-battered Mimas steps in front of Saturn's rings, showing off its giant 130-kilometer (80-mile) wide crater Herschel. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini narrow-angle camera on Oct. 13, 2005.
PIA07639:
Herschel Sees the Sun
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-28 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The Sun's rays strike the terrains near the terminator on Tethys at low angles, throwing features there into sharp relief. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini narrow-angle camera on Oct. 13, 2005.
PIA07640:
Rough Sphere of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-29 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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A target of intense interest to Cassini mission scientists is Enceladus, whose wrinkled and frozen crescent is seen here with Saturn's rings. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini narrow-angle camera on Oct. 13, 2005.
PIA07641:
Wrinkled Crescent
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