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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn and two of its moons, Tethys (above) and Dione, were photographed by NASA's Voyager 1 on November 3, 1980, from 13 million kilometers (8 million miles).
PIA00024:
Saturn With Tethys and Dione
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'true color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981. The moons Rhea and Dione appear as blue dots to the south and southeast of Saturn, respectively.
PIA00030:
Saturn With Rhea and Dione (True Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-05-24 S Rings Voyager
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This wide-angle image of Saturn's rings was taken Aug. 26 just before NASA's Voyager 2's crossing of the plane of these complex structures. The spacecraft was 103,000 kilometers (64,000 miles) from the rings when it acquired this image.
PIA00534:
Wide-Angle Image of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Saturn Voyager
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This enhanced-color picture from NASA's Voyager shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Tethys, Dione, and Rhea are visible against the darkness of space, and another smaller satellite (Mimas) is visible against Saturn's cloud tops.
PIA00349:
Saturn and 4 Icy Moons, Enhanced Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Saturn Voyager
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This approximate natural-color image from NASA's Voyager 2 shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Three satellites Tethys, Dione, and Rhea are visible against the darkness of space.
PIA00400:
Saturn and 4 Icy Moons in Natural Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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Saturn's magnificent ring system is seen tilted edge-on in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture taken on August 10, 1995.
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Hubble again views Saturn's Rings Edge-on
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured Saturn on May 22, 1995 as the planet's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This ring-plane crossing occurs approximately every 15 years when the Earth passes through Saturn's ring plane.
PIA01275:
Saturn's Rings Edge-on
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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This sequence of images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on May 22, 1995, documents a rare astronomical alignment, Saturn's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This occurs when the Earth passes through Saturn's ring plane.
PIA01276:
Hubble Views Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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This sequence of images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on May 22, 1995, documents a rare astronomical alignment, Saturn's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This occurs when the Earth passes through Saturn's ring plane.
PIA01277:
Hubble Views Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing (Satellites Labeled)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-28 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'false color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981, when the spacecraft was 33.9 million kilometers (21 million miles) from the planet.
PIA01143:
Saturn With Rhea and Dione (false color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 S Rings Voyager
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Possible variations in chemical composition from one part of Saturn's ring system to another are visible in this archival image from NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA01486:
Composition Differences within Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-13 S Rings Voyager
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Both the limb of Saturn and the shadow of its ring system are seen through the transparent C-ring in this striking picture taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 9, 1980. Gaps and regions of high transparency are seen throughout the C-ring, especially in the a
PIA01374:
Saturn's Ring System
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-17 S Rings Voyager
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This photograph captured by NASA's Voyager 2 photograph of the lit face of Saturn's B-ring was obtained Aug. 25, 1980. It shows the ring structure broken up into about 10 times more ringlets than had been previously suspected.
PIA01380:
A View of Saturn's B-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-17 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 discovered a 'kinky' ringlet inside the Encke Gap in Saturn's A-ring. These pictures show the thin ringlet at two different positions, photographed Aug. 25, 1980.
PIA01381:
Thin Ringlet of Saturn's A-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-17 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained this picture of Saturn's F-ring on Aug. 26, 1980, just before the spacecraft crossed the planet's ring plane. This edge-on view shows nearly 25` of the F-ring, with at least four distinct components visible.
PIA01382:
A View of Saturn's F-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn and its satellites Tethys (outer left), Enceladus (inner left) and Mimas (right of rings) are seen in this mosaic of images taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Oct. 30, 1980 from a distance of 18 million kilometers (11 million miles).
PIA01383:
Saturn and its Satellites Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-05 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this picture of Saturn's faint inner D-ring Aug. 25, 1981, about 1 hour 48 minutes before the spacecraft's closest approach to Saturn. The range was 195,400 kilometers (121,300 miles) .
PIA01388:
Saturn's Faint Inner D-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-05 S Rings Voyager
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This composite image shows two views of the outer edge of Saturn's B-ring (left) and the inner part of the Cassini Division (right) in the rings as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 25, 1981.
PIA01390:
Outer edge of Saturn's B-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-06 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this high-resolution image of Saturn's F-ring Aug. 26, 1980 from a distance of 51,500 kilometers (32,000 miles). This closeup view shows that the ring is made up of at least four distinct components.
PIA01387:
Image of Saturn's F-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-18 S Rings Voyager
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This view shows some detail and differences in the complex system of rings. This was one of the first pictures obtained once NASA's Voyager 2 resumed returning images Aug. 29, 1979 after its scan platform was commanded to view Saturn.
PIA01389:
View of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-11 S Rings Voyager
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Saturn's F-ring and its inner shepherding satellite (1980S27) are pictured in this closeup of NASA's Voyager 2 image acquired Aug. 25,1981, from a range of 365,000 kilometers (227,000 miles).
PIA01951:
Saturn's F-ring and Inner Satellite
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-11 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 acquired this photograph of Saturn's A-ring Aug. 26, 1981, from a distance of 227,800 kilometers (141,500 miles). This view of the ring's outer edge shows a small bright, clumpy ring within the Encke Gap.
PIA01952:
Saturn's A-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-11 S Rings Voyager
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The outer edge of Saturn's A-ring is detailed in this image obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 26, 1981, just half an hour before closest approach, at a range of about 51,000 kilometers (31,700 miles).
PIA01953:
Outer Edge of Saturn's A-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-11 S Rings Voyager
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Spokes are seen on the unlit side of Saturn's rings for the first time in this image from NASA's Voyager 2 wide-angle view obtained Aug. 28, 1981, from a distance of 3.4 million kilometers (2.1 million miles).
PIA01955:
Spokes on Side of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-25 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 high-resolution view of Saturn's rings on Aug. 23, 1981, at a range of 3.3 million kilometers (2 million miles). The planet's limb is visible through the C-ring and the inner part of the B-ring.
PIA01962:
High-resolution View of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-28 S Rings Voyager
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This long exposure of the ring region about 150,000 to 200,000 kilometers (90,000 to 120,000 miles) from the center of Saturn captured the very faint G-ring, seen at left. NASA's Voyager 2 took this image on Aug. 26, 1981.
PIA01964:
Saturn's Ring Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-06 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 returned this view of Saturn and its ring system Aug. 11, when the spacecraft was 13.9 million kilometers (8.6 million miles) away and approaching the large, gaseous planet at about l million km. (620,000 mi.) a day.
PIA01966:
Saturn and its Ring System
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 S Rings Voyager
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This view focused on Saturn's C-ring (and to a lesser extent, the B-ring at top and left) and was compiled from three separate images taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 23, 1981.
PIA01531:
Saturn's B and C-rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-21 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 looked back at Saturn on Nov. 16, 1980, four days after the spacecraft flew past the planet, to observe the appearance of Saturn and its rings from this unique perspective.
PIA01969:
Saturn and its Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-06-19 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 image of Saturn and its ring taken Nov. 16, 1980 four days after closest approach to Saturn, from a distance of 5,300, 000 km (3,300,000 miles).
PIA00335:
Full-disk Color Image of Crescent Saturn with Rings and Ring Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-23 S Rings Voyager
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This view of Saturn's A-ring was obtained Aug. 23, when NASA's Voyager 2 was about 2.8 million kilometers (1.7 million miles) from the planet.
PIA01988:
Saturn's A-Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-10 S Rings Voyager
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This computer-assembled two-image mosaic of Saturn's rings, taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 6, 1980 at a range of 8 million kilometers (5 million miles), shows approximately 95 individual concentric features in the rings.
PIA02227:
Two-image Mosaic of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-07 S Rings Voyager
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This detailed mosaic of the underside of the Cassini Division was obtained by NASA's Voyager 1 with a resolution of about 10 kilometers.
PIA02242:
Mosaic of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-07 S Rings Voyager
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When seen from the unlit side, the rings of Saturn present a much different appearance from that familiar to telescopic observers, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA02241:
Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 has found a 15th moon orbiting Saturn, visible near the bottom of this picture taken on Nov. 6, 1980, when the spacecraft was still 8 million kilometers (5 million miles) from Saturn.
PIA02263:
Saturn's 15th moon, 1980S28
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 S Rings Voyager
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Eight hours after its closest approach to Saturn on Nov. 12, 1980, NASA's Voyager 1 took this picture of the planet's ring system.
PIA02269:
Saturn's Ring System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 S Rings Voyager
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The crescent of Saturn, the planet's rings and their shadows are seen in this NASA Voyager 1 image taken Nov. 13, 1980 at a distance of 1,500,000 kilometers (930,000 miles) as the spacecraft began to leave the Saturn system.
PIA02271:
Crescent of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 Saturn Voyager
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The three separate components of Saturn's F-ring are seen in this image taken by NASA's Voyager l on Nov. 12, 1980, from a range of 750,000 kilometers (466,000) miles.
PIA02272:
Saturn's F-ring
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Prominent dark spokes are visible in the outer half of Saturn's broad B-ring in this NASA Voyager 2 photograph taken on Aug. 3, 1981 from a range of about 22 million kilometers (14 million miles).
PIA02274:
Saturn's B-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained this high-resolution picture of Saturn's rings Aug. 22, when the spacecraft was 4 million kilometers (2.5 million miles) away.
PIA02275:
Saturn's Rings - High Resolution
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 S Rings Voyager
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This narrow-angle camera image of Saturn's B Ring and Cassini Division was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 through the Clear filter from a distance of 12.6 million km on 3 November 1980.
PIA02289:
Saturn's B rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn's F, or outermost ring was photographed from the un-illuminated face of the rings by NASA's Voyager 1 at a range of 750,000 kilometers (470,000 miles).
PIA02283:
Saturn's F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 returned this wide-angle, clear-filtered image of the shadow of Saturn upon the rings just after engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory successfully commanded the camera platform to point to the planet.
PIA02285:
Saturn's Shadow Upon the Rings
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This narrow-angle camera image of Saturn's F Ring was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 through the Clear filter while at a distance of 0.75 million km from Saturn on 12 November 1980.
PIA02292:
Saturn's F-Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 S Rings Voyager
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This narrow-angle camera image of Saturn's F Ring was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 through the Clear filter while at a distance of 6.9 million km from Saturn on 8 November 1980.
PIA02293:
Saturn's F-Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-28 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn's rings are bright and its northern hemisphere defined by bright features as NASA's Voyager 2 approaches Saturn, which it will encounter on Aug. 25, 1981.
PIA03152:
Saturn's Atmospheric Changes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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These NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03156:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show clumps seemingly embedded within Saturn's narrow, outermost F ring.
PIA05382:
Clumps in the F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini has sighted Prometheus and Pandora, the two F-ring-shepherding moons whose unpredictable orbits both fascinate scientists and wreak havoc on the F ring.
PIA05387:
Prometheus and Pandora
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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As NASA's Cassini nears its rendezvous with Saturn, new detail in the banded clouds of the planet's atmosphere are becoming visible.
PIA05391:
Bands of Clouds and Lace
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft shows two of Saturn's moons, Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles across) and Pandora (84 kilometers, or 52 miles across), shepherding the planet's narrow F-ring.
PIA05393:
Pandora and Prometheus Near F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings cast threadlike shadows on the planet's northern hemisphere. Note the translucent C ring, and thin outermost F ring. The image was taken with NASA's Cassini narrow angle camera in visible light on May 10, 2004.
PIA05394:
Rings and Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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These images are from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken March 22 (top) and May 16, 2004, of Saturn's displays its familiar banded structure, with haze and clouds at various altitudes.
PIA05981:
Saturn from Far and Near
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-26 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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This image is a view from NASA's Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope taken on March 22, 2004. The subtle pastel colors of ammonia-methane clouds trace a variety of atmospheric dynamics.
PIA05982:
Saturn from Far and Near (Hubble Space Telescope)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft returned this image of Saturn on May 16, 2004, when its imaging science subsystem narrow-angle camera was too close to fit the entire planet in its field-of-view.
PIA05983:
Saturn from Far and Near (Cassini-Huygens)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the multitude of grooves for which Saturn's rings are famed.
PIA05396:
Groovy Rings and Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Saturn captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows white feathery clouds near 45 degrees south latitude.
PIA05400:
Atmospheric Detail in the Near Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken May 21, 2004 displays the ringed planet's subtle, multi-hued atmospheric bands.
PIA06060:
Colorful Saturn, Getting Closer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The path that lies ahead for NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission is indicated in this image which illustrates where the spacecraft will be just 27 days from now, when it arrives at Saturn.
PIA06061:
Passage through the Ring Plane
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Prometheus orbiting inside the planet's F-ring, which exhibits some of the knotted structure for which it is renowned.
PIA05402:
Prometheus and Knots in the F Ring
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Saturn's magnificent rings show some of their intricate structure in this image taken on May 11, 2004, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow angle camera.
PIA05410:
Rings and Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-28 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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In this image, dark regions represent areas where NASA's Cassini spacecraft is seeing into deeper levels in Saturn's atmosphere.
PIA05413:
Saturn's Atmosphere and Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's peaceful beauty invites NASA's Cassini spacecraft for a closer look in this natural color view, taken during the spacecraft's approach to the planet.
PIA06077:
Ringworld Waiting
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows the region of Saturn's rings known as the Cassini Division. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06092:
Cassini Captures the Cassini Division
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This image shows a bending wave (right) and density wave in Saturn's A ring, interior to the Encke Gap. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06093:
Two Waves in One Spectacular Image of Saturn's Rings
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This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft after it successfully entered Saturn's orbit.
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Rippling Rings
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This image shows three density waves in Saturn's A ring. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06095:
Rings Full of Waves
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This image shows a close-up view of a density wave in Saturn's A ring. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06096:
Rings Full of Waves (zoom)
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This is one of the first images of Saturn's F ring taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft after it successfully entered Saturn's orbit.
PIA06097:
Cassini's First Picture of F Ring
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This is one of the first images of Saturn's F ring taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft after it successfully entered Saturn's orbit.
PIA06098:
Wide View of Saturn's F Ring
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This image shows in superb detail the region in Saturn's rings known as the Encke Gap. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06099:
The Encke Gap as Never Seen Before
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Evidence from the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicates that the grain sizes in Saturn's rings grade from smaller to larger, related to distance from Saturn.
PIA06349:
The Stuff of Rings
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The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence for a material dubbed 'dirt' in Saturn's rings.
PIA06350:
'Dirty Rotten' Rings
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This image taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's F ring.
PIA06351:
Streaming F Ring
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The best view of Saturn's rings in the ultraviolet indicates there is more ice toward the outer part of the rings, than in the inner part, as shown in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA05075:
Saturn's A Ring From the Inside Out
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Images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's orbital insertion on June 30 show definite compositional variation within the rings.
PIA05076:
Saturn's C and B Rings From the Inside Out
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a dramatic view of Saturn's rings draped by the shadow of Saturn.
PIA05417:
Rings and More Rings
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Nine days before it entered orbit, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this exquisite natural color view of Saturn's rings.
PIA05421:
Ringscape In Color
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This image of the lit face of Saturn's outer, or A ring was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shortly after crossing the ring plane after its orbit insertion burn.
PIA06709:
Rings Galore
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The dark shadow of Saturn's southern hemisphere spreads across the planet's rings all the way to the Encke gap. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on June 21, 2004.
PIA05424:
Light and Shadow
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a glance back at Saturn, taking in the entire planet and its expansive rings.
PIA05425:
Saturn in Full View
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The image on the left was taken on Nov. 1, 1980, by NASA's Voyager spacecraft. It shows a narrow shadow cast on the equatorial region of Saturn's atmosphere by the rings. The image on the right was acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 10, 2004.
PIA06415:
Saturn's Ring Shadow, Then and Now
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Saturn and its rings are prominently shown in this color image, along with three of Saturn's smaller moons. This image was taken on June 18, 2004, with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow angle camera, 8.2 million kilometers from Saturn.
PIA06422:
Pretty in Pink
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Saturn's atmosphere is prominently shown with the rings emerging from behind the planet at upper right. The two moons on the left of the image, Mimas and Enceladus, were captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06423:
Bold Saturn
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Saturn's rings appear golden as the planet's shadow drapes across nearly the whole span of the rings. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Mimas in the upper left corner.
PIA06424:
Golden Rings
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The varying temperatures of Saturn's rings are depicted here in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06425:
Saturn's Rings, Cold and Colder
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A new found ring of material, S/2004 1 R, in the orbit of Saturn's moon Atlas has been seen in this view of the region between the edge of Saturn's A ring and the F ring. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken on July 1, 2004.
PIA06113:
The Atlas Ring
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A small new found object, temporarily designated S/2004 S 3, has been seen orbiting Saturn's outer F ring. This is a frame from a movie sequence of 18 images taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on June 21, 2004.
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New Object in F ring Animation Icon
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A stately Saturn poses for a portrait with five of its moons, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Family Portrait
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Saturn's faintly banded atmosphere is delicately colored and its threadbare rings cross their own shadows in this marvelous natural color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06114:
Colorful Threads and Shadows
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's colorful rings sweep through this spectacular natural color view while two small moons look on.
PIA06485:
Musical Rings
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Gazing beyond Saturn's magnificent rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spotted the cause of the dark gap visible in the foreground of this image: Mimas, which is 398 kilometers (247 miles) wide.
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Eyeing the Culprit
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied two members of Saturn's family rounding the rings in this image from Aug. 20, 2004.
PIA06497:
Rounding the Rings
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This image captures several important targets of NASA's Cassini mission: icy moons, rings, and the gaps in the rings that may contain small undiscovered moons.
PIA06501:
Moons and Gaps
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This false color image of two density waves in Saturn's A ring was made from the stellar occultation observed by NASA's Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrograph when the spacecraft was 6.3 million kilometers (4 million miles) from Saturn.
PIA06994:
Catching Saturn's Ring Waves
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Saturn hosts its own miniature solar system, with an entourage of more than 30 moons. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's A and F rings.
PIA06522:
Atlas, Pandora and Janus
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft pierced the ring plane and rounded Saturn on Oct. 27, 2004, capturing this view of the dark portion of the rings.
PIA06532:
Gazing Down
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The usually bright B ring (at center) appears very dim in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Night Side Ringplane
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An intriguing knotted ringlet within the Encke Gap is the main attraction in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06534:
Mind the Gap
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This image NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows subtle, wavelike patterns, hundreds of narrow features resembling a record's 'grooves' in Saturn's outer B-ring, and a noticeable abrupt change in overall brightness beyond the dark gap near the right.
PIA06535:
Outer B Ring Edge
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