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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Hemispheric color differences on Saturn's moon Rhea are apparent in this false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This image shows the side of the moon that always faces the planet.
PIA12808:
False-Color Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Wispy fractures cut through cratered terrain on Saturn's moon Rhea in this high resolution, 3-D image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.
PIA12807:
Rhea's Fractured Terrain in 3-D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Presented here is a complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution Rhea atlas. The map data was acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12806:
The Rhea Atlas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Rhea is seen in this polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12805:
Rhea South Polar Map - November 2009
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Rhea is seen in this polar stereographic map, mosaicked from the best-available images obtained by NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft.
PIA12804:
Rhea North Polar Map - November 2009
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Rhea was created using data obtained by NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft.
PIA12803:
Map of Rhea - November 2009
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft watches a pair of Saturn's moons, showing the hazy orb of giant Titan beyond smaller Tethys. In the foreground of the image, Ithaca Chasma can be seen running roughly north-south on Tethys.
PIA12745:
Titan and Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-14 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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These two views of Tethys show the high-resolution color (left) and the topography (right) of the leading, or forward-facing, hemisphere of this ice-rich satellite. Data for these images is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA13701:
A New View of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Shadows adorn Saturn in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which also includes the moon Rhea, shown orbiting between the planet and the spacecraft and appears above the rings on the left of the image.
PIA12744:
Southern Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-06 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this shot of cratered Dione as it flew by the Saturnian moon on Oct. 17, 2010. The large crater at the center of the image is Erulus.
PIA12743:
Eyeing Erulus Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Geologic faults among craters on Saturn's moon Tethys are depicted in this image captured during a flyby of the moon by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 14, 2010.
PIA12802:
Geology on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Jets of water ice particles spew from Saturn's moon Enceladus in this image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 13, 2010. A crescent of the moon appears dimly illuminated in front of the bright limb of Saturn.
PIA12801:
Before Saturn's Limb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Small water ice particles fly from fissures in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus in this image taken during the Aug. 13, 2010, flyby of the moon by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12800:
Looming Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Tethys is seen in this updated polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12799:
Tethys Polar Maps - August 2010
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Tethys is seen in this updated polar stereographic map, mosaicked from the best-available images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12798:
Tethys Polar Maps - August 2010
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This updated global map of Saturn's moon Tethys was created using images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11673:
Map of Tethys - August 2010
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-29 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The two large craters on the right of this image are overprinted with smaller, more recent craters of Saturn's moon Rhea in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12742:
Superimposed Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Six of Saturn's moons orbiting within and beyond the planet's rings are collected in this Cassini spacecraft image; they include Enceladus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Daphnis, Pan, and Janus.
PIA12741:
Sextet of Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-15 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks across the surface of Saturn's moon Dione and details the 'wispy' terrain first chronicled by Voyager. This fractured terrain covers the trailing hemisphere of Dione.
PIA12740:
Looking Over Dione's Wisps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-08 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft turns the eye of its camera toward Saturn's moon Mimas and spies the large Herschel Crater which itself looks like the iris of an eye peering out into space.
PIA12739:
An Eye on Mimas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Vertical structures in the variable outer edge of Saturn's B ring cast shadows in these two images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shortly after the planet's August 2009 northern vernal equinox.
PIA12796:
Long Spiky Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the outer edge of Saturn's B ring, reveals the combined effects of a tugging moon and oscillations that can naturally occur in disks like Saturn's rings and spiral galaxies.
PIA12795:
Oscillations at B Ring Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Keeping a close watch on the outer portion of Saturn's B ring, NASA's Cassini spacecraft records the complex inward and outward movement of the edge of the ring. This ring movement resembles the suspected behavior of spiral disk galaxies.
PIA12794:
Galactic Behavior for the Outer B Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The outer edge of Saturn's B ring exhibits an unexpected feature in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image was obtained when the sun was over the planet's equator and lit the rings exactly exactly edge on.
PIA11669:
Strange Things Afoot in the B Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Vertical structures, among the tallest seen in Saturn's main rings, rise abruptly from the edge of Saturn's B ring to cast long shadows on the ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft two weeks before the planet's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11668:
The Tallest Peaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A crescent Saturn appears nestled within encircling rings in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Clouds swirl through the atmosphere of the planet. Prometheus appears as a speck above the rings near the middle of the image.
PIA12738:
Rings Around a Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Mimas casts a elliptical shadow on the planet south of the larger, wider shadows cast by the planet's rings. Mimas and the rings are not shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12737:
Shadows on Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-18 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft composition features Saturn's rings (top of image), its second largest moon, Rhea (on right of image), and one of the planet's tiny moons, Telesto (near the middle of image) appears as a bright speck.
PIA12736:
Rings, Rhea and Telesto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-07 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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This enhanced-color view of Saturn's moon Mimas was made from images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. It highlights the bluish band around the icy moon's equator. The large round gouge on the surface is Herschel Crater.
PIA13426:
Mimas' Blue Streak
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This schematic graphic illustrates the bombardments that lead to colorful splotches and bands on the surfaces of several icy moons of Saturn.
PIA13425:
Moons Under Bombardment
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-07 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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These three enhanced-color views of an equatorial region on Saturn's moon Rhea were made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The colors have been enhanced to show colorful splotches and bands on the icy moon's surface.
PIA13424:
The Colorful Equator of Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This set of enhanced-color maps made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's moons Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione and Rhea.
PIA13423:
Enhanced-Color Maps of Saturn Inner Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-07 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Three views of Saturn's moon Rhea made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, were enhanced to show colorful splotches and bands on the icy moon's surface. Scientists believe the reddish and bluish tints came from bombardments large and small.
PIA13422:
Tinted Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-04 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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A graphic laid atop an image of Enceladus jets taken by NASA's Cassini's imaging cameras shows bubbles in seawater traveling through a passage in the ice crust to feed a geyser. Seawater flows back down to the subsurface ocean through cracks in the ice.
PIA13420:
Proposed 'Perrier' Ocean for Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-04 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Capturing the interplay between light and shadow, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn where sunlight reflected off the rings has dimly illuminated what would otherwise be the dark side of the planet.
PIA12734:
Light and Dark Tricks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-01 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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At least four distinct plumes of water ice spew out from the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus in this dramatically illuminated image. Light reflected off Saturn is illuminating the surface of the moon while the sun backlights the plumes.
PIA12733:
Highlighting Plumes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-30 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft watches Pandora, one of the F ring's two shepherding moons, orbiting beyond the thin ring; the small moon can be seen on the left of this image.
PIA12732:
Dual-Illuminated Pandora
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-29 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The moon Mimas casts a shadow and creates a single blemish on the kingly crescent of Saturn. Mimas is not shown in this view, but its shadow can be seen on the planet just north of the rings and their shadow.
PIA12731:
Singular Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-28 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Shadows seem ubiquitous in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's rings. The moon Pan casts a long shadow towards the right from where it orbits in the Encke Gap of the A ring in the upper right of the image.
PIA12730:
Shadows Everywhere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-27 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Like the Voyager spacecraft that came before, NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicles 'wispy' terrain on Saturn's moon Dione.
PIA12729:
Recalling Voyager
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Looking like half of a figure eight, two of Saturn's moons appear conjoined in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The moon Dione, at the top in the image, is actually closer to the spacecraft, appearing to blend seamlessly with the moon Rhea.
PIA12728:
Conjoined Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Several structures in Saturn's A ring are exposed near the Encke Gap in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. A peculiar kink can be seen in one particularly bright ringlet at the bottom right.
PIA12727:
A-Ring Structures
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-22 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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A small crescent of the moon Rhea is dwarfed by the larger crescent of Saturn in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Rhea can be seen in the upper right of the image.
PIA12726:
Crescents Large and Small
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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A darkly defined Rhea passes before the fuzzy orb of Titan in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's two largest moons. Rhea is closer to the spacecraft in this view.
PIA12724:
Biggest Saturnian Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-17 Helene Cassini-Huygens
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Although travelling at great speed, NASA's Cassini spacecraft managed to capture this close view of Saturn's small moon Helene during a flyby on March 3, 2010.
PIA12723:
Catching Helene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Clumps of ring material are revealed along the edge of Saturn's A ring in this image taken during the planet's August 2009 equinox. The granular appearance of the outer edge of the A ring is likely created by gravitational clumping of particles there.
PIA12722:
Equinoctial Clumps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Clouds in Saturn's atmosphere create an intricate pattern reminiscent of whipped cream swirling in coffee in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12721:
Coffee and Cream Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-14 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Delicate shadows are cast outward from Saturn's thin F ring in the lower left of this image taken as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox. The moon Atlas (30 kilometers, or 19 miles across) is seen just above the center of the image.
PIA12720:
F-Ring Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-13 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Two sources of light reveal the dramatic surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus in this NASA Cassini image in which geologic features give the appearance of the leathery skin of an elephant.
PIA12719:
Elephant Skin Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Four of Saturn's moons join the planet for a well balanced portrait. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is in the lower left. Tethys appears in upper right. The smaller moons Pandora and Epimetheus are barely visible here.
PIA12718:
Quartet and Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The F ring's shepherds, Prometheus and Pandora, join Epimetheus in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of three of Saturn's moons and the rings.
PIA12717:
Trio of Small Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines Titan's dark and light seasonal hemispheric dichotomy as it images the moon with a filter sensitive to near-infrared light. This image also shows Titan's north polar hood.
PIA12716:
Dark and Light Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A quartet of Saturn's moons are shown with a sliver of the rings in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. From left to right in this image are Epimetheus, Janus, Prometheus, and Atlas.
PIA12715:
Moon Quartet
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Saturn's rings appear curved in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which also shows the moon Janus in the distance. Janus is at the bottom of the image and is farther from the spacecraft than the rings are.
PIA12714:
Blasted Janus
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Saturn's moon Enceladus, imaged at high phase, shows off its spectacular water ice plumes emanating from its south polar region in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12713:
High-Phase Plumes
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Saturn's rings appear curved in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which also shows the moon Janus in the distance. Janus is at the bottom of the image and is farther from the spacecraft than the rings are.
PIA12712:
Beyond Curved Rings
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A thin crescent of cratered terrain is illuminated on Saturn's third largest moon, Dione in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12711:
Crescent Dione
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies a 'fan' in Saturn's tenuous F ring. This fan-like structure appears as dark lines spreading outward from the left of the bright clump of ring material near the center of the image.
PIA12710:
'Fan' Spread
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Terrain on Saturn's moon Tethys, defined with craters, is shown in front of the hazy atmosphere of the larger moon Titan in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing sides of Titan and Tethys.
PIA12709:
Tethys Before Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The shadows of Saturn's rings cast onto the planet appear as a thin band at the equator in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox.
PIA12708:
Narrow Band
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A propeller-shaped structure, created by an unseen moon, can be seen in Saturn's A ring and looks like a small, dark line interrupting the bright surrounding ring material in the upper left of this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12707:
A-ring Propeller
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-25 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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Some of Iapetus' dark surface interrupts the moon's lighter terrain in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12706:
Infringing Darkness
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-24 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Enceladus, seen beyond the outline of the planet's night side, spews water ice from its south polar region. The plumes can be faintly seen at the bottom of the moon in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12705:
Activity Past Dark Side
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The smooth surface of Saturn's moon Telesto is documented in this image captured during the NASA's Cassini spacecraft's Aug. 27, 2009, flyby.
PIA12704:
Smooth Telesto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-20 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Prometheus casts a long shadow across the A ring in the middle-right side of this image taken shortly before the planet's August 2009 equinox by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12703:
Shadow Before Equinox
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-19 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks to the cratered surface of Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea.
PIA12702:
Cratered Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-18 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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The immense size of Saturn is emphasized in this portrait by NASA's Cassini spacecraft that features the moon Mimas shown in front of the planet. Mimas appears as only a small dot above the rings near the center of the image.
PIA12701:
Vast Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-17 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this high-resolution image of Saturn's small moon Epimetheus during the spacecraft's non-targeted flyby on April 7, 2010.
PIA12700:
Epimetheus Close-Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Bright spokes grace Saturn's B ring in this Cassini spacecraft snapshot that also features a couple of the planet's moons large and small. Dione can be seen in the upper left of the image while Pandora appears as a small speck beyond the thin F ring.
PIA12699:
Spoke Embellishment
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-13 Daphnis Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures here one of its closest views of Saturn's ring-embedded moon Daphnis. Seen at the upper left of this image, Daphnis appears in the Keeler Gap near the edge waves it has created in the A ring.
PIA12698:
Closest Daphnis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-12 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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With its light and dark surface, Iapetus appears almost like a yin and yang symbol or a comma punctuation mark in this Cassini spacecraft image.
PIA12697:
Yin and Yang
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-11 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Rhea is gently lit in front of a background of the planet with a wide shadow cast by the rings which are seen nearly edge-on in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12696:
Rhea, Rings and Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-10 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines the characteristics of Titan's atmosphere as it peers at Saturn's largest moon using a filter sensitive to visible violet light.
PIA12695:
Atmospheric Aspects
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Bright spokes can be seen on Saturn's B ring just in front of the shadow cast on the rings on the night side of the planet in this NASA Cassini spacecraft image.
PIA12694:
Spokes Before Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-06 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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As Enceladus spews water ice from its south polar region, NASA's Cassini also shows Saturn's faint G ring before the moon.
PIA12693:
Enceladus and G Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-05 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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A crescent Saturn is blemished by the black spot of its moon Dione seen orbiting between the planet and NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12692:
Black Blemish
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-04 Pan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's small, ring-embedded moon Pan, on the extreme right of this NASA's Cassini spacecraft image, can be seen interacting with the ringlets that share the Encke Gap of the A ring with this moon.
PIA12691:
Pan in Action
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this close view of Saturn's moon Pandora during the spacecraft's flyby on June 3, 2010. Pandora orbits beyond Saturn's thin F ring.
PIA12690:
Flying by Pandora
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Looking up toward Saturn's southern hemisphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft pictures a pair of the planet's moons orbiting in the distance. Tethys and Rhea orbit in the plane of the planet's rings, but appear to be below the planet in this view.
PIA12689:
Beyond Saturn's South
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-30 Daphnis Cassini-Huygens
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This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that rather than being an unchanging disk of peaceful particles, the material that makes up Saturn's rings is constantly pushed and pulled into spectacular shapes. At left is the moon Daphnis.
PIA12688:
Pushing and Pulling
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-29 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks past Saturn's rings and small moon Janus to spy the planet's second largest moon, Rhea where lit terrain is seen.
PIA12687:
Rhea Past Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-28 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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Presented here is a complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution atlas of Saturn's moon Mimas. The atlas is a product of the imaging team working with NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12793:
The Mimas Atlas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-28 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Sunlight illuminates the deep cut of Ithaca Chasma on Saturn's moon Tethys. Ithaca Chasma runs roughly north-south for more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) on Tethys in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12686:
Chasma Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-27 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn is overexposed in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in order to show the dim rings. Pandora (below rings to the left) has been brightened by a factor of 1.3 relative to the planet and the rings to enhance its visibility.
PIA12685:
Wider Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-26 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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The gravity of potato-shaped Prometheus periodically creates streamer-channels in the F ring, and the moon's handiwork can be seen in the dark channels in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12684:
Fleeing the Scene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A pair of Saturn's small, icy satellites accompany the planet's rings in snapshot from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The rings are between Janus and Prometheus.
PIA12683:
Chunks of Ice
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The moons Mimas and Janus seem insignificant in front of the immensity of Saturn in this NASA Cassini spacecraft image. Mimas is visible above the rings near the center; Janus is barely detectable as a tiny speck of light below the rings on the left.
PIA12682:
Before Immense Saturn
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward a crescent of Saturn's moon Iapetus and glimpses a bit of that moon's yin-yang appearance.
PIA12681:
Sliver of Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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While NASA's Cassini spacecraft was pointed to study Saturn's F ring, it happened to catch a globular star cluster passing through the camera's field of view. Animations are available at the Photojournal.
PIA12788:
Catching a Cluster of Stars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image is from a simulation showing the changes to a portion of Saturn's F ring as the shepherding moon Prometheus swings by it. The animation uses data obtained by the imaging cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12787:
The Effect of Prometheus on the F Ring Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This mosaic of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft depicts fan-like structures in Saturn's tenuous F ring. Bright features are also visible near the core of the ring. Such features suggest the existence of additional objects in the F ring.
PIA12786:
"Fan" in the F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Bright clumps of ring material and a fan-like structure appear near the core of Saturn's tenuous F ring in this mosaic of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Such features suggest the existence of additional objects in the F ring.
PIA12785:
F Ring's Bright Core Clumps
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This image is from a set of mosaic images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft showing three fan-like structures in Saturn's tenuous F ring. Such 'fans' suggest the existence of additional objects in the F ring.
PIA12784:
Multiple F-Ring "Fans"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-20 Janus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Janus orbits in front of the rings, which are partially darkened by the shadow of the planet in viwe from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's shadow obscures about half the rings.
PIA12680:
Only Half the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-19 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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The smaller moon Mimas upstages the larger moon Dione as the dramatic Herschel Crater is spotlighted on Mimas in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12679:
Upstart Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Crisp details on Dione contrast with the haziness of Titan in image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of a pair of Saturn's moons. Smaller Dione is at the bottom of the image, and that moon's wispy terrain is visible.
PIA12678:
Study in Contrasts
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Roughly a quarter of majestic Saturn is illuminated in this view captured while NASA's Cassini spacecraft was orbiting near the planet's equatorial plane.
PIA12677:
Quarter Saturn
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward an area between the trailing hemisphere and anti-Saturn side of Tethys and spies the large crater Melanthius near the moon's south pole.
PIA12676:
Melanthius on Tethys
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Saturn's small, potato-shaped moon Prometheus orbits between the main rings and the thin F ring in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12675:
Prometheus Amid Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Wispy terrain stretches across the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione on the right of this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the spacecraft's flyby on April 7, 2010.
PIA12674:
Flying by Dione
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