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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The north pole of Saturn sits at the center of its own domain. Around it swirl the clouds, driven by the fast winds of Saturn, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20520:
At the Center
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured these remarkable views of a propeller feature in Saturn's A ring on Feb. 21, 2017. These are the sharpest images taken of a propeller (nickedname 'Santos-Dumond') so far.
PIA21433:
Cassini Targets a Propeller in Saturn's A Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft zoomed in on Saturn's A ring, revealing narrow, detailed structures that get even finer as the cameras' resolution increases.
PIA20526:
A Resolution
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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What appears as a pair of bright dashes at the center of this image is one of the features rings scientists have dubbed 'propellers.' This image of Bleriot is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20525:
Checking in on Bleriot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-30 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The propeller informally named 'Earhart' is seen in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft at much higher resolution than ever before. In this view, half of the Encke Gap is visible as the dark region at right.
PIA21437:
'Earhart' Propeller in Saturn's A Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's C ring isn't uniformly bright. Instead, about a dozen regions of the ring stand out as noticeably brighter than the rest of the ring, as shown here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20529:
Plateaus Up Close
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Cassini's best image of the propeller feature known informally as Bleriot. Bleriot is the largest of the propellers in Saturn's rings.
PIA21447:
Bleriot Propeller Close-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is the sharpest ever taken of belts of the features called propellers in the middle part of Saturn's A ring. The propellers are the small, bright features that look like double dashes.
PIA21448:
Propeller Belts of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-15 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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The projection of Saturn's shadow on the rings grows shorter as Saturn's season advances toward northern summer, thanks to the planet's permanent tilt as it orbits the sun, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA21328:
Short Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-29 Daphnis Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This close-up view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the Keeler Gap, which is near the outer edge of Saturn's main rings, shows in great detail just how much the moon Daphnis affects the edges of the gap.
PIA21329:
Waving Goodbye
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Many of the features seen in Saturn's rings are shaped by the planet's moons. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows two different effects of moons that cause waves in the A ring and kinks in a faint ringlet.
PIA21333:
Grooves and Kinks in the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from above the ringplane. Although the rings lack the many colors of the rainbow, they arc across the sky of Saturn.
PIA21339:
Ring-Bow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The central feature in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is called Plateau P1. Plateau regions are brighter than their surroundings, and have sharp edges.
PIA21618:
Textures in the C Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Recent images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show features in Saturn's C ring called 'plateaus' revealing a streaky texture that is very different from the textures of the regions around them.
PIA21619:
More Textures in the C Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-07 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The thin sliver of Saturn's moon Prometheus lurks near ghostly structures in Saturn's narrow F ring in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Many of the narrow ring's faint and wispy features result from its gravitational interactions with Prometheus.
PIA21340:
Prometheus and the Ghostly F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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This frame from a movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft offers a unique perspective on Saturn's ring system. Cassini from within the gap between the planet and its rings, looking outward.
PIA21886:
Cassini's 'Inside-Out' Rings Movie Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-06 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn's rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral density wave.
PIA21627:
Staggering Structure
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one the highest-resolution color images of any part of Saturn's rings, to date, showing a portion of the inner-central part of the planet's B Ring.
PIA21628:
Colorful Structure at Fine Scales
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-15 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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This image of Saturn's rings was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017. It is among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth.
PIA21891:
Finale Ringscape
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-15 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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This view of Saturn's A ring features a lone 'propeller,' one of many such features created by small moonlets embedded in the rings as they attempt, unsuccessfully, to open gaps in the ring material, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017.
PIA21894:
Lone Propeller
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Stunning views like this image of Saturn's night side are only possible thanks to our robotic emissaries like NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
PIA21350:
Goodbye to the Dark Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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Saturn looms in the foreground of this mosaic of NASA's Cassini images, taken by the spacecraft on May 28, 2017. The planet is adorned by ring shadows. The icy rings emerge from behind the planet. Cassini ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
PIA21897:
Inside-Out Rings: Over the Limb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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NASA's Cassini obtained this panoramic view of Saturn's rings on Sept. 9, 2017, just minutes after it passed through the ring plane. The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
PIA21898:
Inside-Out Rings: View From Beneath
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Cassini used its Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph to capture this final view of ultraviolet auroral emissions in Saturn's north polar region on Sept. 14, 2017.
PIA21899:
Polar Lights at Saturn Bid Cassini Farewell Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's graceful lanes of orbiting ice (its iconic rings) wind their way around the planet to pass beyond the horizon in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA21352:
The Grace of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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In this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, a bright and narrow ringlet located toward the outer edge of the C ring is flanked by two broader features called plateaus.
PIA21356:
So Long, C Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's rings, made of countless icy particles, form a translucent veil in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's tiny moon Pan orbits within the Encke Gap in the A ring.
PIA21901:
Veil of Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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In this image, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sees Saturn and its rings through a wispy haze of Sun glare.
PIA17185:
Glare on the Window
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's shadow sweeps across the rings in a view captured on Nov. 5, 2006 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Countless icy particles that make up the rings bask in full daylight.
PIA17199:
The Edge of the Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's rings display their subtle colors in this view captured on Aug. 22, 2009, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The ice particles that make up the rings range in size from smaller than a grain of sand to as large as mountains.
PIA22418:
Gravity's Rainbow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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On March 13, 2006 Cassini's narrow-angle camera captured this look at Saturn and its rings, seen here nearly edge on. The frame also features Mimas and tiny Janus (above the rings), and Tethys (below the rings).
PIA18323:
Postcard from the Ring Plane
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's rings cast dark bands across cloud tops in the northern hemisphere. Near the pole, an elongated shadow can be seen from Saturn's moon Tethys. Icy moons Dione (front right) and Enceladus (back right) are also seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18320:
A Stage for Shadows
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