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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured eight new propeller-like features within Saturn's A ring in what may be the propeller 'hot zone' of Saturn's rings.
PIA10079:
Propeller Belt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This set of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a close-up view of two propeller structures in Saturn's A ring. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 20, 2005.
PIA10080:
Propeller Close Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-25 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's incredible rings dwarf its moons in sheer scale. But all of their material, if compacted into a single body, would make a moon smaller than Enceladus, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft next to the planet's banded globe.
PIA09757:
Ice Spread Thin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings cut across their own shadows on the planet and hide a tiny secret. Barely visible in the Encke Gap is the embedded moon Pan in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 18, 2007.
PIA09758:
Secretive Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The boundaries between eastward- and westward-flowing jet streams create turbulent, eddy-filled regions that pump energy into the never-ending gales on Saturn as captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09759:
Swarm of Swirls
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-30 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Mimas and Pandora, as well as Herschel crater, as they hurtle around the vast icy disk of Saturn's rings, in this view taken on Sept. 19, 2007.
PIA09760:
Moon Harvest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-31 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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With Enceladus nearly in front of the Sun from NASA's Cassini's viewpoint, its icy jets become clearly visible against the background. This view is roughly perpendicular to the direction of the linear 'tiger stripe' fractures from which the jets emanate.
PIA09761:
Icy Jets Aglow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Icy sentinels Tethys and Enceladus stand guard on Saturn's doorstep, defying the distant Sun in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 20, 2007.
PIA09762:
Cold Kingdom
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The brilliant B ring ends abruptly at the Huygens Gap, the broad, dark band devoid of ring material at near left. This gap marks the inner edge of the Cassini Division, within which the five dim bands at left reside in this image taken by NASA's Cassini.
PIA09763:
B Ring Terminus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-05 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Bright, wispy fractures streak across Saturn's moon Dione's trailing side. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2007.
PIA09764:
Scratches on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-06 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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On Oct. 1, 2007, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the small moon Atlas, accompanied by bright clumps of material in the F ring, as it gazed down at the unilluminated side of the rings.
PIA09765:
Darkside Beauty
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-07 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Around the equator on its leading side, Tethys wears a band of slightly darker surface material. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2007.
PIA09766:
Dark Belt of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns another dazzling postcard from its journey with this view of cloud-streaked Saturn and two of its moons, Enceladus and Mimas. This image was taken on Sept. 25, 2007.
PIA09767:
No Postage Required
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes a gathering of three moons, Mimas, Epimetheus, and Daphnis, near the rings of Saturn in this image taken on Oct. 3, 2007.
PIA09768:
Ring Tableau
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings create a brilliant halo around the turbulent giant planet. Here, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks into Saturn's clouds using a spectral filter.
PIA09769:
Masked by Methane
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-13 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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The leading hemisphere of Enceladus displays a remarkably fresh-looking surface in this recent view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. At this resolution, only a few craters can be made out in this wrinkled region of the geologically active moon's surface.
PIA09770:
A Fresh Face
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-14 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Janus coasts past as NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes in a view of the unilluminated side of the rings. Bright regions within the rings appear so because they allow scattered sunlight to filter through.
PIA09771:
Filtering the Sun
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-15 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Canyons slink southward on Dione, while bright-walled craters gleam in the sun. This image was taken in polarized green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2007.
PIA09772:
Facing Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn looks on as Tethys, Pandora, and Mimas round the rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 6, 2007.
PIA09773:
Circling Satellites
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-19 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Through the obscuring haze come glimpses of Titan's dune seas. The dark, equatorial region known as Shangri-la is visible here. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Oct. 19, 2007.
PIA09774:
Dark Lowlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-20 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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From a low angle above Saturn's rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft's view of an icy moon is partly obscured. The view looks toward Enceladus across the unilluminated side of the rings from less than a degree above the ringplane.
PIA09775:
Enceladus in Hiding
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's icy satellites, Tethys, Mimas, Janus, and Pandora wheel about the colorful giant planet, while the rings shine dimly in scattered sunlight in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 30, 2007.
PIA09776:
Solar System in Miniature
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The fine, dust-sized particles of ice in the F ring and Encke Gap ringlets appear relatively bright, with the rings positioned almost directly between NASA's Cassini spacecraft and the Sun taken on Oct. 24, 2007.
PIA09777:
Bright "Dust"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Clouds and vortices churn in this beautiful, close-up view of Saturn. This image is part of a series of important of NASA's Cassini observations designed to provide information about winds and convection on Saturn.
PIA09778:
Monitoring the Maelstrom
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Mimas coasts along in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 26, 2007.The rings are squashed into a narrow band from this viewing angle, foreshortening all of their radial features.
PIA09779:
Collapsed Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spies two icy denizens, Mimas and Epimetheus, of the Saturn System as they hurtle past in this image taken on Nov. 6, 2007.
PIA09780:
Saturnian Citizens
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-28 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Tethys hangs before NASA's Cassini spacecraft, its great crater Odysseus in view. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665 miles across).
PIA09781:
Toward Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Seen here is the end result of the process that occurs every time the moon Prometheus closely approaches Saturn's F ring. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Oct. 25, 2007.
PIA09782:
Gores in the Strands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-30 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Dione floats past, with Saturn's rings beyond. This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across).
PIA09783:
Icy Traveler
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Shadow-draped Saturn rests on its side as two icy moons glide past in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Dione hangs against the planet's bright southern hemisphere. Mimas is a bright speck against the unlit side of the rings, near lower right.
PIA09784:
Planet in Repose
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This low resolution view of Tethys provides scientists with useful information about the moon's surface properties, regardless of the image's small size. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA09785:
Ultraviolet Revelation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-05 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Enceladus is seen here, across the unilluminated side of Saturn's rings. This image was taken in polarized green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Oct. 27, 2007.
PIA09786:
Enceladus Afar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Giant vortices swirl in the dim northern latitudes of Saturn in this imaged captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The high northern latitudes are slowly coming to light as Saturn heads into northern hemisphere spring.
PIA09787:
Northern Storms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-06 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
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These images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's moons Pan and Atlas, showing their distinctive 'flying saucer' shapes, owing to equatorial ridges not seen on the other moons of Saturn.
PIA08405:
Saturn's Saucer Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-07 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's dark-side rings glow in shades of brown and gold, contrasting with the more neutral appearance of the icy moon Tethys. This view was acquired with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Oct. 29, 2007.
PIA09788:
True Colors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The spoke-forming region in the outer part of Saturn's B ring is often seen to exhibit the irregular, patchy appearance around the ring that is visible in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 21, 2007.
PIA09789:
B Ring Irregularities
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-11 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's irregularly shaped moon Hyperion is completely covered with large pits from which much of its material has been blasted by impacts, never to return. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 21, 2007.
PIA09790:
Pummeled Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-12 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies Enceladus and Epimetheus near the limb of Saturn. Geologically active Enceladus is 505 kilometers across; smaller, more irregularly shaped Epimetheus is 116 kilometers across.
PIA09791:
Off Saturn's Shoulder
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This is an artist's concept of the Saturnian plasma sheet based on data from the magnetospheric imaging instrument on NASA's Cassini. It shows Saturn's embedded 'ring current,' an invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in the planet's magnetic field.
PIA10084:
Artist Concept of Particle Population in Saturn's Magnetosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Like Earth, Saturn has an invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in its magnetic field. This feature is known as a 'ring current.' This ring current has been imaged with a special camera on NASA's Cassini's sensitive to energetic neutral atoms.
PIA10094:
Saturn's "Ring Current"
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This image was taken with NASA's Cassini Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument's ion and neutral camera, showing Saturn's dynamic 'ring current,' which is an invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in the magnetic field of the planet.
PIA10095:
Saturn's "Ring Current" Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This is an artist concept of a close-up view of Saturn's ring particles. The planet Saturn is seen in the background (yellow and brown).
PIA10081:
Saturn's Recycling Rings
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This is an artist concept of the view from NASA's Cassini during the star occultation that detected 'Mittens,' the small object to the right of the star.
PIA10082:
"Staring Mittens" (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This is a computer simulation of the final stage of the growth of a 'clump' in Saturn's rings. The gravity from a hypothesized moonlet (solid gray sphere in frame center) has collected smaller ring particles (black) to form a temporary aggregation.
PIA10083:
Clumpy Moons Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes into the blustery, ever changing atmosphere of Saturn as the tiny shadow of Epimetheus drifts across the cloud tops. The view looks toward a region in Saturn's atmosphere 24 degrees north of the planet's equator.
PIA09792:
Shadow Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-14 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Dark ring shadows adorn the northern hemisphere of Saturn. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 22, 2007.
PIA09793:
Sliding Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-17 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea is frozen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, captured just before it glided in front of Saturn's northern hemisphere. The wispy streaks on Rhea's trailing side are partly visible in the west.
PIA09794:
Rhea Detached
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Saturn and Dione regard Enceladus, the object their gravitational tug-of-war in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 8, 2007.
PIA09798:
Key Players
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A transitional region in Saturn's atmosphere features long, linear cloud shapes, flanked to the north and south by more turbulent swirls. A dark vortex swirls ringed by bright clouds. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov.8, 2007.
PIA09796:
Cloud Detail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-20 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft watches a thin, bright sliver emerge from the hazy limb of Saturn. In one minute, the sliver ballooned into the full disk of Mimas in this image taken on Oct. 26, 2007.
PIA09797:
Mimas Emerges
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Dec. 20, 2007. South Polar Region, Western Mezzoramia.
PIA01854:
Titan Radar Swath (T-39 Flyby - Dec. 20, 2007)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Just before Rhea slipped behind Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the moon in its disappearing act. Along with the partly obscured Rhea are Tethys, at right, and Enceladus, left of Tethys.
PIA09795:
Obscure Moon
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The low illumination angle near the terminator makes visible the steep topography of craters on Rhea's battered surface. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Nov. 16, 2007.
PIA09799:
Rhea's Pitted Profile
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This colorful view, taken from edge-on with the ringplane by NASA's Cassini oribter on July 24, 2007, contains four of Saturn's attendant moons, brilliant Enceladus, irregular Hyperion, Epimetheus below the rings and between Tethys and Enceladus.
PIA08394:
Moon Patrol
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Saturn in NASA's Cassini era has proved to be an unexpectedly colorful place, compared to the browns and golds imaged by the two Voyager spacecraft.
PIA08396:
The Painted Globe
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A section of Saturn's perturbed F ring displays kinks in its bright strands. At left, edge waves in the Encke Gap, caused by the presence of Pan is seen, along with two faint ringlets. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 14, 2007.
PIA09800:
Bright Strands
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft catches a glimpse of the bright fractures that adorn the trailing side of icy Dione, a moon of Saturn.
PIA09801:
Dione's Fractured Face
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A small moon travels its circuit just outside the main rings of Saturn. Epimetheus is absolutely dwarfed by the giant planet.This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 14, 2007.
PIA09802:
Alone with the Giant
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught Prometheus in the act of pulling a new streamer out of the F ring's inner edge in this image captured on Nov. 14, 2007.
PIA09803:
Sculpting the F Ring
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and the large, equatorial bright region at center called Adiri. The Huygens probe landing site is in view here, east of Adiri.
PIA09804:
Adiri in View
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken on Nov. 17, 2007, takes in the outer third of Saturn's C ring, from the Maxwell Gap, at center left, to the C-ring edge at lower right.
PIA09805:
Saturn's Outer C Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-02 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers through the fine, smoke-sized ice particles of Saturn's F ring toward the cratered face of Mimas in this captured on Nov. 18, 2007.
PIA09806:
A Wisp of Smoke
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Across the darkened expanse of Saturn's rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied one of the F-ring shepherd moons, Pandora, in 2008.
PIA09807:
Spotting the Shepherd
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down toward Janus, which hugs the outer edges of Saturn's rings. Janus orbits Saturn beyond the narrow core of the F ring in this image captured on Nov. 25, 2007.
PIA09808:
Facing Janus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-07 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Wispy markings on Rhea reach across the moon's icy surface. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Nov. 29, 2007.
PIA09809:
Wisp-covered Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image, created with data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's composite infrared spectrometer shows the unexpected 'hot spot' at Saturn's north pole. Scientists were surprised to find that the north pole is home to a hot, cyclonic vortex.
PIA10217:
Saturn's North Pole Hot Spot and Hexagon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-08 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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The small moon Prometheus appears from behind giant Saturn, accompanied by a warped view of the rings in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 30, 2007.
PIA09810:
Warp Zone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This synthetic aperture radar image was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its recent pass by Titan's south pole on Dec. 20, 2007.
PIA10218:
Radar Images Titan's South Pole
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This synthetic aperture radar image was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its pass by Titan's south pole on Dec. 20, 2007.
PIA10219:
Flowing Liquids on Titan
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On Dec. 2, 1007, NASA's Cassini spacecraft viewed the rugged surface of Mimas, half lit by the Sun, and half lit by reflected light from Saturn. On the sunlit western limb lies the great Herschel impact crater.
PIA09811:
Rough, Icy Mimas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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On Dec. 21 1007, NASA's Cassini spacecraft viewed Saturn's two ring-embedded moons, Daphnis and Pan, along with clearly visible signs of their perturbing effects on the ring edges that border the gaps they inhabit.
PIA09812:
Daphnis and Pan
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's close flyby of Epimetheus in December 2007 returned detailed images of the moon's south polar region.
PIA09813:
Epimetheus Revealed
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The bright, perturbed core of Saturn's F ring displays several kink-like features. The core is flanked by dimmer, smoother ringlets. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 2, 2007.
PIA09814:
Subtle Kinks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward high northern latitudes on Saturn and the wild cloud forms that swirl there. The view was taken from about 23 degrees above the ringplane and looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings.
PIA09815:
Over Your Head
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Prometheus and Pandora, Saturn's F-ring shepherd moons are seen in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Dec. 6, 2007, which also features narrow ringlets in the Encke gap at left.
PIA09816:
Ring Herders
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Saturn's rings sweep around the planet, throwing their dark shadows onto the northern hemisphere in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09817:
Contrast Across the Shadows
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This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 8, 2007, shows the small moon Atlas clinging to the edge of Saturn's A ring. External to the moon is the thin and contorted F ring.
PIA09818:
Atlas Alone
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down onto middle northern latitudes on Rhea. The large Tirawa basin is seen on the terminator at right.
PIA09819:
North on Rhea
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Looking down through the A ring and Cassini Division, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the bright limb of Saturn on Dec. 12, 2007.
PIA09820:
Peering Through the Plane
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft surveys the southern hemisphere on Dione's anti-Saturn side, spying a broad impact basin near bottom. Most of the medium-sized craters visible here have pointed central peaks.
PIA09821:
Rebounded Craters
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A small ring-embedded moon coasts into view from behind shadow-draped Saturn. The rings' image is distorted near Saturn by the planet's upper atmosphere, to the right of Pan, as viewed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 22, 2007.
PIA09822:
Pan in View
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers closely at the layers of organic haze in Titan's upper atmosphere during a recent flyby. Planet-sized Titan is 5,150 kilometers (3,200 miles) across.
PIA09823:
Detached Haze
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A color portrait of Saturn's sunlight-scattering rings hosts a group of several moons including Eceladus, Pandora, and Mimas, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 22, 2007.
PIA09824:
Field of Moons
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines the icy, crater-saturated face of Rhea. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across).
PIA09825:
Icy Moonlight
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On Dec. 31, 2007, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured an intriguing feature in the perturbed core of Saturn's F ring.
PIA09826:
F Ring Knot
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes the wispy terrain that covers the trailing side of Rhea. North on Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) is up and rotated 27 degrees to the right.
PIA09827:
Trailing Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-31 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Radio signals sent by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to Earth through Saturn's rings revealed the presence of highly unusual regular formations of densely grouped ring particles.
PIA10232:
Saturn's Ring Rhythm
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For an Earth observer on May 3, 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft appeared to pass behind the rings, then Saturn, then the rings again (the red line).
PIA10233:
Saturn's Ring Rhythm #2
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This global map of Iapetus was created using images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the poles.
PIA08406:
Map of Iapetus - January 2008
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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As seasons change on Saturn, and sunlight creeps farther north, the region surrounding the north pole is steadily coming to light. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Jan. 2, 2008.
PIA09828:
Coming to Light
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A point of light flickers behind Saturn's rings as multiple instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft observed a stellar occultation of Antares (or alpha Scorpii) on Jan. 3, 2008.
PIA09829:
Flickering Antares
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down over high northern latitudes on Saturn's moon, Dione. The view captures terrain stretching on the moon's Saturn-facing side.
PIA09830:
Battered Dione
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On Jan 2, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft probed Saturn's atmosphere, peering beneath the hazes that obscure the flowing cloud bands at visible wavelengths.
PIA09831:
Probing the North
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Bright, icy canyons stretch across the surface of Dione. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Dione.
PIA09832:
Cracked-up Dione
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Titan's hazy orange globe hangs before NASA's Cassini spacecraft, partly illuminated -- a world with many mysteries yet to be uncovered.
PIA09833:
A World of Questions
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On Jan. 1, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft viewed two dark gores in Saturn's F ring demonstrate the gravitational influence of the shepherd moon Prometheus.
PIA09834:
Gravity of the Situation
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This view of Saturn's moon Tethys displays three of the moon's most notable surface features. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 14, 2008.
PIA09835:
The Triad of Tethys
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On Jan. 17, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied two of Saturn's small moons, Atlas and Epimetheus, that skirt the edges of the planet's rings.
PIA09836:
Ring Rocks
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Great circular vortices churn through Saturn's northern skies. The planet wears the shadow of its rings as a dark belt in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Just above that belt is the shadow of 181-kilometer (113-mile) wide Janus.
PIA09837:
Above the Storms
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down from high latitude over Dione and the system of wispy fractures that coats the moon's trailing side.
PIA09838:
Dione Below
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