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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Large regions of Saturn's night side are illuminated by the planet's gleaming rings. Except for a sliver of the sunlit crescent at left, this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a part of the planet lit almost entirely by ringshine.
PIA10476:
Saturn by Ringshine
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-25 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes down at linear tectonic features in Saturn's moon Dione's northern hemisphere. This image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 3, 2008.
PIA10477:
Dione's Fractured North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks beyond Saturn's limb toward the icy face of Mimas, the innermost of the planet's major moons. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 3 degrees below the ringplane.
PIA10478:
Mimas Adrift
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's moon Pandora casts its shadow upon the F ring. Moon shadows upon the rings will become an increasingly common sight for NASA's Cassini spacecraft as equinox approaches and the Sun moves northward through the ringplane.
PIA10479:
Pandora's Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's high north is a seething cauldron of activity filled with roiling cloud bands and swirling vortices. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 25, 2008.
PIA10480:
Saturn's Active Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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A trio of Saturn's icy moons, Enceladus, Pandora, and Mimas, crowds together along NASA's Cassini spacecraft's line of sight in this image captured on June 28, 2007.
PIA10481:
Gathering of Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken on Aug. 2, 2008, shows the Cassini Division, flanked at top and bottom by the outer B-ring edge and the inner A-ring edge, respectively.
PIA10482:
Moonmade Ringscape
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-03 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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During a distant flyby encounter with Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft imaged the moon's wrinkled leading hemisphere.
PIA10483:
Youthful Wrinkles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-06 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies Saturn's icy moon Mimas on the far side of Saturn's rings. The large crater Herschel gives the moon a flattened profile on its leading hemisphere, at left.
PIA10484:
Mimas in Profile
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-07 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Ring shadows line the face of distant Saturn, providing an exquisite backdrop for the brilliant, white sphere of Enceladus. This icy moon is a target of intense study for NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its Equinox mission.
PIA10485:
Focus on Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's north polar hexagon appears to be a long-lived feature of the atmosphere, having been spotted in images of Saturn in the early 1980s, again in the 1990s, and then by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in the past several years.
PIA10486:
The Persistent Hexagon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Four moons huddle near Saturn's multi-hued disk. Titan, Janus, Mimas, and Prometheus are captured in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 26, 2007.
PIA10487:
Many Colors, Many Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Bright, high-altitude clouds interact with dark, deeper structures near Saturn's south pole. The image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 27, 2008.
PIA10488:
Forces from the Deep
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The gravity of Prometheus alters the orbits of the fine, icy particles in Saturn's F ring, creating dazzling structures in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 30, 2008.
PIA10489:
Warped F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Shadows reveal the topography of Saturn's south polar vortex. At high resolution, a new, inner ring of isolated, bright clouds is seen. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 15, 2008.
PIA11103:
The Yet Yawning Gulf
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This detailed Cassini view of the monstrous vortex at Saturn's south pole provides valuable insight about the mechanisms that power the planet's atmosphere. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 14, 2008.
PIA11104:
Convection in Saturn's Southern Vortex
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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These two images of Saturn show the entire south polar region, not just the little area around the core of the hurricane-like vortex. These images were captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 11, 2007.
PIA11214:
Saturn's South Polar Region Revealed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This near-infrared image of Saturn's north pole shows a giant cyclone, encircled by a hexagon feature. A movie was created from several images, taken by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11215:
Infrared Movie of Saturn's North Polar Region Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This is a side-by-side view of large cyclones at both poles of Saturn obtained by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11216:
Infrared Images of Saturn's Poles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Seasonal twilight is approaching for Saturn's south polar vortex—the giant hurricane-like storm swirling around the planet's southern pole. The image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 27, 2008.
PIA10490:
Change of Season
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-15 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured signs of activity on both sides of the Roche Division, the region between Saturn's A and F rings in this image from Aug. 31, 2008.
PIA10491:
From A to F
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks upward at the swirling clouds of Saturn's southern hemisphere. The C and B rings are seen at right, beyond the planet's nightside limb.
PIA10492:
Saturn from Below
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-17 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the sunlit face of Saturn's rings, whose shadows continue to slide southward on the planet toward their temporary disappearance during equinox in August 2009.
PIA10493:
Eyes on the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-17 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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Presented here is a complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution Iapetus atlas, a project of NASA's Cassini Imaging Team.
PIA11115:
The Iapetus Atlas
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This global map of Saturn's moon Iapetus was created using images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage.
PIA11116:
Map of Iapetus - May 2008
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-17 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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Presented here is a cartographic map sheet which forms a high-resolution Mimas atlas, a project of NASA's Cassini Imaging Team.
PIA11117:
The Mimas Atlas
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This global map of Saturn's moon Mimas was created using images taken NASA's Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage.
PIA11118:
Map of Mimas - June 2008
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Rhea's cratered, icy landscape with the dark line of Saturn's ringplane and the planet's murky atmosphere as a background. Rhea is Saturn's second-largest moon, at 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across.
PIA10494:
Icy Profile
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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From high above the ringplane, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a multitude of storms in the blustery cloud bands of Saturn's high north. This view looks toward the planet from about 72 degrees north of the equator.
PIA10495:
So Many Swirls
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-22 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's moon Dione's defining feature, the fractures on its trailing side, shine brilliantly in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA10496:
Bright Canyons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-23 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The active surface jets on Saturn's moon Enceladus collectively form a brilliant, extended plume that is made visible as sunlight scatters among the microscopic particles of ice. Image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA10502:
Plumewatch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The serene beauty of Saturn invites NASA's Cassini spacecraft's gaze as the spacecraft hurtles through this dynamic system, studying the giant planet's rings, moons, atmosphere, and magnetosphere.
PIA10497:
Saturn in Recline
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn's main rings in a study of light and dark. A bright knot is visible in the F ring near upper left. This image was captured on Sept.22, 2008.
PIA10499:
The Unlit Face
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-28 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Enceladus peeks over the limb of Dione during a partial occultation. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 13, 2008.
PIA10500:
Occulting Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-28 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's extremely close encounter with Saturn's moon Enceladus on Oct. 9, 2008.
PIA11119:
Enceladus Oct. 9, 2008 Flyby - Posted Image #1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-28 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's extremely close encounter with Saturn's moon Enceladus on Oct. 9, 2008.
PIA11120:
Enceladus Oct. 9, 2008 Flyby - Posted Image #2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-28 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's extremely close encounter with Saturn's moon Enceladus on Oct. 9, 2008.
PIA11121:
Enceladus Oct. 9, 2008 Flyby - Posted Image #3
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-28 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's extremely close encounter with Saturn's moon Enceladus on Oct. 9, 2008.
PIA11122:
Enceladus Oct. 9, 2008 Flyby - Posted Image #4
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-28 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's extremely close encounter with Saturn's moon Enceladus on Oct. 9, 2008.
PIA11123:
Enceladus Oct. 9, 2008 Flyby - Posted Image #5
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Many features in Saturn's rings are thought to be induced by the gravity of the planet's moons in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 25, 2008.
PIA10501:
Two Kinds of Wave
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-30 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Northern craters line the crescent of Enceladus. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is part of an observation designed to view the moon's plume of icy particles at a moderately high phase angle.
PIA10498:
Just a Phase
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-31 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peeks through the murk of Titan's thick atmosphere in a search for clouds. Although there are no obvious cloud features in this view, bright cloud streaks have occasionally been seen by Cassini and Earth-based telescopes.
PIA10503:
Watching for Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-02 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was the first and highest resolution 'skeet shoot' narrow-angle image captured during the Oct. 31, 2008, flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA11124:
Enceladus Rev 91 Flyby - Skeet Shoot #1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-02 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft was the fourth 'skeet shoot' narrow-angle image captured during the Oct. 31, 2008, flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA11108:
Enceladus Rev 91 Flyby - Skeet Shoot #4
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-02 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was the eighth 'skeet shoot' narrow-angle image captured during the October 31, 2008, flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA11125:
Enceladus Rev 91 Flyby - Skeet Shoot #8
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-02 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was the ninth 'skeet shoot' narrow-angle image captured during the Oct. 31, 2008 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA11127:
Enceladus Rev 91 Flyby - Skeet Shoot #9
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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This mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was made from 'skeet shoot' narrow-angle images 1, 2, 3, and 4, all captured during the Oct. 31, 2008, flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
PIA11134:
Enceladus Rev 91 Flyby - Skeet Shoot 1-4 Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-03 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Mimas hangs above the hazy skies of Saturn in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 20, 2008.
PIA10504:
Mimas Above the Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-04 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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A close-up of Saturn's A ring reveals dozens of small, bright streaks aligned with the orbital direction of the rings in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 25, 2008.
PIA10505:
Propeller Swarm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-05 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The prominent crater Telemachus sits within the northern reaches of Ithaca Chasma on Saturn's moon Tethys in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 24, 2008.
PIA10506:
Crater and Canyon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-06 Janus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's battered moon Janus wears the record of its long history of impacts. Janus orbits just beyond the outer reaches of Saturn's A and F rings in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 28, 2008.
PIA10507:
Scarred Janus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-07 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Tethys sits within Saturn's shadow, but not in complete darkness as shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 25, 2008.
PIA10508:
Tethys in Eclipse
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft focuses on a streamer-channel feature in Saturn's F ring in this image captured on Sept. 30, 2008.
PIA10509:
Streamer Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-11 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Mimas emerges from behind hazy Saturn. The rings appear distorted near the planet as their image passes through the upper atmosphere in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 30, 2007.
PIA10510:
Features Distorted
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Clouds in this image and other NASA Cassini spacecraft views are at higher latitudes than similar streak-like clouds observed in the southern hemisphere. Scientists are working to understand why such clouds appear preferentially at certain latitudes.
PIA10511:
Titan's Northern Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This image of the northern polar region of Saturn shows both the aurora and underlying atmosphere, seen at two different wavelengths of infrared light as captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11396:
Saturn's Polar Aurora
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-13 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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The shadow of Tethys drifts across the face of Saturn. Nearby, shadows of the planet's rings form a darkened band above the equator in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 1, 2008.
PIA10512:
Moon Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Long streamers of cloud encircle the south polar region of Saturn. Farther poleward, or toward lower left, faint, deeper atmospheric structures lurk beneath the haze. This view was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Oct. 2, 2008.
PIA10513:
Wrapped in Ribbons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks through Titan's thick atmosphere to reveal bright and dark terrains on the Saturn-facing side of the planet's largest moon.
PIA10514:
Saturn's View of Titan
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft acquired this view of Saturn's moon Enceladus just after the spacecraft passed within 25 kilometers (15 miles) of the surface on Oct. 9, 2008.
PIA10515:
Over the Limb
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In the Maxwell gap within Saturn's C ring resides a narrow, eccentric ringlet of the same name. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 25, 2008.
PIA10516:
Maxwell's That Ends Well
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-20 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Mimas's lit crescent has the appearance of a golf ball thanks to its heavily cratered surface in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 24, 2008.
PIA10517:
Fore!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's ever-changing F ring appears as wisps of smoke in this image taken downstream of the shepherd moon, Prometheus in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 23, 2008.
PIA10518:
Smokey Ring
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's shadow cuts across the rings in this view from high above the ringplane in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 18, 2008.
PIA10519:
Shadow of the Giant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-25 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied Saturn's moon, Prometheus, one of the F ring shepherds, orbiting between the A and F rings. The F ring shows a kink near Prometheus, due to the moon's gravitational effect.
PIA10520:
Prometheus Brings Change to the F Ring
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's B ring is filled with radial structure. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the inner B ring was taken from the unlit side of the rings so the denser parts of the ring transmit less light and consequently appear darker here.
PIA10521:
B Ring in the Negative
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's Encke and Keeler gaps are visible in this image of the outer A ring. Brightness variations are clearly visible in the Encke ringlet. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 23, 2008.
PIA10522:
Fingerprints of the Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-28 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Two of Saturn's moons that have profound impacts on the rings, Mimas and Prometheus, are seen here with the F ring. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA10523:
Ring Shapers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This low elevation image shows the G ring arc discovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This faint arc of material is maintained by a gravitational interaction with the moon Mimas.
PIA10524:
Lost Arc
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Broad, dark spokes in the B ring are clearly seen in this image of Saturn's rings taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 19, 2008.
PIA10525:
Spokes in the Morning
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-03 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Numerous stars provide a serene background in this view of Enceladus captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft while the moon was in eclipse, within Saturn's shadow.
PIA10526:
Starry Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides a view of the southern portion of Tethys' trailing hemisphere. Prominent features include the huge canyon, Ithaca Chasma, as well as Demodocus and Telemus, large basins just to the right of the rift.
PIA10527:
Icy Old Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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In this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the F ring, taken shortly after its ring particles encountered the shepherd moon Prometheus, the disruption to the ring caused by the moon is evident.
PIA10528:
Ring Disrupted
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Dec. 5, 2008. Equatorial Anti-Saturnian hemisphere (Southern half of Guabonito, northern Shikoku Facula, and parts of Shangri-la and Dilmun).
PIA00699:
Titan Radar Swath (T-48 Flyby - Dec. 5, 2008)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The moons Pan (near center) and Daphnis cruise through the Encke and Keeler gaps, respectively. The edge waves used to discover Daphnis can be seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft as the brightening on either side of the moon.
PIA10529:
Making Waves
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Pandora orbits near a kink in the F ring. Whether it was Prometheus or Pandora that created the kink is not obvious in this instance in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 15, 2008.
PIA10530:
Pandora Gets Kinky
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A bright ray crater dominates this view of the leading hemisphere of Rhea, obtained at a time when the Sun was nearly aligned behind NASA's Cassini spacecraft, or 'opposition.'
PIA10531:
Opposing Rhea
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Prometheus shows up bright in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the dark side of the rings. The bright band that appears above Prometheus in this image is the Cassini division separating the (very dark) B ring and the A ring.
PIA10532:
Prometheus Lurking in the Rings
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this view of a bright ray crater on the southern portions of Rhea's leading hemisphere.
PIA10533:
Icy Impact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Clouds swirl about in Saturn's active atmosphere. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Oct. 29, 2008.
PIA10534:
Swirls
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-15 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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This updated mosaic of the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus has been constructed from the many high-resolution images acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during four close targeted flybys of Enceladus in March, August and October 2008.
PIA11126:
The Southern Hemisphere of Enceladus
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On Oct. 9, 2008, just after coming within 25 kilometers (15.6 miles) of the surface of Enceladus, NASA's Cassini captured this stunning mosaic as the spacecraft sped away from this geologically active moon of Saturn.
PIA11133:
A Tectonic Feast
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During two close flybys of Saturn's moon Enceladus in 2008, the cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft acquired several very high-resolution images of specific regions of the south polar terrain.
PIA11135:
Tiger Stripes...Magnified!
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Imaging Science Subsystem
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The most prominent jets of vapor and icy particles emerging from the south polar terrain of Saturn's moon Enceladus are shown here in graphical form in a movie clip of a 'rotating' Enceladus. Video created based on images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11136:
Enceladus' Jets Animation Icon
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Imaging Science Subsystem
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This video demonstrates two examples of the interpretation of tectonic spreading along the 'tiger stripe' fractures in the south polar terrain of Saturn's moon Enceladus. This video was created based on images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11137:
Reconstructing the Past on Enceladus Animation Icon
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Imaging Science Subsystem
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Two side-by-side images compare a characteristic spreading feature on Earth, to a very similar looking arrangement of 'tiger stripe' rift segments in the south polar terrain region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Enceladus data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11138:
Spreading Ridge Transforms On Enceladus
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Imaging Science Subsystem
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Two side-by-side images compare a 'twisted' sea-floor spreading feature on Earth, to a very similar looking twisted break, in the Damascus Sulcus 'tiger stripe' on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The image of Enceladus was acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11139:
Enceladus Offset Spreading Center
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Imaging Science Subsystem
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This figure shows a possible history of the south polar terrain on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data were acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, imaging science sub-system during four close-targeted flybys of Enceladus in March, August and October 2008.
PIA11140:
Ancient Terrain on Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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Change is detected on Saturn's moon Titan, in these three composite images from data taken during flybys in October 2005, January 2006 and March 2006 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11700:
Titan's Chilly Volcanoes?
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Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This infrared projection map of Titan was composed from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, visual and infrared mapping spectrometer.
PIA11701:
Infrared Map of Titan's Active Regions
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Radar Mapper
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NASA's Cassini Radar Mapper imaged Titan on Feb. 22, 2008 (as shown on the left) and April 30, 2006 (as shown on the right).
PIA11702:
Active Cryovolcanic Features on Titan?
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Prometheus emerges from Saturn's shadow in this image taken on Oct. 29, 2008 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the dark side of the rings.
PIA10535:
Prometheus Emerges
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Although this image is centered on the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Titan, here the sun illuminates mainly the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's largest moon. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Nov. 9, 2008.
PIA10536:
Saturn's View of Titan's Trailing Hemisphere
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The range of features to be found in Saturn's C ring is seen in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 9, 2008.
PIA10537:
Many Faces of the C Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-19 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Tethys' dark equatorial band is seen in natural color on the moon's leading hemisphere. The largest impact basin on Saturn's moon Tethys, Odysseus, appears on the left in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 27, 2008.
PIA10538:
Tethys' Subtle Hues
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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These images were obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Dec. 21, 2008. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 970 kilometers (684 miles) during the closest approach.
PIA04393:
Titan Radar Swath (T-49 Flyby - Dec. 21, 2008)
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A large group of spokes emerges from Saturn's shadow in this image taken on Nov. 2, 2008 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the morning side of the rings.
PIA10539:
Out of the Shadow
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Against a background of muted atmospheric bands in Saturn's northern hemisphere, Mimas forges onward in its orbit around the Ringed Planet in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 26, 2008.
PIA10540:
Mimas Before Saturn
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Pan orbits in the Encke gap near the middle of this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 5, 2008. Also visible is one of the three dusty ringlets that reside in the Encke gap.
PIA10541:
Pan's Ringlet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-25 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft acquired this view of Rhea's leading hemisphere near 'opposition,' or with the Sun almost directly behind the camera.
PIA10542:
Where Have All the Shadows Gone?
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