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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-25 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The two prominent dark gaps in Saturn's A ring contain small embedded moons and a host of other intriguing features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08295:
Tiny Moons, Big Effects
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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As ring particles emerge from the darkness of Saturn's shadow, they pass through a region of twilight. The Sun's light, refracted by the planet's atmosphere, peeks around the limb, followed shortly by the Sun itself as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08297:
Into the Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-30 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes down through the dark side of Saturn's rings toward the softly glowing planet. The night side southern hemisphere is lit by sunlight reflecting off the opposite side of the rings.
PIA08298:
Through the Blinds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-31 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Edge waves in the Keeler Gap betray the presence of the embedded moon Daphnis. At left lies the brilliant F ring with its flanking strands as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08299:
A Dead Giveaway
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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These side-by-side views of a star seen through Saturn's densely populated B ring show marked contrast between the region. Images were taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 26, 2006.
PIA08300:
The B Ring Variations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn's rings are dark and elusive in this view from high above the ringplane, but their shadows on the planet give them away as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08301:
Dim Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-03 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This contrast-enhanced view shows a faint spoke in Saturn's B ring. These ghostly radial structures were imaged by NASA's Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s.
PIA08302:
Spoke Sighting
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-06 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied Saturn's shepherd moon, Prometheus, with two long streamers of material that it has pulled out of the F ring. When Prometheus comes close to the F ring in its orbit, the moon's gravity tugs on the ring particles.
PIA08303:
The Hand of Prometheus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's fine, innermost rings are seen silhouetted against the southern hemisphere of the planet before partially disappearing into shadow as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08304:
Golden Night on Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's bright ringlets seen here are populated with microscopic icy particles and are among the brightest features in the rings at high phase angles as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08305:
Bright in the Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The rings are awash in subtle tones of gold and cream in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft which shows the outer B ring, the Cassini Division and the inner part of the A ring.
PIA08306:
Colorful Division
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The A and F rings are alive with moving structures in view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Graceful drapes of ring material created by Prometheus are seen sliding by at left, while clumpy ringlets slip through the Encke Gap.
PIA08308:
Streamers and Clumps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-15 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Bright, kinked ringlets fill the Encke Gap, while the F ring glows brilliantly and displays its signature knots and flanking, diffuse ringlets as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08310:
Encke's Kinks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-16 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus with a streamer it has created in the inner edge of the F ring. Prometheus comes close to the inner edge of the ring once per orbit, perturbing the ring particles there.
PIA08311:
Toying with Gravity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-17 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Looking down onto the northern hemisphere of geologically complex Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies softened, or 'relaxed,' craters and east-west trending fractures and faults.
PIA08312:
Relaxing on Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The spoke-producing region of the B ring displays fine-scale asymmetry in the azimuthal direction -- the direction along which the ring particles orbit Saturn -- from upper left to lower right across this image from NASA's Cassini.
PIA08313:
The Spoke Zone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-21 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Craters of all sizes litter the landscape on Saturn's Dione. The larger craters in this view display prominent central peak in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 12, 2006.
PIA08314:
Holey Dione!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-22 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
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Less intrusive than her sibling shepherd moon, Pandora nonetheless provides a gravitational influence that helps confine and perturb Saturn's F ring's shape. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08315:
The Other Shepherd
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A broad and ghostly spoke drifts past under NASA's Cassini spacecraft's gaze. The spoke-forming region of the B ring displays faint longitudinal variations in brightness, from left to right.
PIA08316:
The Search for Spokes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-24 Pan Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moon Pan in the Encke gap shows hints of detail on the moon's dark side, which is lit by saturnshine -- sunlight reflected off Saturn.
PIA08317:
Brilliant Pan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-28 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Daphnis drifts through the Keeler gap, at the center of its entourage of waves as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08319:
Edge Waves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Old spokes never die, they just fade away. This 'difference image' from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is actually a composite of two images of the B ring, taken about 45 seconds apart.
PIA08831:
Aging Spokes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Crescent Saturn is girded by its dark belt of ice in this marvelous portrait of the planet and the 'dark' side of its rings. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a mosaic of two images.
PIA08832:
Arc and Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Streaks of cloud are overlain with graceful ring shadows in this view of Saturn's northern latitudes as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08833:
Perfect Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Ringlets in the Encke Gap and flanking the bright F ring core are clearly visible as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08834:
World of Contrast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-14 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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An extreme enhancement of the original image, presented at right, reveals the grainy region with greater clarity as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08836:
Intriguing Texture
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-15 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's sunlit rings gleam in the blackness as two icy moons cruise past in the foreground as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08837:
Encircling Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down at the unlit side of the rings as Pan heads into Saturn's shadow. The moon is accompanied by faint ringlets in the Encke Gap.
PIA08826:
Pan Speeds into Darkness
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Several spiral density waves in Saturn's A ring are seen in this detailed view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. There is a grainy texture visible between the brightness peaks in the most prominent wave.
PIA08824:
Spiral Density Waves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's shadow cloaks the faint D ring at the bottom of this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08825:
Science at the Shadow Boundary
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A recently discovered diffuse ringlet shines brightly in the Cassini Division as Mimas cruises past at bottom. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Nov. 18, 2006.
PIA08827:
A Faint Ring Shines
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The fractured terrain so distinctive to Dione curves away toward the south in this view, which looks down at the moon's northern hemisphere as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08840:
The Rings' Variety
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A close-up of the F ring shows dark gores in its interior faint ringlets following the passage of Prometheus. Each gore represents a single interaction of the moon with the F ring material as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08843:
Stretching the Gores
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Lit by reflected light from Saturn, Enceladus appears to hover above the gleaming rings, its well-defined ice particle jets spraying a continuous hail of tiny ice grains as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08337:
Brilliant Ice Dust
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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With its dazzling rings, Saturn radiates a beauty and splendor like no other known world. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured the cool crescent of Saturn from above the ringplane, with the planet's shadow cutting neatly across the many lanes of ice.
PIA08340:
Shadowlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft watches Saturn's moon Janus and Epimetheus in their orbital dance as the F ring slides out of view.
PIA08348:
Janus-Epimetheus Swing Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Storms whip up the cloud bands of Saturn's southern hemisphere in this infrared view. Small fractions of the A and F rings are visible at right as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08844:
Saturnian Squiggles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The striated appearance of the F ring is immediately apparent in the region of the ring that trails behind the moon Prometheus as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08845:
The "Gore-y" Details
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-03 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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With the Sun directly behind NASA's Cassini, the spacecraft spies the opposition surge in Saturn's inner A ring. The opposition effect becomes visible from this special viewing geometrry.
PIA08846:
At Opposition
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-04 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Prometheus interacts gravitationally with the inner flanking ringlets of the F ring, creating dark channels as it passes. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08847:
Moon and Its Handiwork
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-08 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Prometheus dips into the inner F ring at its farthest point from Saturn in its orbit, creating a dark gore and a corresponding bright streamer as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08849:
Act of Creation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's entire main ring system spreads out below NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this night side view, which shows the rings disappearing into the planet's shadow.
PIA08850:
The Vanishing Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This ringscape shows the outermost part of the rings' spoke-forming region, the other edge of the B ring, and the regular bands of material within the Cassini Division. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08852:
The Spoke Boundary
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-12 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft stares toward Saturn through its gauzy veil of rings. The great ice-particle screen acts like a filter here, attenuating the glare from the planet and making its high altitude haze easy to see.
PIA08853:
Veil of Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Dec. 15, 2006. Both luminous and translucent, the C ring sweeps out of the darkness of Saturn's shadow and obscures the planet at lower left.
PIA08855:
Scintillating C Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-19 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This psychedelic view of Saturn and its rings is a composite made from images taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light.
PIA08858:
Saturnian Psychedelia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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From on high, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spots a group of faint spokes against the striped landscape of the B ring, the dark region in the middle of the rings here. The spokes appear as irregular blotches.
PIA08859:
Stars and Stripes ... and Spokes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward daybreak on Saturn through the delicate strands of the C ring. Some structure and contrast is visible in the clouds far below.
PIA08860:
Toward Morning
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Bright undulations disturb a faint ringlet drifting through the center of the Encke Gap. This ring structure shares the orbit of the moon Pan as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08861:
The Bends
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-25 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's current high-inclination orbit allows for some fantastic perspectives, like this shot of Saturn's south pole, which looks toward the rings beyond.
PIA08862:
Down Below
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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These two images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken about eight minutes apart, show clump-like structures and a great deal of dust in Saturn's ever-changing F ring.
PIA08863:
Breakup Captured?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-30 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to observe brightness variations along the orbital direction within Saturn's B ring.
PIA08865:
Unknown Origin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-31 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Two bright vortices roll across the cloud-lined face of Saturn, where winds howl at high speeds never experienced on Earth as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08866:
Agitators of the Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the innermost region of Saturn's rings, capturing (from right to left) the C and B rings. The dark, inner edge of the Cassini Division is just visible in the lower left corner.
PIA08869:
The Inner Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes toward a distant star as Saturn's rings slip past in the foreground. At upper left is the outer A ring, with its dark Keeler Gap. At lower right, a train of bright clumps shuttles past in the wispy F ring.
PIA08875:
A Helpful Star
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The dark B ring of Saturn is highlighted here by numerous faint spokes. The two most prominent spokes are seen below and to the right of center as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08874:
Faint Spokes
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The strands of Saturn's F ring disappear into the darkness of the planet's shadow. Background stars make trails across the sky during the long exposure as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08878:
Into the Shadow
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This group of spokes in Saturn's B ring extends over more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) radially across the ringplane as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08877:
Spoke Siblings
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Epimetheus is a lonely dot beyond Saturn's rings. The little moon appears at lower left, outside the narrow F ring. Several very faint spokes lurk in the B ring, at right as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08867:
Epimetheus and the Dark Side
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a spectacular view of Saturn's banded southern hemisphere and dark central polar storm, while its dazzling rings lie far beyond the horizon.
PIA08880:
Southern Exposure
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views Saturn's southern latitudes in colors of pastel yellow, spying a great, eye-shaped vortex just northward of the south polar region.
PIA08883:
Tempest-Tossed Saturn
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Three of the small worlds that hug the outer edges of Saturn's immense ring system are captured in portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08885:
Three Little Moons
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This strikingly crisp view shows Atlas heading into Saturn's shadow at upper left. The moon's basic, elongated shape is easy to detect as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08887:
Toward the Shadow
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The giant planet is a moody world whose disposition appears to change with he view. Its atmosphere rages with thunderous and hurricane-like storms. Its majestic rings spin a tale of ancient collisions and cataclysm
PIA08347:
The Lore of Saturn
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This frame from a movie begins with a view of the sunlit side of the rings. As the spacecraft speeds from south to north, the rings appear to tilt downward and collapse to a thin plane.
PIA08356:
The Great Crossing Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Magnificent blue and gold Saturn floats obliquely as one of its gravity-bound companions, Dione, hangs in the distance. The darkened rings seem to nearly touch their shadowy reverse images on the planet below as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08358:
Symmetry in Shadow
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With pastel blues, pinks, greens and golds, Saturn displays a dazzling diversity of colors and hues as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08359:
Pastel Planet
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Dark and sharply defined ring shadows appear to constrict the flow of color from Saturn's warmly hued south to the bluish northern latitudes as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08360:
Tourniquet Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Our robotic emissary, flying high above Saturn, captured this view of an alien copper-colored ring world. The overexposed planet has deliberately been removed to show the unlit rings alone as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08361:
Ring World
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Surely one of the most gorgeous sights the solar system has to offer, Saturn sits enveloped by the full splendor of its stately rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08362:
Blinding Saturn
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies Pan speeding through the Encke Gap, its own private path around Saturn.
PIA08889:
Pan's Highway
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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A bright spoke extends across the unilluminated side of Saturn's B ring about the same distance as that from London to Cairo. The background ring material displays some azimuthal asymmetry as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08891:
Bent Spoke
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Two moons of Saturn, Pan and Pandora, rendezvous in the Saturnian skies above NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08897:
Helene and Mimas
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ISS - Wide Angle
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From beneath the ringplane, NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes stock of Saturn's southern skies and peeks through the rings and beyond their shadows at the northern latitudes.
PIA08898:
South on Saturn
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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The Cassini Division appears to emerge out of Saturn's shadow in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08901:
The Familiar Division
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Bright strands in Saturn's ever changing F ring emerge from the planet's shadow. The F ring usually has a single bright core but the section of the ring seen here appears to have a second bright strand as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08903:
F Ring Strands
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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The brilliant core of the F ring displays a breakaway clump of material, possibly related to the other objects NASA's Cassini spacecraft has witnessed in the dynamic ring in the past few years of observations.
PIA08905:
Budding F Ring
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus draws material from the F ring along an invisible thread of gravity. Near lower left is an identical feature the moon created on a previous pass near the ring as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08916:
Moon at Work
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the multiple strands of the ever-changing F ring, also sighting Atlas at its station just beyond the A ring edge. A few faint background stars are visible in this image.
PIA08906:
Atlas and the F Ring
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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The F ring dissolves into a fuzzy stream of particles -- rather different from its usual appearance of a narrow, bright core flanked by dimmer ringlets. A bright clump of material flanks the ring's core as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08908:
Unfocused F Ring
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus draws a fresh streamer of material from the F ring as it passes the ring's interior edge as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08910:
Streamer Genesis
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows details of Saturn's outer A ring, including the Encke and Keeler gaps. The A ring brightens substantially outside the Keeler Gap.
PIA08912:
A Ring Waves
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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The oblong form of Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus glides by, trailing behind it wiggles in Saturn's ribbon-like F ring as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08914:
The Perturber
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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The shepherd moon Prometheus is lit partly by reflected light from Saturn as it lurks near the heavily perturbed F ring as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08918:
Shifting Strands
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Pan prepares to be engulfed by the darkness of Saturn's shadow, visible here as it stretches across the rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08920:
Taking the Plunge
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Prometheus speeds ahead of two dark gores in the F ring's inner edge. The ring's bright core swerves and twirls in its wake as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08922:
Ahead of the Pack
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The presence of the tiny ring moon Daphnis is betrayed by the edge waves it creates in the Keeler gap. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08924:
Moon's Signature
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's ring-embedded moons, Pan and Daphnis, are captured in an alignment they repeat with the regularity of a precise cosmic clock as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08926:
The Gap Moons
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ISS - Wide Angle
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The rings of Saturn glow softly as sunlight from below wends its way through. Some of the Sun's light bounces off the rings' opposite side as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08929:
Suncatcher
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Held in gravity's embrace, Saturn's darkened, icy rings encircle the clouded gas giant as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08931:
In Saturn's Grasp
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ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks across Saturn's cloud-dotted north and shadowed pole, and out across the lanes of ice that compose its rings.
PIA08933:
An Icy Composition
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Fine, sharp-edged details and smooth gradients in the ring features of the Cassini Division are imaged here together at excellent resolution. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08937:
Diagonal Division
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Across the expanse of Saturn's rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies two small moons in consort. Atlas is seen exterior to the bright outer edge of the A ring. Daphnis, below Atlas in this view, orbits Saturn within the narrow Keeler Gap.
PIA08941:
Ring Moon Rendezvous
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ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft surveys Saturn's outstretched ring system in the infrared from a vantage point high above the planet's northern latitudes.
PIA08942:
Blue Expanse
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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The F ring shepherd moon Prometheus touches the face of Saturn once more before moving off into blackness and continuing in its orbit. Images were obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on April 13, 2007.
PIA08944:
Prometheus Makes Contact
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UVIS
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This false-color image of Saturn's main rings was made by combining data from multiple star occultations using NASA's Cassini ultraviolet imaging spectrograph.
PIA09210:
Mapping Clumps in Saturn's Rings
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Imaging Science Subsystem
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Atlas and Pan emerge from the far side of Saturn in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Light passing through the upper reaches of the planet's atmosphere is refracted, or bent, distorting the image of the rings beyond.
PIA08946:
Emergent Moons
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Prometheus pulls away from an encounter with Saturn's F ring, leaving behind a reminder of its passage. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on April 18, 2007.
PIA08947:
Hit and Run
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Saturn and its rings manifest a rich interplay between shadow and light in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The rings shine on their unilluminated side by virtue of scattered sunlight emerging from its passage through the ringplane.
PIA08948:
Tricks of Light
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Storms and cloud bands emerge from beneath Saturn's obscuring hazes in this infrared view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08949:
Banded Beauty
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