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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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On March 13, 2006 Cassini's narrow-angle camera captured this look at Saturn and its rings, seen here nearly edge on. The frame also features Mimas and tiny Janus (above the rings), and Tethys (below the rings).
PIA18323:
Postcard from the Ring Plane
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The constant change in Saturn's wavy, wiggly F ring is on display in this image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image shows a view looking directly down onto the ring with the planet removed from the center.
PIA15505:
Wavy, Wiggly Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows some of the more bizarre trails that were dragged out from Saturn's F ring by objects about a half mile (1 kilometer) in diameter.
PIA15504:
Exotic Trails or Mini-Jets
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows trails that were dragged out from Saturn's F ring by objects about a half mile (1 kilometer) in diameter.
PIA15503:
Classic Trails or Mini-Jets
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft around the time it went into orbit around Saturn in 2004 shows a short trail of icy particles dragged out from Saturn's F ring.
PIA15502:
Small Trail at Saturn Orbit Insertion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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In this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the gravitational pull of Saturn's moon Prometheus creates patterns in Saturn's F ring.
PIA15501:
F Ring Patterns Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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One of the glittering trails caused by small objects punching through Saturn's F ring is highlighted in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These trails show how the F ring, the outermost of Saturn's main rings, is constantly changing.
PIA15500:
Glittering Trail in Saturn's F Ring Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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On Jan. 29, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft examined the Maxwell Gap, the large, dark division at center, which is surrounded on either side by the broad, isolated and bright ring regions, or 'plateaus,' of Saturn's outer C ring.
PIA09857:
Maxwell's Namesake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Bright clouds twist and twirl in the fast-moving and turbulent winds in the Saturnian north. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 13, 2007.
PIA09741:
Tempest Tossed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-26 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings divide this scene, casting graceful shadows onto the planet. Below, bright clouds hint at the turbulent world beneath the haze. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09736:
Above and Below
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The unlit side of the rings glows with scattered sunlight as two moons circle giant Saturn. The light reaching NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this view has traveled many paths before being captured.
PIA08220:
Light from Many Paths
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this arresting view of Saturn just before Epimetheus crossed into the blinding glare of the planet's sunlit crescent and was lost.
PIA08218:
A Captivating Vision
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This oblique view of Saturn shows what may be localized upwellings in the clouds of Saturn's southern hemisphere. This view looks toward the unlit side of the rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08200:
Saturn Aslant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus continue to gush icy particles into Saturn orbit, making this little moon one of a select group of geologically active bodies in the solar system as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08197:
A Moon's Telltale Tail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This view was taken from above the ringplane and looks toward the unlit side of the rings. Here, the probe gazes upon Titan in the distance beyond Saturn and its dark and graceful rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08196:
A Sight to Behold
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The dark shadows that drape Saturn's northern latitudes are split by three familiar bright gaps as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08190:
Sun Through the Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The small, dark form of Janus cruises along in front of bright Saturn. The edge-on rings cast dramatic shadows onto the northern hemisphere as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08184:
Ring Moon, Ring Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Two of Saturn's battered, icy companions, Tethys and Mimas, hover here, above the ringplane. A wide band of visible rings is in between the two moons in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07679:
Moons in Perspective
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Whiffs of cloud dance in Saturn's atmosphere, while the dim crescent of Rhea hangs in the distance. The dark ringplane cuts a diagonal across the top left corner of this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07671:
Serenity Above, Tempests Below
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Subtle features in Saturn's equatorial region and the nearly edge-on rings are captured in this view NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07670:
Watching Saturn's Winds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has Mimas and Pandora on its side as it gazes across the ringplane at distant Tethys. The two smaller moons were on the side of the rings closer to Cassini when this image was taken.
PIA07661:
Choosing Sides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This fanciful view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the Saturnian moons, Dione and Enceladus, from just beneath the ringplane. Enceladus is on the near side of the rings with respect to Cassini, and Dione is on the far side.
PIA07645:
Dione and Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Believe it or not, this extreme close-up of Saturn's swirling clouds was acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft from more than one million kilometers (621,370 miles) from the gas giant planet.
PIA07555:
Atmospheric Illusion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's keen vision, with its variety of spectral filters, allows for revealing views of the eastward- and westward-flowing cloud bands that encircle the ringed giant, Saturn.
PIA07550:
Bright Bands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This sweeping view of Saturn's rings offers a look at how the planet's moons help shape and maintain this structure, making Saturn the jewel of the solar system. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07537:
Splendid Striations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-15 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's atmosphere is essentially transparent at wavelengths visible to the human eye, but when the view through the atmosphere is oblique. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07521:
Funhouse Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This spectacular and disorienting maze of lines is a Cassini portrait of the gas giant Saturn, its rings and its small, icy moon Mimas. This view was obtained in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07515:
Moon Against the Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings appear strangely warped in this view of the rings seen through the upper Saturn atmosphere. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was obtained using a near-infrared filter.
PIA06656:
Bending the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione occults part of Saturn's distant rings while Tethys hovers below, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06647:
Pair to Compare
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's celestial sleuthing has paid off with a series of images which confirmed earlier suspicions that a small moon was orbiting within the narrow Keeler gap within Saturn's rings.
PIA06239:
Discovery of the Wavemaker
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's celestial sleuthing has paid off with this time-lapse series of images which confirmed earlier suspicions that a small moon was orbiting within the narrow Keeler gap of Saturn's rings.
PIA06238:
Discovery of the Wavemaker (animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-10 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Confirmation that a small moon orbits within the Keeler gap in Saturn's rings is made all the more exciting by this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in which the disk of the 7 kilometer-wide body is resolved for the first time.
PIA06237:
Wavemaker Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A scene straight out of science fiction, this fantastic view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows, from left to right, Saturn's moon's Mimas, Dione and Rhea, on the far side of Saturn's nearly edge-on rings.
PIA06642:
Amazing Icy Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Helene, seen here with Saturn's nearly edge-on rings, orbits 60 degrees ahead of Dione and is called a 'Trojan' moon. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on March 12, 2005.
PIA06639:
Dione's Companion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-27 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini imaging scientists use special images like this one, which shows the far side of Saturn's rings disappearing behind the planet's outer atmosphere, to probe the vertical structure of Saturn's high altitude haze.
PIA06636:
Rings' Disappearing Act
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's ability to remain sharply pointed at its targets allowed this image of Saturn's faint, dusty G ring to be made.
PIA06627:
G Ring, Brightened by Time
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows intriguing features resembling drapes and kinks, which are visible in this view of Saturn's thin F ring.
PIA06600:
In the Moon's Wake
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three of Saturn's ring moons in a single view.
PIA06595:
Flock of Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-18 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Three of Saturn's moons appear almost like a string of pearls in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but looks are deceiving.
PIA06588:
String of Moons?
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The oddball shapes of Saturn's small ring moons Prometheus and Epimetheus are discernible in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06587:
Irregular Pair
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows, from upper right to lower left, the thin C ring, multi-toned B ring, the dark Cassini Division, the A ring and narrow F ring.
PIA06586:
Bound to Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's most prominent feature, its dazzling ring system, takes center stage in this stunning natural color mosaic which reveals the color and diversity present in this wonder of the solar system.
PIA06175:
Panoramic Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-31 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a dramatic portrait painted by the Sun, the long thin shadows of Saturn's rings sweep across the planet's northern latitudes.
PIA06574:
Sun-striped Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie, showing six of Saturn's small ring-region moons as they raced around the planet, was made from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 15, 2004.
PIA06174:
Race of the Moons Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The sunlit face of Saturn's rings shows magnificent detail in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken in near infrared light.
PIA06563:
Light and Dark Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Variations in ring particle concentration give Saturn's brilliant rings the appearance of ripples in a pond in this close-up view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06543:
Rippled Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Saturn's outer C ring from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows large and sharp changes in brightness across the rings, owing to the extreme variations in ring particle concentrations at different distances from the planet.
PIA06540:
Plateaus and Gaps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn's outer C ring captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the extreme variations in brightness, along with the subtle, large-scale wavy variations discovered 24 years ago by NASA's Voyager spacecraft.
PIA06539:
Outer C Ring Detail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's inner C ring spreads across the field of view in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, showing the characteristic plateau and wave-like structure for which it is famed.
PIA06537:
Intricate C Ring Details
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Zigzagging kinks and knots dance around Saturn in this frame from a movie of the F ring from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06144:
Tilt and Whirl Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows subtle, wavelike patterns, hundreds of narrow features resembling a record's 'grooves' in Saturn's outer B-ring, and a noticeable abrupt change in overall brightness beyond the dark gap near the right.
PIA06535:
Outer B Ring Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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An intriguing knotted ringlet within the Encke Gap is the main attraction in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06534:
Mind the Gap
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captures several important targets of NASA's Cassini mission: icy moons, rings, and the gaps in the rings that may contain small undiscovered moons.
PIA06501:
Moons and Gaps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-13 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied two members of Saturn's family rounding the rings in this image from Aug. 20, 2004.
PIA06497:
Rounding the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Gazing beyond Saturn's magnificent rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spotted the cause of the dark gap visible in the foreground of this image: Mimas, which is 398 kilometers (247 miles) wide.
PIA06495:
Eyeing the Culprit
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's colorful rings sweep through this spectacular natural color view while two small moons look on.
PIA06485:
Musical Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's faintly banded atmosphere is delicately colored and its threadbare rings cross their own shadows in this marvelous natural color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06114:
Colorful Threads and Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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A small new found object, temporarily designated S/2004 S 3, has been seen orbiting Saturn's outer F ring. This is a frame from a movie sequence of 18 images taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on June 21, 2004.
PIA06115:
New Object in F ring Animation Icon
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Saturn's rings appear golden as the planet's shadow drapes across nearly the whole span of the rings. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Mimas in the upper left corner.
PIA06424:
Golden Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's atmosphere is prominently shown with the rings emerging from behind the planet at upper right. The two moons on the left of the image, Mimas and Enceladus, were captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06423:
Bold Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn and its rings are prominently shown in this color image, along with three of Saturn's smaller moons. This image was taken on June 18, 2004, with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow angle camera, 8.2 million kilometers from Saturn.
PIA06422:
Pretty in Pink
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The image on the left was taken on Nov. 1, 1980, by NASA's Voyager spacecraft. It shows a narrow shadow cast on the equatorial region of Saturn's atmosphere by the rings. The image on the right was acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 10, 2004.
PIA06415:
Saturn's Ring Shadow, Then and Now
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-30 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The dark shadow of Saturn's southern hemisphere spreads across the planet's rings all the way to the Encke gap. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on June 21, 2004.
PIA05424:
Light and Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-22 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Nine days before it entered orbit, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this exquisite natural color view of Saturn's rings.
PIA05421:
Ringscape In Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-16 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a dramatic view of Saturn's rings draped by the shadow of Saturn.
PIA05417:
Rings and More Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-02 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This image taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's F ring.
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Streaming F Ring
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Saturn's peaceful beauty invites NASA's Cassini spacecraft for a closer look in this natural color view, taken during the spacecraft's approach to the planet.
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Ringworld Waiting
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In this image, dark regions represent areas where NASA's Cassini spacecraft is seeing into deeper levels in Saturn's atmosphere.
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Saturn's Atmosphere and Rings
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Saturn's magnificent rings show some of their intricate structure in this image taken on May 11, 2004, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow angle camera.
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Rings and Moons
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Prometheus orbiting inside the planet's F-ring, which exhibits some of the knotted structure for which it is renowned.
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Prometheus and Knots in the F Ring
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The path that lies ahead for NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission is indicated in this image which illustrates where the spacecraft will be just 27 days from now, when it arrives at Saturn.
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Passage through the Ring Plane
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken May 21, 2004 displays the ringed planet's subtle, multi-hued atmospheric bands.
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Colorful Saturn, Getting Closer
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the multitude of grooves for which Saturn's rings are famed.
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Groovy Rings and Moons
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NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft returned this image of Saturn on May 16, 2004, when its imaging science subsystem narrow-angle camera was too close to fit the entire planet in its field-of-view.
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Saturn from Far and Near (Cassini-Huygens)
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These images are from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken March 22 (top) and May 16, 2004, of Saturn's displays its familiar banded structure, with haze and clouds at various altitudes.
PIA05981:
Saturn from Far and Near
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Saturn's rings cast threadlike shadows on the planet's northern hemisphere. Note the translucent C ring, and thin outermost F ring. The image was taken with NASA's Cassini narrow angle camera in visible light on May 10, 2004.
PIA05394:
Rings and Shadows
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This image from NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft shows two of Saturn's moons, Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles across) and Pandora (84 kilometers, or 52 miles across), shepherding the planet's narrow F-ring.
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Pandora and Prometheus Near F Ring
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As NASA's Cassini nears its rendezvous with Saturn, new detail in the banded clouds of the planet's atmosphere are becoming visible.
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Bands of Clouds and Lace
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NASA's Cassini has sighted Prometheus and Pandora, the two F-ring-shepherding moons whose unpredictable orbits both fascinate scientists and wreak havoc on the F ring.
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Prometheus and Pandora
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These images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show clumps seemingly embedded within Saturn's narrow, outermost F ring.
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Clumps in the F Ring
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Saturn's rings are bright and its northern hemisphere defined by bright features as NASA's Voyager 2 approaches Saturn, which it will encounter on Aug. 25, 1981.
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Saturn's Atmospheric Changes
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Saturn's F, or outermost ring was photographed from the un-illuminated face of the rings by NASA's Voyager 1 at a range of 750,000 kilometers (470,000 miles).
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Saturn's F Ring
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The three separate components of Saturn's F-ring are seen in this image taken by NASA's Voyager l on Nov. 12, 1980, from a range of 750,000 kilometers (466,000) miles.
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Saturn's F-ring
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NASA's Voyager 1 looked back at Saturn on Nov. 16, 1980, four days after the spacecraft flew past the planet, to observe the appearance of Saturn and its rings from this unique perspective.
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Saturn and its Rings
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NASA's Voyager 2 returned this view of Saturn and its ring system Aug. 11, when the spacecraft was 13.9 million kilometers (8.6 million miles) away and approaching the large, gaseous planet at about l million km. (620,000 mi.) a day.
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Saturn and its Ring System
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This long exposure of the ring region about 150,000 to 200,000 kilometers (90,000 to 120,000 miles) from the center of Saturn captured the very faint G-ring, seen at left. NASA's Voyager 2 took this image on Aug. 26, 1981.
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Saturn's Ring Region
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NASA's Voyager 2 high-resolution view of Saturn's rings on Aug. 23, 1981, at a range of 3.3 million kilometers (2 million miles). The planet's limb is visible through the C-ring and the inner part of the B-ring.
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High-resolution View of Saturn's Rings
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Spokes are seen on the unlit side of Saturn's rings for the first time in this image from NASA's Voyager 2 wide-angle view obtained Aug. 28, 1981, from a distance of 3.4 million kilometers (2.1 million miles).
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Spokes on Side of Saturn's Rings
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The outer edge of Saturn's A-ring is detailed in this image obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 26, 1981, just half an hour before closest approach, at a range of about 51,000 kilometers (31,700 miles).
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Outer Edge of Saturn's A-ring
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NASA's Voyager 2 acquired this photograph of Saturn's A-ring Aug. 26, 1981, from a distance of 227,800 kilometers (141,500 miles). This view of the ring's outer edge shows a small bright, clumpy ring within the Encke Gap.
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Saturn's A-ring
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This view shows some detail and differences in the complex system of rings. This was one of the first pictures obtained once NASA's Voyager 2 resumed returning images Aug. 29, 1979 after its scan platform was commanded to view Saturn.
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View of Saturn's Rings
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this high-resolution image of Saturn's F-ring Aug. 26, 1980 from a distance of 51,500 kilometers (32,000 miles). This closeup view shows that the ring is made up of at least four distinct components.
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Image of Saturn's F-ring
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This composite image shows two views of the outer edge of Saturn's B-ring (left) and the inner part of the Cassini Division (right) in the rings as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 25, 1981.
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Outer edge of Saturn's B-ring
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this picture of Saturn's faint inner D-ring Aug. 25, 1981, about 1 hour 48 minutes before the spacecraft's closest approach to Saturn. The range was 195,400 kilometers (121,300 miles)
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Saturn's Faint Inner D-ring
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Saturn and its satellites Tethys (outer left), Enceladus (inner left) and Mimas (right of rings) are seen in this mosaic of images taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Oct. 30, 1980 from a distance of 18 million kilometers (11 million miles).
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Saturn and its Satellites Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'false color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981, when the spacecraft was 33.9 million kilometers (21 million miles) from the planet.
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Saturn With Rhea and Dione (false color)
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