Cassini Top 10 Images of 2014

Although solid-looking in many images, Saturn's rings are actually translucent. In this picture, we can glimpse the shadow of the rings on the planet through (and below) the A and C rings themselves, towards the lower right hand corner.

This global color mosaic of Saturn's moon Mimas was produced from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its first 10 years exploring the Saturn system. 

Saturn is circled by its rings (seen nearly edge-on in this image), as well as by the moons Tethys (the large bright body near the lower right hand corner of this image) and Mimas (seen as a slight crescent against Saturn’s disk above the rings, at about 4 o’clock). 

This near-infrared, color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the sun glinting off of Titan's north polar seas. 

These three images, created from Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, show the appearance and evolution of a mysterious feature in Ligeia Mare, one of the largest hydrocarbon seas on Saturn's moon Titan.

The Cassini spacecraft captures a rare family photo of three of Saturn's moons that couldn't be more different from each other! 

The F ring shepherd Pandora is captured here along with other well-known examples of how Saturn’s moons shape the rings. 

This Cassini narrow-angle camera image -- one of those acquired in the survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus -- was taken as Cassini was looking across the moon's south pole. 

This montage of two views is published by the Cassini team to mark the 10th anniversary of the Phoebe flyby.

This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft features a blue planet, but unlike the view from July 19, 2013 (The Day the Earth Smiled) that featured our home planet, this blue orb is Uranus, imaged by Cassini for the first time.