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Io in Eclipse
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September 17, 2004
Io in Eclipse
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Keeping a close watch on the outer portion of Saturn's B ring, NASA's Cassini spacecraft records the complex inward and outward movement of the edge of the ring.
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An aurora, shining high above the northern part of Saturn, moves from the night side to the day side of the planet in this movie recorded by Cassini.
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This animation shows the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft being captured in orbit at Saturn in 2004.
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Watch the NASA-JPL press briefing announcing Cassini's final orbits recorded at JPL on April 4, 2017.
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This spectrogram and video show a changing pattern of radio waves from Saturn known as Saturn Kilometric Radiation, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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NASA's Cassini scientists waited years for the right conditions to produce the first movie that shows lightning on another planet - Saturn.
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