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Great Red Spot
Published:
December 7, 2004
Great Red Spot
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Titan Radar
A 1909 VDB penny sent to Mars aboard the Curiosity rover as part of an image calibration target (and a nod to a geology tradition of using a coin for scale).
Lucky Penny on Mars
Topography and Albedo Image of Grooved Terrain on Vesta
Topography and Albedo Image of Grooved Terrain on Vesta
Dawn LAMO Image 139
Dawn LAMO Image 139
The Cassini spacecraft looks up from beneath the ringplane to spy Atlas hugging the outer edge of the A ring, above center. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-...
Edgy Atlas
Dawn LAMO Image 118
Dawn LAMO Image 118
This poetic scene shows the giant, smog-enshrouded moon Titan behind Saturn's nearly edge-on rings. Much smaller Epimetheus (116 kilometers, or 72 miles across) is just visible to the left of Titan...
Crescent Moon with Rings
Fracture Pattern Near Cerealia Facula
Fracture Pattern Near Cerealia Facula
This is an artists concept of Cassini during the Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI) maneuver, just after the main engine has begun firing. The spacecraft is moving out of the plane of the page and to the...
Saturn Orbit Insertion -- Artist's Rendition
Saturn's rings appear curved in this Cassini spacecraft view, which also shows the moon Janus in the distance. Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) is at the bottom of the image and is fart...
Beyond Curved Rings
During its final close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft revisited a landscape, and a mystery, that it had originally glimpsed more than 10 years earlier.
Enceladus Dalmatian Terrain Close-up
Saturn's sunlit rings gleam in the blackness as two icy moons cruise past in the foreground. Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles across) is a small crescent near upper left; Janus (181 kilomet...
Encircling Saturn
This is one of the first raw images returned by the ESA Huygens probe during its successful descent. It was taken from an altitude of 16.2 kilometres with a resolution of approximately 40 metres pe...
Huygens at Titan 2
Saturn's nearly edge-on rings are caught between two moons. The edge of the F ring has a blurred appearance with bright Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across) as a backdrop. Oblong Pandora ...
Crossing Dione
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Blue Eyed Storm
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 act...
A Tectonic Feast
NASA's Cassini spacecraft zoomed by Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on Oct. 14, 2015, capturing this stunning image of the moon's north pole.
A Fractured Pole
Both ancient and more recent surfaces are exposed in this view of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The geologically young terrain of the solar polar region can be discerned here and contrasts with the old...
Young and Old
Wendy Darling famously helped Peter Pan catch his shadow, and now Cassini captures the shadow of another Pan: Saturn's 30-kilometer (19-mile) wide moon inhabiting the Encke Gap. In the center of ...
Pan's Very Own Shadow
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Glorious View
A crescent Saturn appears nestled within encircling rings in this Cassini spacecraft image. Clouds swirl through the atmosphere of the planet. Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across) orbits...
Rings Around a Crescent
Oxo Crater at LAMO
Oxo Crater at LAMO
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A Moon with Two Dark Sides
NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicles the change of seasons as it captures clouds concentrated near the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Equatorial Titan Clouds
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