Release of Probe

Unlike most of the dull grey moons in the Solar System, Hyperion's color is a rosy tan, as this view shows. The origin of the moon's unusual hue is not known. Some scientists suspect the color com...

This picture captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a crater in the southern hemisphere of Ceres with a complex of central peaks.

Two images of Saturn's A and B ring showcase the opposition effect, a brightness surge that is visible on Saturn's rings when the Sun is directly behind the spacecraft. This view is of the A ring....

Of the countless equinoxes Saturn has seen since the birth of the solar system, this one, captured here in a mosaic of light and dark, is the first witnessed up close by an emissary from Earth … no...

A drawing illustrates how flows of electrons steered by Jupiter's magnetic field connect three of Jupiter's large moons with the upper atmosphere near Jupiter's north and south poles.

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of Ceres shows a small, double-impact crater (at bottom) near a larger crater. The larger structure has a crater floor with roughly the same crater density.

Bright sunlight on Rhea shows off the cratered surface of Saturn's second largest moon. See Ancient Plains of Rhea and Bright Rays to learn more about this moon. Lit terrain seen here is on the ...

The number of water particles in Enceladus' plume peaked over the area highlighted by the circle in this image of Enceladus, which is overlain by data from Cassini's Ion and Neutral Mass Spectromet...

This image is a composite of several images taken during two separate Titan flybys on Oct. 9 (T19) and Oct. 25 (T20). The large circular feature near the center of Titan's disk may be the remnant ...

A darkly defined Rhea passes before the fuzzy orb of Titan in this Cassini view of Saturn's two largest moons. Rhea is closer to the spacecraft in this view. See Ancient Plains of Rhea to learn mo...

Ultraviolet Enceladus September 23, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06483 Looking beyond Saturn's south pole, this was the Cassini spacecraft's...

Comparing Jupiter’s moons Io and Europa with Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan.

Titan's Polar Streak November 1, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06510 This image shows Titan, Saturn's largest moon (5,150 kilometers, or 3...

Looking closely at Saturn's moon Rhea during a somewhat distant flyby, Cassini provides this view of what appears to be a bright, rayed and therefore relatively young crater. This crater was also o...

                  Musical Rings September 27, 2004   Full-Res: PIA06485   Looking something like the fibrous bow of a viol...

Gray Mimas appears to hover above the colorful rings. The large crater seen on the right side of the moon is named for William Herschel, who discovered Mimas in 1789. Images taken using red, gre...

The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the varied surface of the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. North on Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across) is up. For a more detailed vi...

Presented here are side-by-side comparisons of a traditional Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) view, at left, and one made using a new technique for handling electronic noise that results in c...

RSP Installaton

                  Two Waves in One Spectacular Image of Saturn's Rings July 1, 2004   Full-Res: PIA06093   This image...

Saturn's moon Janus, its rugged surface shown in shadow and light, passes before the planet's rings. See Crater View to see a closer view of this moon. Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) ...

Dione reveals its past via contrasts in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The features visible here are a mixture of tectonics -- the bright, linear features -- and impact cratering -- the ...

Bands and Swirls in Infrared June 18, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05409 Saturn¿s bright equatorial band displays an exquisite swirl near th...

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an escarpment located in asteroid Vesta's near Rheasilvia quadrangle, near Vesta's south pole.

Saturn's moon Enceladus, seen beyond the outline of the planet's night side, spews water ice from its south polar region. Enceladus is farther from Cassini than the planet is here. The plumes can ...