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Release of Probe
Published:
December 7, 2004
Release of Probe
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Map of Tethys -- August 2008
This raw image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken on March 27, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Saturn's moon Janus. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrat...
Portrait of Janus (Raw image)
Dawn LAMO Image 32
Dawn LAMO Image 32
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This raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Enceladus was taken during Cassini's Nov. 6, 2011, flyby which passed within about 300 miles (500 kilometers) of the moon's surface. This encounter wa...
Enceladus Flyby E-16 (Raw Image #2)
ORIGINAL CAPTION: Workers offload the shipping container with the Cassini orbiter from what looks like a giant shark mouth, but is really an Air Force C-17 air cargo plane which just landed at KSC...
Cassini Box Set
Cassini peers around the hazy limb of Titan to spy the sunlit south pole of Saturn in the distance beyond.
Peeking at Saturn
Craters cover the rugged surface of Saturn's moon Janus. The view is from 42 degrees above the moon's equator. North on Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) is towards the top of the image....
Ragged Crescent
The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument onboard Cassini has found an unusual bright, red spot on Titan. This dramatic color (but not true color) image was taken during the April 16...
Red Spot on Titan
Dawn XMO2 Image 10
Dawn XMO2 Image 10
This Cassini spacecraft wide angle camera view shows a half-lit Saturn, with two dark storms rolling through its southern hemisphere. The image was taken in visible red light on July 19, 2004, at...
Saturn in Red
The long, gently meandering character of the clouds in this view is a tracer of the generally stable flow of Saturn's atmosphere. The flow is disrupted at turbulent belt-zone boundaries and, here a...
Saturn's Streamers
The exciting mystery of an active south polar region on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus continues to unfold as scientists make the correlation between geologically youthful surface fractures and unusua...
Searching for Warmth
Dawn Spacecraft Leaving Earth (Artist's Concept)
Dawn Spacecraft Leaving Earth (Artist's Concept)
Mountains Rising Over Vesta's Equatorial Region
Mountains Rising Over Vesta's Equatorial Region
Messor Crater from LAMO
Messor Crater from LAMO
A new day dawns on Saturn as the part of the planet seen here emerges once more into the Sun's light.
Sunrise on Saturn
This stereo anaglyph of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows an area that has undergone a very intriguing -- and in places puzzling -- sequence of events. The craters here are subdued, as seen elsewhere o...
Transition on Enceladus (3-D)
Saturn's moon Prometheus chases Pandora in this Cassini view, but the outcome of their race has already been decided by gravity. Prometheus orbits closer to Saturn and thus moves faster than does P...
Racing Rocks
The effects of the small moon Prometheus loom large on two of Saturn's rings in this image taken a short time before Saturn's August 2009 equinox. A long, thin shadow cast by the moon stretches ac...
Affecting Two Rings
The Cassini spacecraft continues to investigate the intriguing structure in Saturn's outer B-ring edge. This region has a much perturbed character compared to the orderly rings around it. Ring sci...
Perturbed Edge
Three very different worlds crowd the frame in this unique view from the Cassini spacecraft, which although partly overexposed, provides a splendid look at several major targets of interest for the...
One View, Multiple Worlds
While not bursting with activity like its sister satellite Enceladus, the surface of Dione is definitely not boring.
Chasms on Dione
This global digital map of Saturn's moon Rhea was created using data obtained by NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 417 meters (1,400 fe...
Map of Rhea - November 2009
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