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Probe Landing on Titan
Published:
December 8, 2004
Probe Landing on Titan
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Titan's fast-rotating atmosphere creates circumpolar bands in the north. The Cassini spacecraft acquired this view of the smoggy moon following a flyby of Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles a...
Northern Bands
Dawn LAMO Image 152
Dawn LAMO Image 152
Pan may be small as satellites go, but like many of Saturn's ring moons, it has a very visible effect on the rings.
Where the Small Moon Rules
A close-up view of the Keeler Gap, which is near the outer edge of Saturn's main rings, shows in great detail just how much the moon Daphnis affects the edges of the gap.
Waving Goodbye
This map illustrates the planned imaging coverage for the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer, onboard the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during the probe's descent toward Titan's surface on ...
Go Huygens!
Octavia Crater
Octavia Crater
The serene beauty of Saturn invites the Cassini spacecraft's gaze as the spacecraft hurtles through this dynamic system, studying the giant planet's rings, moons, atmosphere, and magnetosphere. Th...
Saturn in Recline
Pluto's moon Nix (left), shown here in enhanced color as imaged by NASA's New Horizons Ralph instrument, has a reddish spot that has attracted the interest of mission scientists.
'Capturing' Nix and Hydra
Great Dark Spot
Great Dark Spot
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been on an epic road trip, as this graphic of its orbits around the Saturn system shows. This picture traces Cassini's orbits from Saturn orbit insertion, on June 30, ...
Round and Round Saturn
Saturn's moon Mimas casts an elliptical shadow on the planet south of the larger, wider shadows cast by the planet's rings. Mimas and the rings are not shown here. This view looks toward the south...
Shadows on Saturn
Titan's polar collar -- previously seen by Voyager 2 and the Hubble Space Telescope -- has now been observed by the Cassini spacecraft, seen here in ultraviolet light. The collar is believed to be...
Titan's Fancy Collar
Canyons and mountain peaks snake along the terminator on the crater-covered, icy moon Dione. With the Sun at a low angle on their local horizon, the line of mountain ridges above center casts shado...
Shadows on Ice
Although the sun is on the other side of Saturn in this dramatic image, some sunlight scatters through the uppermost part of the atmosphere to reach the Cassini spacecraft's cameras. This image wa...
High-Phase Drama
Boulders on Vesta
Boulders on Vesta
Related videos: Figure 1 (in color) -- QuickTime or Windows Media Figure 2 (in black and white) --QuickTime or Windows Media. Cassini's radar mapper has obtained stereo views of close to 2 per...
Ganesa Macula
Long-Range View
Long-Range View
This moody true color portrait of Saturn shows a world that can, at times, seem as serene and peaceful as it is frigid and hostile. Saturn's unlit-side rings embrace the planet while their shadows ...
Shadow and Shade
The Cassini spacecraft simultaneously peers through the haze in Titan's equatorial region down to its surface and captures the vortex of clouds hovering over its south pole just to the right of th...
Senkyo and Vortex
This colorful view of Mercury was produced by using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission.
Colors of the Innermost Planet: View 1
With this view, Cassini captured one of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance. The Saturn system has been Cassini's home for 13 years, but that journey is nearing its end.
So Far from Home
Sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere reaches Cassini as the spacecraft's camera is pointed at the dark side of the moon. A detached, high-altitude global haze layer enci...
Light on the Dark Side
+ View Related Feature This video highlights sights and sounds from the journey of NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini launched 15 years ago and has been exploring the Saturn system since 2004. Th...
Cassini: 15 Years of Exploration
The Cassini spacecraft reveals a remarkable amount of structure in the outer portion of Saturn's A ring. The granular look of the outer edge of the A ring, first discovered soon after Cassini's or...
Clumpy Construction
+ Annotated version + Dunes, Tectonics and Possible Ice Volcanoes on Titan (related image) The bright landmass of an enigmatic area known as Xanadu and the intriguing lobed shapes of the H...
Dunes, Tectonics and Possible Ice Volcanoes on Titan
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