Flight across Titan

The dramatic Ithaca Chasma carves an enormous gash for more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) across Saturn's moon Tethys. Tethys is 1,071 kilometers (665 miles) across. Stretching across the top ...

This image of the planet Neptune was obtained during testing of the Narrow-Field adaptive optics mode of the MUSE/GALACSI instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope.

+ View Dione ''D-2'' Flyby Page This close-up view of Dione was taken on April 07, 2010 and received on Earth April 07, 2010. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibra...

This view of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a fresh impact crater with a flat floor. The crater is surrounded by smooth, flow-like ejecta that covers adjacent older impact craters. The cra...

A perigee full Moon rises above Central Park in New York City in 2015.

+ View Full Res This image was obtained by Cassini's radar instrument during a flyby on April 26, 2007. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 980 kilometers 609 miles) duri...

The night sides of Saturn and Tethys are dark places indeed.

This image of Sextilia AV-L-26, from the atlas of the giant asteroid Vesta, was created from images taken as NASA's Dawn mission flew around the object, also known as a protoplanet.

This image shows in superb detail the region in Saturn's rings known as the Encke Gap.

This artist's conception shows a nearly invisible ring around Saturn -- the largest of the giant planet's many rings. It was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Full caption Credit: NAS...

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft show Oppia crater on asteroid Vesta, after which Oppia quadrangle is named. Oppia crater is a distinctive crater because it has an unusually shaped rim, whi...

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken on May 29, 206, shows part of the floor and eastern rim on Consus Crater (40 miles or 64 kilometers wide) on Ceres.

Related QuickTime Movie Mimas' shadow traverses the sunlit side of Saturn's rings in this movie and mosaic showcasing the unusual sights seen at Saturn as the planet approaches its August 2009 equ...

These side-by-side images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the feature named Tortola Facula on Saturn's moon Titan. The left image was obtained by the visual and infrared mapping spectrom...

At first glance, Saturn's rings appear to be intersecting themselves in an impossible way. In actuality, this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the rings in front of the planet, upon which ...

As our robotic emissary to Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft is privileged to behold such fantastic sights as this pairing of two moons beyond the rings. The bright, narrow F ring is the outermost rin...

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the surface of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixe...

A supermoon over Washington in 2014. 

Dramatic differences between dark and light embellish this Cassini spacecraft image of Saturn, its rings and its moons Dione and Enceladus. Saturn's northern and southern latitudes appear dark in ...

The Cassini composite infrared spectrometer obtained temperature maps of Saturn's main rings (A, B and C) that showed ring temperatures decreasing with increasing solar phase angle (the change of t...

This computer-generated image shows the structure of the cyclonic pattern observed over Jupiter’s south pole.

This classic photograph of the Earth was taken on December 7, 1972. The original caption is reprinted below: View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. This translu...

This montage of images shows the precise location of the north pole on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.

This artist's impression shows the 'light curve' produced by a star passing behind Titan, Saturn's biggest moon. When such occultation events take place, the light from the star is blocked out. B...

Receding Titan July 27, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06087 A day after entering orbit around Saturn, Cassini sped silently past Titan, imagi...