Flight across Titan

Saturn's moon Janus orbits in front of the rings, which are partially darkened by the shadow of the planet in this Cassini spacecraft view. Saturn's shadow obscures about half the rings. This can ...

The Cassini spacecraft views the rugged surface of Mimas -- half lit by the Sun, and half lit by reflected light from Saturn. On the sunlit western limb lies the great Herschel impact crater. The ...

+ View Full Res This image was obtained by Cassini's radar instrument during a flyby on Feb. 22, 2007. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) ...

A network of river channels is located atop Xanadu, the continent-sized region on Saturn's moon Titan. This radar image was captured by the Cassini Radar Mapper on April 30, 2006. These winding, ...

Stormy Weather November 12, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06519 This Cassini view shows a bright storm that appeared in Saturn's southern hemisph...

In the distance beyond Saturn's icy rings, the Cassini spacecraft glimpses faint details on the surface of Titan. In the foreground, the B ring displays several dark spokes. This view looks toward...

Light and dark terrain covers the surface of Saturn's moon Iapetus in this Cassini spacecraft image. Lit terrain seen here is on the area between the Saturn-facing side and trailing hemisphere of ...

Using visible light, astronomers for the first time this century have detected clouds in the northern hemisphere of Uranus. 

Enceladus appears as a rather bland orb in this far-off snapshot, but the dark markings near its south pole belie that assumption. The markings, called sulci, are long, roughly parallel fractures f...

This image shows Saturn, its ring structure and satellites to relative scale unless otherwise noted. By David Seal (P-46507BC). For a high resolution image, click here.

N00063394.jpg was taken on July 02, 2006 and received on Earth July 03, 2006. The camera was pointing toward TITAN at approximately 183,007 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 an...

Launched on March 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter. 

Dione's leading hemisphere appears relatively smooth and placid here, compared to the fractured landscape on its trailing hemisphere. See Incredible Cliffs for a view of the trailing hemisphere. ...

These three views of Titan from the Cassini spacecraft illustrate how different the same place can look in different wavelengths of light.

The northern and southern hemispheres of Tethys are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini images. Each map is centered on one of the poles, and surface ...

The Cassini spacecraft zooms in on Mimas, pitted by craters and slightly out-of-round. Cassini images taken during a flyby of Mimas in August 2005 were compiled into a movie showing the moon's batt...

The fine, dust-sized particles of ice in the F ring and Encke Gap ringlets appear relatively bright, with the rings positioned almost directly between the Cassini spacecraft and the Sun. This view...

Not since NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft saw our home as a pale blue dot from beyond the orbit of Neptune has Earth been imaged in color from the outer solar system. Now, Cassini casts powerful eyes o...

During its closest ever dive past the active south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft quickly shuttered its imaging cameras to capture glimpses of the fast moving te...

The Cassini spacecraft looks upward at the swirling clouds of Saturn's southern hemisphere. The C and B rings are seen at right, beyond the planet's nightside limb. This view looks toward the sunl...

Comet ISON shows off its tail in this three-minute exposure taken on 19 Nov. 2013 at 6:10 a.m. EST, using a 14-inch telescope located at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

This image from the Cassini spacecraft shows a ghostly white streak, called a spoke, in Saturn's B ring. This is the first sighting of a spoke in nearly a year, and the first spoke seen by Cassini ...

Jane Houston Jones shows off her homemade Dobsonian reflector telescope she'll be pointing at Saturn in the coming months. Credit: Morris Jones

The newly assembled Cassini Saturn probe undergoes vibration and thermal testing at the JPL facilities in Pasadena, California. It is subjected to weeks of "shake and bake" tests that imitate the f...

Saturn and Dione regard Enceladus -- the object their gravitational tug-of-war. Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across) is seen next to Saturn here. Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles ac...