Flight across Titan

This is one of the first raw images returned by the ESA Huygens probe during its successful descent. It was taken from an altitude of 16.2 kilometres with a resolution of approximately 40 metres pe...

As the Cassini spacecraft studies the rings, an icy interloper happens past. At the top of the image, between the spacecraft and the rings, is Epimetheus. The darker region extending from center r...

Rhea's Battered Surface November 9, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06516 This view of Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or ...

This set of three images shows views three seconds apart as the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, passed directly in front of the sun as seen by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.

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 ...

Deep craters riddle the pulverized, icy surface of Saturn's moon Mimas. This view looks toward southern latitudes on Mimas from a vantage point 47 degrees below the moon's equator. North is toward...

This anaglyph image shows the topography of asteroid Vesta's southwestern region. The large, heavily degraded subdued rimmed crater in the top right becomes clearer in this anaglyph image. You need...

+ View Full Res This image was obtained by Cassini's radar instrument during a flyby on May 21, 2009. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 965 kilometers (599 miles) durin...

Saturn's moon Rhea is an alien ice world, but in this frame-filling view it is vaguely familiar. Here, Rhea's cratered surface looks in some ways similar to our own Moon, or the planet Mercury. Bu...

+ See annotated version In this unique mosaic image combining high-resolution data from the imaging science subsystem and composite infrared spectrometer aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, pockets ...

This false-color composite image, constructed from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the glow of auroras streaking out about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from the cloud tops of Satu...

Tethys hangs before the Cassini spacecraft, its great crater Odysseus in view. See The Great Basin for a close-up view of Odysseus. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Tethys (1...

View unannotated version. This sequence of three images, obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over the course of about 10 minutes, shows the path of a newly found moonlet in a bright arc of Satur...

This image of Ceres is part of a sequence taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on April 29, 2015, from a distance of 8,400 miles (13,600 kilometers).

A fresh look at Saturn's moon Enceladus reveals tempting new details about the brightest real estate in the solar system. This false-color image shows that some of the linear features on Enceladus ...

Saturn's ''wispy'' moon Dione lies in front of the cratered surface of the moon Tethys, as seen by the Cassini spacecraft. Dione is closest to the spacecraft here. At the top of the image, the bri...

Researchers found that Titan's ice shell, which overlies a very salty ocean, varies in thickness around the moon, suggesting the crust is in the process of becoming rigid.

Titan in Natural Color Full-Res: PIA06081 Despite the views of the surface of Saturn's Titan moon provided by the Cassini spacecraft...

This Cassini image of the Saturn-facing side of icy Mimas reveals the craters and long, linear chasms that cross the moon's surface. Many of the large craters on Mimas have whimsical names from th...

Merging Saturnian Storms

Basking in sunlight, Enceladus looks peaceful and quiet while unseen jets of vapor and icy particles shoot from the south polar terrain of this active moon. The jets can't be seen here, but to wat...

This composite image shows the comparative sizes of nine asteroids. Up until now, Lutetia, with a diameter of 81 miles (130 kilometers), was the largest asteroid visited by a spacecraft, which occu...

Rhea and Enceladus hover in the distance beyond Saturn's ringplane. Enceladus (left), bathed in icy particles from Saturn's E ring, appears noticeably brighter than Rhea. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers ...

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the southeastern rim of Occator Crater. Compacted material forms spurs along the crater wall. A group of roughly parallel, braided fractures can b...

Cassini's prying infrared vision allows details of Saturn's storm-ridden hydrogen atmosphere to be revealed as never before. North of the dark south polar region is what may be a "polygonal wave" ...