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December 16, 2004
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With Cassini’s exploration of Saturn coming to a dashing end in a few months, the mission team scheduled an “All Cassini Plus Alumni” group photo to commemorate the event.
The Cassini Team
See also the non-annotated version. Astronomers have long known that Saturn's rings reflect sunlight most strongly when Earth is located directly between Saturn and the sun. Flat, shiny surfaces (...
Cat's eye rings and peek-a-boo shadows (annotated)
Florida, the Bahamas and Cuba as seen by the International Space Station.
Florida, the Bahamas, and Cuba
+ Xanadu's Channels and Dunes + Annotated version In a sweeping mosaic of the low latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan, the bright landmass of the enigmatic region known as Xanadu stand...
Xanadu's channels and dunes (Related image)
The dramatic plane of Saturn's rings is indeed a huge expanse. Gazing straight across the vertical center of this view, the Cassini spacecraft takes in more than 200,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) ...
Across the Disk
Saturn's moon Pan is seen here orbiting within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A ring in two differently processed versions of the same Cassini image. The little moon is responsible for clearing and main...
Revealing Pan's Influence
Bright spokes grace Saturn's B ring in this Cassini spacecraft snapshot that also features a couple of the planet's moons large and small. Dione (1,123 kilometers, or 698 miles across) can be seen...
Spoke Embellishment
Two pairs of moons make a rare joint appearance. The F ring's shepherd moons, Prometheus and Pandora, appear just inside and outside of the F ring (the thin faint ring furthest from Saturn).
Four Moons
Booters Separating
Boosters Separating
An artists's concept of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft seen orbiting near the surface of the moon.
LADEE Above the Lunar Surface Artist's Concept
The Cassini spacecraft takes a detailed look at the northern part of the huge Odysseus Crater on Saturn's moon Tethys. The crater dominates the left half of this view of Tethys (660 miles, or 1,06...
Northern Odysseus
This half-lit view beautifully captures the ponderously old and cratered surface of Saturn's icy moon Rhea. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across. The sunlit terrain shown here is on the mo...
Half-Moon
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...
Dawn HAMO Image 62
Saturn's moon Tethys appears to float between two sets of rings in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but it's just a trick of geometry.
Ices and Shadows
Mysterious Titan begins to appear more familiar as the Cassini spacecraft explores the once hidden surface of this Earth-like moon. + View the interactive feature
Saturn Moons Explorer: Titan
Titan's south polar vortex mimics the moon itself, creating an elegant crescent within a crescent.
Titan's Crescents
Saturn's moon Enceladus is partially eclipsed by the planet in this Cassini spacecraft view which also features the moon Titan in the distance. Cassini flew by Enceladus, shown in the center of th...
Eclipsing a Moon
Looking down onto the northern hemisphere of geologically complex Enceladus, the Cassini spacecraft spies softened, or "relaxed," craters and east-west trending fractures and faults. The anti-Satu...
Relaxing on Enceladus
With nearby Saturn looming large, the Cassini spacecraft spies the bright distant moon Tethys in the icy blackness beyond. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 15...
Distant Moon
An ethereal, glowing spot appears on Saturn's B ring in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Surge in the Ring
The Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and the large, equatorial bright region at center called Adiri. The Huygens probe landing site is in view here, northwest of Adiri. North on Titan (5,150 ...
Adiri in View
Intriguing features resembling drapes and kinks are visible in this Cassini view of Saturn's thin F ring. Several distinct ringlets are present, in addition to the bright, knotted core of the ring....
In the Moon's Wake
The slim crescent of the moon Rhea glides silently onto the featureless, golden face of Saturn in this mesmerizing color movie. In an interplay of contrast and shadow, the moon goes dark against th...
Rhea Transits Saturn
+ View Related Video In this image of a Saturnian Groundhog Day, the moon Epimetheus has seen its shadow cast on the rings in a forecast of the future. Dramatic moon shadows will dance across the ...
Groundhog Day on Saturn
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows part of the sharp, fresh rim of a large crater on asteroid Vesta. There is some bright material slumping towards the center of this crater but this is m...
Sharp Crater Rim with Dark Material and Boulders
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