Spacecraft Trajectory

                  Rings and Moons June 21, 2004   Full-Res: PIA05410                     Saturn¿s magnificent rings sh...

+ Un-annotated version The constant change in Saturn’s wavy, wiggly F ring is on display in this set of images obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The images show a view looking directly down o...

+ Also see Titan's Lingering Clouds -- Annotated Lots of clouds are visible in this infrared image of Saturn's moon Titan. These clouds form and move much like those on Earth, but in a much slower...

In this extremely narrow angle field-of-view artist's rendering Iapetus, with its notable dark surface, occupies the foreground with a dimly lit crescent Saturn low in the sky. Iapetus' surface sh...

In Saturn's bluish north, day ends for the dreamy white clouds that stretch here into twilight. This natural color scene shows middle latitudes in Saturn's north at excellent resolution, and with ...

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows craters with both sharp and smooth rims. The most obvious is the large crater in the bottom left of the image.

This Synthetic Aperture Radar image of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan was obtained by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 7, 2005. The bright, rough region on the left side of the image seems to b...

On its fourth and final targeted flyby of Rhea, the Cassini spacecraft provided this stunning view of the ancient and heavily cratered surface. Billions of years of impacts have sculpted Rhea's sur...

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...

When viewed from a distance with the sun directly behind Cassini, the larger, brighter craters really stand out on moons like Dione. 

These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moon Dione were taken on Dec. 12, 2011, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Although Cassini obtained more detailed images on previous flybys of Dione, this was ...

This Cassini narrow-angle camera image -- one of those acquired in the survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus -- was taken as Cassin...

The Sun sinks below the horizon in this stunning panoramic view captured by NASA's Spirit Mars rover in 2005.

Recent Cassini images of Saturn's moon Enceladus backlit by the sun show the fountain-like sources of the fine spray of material that towers over the south polar region. This image was taken lookin...

This side-perspective view of Ceres' mysterious mountain Ahuna Mons was made with images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Dawn took these images in December 2015.

                  Cassini Captures the Cassini Division July 1, 2004   Full-Res: PIA06092   This image shows the regi...

The waxing Moon rises over a ridge in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah.

The Cassini spacecraft stares toward Saturn through its gauzy veil of rings. The great ice-particle screen acts like a filter here, attenuating the glare from the planet and making its high altitud...

                  Cassini Enters Saturn's Orbit July 1, 2004     After becoming the first spacecraft to enter Saturn'...

The Cassini spacecraft snapped this shot of cratered Dione as it flew by the Saturnian moon on Oct. 17, 2010. The large crater at the center of the image is Erulus, which is about 120 kilometers, ...

This Cassini view features several interesting attributes that show how moons help shape the rings of Saturn. The embedded moon Daphnis (7 kilometers, or 4.3 miles across) is seen in its narrow ga...

Of all the planets NASA has explored, none have matched the dynamic complexity of our own.

Relatively dark regions below bright crater walls and streaks on some of the walls are seen in this mosaic of Saturn's moon Mimas, created from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its ...

This view of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 29, 2016, shows craters just south of the large impact basin named Ghanan.

The F ring shepherd moon Prometheus touches the face of Saturn once more before moving off into blackness and continuing in its orbit. The F ring itself is visible as a thin line just below Promet...