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December 16, 2004
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Omonga Crater on Ceres was named for a rice spirit who dwells in the moon, according to legends of the Mori people of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. NASA's Dawnspacecraft spotted Omonga from ab...
Dawn LAMO Image 72
Rippling with detail, the southern hemisphere of Saturn comes to life in this view from the Cassini spacecraft. Long, flowing streamers and bands of great contrast soften toward the pole, where a g...
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This montage of images shows the precise location of the north pole on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.
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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 was taken on September 20, 2015, and has a resolutio...
Dawn HAMO Image 36
The northern and southern hemispheres of Enceladus are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini and Voyager clear-filter images. [Editor's note: This capti...
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This ancient crater on Ceres displays a flattened floor and a low, rounded central peak. NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured the scene on Jan. 2, 2016.
Dawn LAMO Image 26
This low elevation image shows the G ring arc recently discovered by Cassini. This faint arc of material is maintained by a gravitational interaction with the moon Mimas. The image was taken in vi...
Lost Arc
Although Saturn's moon Pan is absent from this image of the A ring's Encke Gap, the moon's handiwork is still displayed. The two ringlets seen in the gap are maintained by the gravitational action...
Encke Ringlets
Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, and Jeff Cuzzi, Saturn ring specialist, stand in front of a section of the mural showing the ring particles with Saturn looming in the background.
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NASA's Dawn mission has found that craters on Ceres show a diversity of shapes that provide important clues about the structure of Ceres' subsurface; shown here is Fejokoo, a polygonal crater.
Fejokoo Crater
NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured this tortured landscape just south of Ghanan Crater on Ceres on May 28, 2016, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) above the surface.
Dawn LAMO Image 155
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a rough surface covered with ejecta and fine grooves on the giant asteroid Vesta.
Rough Topography in the Rheasilvia Basin
The Sun's rays strike the terrains near the terminator on Tethys at low angles, throwing features there into sharp relief. The cluster of peaks at the center of the crater Odysseus (450 kilometers,...
Rough Sphere of Tethys
This image, taken on June 18, 2015 by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) -- a mountain 3 miles (5 kilometers) high, surrounded by re...
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 19
Cassini's radar instrument obtained another in its series of north polar swaths of Titan on April 10, 2007. This image exposes more of the transition between the mid-latitudes and the polar area, ...
Titan (T28) Viewed by Cassini's Radar -- April 10, 2007
Light from the star Beta Crucis (Mimosa) breaks through the plane of the A ring in the center of this image of a stellar occultation. Several of Cassini's remote-sensing instruments use occultatio...
A Star Shines Through
Saturn's moon Pandora is almost overwhelmed by the brightness of the F ring in this view.
Brilliant F Ring
The Cassini spacecraft captures a couple of small moons in this image taken while the spacecraft was nearly in the plane of Saturn's rings. Near the top of this image, a crescent Mimas (396 kilome...
Mimas and Pan
The Cassini spacecraft's current high-inclination orbit allows for some fantastic perspectives, like this shot of Saturn's south pole, which looks toward the rings beyond. The dark bullseye at the...
Down Below
The small, bright crater Oxo on Ceres is featured in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft taken on Oct. 17, 2016. Oxo (6 miles, 10 kilometers in diameter) is located at mid-latitudes on Ceres and...
Dawn XMO2 Image 1
This global digital map of Saturn's moon Rhea was created using data taken during Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 667 meters (2,188 fe...
Map of Rhea - December 2005
Saturn's northern hemisphere is visible through its disc of icy particles. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the A ring from about 21 degrees below the ringplane. The image was taken in vi...
Behind the Veil
Looking like half of a figure eight, two of Saturn's moons appear conjoined in this Cassini spacecraft image. The moon Dione, at the top in the image, is actually closer to the spacecraft here. Ho...
Conjoined Moons
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