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December 16, 2004
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Dawn LAMO Image 113
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Cassini's Oct. 28, 2005, Titan Flyby
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This image of Ceres' Occator Crater's eastern rim was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 9, 2018 from an altitude of about 30 miles (48 kilometers).
Occator Crater's Eastern Rim
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Rings on a Diagonal
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Unknown Origin
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A Real Shiner
In this image, Saturn's fascinating meteorology manifests itself in a "string of pearls" formation, spanning over 60,000 kilometers (37,000 miles). Seen in new images acquired by Cassini's visual ...
String of Pearls
Saturn's F ring shows several "mini-jets" near the upper-right of this image captured by the Cassini spacecraft. The A ring also appears in the lower-left of the image. The mini-jets are thought b...
Many Mini-Jets
This southern hemisphere scene from dwarf planet Ceres encompasses parts of the craters Mondamin and Darzamat. Mondamin is large crater located in the top half of image, Darzamat is at bottom-right...
Dawn XMO2 Image 15
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Titan's Halo
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows old cratered terrain located on asteroid Vesta's equator. Many of these craters have very degraded, rounded rims.
Old Cratered Terrain on Vesta's Equator
This map of Saturn's F ring illustrates how the ghostly strands flanking the core of this contorted ring, when examined in detail, actually form a spiral structure wound like a spring around the pl...
The F Ring's Spiral Arm
This image, obtained by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft, a peak at Vesta's south pole is seen at the lower right. The grooves in the equatorial region are about six miles wide.
Close-up View of Vesta's South Pole Region
Pandora and Prometheus Near F Ring May 24, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05393 Two of Satu...
Pandora and Prometheus Near F Ring
This global, colorized image of the giant asteroid Vesta from NASA's Dawn mission reveals how the minerals are distributed on the surface.
Vesta in the Infrared
This artist's rendering shows a cross-section of the surface and subsurface of Saturn's moon Titan, with a possible model for the structure of underground liquid reservoirs there.
Titan's Subsurface Reservoirs -- Unannotated
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