Ring World Highlights

Moons and Gaps October 19, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06501 This image captures several important targets of the Cassini mission: icy moons, ri...

The shadow of the moon Mimas has just slipped off Saturn's rings and onto the planet in this Cassini spacecraft image. The shadow is visible as a short dash below the rings' shadows on the planet....

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 August 21, 2015, and has a resolution o...

Saturn's restless clouds offer endless complexity, such as this small-scale repeating pattern upon which is superimposed a larger-scale wavelike modulation of the boundary between a bright zone and...

Cassini prepared for its rendezvous with Dione on Oct. 11, 2005, capturing the brilliant, cratered iceball in front of its shadow-draped planet. The terrain seen here becomes notably darker toward...

Dione and Rhea pair up for an occultation, or mutual event, as seen by Cassini. While the lit portion of each moon is but a crescent, the dark side of Dione has begun to take a bite out of its dist...

Saturn's moon Atlas plies the Roche Division between the A ring and the thin F ring. Atlas (30 kilometers, or 19 miles across) is near the center of the image. Bright specks in the image are backg...

This image of asteroid Vesta is one of many images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft to create an animation showing the diversity of minerals through color representation.

Daphnis drifts through the Keeler gap, at the center of its entourage of waves. The little moon (7 kilometers, or 4.3 miles across) draws material in the Keeler gap (42 kilometers, or 26 miles wid...

The map is a Mercator projection and has a resolution of 460 feet (140 meters) per pixel. The images used to make this map were taken from Dawn's high-altitude mapping orbit (HAMO), at a distance o...

Atmospheric Motion

Artist's concept of Mars Climate Orbiter over Mars.

Saturn's shadow spreads across the rings here, extending beyond the F ring and its tenuous, flanking ringlets. This view catches Saturn's moon Mimas on its day-long sojourn around the planet. Mima...

Never-before-seen tall vertical structures created by Saturn's moon Daphnis rise above the planet's otherwise flat, thin disk of rings to cast long shadows in this Cassini image. Daphnis, 8 kilome...

Saturn's rings, partially darkened by the planet's shadow, cut a striking figure before Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The night side of the planet is to the left, out of the frame of the image. Il...

+ Highest Resolution Available An artist's imagination of hydrocarbon pools, icy and rocky terrain on the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan. Image by Ron Jackson -- Binghamton, N.Y.

This global digital map of Saturn's moon Rhea was created using data obtained by NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 417 meters (1,400 fe...

The far side of Earth's Moon.

+ Visit the Nov. 2 Enceladus Flyby Page In this artist's concept of the Nov. 2, 2009 flyby, Cassini is flying through the mysterious plumes of Enceladus. At its closest point, the Cassini spacecr...

The cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this rare look at Earth and its moon from Saturn orbit on July 19, 2013. 

This Cassini image captures three of Saturn's ring moons in a single view. From left to right, the moons seen in this view are Pandora (84 kilometers, or 52 miles across), Janus (181 kilometers, or...

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket with the NASA InSight spacecraft onboard shortly after the mobile service tower was rolled back, May 4, 2018. InSight launched on May 5.

This high resolution image of the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, reveals a surface criss-crossed by multiple sets of ridges and fractures. 

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of various craters on asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on August 19, 2011. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.

This radar image of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan was acquired on October 26, 2004, when the Cassini spacecraft flew approximately 1,600 kilometers (994 miles) above the surface and acquired r...