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Atmospheric Motion
Published:
December 16, 2004
Atmospheric Motion
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The Saturn System
This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the NASA Planetary Data System in 2012. For more information on raw images check out our Freque...
Enceladus (Raw Image 4)
Complex Pattern on the Floor of Occator Crater
Complex Pattern on the Floor of Occator Crater
In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower Friday, August 12, 2016 in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.
Perseid Meteor Over West Virginia
Flying past Saturn's moon Dione, Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet's rings.
Closest Dione Flyby
The Cassini spacecraft looks down at craters near the north pole of Enceladus. Cratered surfaces on solar system moons indicate older terrains, while smooth surfaces are generally younger, and t...
Smooth and Rough Enceladus
A 1909 VDB penny sent to Mars aboard the Curiosity rover as part of an image calibration target (and a nod to a geology tradition of using a coin for scale).
Lucky Penny on Mars
The leading hemisphere of Dione displays subtle variations in color across its surface in this false color view. To create this view, ultraviolet, green and infrared images were combined into a si...
Detail on Dione (False Color)
Fresh and Bright Canuleia
Fresh and Bright Canuleia
Swirls and Eddies September 10, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06474 Saturn puts on a mesmerizing display in this image from August 7, 2004. Turbu...
Swirls and Eddies
This false-color infrared image, obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows clouds of large ammonia ice particles dredged up by a powerful storm in Saturn's northern hemisphere. Large updrafts dr...
Updrafts of Large Ammonia Crystals in Saturn Storm
This near-infrared color image shows a specular reflection, or sunglint, off of a hydrocarbon lake named Kivu Lacus on Saturn's moon Titan.
Sunglint on a Hydrocarbon Lake
Cassini captured this raw image on its Nov. 02, 2009, flyby of Enceladus. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus from approximately 14,000 kilometers (9,000 miles) away. This image has not been ...
Enceladus flyby - Nov. 2, 2009 (Image 1)
Mapping Titan's Surface July 2, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06086 Like the mysterious dark markings on Mars that once haunted astronomer Pe...
Mapping Titan's Surface
Like a drop of dew hanging on a leaf, Tethys appears to be stuck to the A and F rings from this perspective.
Stuck on the Rings
A huge arrow-shaped storm blows across the equatorial region of Titan in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, chronicling the seasonal weather changes on Saturn's largest moon. This storm cr...
Titan's Arrow-Shaped Storm
Maat Mons is displayed in this computer generated three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus.
Venus - 3D Perspective View of Maat Mons
Saturn, stately and resplendent in this natural color view, dwarfs the icy moon Rhea. Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) orbits beyond the rings on the right of the image. The moon Tethy...
Stately Saturn
A network of river channels is located atop Xanadu, the continent-sized region on Saturn's moon Titan. This radar image was captured by the Cassini Radar Mapper on April 30, 2006. These winding, ...
Xanadu's Meandering Rivers
With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even g...
In Saturn's Shadow
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Night on Saturn
A four-panel frame shows a section of Jupiter's north equatorial belt viewed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft at four different wavelengths, and a separate reference frame shows the location of the b...
Equatorial Area
The highest resolution images of Pan and Atlas reveal distinctive "flying saucer" shapes created by prominent equatorial ridges not seen on the other small moons of Saturn. From left to right: a v...
Saturn's Saucer Moons
Saturn's innermost moon Pan orbits the giant planet seemingly alone in a ring gap its own gravity creates.
Pan Alone in the Gap
Artist's concept of LADEE spacecraft approaching the moon.
LADEE Approaches the Moon
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