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Io in Eclipse
Published:
December 16, 2004
Io in Eclipse
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The Janus/Epimetheus Ring
A recent study finds that the lake known as Ontario Lacus on Saturn's moon Titan (left) bears striking similarity to a salt pan on Earth known as the Etosha Pan (right). A salt pan is a lake bed th...
Titan and Earth Similarities
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows terrain in the southern hemisphere of Ceres. Most of the image is the impact crater named Annona (37 miles, 60 kilometers across); the smaller, prominent...
Dawn LAMO Image 136
As the long winter night deepens at Enceladus' south pole, its jets are also progressively falling into darkness. The shadow of the moon itself is slowly creeping up the jets making the portions cl...
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NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn was awarded the 2012 National Air and Space Museum Trophy for Current Achievement on March 21 at a black-tie dinner in Washington, D.C. Pictured (from left ...
National Air and Space Museum Award for Cassini-Huygens
Long shadows stretch away from the towering edge waves created by the gravity of the moon Daphnis in this image taken a little more than a week before Saturn's August 2009 equinox. Tiny Daphnis (8...
Slanting Shadows
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this view of Azacca Crater on Ceres. The rim of this crater has terraces descending from its rim down to its floor. The crater's floor is relatively free of large im...
Dawn LAMO Image 38
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Ghostly Spokes
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Windswept Opportunity Rover
This enhanced-color image of the northern hemisphere of Saturn taken by Voyager 1 on November 5, 1980 at a range of 9 million kilometers (5.5 million miles) shows a variety of features in Saturn's ...
Saturnian Clouds
The Cassini spacecraft looks through the dense B ring toward a distant star in an image from a recent stellar occultation observation. These observations point the camera toward a star whose bright...
Light From a Flickering Star
Enceladus shows off its tortured south polar terrain, which is crosscut by the roughly parallel furrows and ridges called sulci, or informally, "tiger stripes." Several features on Enceladus were ...
Arabian Sulci
Jets of water ice particles spew from Saturn's moon Enceladus in this image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 13, 2010.
Before Saturn's Limb
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows cratered terrain just south of the equator of Ceres. Dawn took this image on June 15, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about ...
Dawn LAMO Image 207
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Saturn Through the Haze
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Topography and Albedo Image of Central Complex and Hummocky Terrain
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Perturbed Edge
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Flight across Titan
NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this image of the surface of Saturn's icy moon Rhea during its closest flyby of the moon. Rhea's surface is scarred by many craters and several long, cross-cuttin...
Cross-cutting Faults on Rhea
This image of Ceres is part of a sequence taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 4, 2015, from a distance of 8,400 miles (13,600 kilometers).
Dawn RC3 Image 12
Clouds in Saturn's atmosphere create an intricate pattern reminiscent of whipped cream swirling in coffee.
Coffee and Cream Clouds
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 9, 2015, and has a resolution...
Dawn HAMO Image 32
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Equinoctial Clumps
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Encke Inhabitants
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