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Io in Eclipse
Published:
December 16, 2004
Io in Eclipse
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Daphnis, the tiny moon that inhabits the Keeler Gap in the outer edge of Saturn's A ring, is captured here in remarkable detail with its entourage of waves. The edge waves are especially bright in...
Daphnis At Work
This image was obtained by Cassini's radar instrument during a flyby on 15/02/2005. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 1,577 kilometers (890 miles) during the closest app...
Titan Radar Swath (T-3 Flyby - Feb. 15, 2005)
Two large craters lie along the boundary between day and night on Saturn's moon Rhea. The bright spots in the middle of each crater may be prominent central peaks. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 mi...
Rhea's Crescent
Tiny, dust-sized particles in Saturn's rings become much easier to see at high phase angle -- the angle formed by the Sun, the rings and the spacecraft. The brightest ring at the right is the F rin...
Janus Hides in Plain Sight
Prometheus has just passed -- and gravitationally disturbed -- some of the fine particulate material in the F ring, creating the sheared gap visible in the inner strands of the ring. Prometheus is...
Passing Lane
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and Mimas, closer but much smaller on the right, are seen together in this view from Cassini. Titan's gravity is weaker than Earth's, so the moon's atmosphere is quite...
Mimas...and Titan Beyond
The Cassini spacecraft monitors the myriad cloud forms that drift in Saturn's atmosphere, helping scientists gain a better understanding of how energy is transported around, and from within, the pl...
Following the Clouds
This Voyager 2 photograph of Titan, taken August 23, 1981 from a range of 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles), shows some detail in the cloud systems on this Saturnian moon. The southern hem...
Titan Clouds
HAMO and LAMO Images of Rubria Crater
HAMO and LAMO Images of Rubria Crater
Enceladus blasts its icy spray into space in this unlit-side ring view that also features a tiny sliver of Rhea. The south polar region of Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) peeks out fr...
Softly Glowing Scene
A pair of moon shadows and a series of spokes adorn this ring image taken about a month after Saturn's August 2009 equinox. The shadow of the moon Janus stretches across the middle of the image. T...
Shadows Side by Side
The Cassini spacecraft looks at a brightly illuminated Enceladus and examines the surface of the leading hemisphere of this Saturnian moon.
Brilliant Enceladus
As Cassini spacecraft images often show, the Sun is not the only source of illumination in the Saturn System. The huge, reflective planet also shines upon its moons. This image was acquired by Cas...
The Light of Night
This is a raw, or unprocessed, image taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its close flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007.
Iapetus -- raw image
Thin lineaments cross back and forth on the surface of Saturn's moon Rhea in this equatorial view. These lines can be seen intersecting craters on Rhea (1528 kilometers, 949 miles across). This vi...
Crisscrossing Rhea
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 47
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 47
Dawn RC3 Image 21
Dawn RC3 Image 21
The slim crescent of the moon Rhea glides silently onto the featureless, golden face of Saturn in this mesmerizing color movie. In an interplay of contrast and shadow, the moon goes dark against th...
Rhea Transits Saturn
Vibidia AV-L-20
Vibidia AV-L-20
Xevioso Crater on Ceres
Xevioso Crater on Ceres
Ithaca Chasma is one of the two most prominent features on Saturn's moon Tethys; the other is the gigantic crater Odysseus. Ithaca Chasma is visible near the moon's lower right limb in this image, ...
The Great Rift
Dawn Takes a Closer Look at Occator
Dawn Takes a Closer Look at Occator
+ Viewing options The small moon Mimas passes in front of the larger moon Rhea, which is partly obscured by Saturn's rings, in this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Observations of mutual m...
Before a Veiled Rhea
Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Fabia Crater
Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Fabia Crater
The Cassini spacecraft gazes upward at the face of giant Saturn, seeing beyond the equator to where ring shadows fall across the bluish northern latitudes. This extreme southern view looks northwa...
Looking Up
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