Io in Eclipse

"Saturn Calling" Musician Jeff Oster turns the extraterrestrial songs of the ringed planet into beautiful New Age Jazz. + Listen (MP3, 5.0 MB) Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/Jeff...

Cassini offers this lovely, crisp view of Saturn, which shows detail in the planet's banded atmosphere, as well as the delicate ring system. The image has been rotated so that north on Saturn is u...

Saturn's moon Daphnis raises waves wherever it goes. In fact, such waves are one way that scientists search for undiscovered moons in the ring gaps. 

Eight years ago today, ESA’s Huygens bounced, slid and wobbled its way to rest on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan, the first time a probe had touched down on an alien world in the outer Solar Sy...

This global map of Saturn’s moon Iapetus was created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage. Iapetus is the moon of Sa...

With the icy rings between them, Dione and Tethys each show off the prominent features for which they are known. Dione, beyond the rings, displays wispy fractures that adorn its trailing side. Teth...

Saturn's shadow passes over its rings as the Cassini spacecraft looks on in this artist's concept. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech + High Resolution (.jpg, 412 KB) + Highest Resolution (.tif, 10.1 MB)

Titan's atmosphere puts on a display with the detached haze to the north (top of image) and the polar vortex to the south.

This spectacular image shows Prometheus (at right) and Pandora (at left), with their flock of icy ring particles (the F ring) between them. Pandora is exterior to the ring, and closer to the spacec...

Jezero Crater is the landing site for NASA's Mars 2020 rover.

+ View Full Res This raw, unprocessed image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 2, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 14,835 miles (23,875 kilometers) away. Thi...

A single jet feature appears to leap from the F ring of Saturn in this image from the Cassini spacecraft.

Saturn's moon Rhea looms "over" a smaller and more distant Epimetheus against a striking background of planet and rings. The two moons aren't actually close to each other. The view was obtained a...

Voyager 1 looked back at Saturn on November 16, 1980, four days after the spacecraft flew past the planet, to observe the appearance of Saturn and its rings from this unique perspective. A few of t...

This map illustrates the planned imaging coverage for the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer, onboard the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during the probe's descent toward Titan's surface on ...

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These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Tuccia quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere.

This is the first image of Saturn¿s ultraviolet aurora taken by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope in October 1997, when Saturn was at a distance of 1.3 ...

This scene from Ceres, captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows an older crater (at top center) that has been blanketed by impact ejecta from the younger crater to its right.

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a portion of the famous "White Rock" feature in Pollack Crater in the Sinus Sabaeus region of Mars.

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...

Fluids have flowed and cut these deeply-incised channels into the icy surface of Titan as seen in this Synthetic Aperture Radar image. The channels are roughly 1 kilometer across (0.6 miles) and p...

Epimetheus (116 kilometers, or 72 miles across, at right) and Janus (181 kilometers, or 113 miles across, at left) are lit here by reflected "greylight" from Saturn. The Sun brightens only thin sli...

As it approached Titan for yet another revealing encounter, the Cassini spacecraft acquired this image showing terrain on the moon's Saturn-facing hemisphere. Prominent dark areas found in the moo...

A large crater on Saturn's tiny moon Janus is distinctly visible in this Cassini spacecraft image. Lit terrain seen here is on the leading hemisphere of Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across)...