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Io Color Eclipse
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December 16, 2004
Io Color Eclipse
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Smooth Material on Ceres
Saturn's moon Titan displays a detached, high-altitude global haze layer which is often its most prominent feature in ultraviolet views such as this one. See Titan's Halo [Dec. 22, 2005] to learn ...
Titan's Halo
Saturn's moon Rhea is gently lit in front of a background of the planet with a wide shadow cast by the rings which are seen nearly edge-on. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Rhea (1,5...
Rhea, Rings and Shadow
Cassini's landmark investigation of Saturn's yin-yang moon Iapetus, with its bright and dark hemispheres, continues to provide insights into the nature of this intriguing body. These two views of ...
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Sunlight strikes the terminator (the boundary between day and night) region on Saturn's moon Iapetus at nearly horizontal angles, making visible the vertical relief of many features. This view is ...
To the Relief of Iapetus
[Note: Re-issued and updated July 8, 2010] An unusually large propeller feature is detected just beyond the Encke Gap in this Cassini image of Saturn's outer A ring taken a couple days after the p...
Giant Propeller in A Ring
Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of Venus.
Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble
Studying meteorites from the asteroid Vesta helps scientists understand the event known as the 'lunar cataclysm,' when a repositioning of the gas giant planets destabilized a portion of the asteroi...
A Shared Bombardment History
Some of Saturn's satellites lie within the rings while others are outside the ring system. This slide illustrates the relationship between satellites and rings around Saturn. The ring plane crossin...
Saturn Systems Road Map
Scientists believe a large number of the meteorites that are found on Earth originate from the protoplanet Vesta. This image is from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
Possible Piece of Vesta
This almost surreal view of Iapetus was acquired by Cassini about 10 minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach to the icy moon during a close flyby on New Year's Eve 2004.
Iapetus by Saturn Shrine
A point of light flickers behind Saturn's rings as multiple instruments on the Cassini spacecraft observe a stellar occultation of Antares (or alpha Scorpii). Such observations are designed to un...
Flickering Antares
This close-up look at Saturn's moon Janus reveals spots on the moon's surface which may be dark material exposed by impacts. If the dark markings within bright terrain are indeed impact features, t...
Spots on Janus
Martian weather between May 14, 2018 and May 20, 2018: The Mars Color Imager (MARCI) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) acquires a global view of the red planet and its weather patterns e...
Martian Weather Report
The Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn's moon Rhea at crescent phase, a view never visible from Earth. Near the terminator, a few of Rhea's many craters show up in sharp relief. With a diameter o...
Crescent Rhea
A flat, calm, liquid methane-ethane lake on Titan is depicted in this artist's concept. For a high resolution image, click here. Credit: Copyright 2008 Karl Kofoed
Methane-Ethane Lakes of Titan
This schematic graphic illustrates the bombardments that lead to colorful splotches and bands on the surfaces of several icy moons of Saturn. The arrow indicating the orbital motion of the moon is ...
Moons Under Bombardment
A note left for engineers working on the assembly of the Cassini spacecraft at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1996.
Cassini Assembly Note
The Cassini spacecraft captured this color portrait of Saturn and Titan only a few minutes before the haze-enshrouded moon slipped behind the planet's enormous bulk. The view looks toward the sunli...
Titan Slips Away
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft taken on May 30, 2016, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) above the surface, shows the center of Gaue Crater (52 miles or 84 kilometers wide) on...
Dawn LAMO Image 166
The geologic diversity of Titan's surface is well illustrated by this synthetic aperture radar image, obtained on Oct. 28, 2005, during the Cassini spacecraft's ninth Titan fly-by and fourth radar ...
Diverse Geology
Cassini scientist Dr. Kevin Baines discusses Saturn's Cyclones. Saturn’s serene appearance belies the roiling atmosphere beneath the clouds that is producing features such as cyclones. + See view...
Kevin Baines on Saturn's Cyclones
Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft.
Mars Valles Marineris Hemisphere Enhanced
This anaglyph of Ceres is part of a sequence of images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft April 24 to 26, 2015, from a distance of 8,500 miles (13,500 kilometers). 3-D glasses are needed to view this ...
Dawn RC3 Image 1 Anaglyph
This artist's concept shows an x-ray image of the Phoenix Lander in its pre-landing stowed configuration.
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