Moving Cassini for Testing

This photo was taken around the time of the Mariner 4 launch to Mars, which launched on 28 November 1964. 

The partial shadow of the moon Tethys demonstrates the variations in density across Saturn's rings. As the Cassini spacecraft looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 37 degrees...

This image of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake on the southern hemisphere of Saturn’s moon Titan, was obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 12, 2010. North is up in this image. Objects app...

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows chains of craters on an undulating surface probably formed of fine-grained debris, called regolith, which was ejected from large impac...

Artist's concept of Cassini orbiter crossing Saturn's ring plane.

In this synthetic aperture radar image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, two generally similar features, upper center and lower right, appear to be low mountains with grooves running roughly i...

This image was taken on 2004-02-19 20:44 (PST) and received on Earth 2004-02-21 17:21 (PST).

This image was taken on 2009-07-29 14:00 (PDT) and received on Earth 2009-07-30 17:06 (PDT).

These are two raw, or unprocessed, images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its close flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus on September 10. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission vi...

This computer-generated image shows the structure of the cyclonic pattern observed over Jupiter’s North pole: a central cyclone surrounded by eight circumpolar cyclones with diameters ranging from ...

Around the equator on its leading side, Tethys wears a band of slightly darker surface material. Cassini imaging scientists suspect that the darkened region may represent an area of less contaminat...

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 August 24, 2015, and has a resolution o...

The Cassini spacecraft looks toward Fensal and Aztlan, two dark areas near the equator of Titan. Like other albedo features on Titan, these areas are named after enchanted places or paradises from...

In the nick of time, the Cassini spacecraft snapped this image of the eastern rim of Saturn's moon Rhea's bright, ray crater. The impact event appears to have made a prominent bright splotch on the...

These two global images of Iapetus show the extreme brightness dichotomy on the surface of this peculiar Saturnian moon.

Is Dione (698 miles or 1123 kilometers across) suddenly larger than Rhea (949 miles or 1527 kilometers across)?

The Cassini narrow angle camera took images of the ropy, taffy-like topography of Saturn's moon Enceladus from many different angles as the spacecraft flew by on Feb. 17, 2005. Images from differen...

The turbulent boundaries between dark belts and bright zones are seen prominently in this processed image of Saturn's southern atmosphere. Disturbed boundaries between these cloud bands are due to ...

Wispy terrain stretches across the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione on the right of this Cassini image taken during the spacecraft's flyby on April 7, 2010. See Highest Resolution View o...

See also the non-annotated version. Astronomers have long known that Saturn's rings reflect sunlight most strongly when Earth is located directly between Saturn and the sun. Flat, shiny surfaces (...

+ View Unlabeled Version Details of Saturn's icy rings are visible in this sweeping view from Cassini of the planet's glorious ring system. This natural color mosaic, taken from 10 degrees below ...

Appearing like an iris of a human eye, the huge Odysseus Crater dominates the sphere of the moon Tethys. The Odysseus Crater is 450 kilometers, or 280 miles, across on Tethys, which is 1,062 kilom...

Moons and Gaps October 19, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06501 This image captures several important targets of the Cassini mission: icy moons, ri...

These two global images of Iapetus show the extreme brightness dichotomy on the surface of this peculiar Saturnian moon.

Light and dark halves of Titan are visible in this Cassini image which illustrates the seasonal changes in the northern and southern hemispheres. This picture was taken with a spectral filter that ...