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Moving Cassini for Testing
Published:
December 17, 2004
Moving Cassini for Testing
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Scarred and battered Rhea fills the Cassini spacecraft's view. Notable here is the sharp relief of steep crater walls near the terminator. Icy Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) is Satur...
Cratered Iceball
This strikingly crisp view shows Atlas heading into Saturn's shadow at upper left. The moon's basic, elongated shape is easy to detect here. (See Watching Atlas's Waistline for a different perspec...
Toward the Shadow
Our solar system features eight planets, seen in this artist's diagram.
Our Solar System
Dawn LAMO Image 161
Dawn LAMO Image 161
Dawn LAMO Image 73
Dawn LAMO Image 73
Saturn's most prominent feature, its dazzling ring system, takes center stage in this stunning natural color mosaic which reveals the color and diversity present in this wonder of the solar system.
Panoramic Rings
A nearly full Rhea shines in the sunlight in this recent Cassini image.
Rhea's Day in the Sun
Dark material has coated the low-elevation terrain and the interiors of craters in the southern portions of the quadrant on Iapetus that faces away from Saturn. This is part of the boundary region ...
Speckled Surface
Dawn LAMO Image 121
Dawn LAMO Image 121
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...
Iapetus flyby -- two raw images
'Rubber Duck' on Ceres
'Rubber Duck' on Ceres
Roughly a quarter of majestic Saturn is illuminated in this view captured while the Cassini spacecraft was orbiting near the planet's equatorial plane. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit ...
Quarter Saturn
Two 2001 images from the Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter show a dramatic change in the planet's appearance when haze raised by dust-storm activity in the south became glo...
Dust Haze Hiding the Martian Surface in 2001
Sitting along the northwest rim of the Pacific Ring of Fire, Kamchatka is one of the most volcanically active parcels of land in the world.
Plumes Over the Kamchatka Peninsula
The terminator encroaches upon Penelope, one of the largest craters on Saturn's moon Tethys. Two other large craters, Polyphemus and Phemius, are visible near the limb in this view of the southern ...
Penelope on Tethys
The small dot moving slightly off to the left of center in this image is newly-discovered Kuiper Belt object 2004 DW.
Distant Planetoid
This enhanced-color mosaic of Saturn's icy moon Tethys shows a range of features on the moon's trailing hemisphere.
The Colors of Tethys II
Here we see President John F. Kennedy giving his historic message to a joint session of the Congress, on 25 May 1961.
Kennedy Giving Historic Speech to Congress
Flight Over Ceres
Flight Over Ceres
Impact Craters with Different Preservation States
Impact Craters with Different Preservation States
Blocks of Ejected Material and Small Craters Near a Crater Rim
Blocks of Ejected Material and Small Craters Near a Crater Rim
Pandora loops around Saturn, confining the narrow F ring as it goes. Craters are visible on the moon's surface in this view. See Pandora's Color Close-up for a closer view of Pandora (84 kilomete...
Ring Escort
In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower Friday, August 12, 2016 in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.
Perseid Meteor Shower 2016
These two color composite images of Saturn's moon Iapetus from Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer were obtained on Dec. 31, 2004, an hour and a half before the New Year, at a distan...
VIMS Iapetus Two Shooter
At high resolution, terrain in the transition region between bright and dark hemispheres on Saturn's moon Iapetus reveals a spotty appearance reminiscent of a Dalmatian. The bright material on the...
Spotty Iapetus
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