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Great Dark Spot
Published:
December 17, 2004
Great Dark Spot
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During a non-targeted flyby by the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Nov. 26, 2005, Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer measured the spectrum of the plumes originating...
Enceladus Plume
This image was taken on 2009-07-29 14:00 (PDT) and received on Earth 2009-07-30 17:06 (PDT).
Image of Atlas
Recent Cassini images of Saturn's moon Enceladus backlit by the sun show the fountain-like sources of the fine spray of material that towers over the south polar region.
Fountains of Enceladus - Image #2
This set of images shows the areas mapped so far on Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini radar mapper using its synthetic aperture radar imaging mode. Labels represent the approximate longitude of ...
Titan (T13) Viewed by Cassini's Radar
The Stardust team celebrates confirmation the mission successfully collected comet and dust samples.
Stardust Comet Samples
This psychedelic view of Saturn and its rings is a composite made from images taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light c...
Saturnian Psychedelia
This infrared view looks toward middle to high northern latitudes on Saturn, revealing entrancing meanders in the clouds. The cloud patterns transition from puffier looking in the south -- possibly...
View to the North
Saturn dominates this colorful view, taken from a vantage point high above the rings. From here the Cassini spacecraft can see the rings' far side, where the dark shadow of Saturn abruptly terminat...
Over the Top
This image of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows hummocky terrain -- a surface covered in low, rounded hills -- with numerous impact craters of varying sizes.
Dawn HAMO Image 63
Sand dunes on the slopes of Nectaris Montes within Coprates Chasma, which is part of Mars' giant Valles Marineris canyon system, as seen by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbit...
Dunes in Nectaris Montes
A Voyager 2 view of Neptune processed by an amateur image processor. The image was taken on August 31st 1989 around 17:00 UTC by Voyager 2’s narrow angle camera.
Neptune - August 31, 1989
This impact crater appears relatively recent as it has a sharp rim and well-preserved ejecta, the material thrown out of the crater when a meteorite hit Mars.
Crisp Crater in Sirenum Fossae
Appearing like eyes on a potato, craters cover the dimly lit surface of the moon Prometheus in this high-resolution image from the Cassini spacecraft's early 2010 flyby. The Jan. 27 encounter repr...
Cratered Spud
The Cassini spacecraft takes an angled view toward Saturn, showing the southern reaches of the planet with the rings on a dramatic diagonal. North on Saturn is up and rotated 16 degrees to the lef...
Angling Saturn
Two of Saturn's icy attendants race past on their circuit of the ringed beauty. Mimas (397 kilometers, or 247 miles across), with its prominent crater Herschel, is seen at right. The shepherd moon...
Saturn's Confidants
Looking up toward Saturn's southern hemisphere, the Cassini spacecraft pictures a pair of the planet's moons orbiting in the distance. Tethys and Rhea orbit in the plane of the planet's rings, but...
Beyond Saturn's South
This image of a fracture network in Occator Crater on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 16, 2018 from an altitude of about 47 miles (76 kilometers).
Fracture Network in Occator Crater
Rhea's surface gains some depth in this stereo image, or anaglyph, which features the bright and geologically young-looking rayed crater on the moon's leading hemisphere. The view was created from ...
Rhea's Pop-up Crater
This image of a scarp in Occator Crater on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 3, 2018 from an altitude of about 26 miles (42 kilometers).
Scarp in Occator Crater
A beautiful ''mini-jet'' appears in the dynamic F ring of Saturn. Saturn's A ring (including the Keeler gap and just a hint of the Encke gap at the upper-right) also appears.
Marvelous Mini-Jet
This close-up view is Cassini's best look yet at Saturn's tenuous innermost D ring. The narrow ringlet visible here is named "D68" and is the innermost discrete feature in the D ring. The image als...
D is for 'Dust'
This close flyby of the south pole will feature fields and particles instruments learning more about the nature and number of the particles in the plumes. Remote sensing instruments will also be se...
Enceladus 'E-14' Flyby: Sensing Changes
Bright and dark terrains on Titan's trailing hemisphere are revealed by Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem in this mosaic of images taken during the T28 flyby in April 2007. The region shown in t...
Titan 'T28' Mosaic
A section of Saturn's perturbed F ring displays kinks in its bright strands. At left, edge waves in the Encke Gap, caused by the presence of Pan, can be seen, along with two faint ringlets. This v...
Bright Strands
+ Read Feature NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Rhea on March 10, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 26,257 miles (42,258 kilomet...
Rhea's Surface (Raw Image #3)
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