Great Dark Spot

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, peeks out from under the planet's rings of ice. This view looks toward Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across) from slightly beneath the ringplane. The dark E...

This detailed Cassini view of the monstrous vortex at Saturn's south pole provides valuable insight about the mechanisms that power the planet's atmosphere.

This image shows Titan, Saturn's largest moon (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles, across), with a streak-like cloud near its south pole. The cloud may be part of a region of polar clouds seen duri...

Distant Tethys August 20, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06460 With just a bit of detail visible on its lit hemisphere, Tethys was imaged by Ca...

Clouds near the boundary of day and night on Saturn show unusual three-dimensional structure in this Cassini view. At this location on the planet, the Sun is at a very low angle, causing vertical r...

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a portion of the northern hemisphere of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 1,4...

The bright, perturbed core of Saturn's F ring displays several kink-like features. The core is flanked by dimmer, smoother ringlets. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from...

This synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) image was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 25, 2016, during its "T-121" pass over Titan’s southern latitudes. See PIA20713 for an alternate version ...

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a variety of small craters in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. The majority of Ceres images from Dawn show heavily cratered terrains such as this.

+ View Non-Annotated Version Heat radiating from the entire length of 150 kilometer (95 mile)-long fractures is seen in this best-yet heat map of the active south polar region of Saturn's ice mo...

Click here for the QuickTime video. For this movie, Cassini pointed its cameras toward Saturn's moon Dione to witness its distant sibling moon Rhea briefly pass behind in a series of 32 individual...

An eclipse of the Sun as seen from the Apollo 12 spacecraft.

The dark B ring of Saturn is highlighted here by numerous faint spokes. The two most prominent spokes are seen below and to the right of center. This view looks toward the unlit side of the rings ...

This group of spokes in Saturn's B ring extends over more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) radially across the ringplane. The bright wedge to the left of center has a trailing edge (its top rig...

A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on December 31, 2012, twisting and turning.

N00151577.jpg was taken on February 13, 2010 and received on Earth February 15, 2010. The camera was pointing toward MIMAS at approximately 40,404 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the...

Gazing Upon Mimas September 9, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06473 On its first orbit of the ringed planet, the Cassini spacecraft gazed into ...

These apparent brightness and topography images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Gegania quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere.

The ancient gorge of Ithaca Chasma carves a path across Tethys and continues out of sight over the moon's limb. This great rift is a system of canyons that is 100 kilometers (60 miles) across on av...

Craters large and small cover the rugged surface of Saturn's moon Janus. This view looks toward the southern hemisphere of Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across at its widest point). The moon...

                  Rings and Shadows May 25, 2004   Full-Res: PIA05394                     Saturn's rings cast threadli...

Oddball Moon November 24, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06527 This image reveals the odd shape of Saturn's moon Hyperion and an intriguing variati...

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken on June 6, 2016, shows an area within the large crater Mondamin (78 miles, 126 kilometers wide) on Ceres.

Titan's south polar vortex mimics the moon itself, creating an elegant crescent within a crescent.

Atlas Found! June 29, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06076 The Cassini spacecraft has sighted the tiny moon Atlas, which is seen here for the ...