Great Dark Spot

Saturn's moon Tethys displays its distinctive dark equatorial band here, along with two sizeable impact craters in the west. The larger crater to the north is Odysseus, which has a diameter (450 ki...

Two moons that have profound impacts on the rings, Mimas and Prometheus, are seen here with the F ring.

Cassini's high-gain antenna is able to operate at S, X, Ka, and Ku-band frequencies. In addition to communications (X-band between Earth and orbiter, and S-band from probe to orbiter), radio scie...

This high resolution image of the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, reveals a surface criss-crossed by multiple sets of ridges and fractures. 

Images taken of Saturn's rings by Cassini immediately after it entered orbit around Saturn have turned up circumstantial evidence that an unseen moon may be orbiting dead center in the narrow Keele...

The Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the multiple strands of the ever-changing F ring, also sighting Atlas at its station just beyond the A ring edge. A few faint background stars are visible in th...

The Cassini spacecraft looks down from high latitude over Dione and the system of wispy fractures that coats the moon's trailing side. This view looks toward Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles ...

This image shows that NASA's Dawn mission detected abundances of hydrogen in a wide swath around the equator of the giant asteroid Vesta. The hydrogen probably exists in the form of hydroxyl or wat...

                  Prometheus and Knots in the F Ring June 7, 2004   Full-Res: PIA05402                     Saturn's mo...

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a sinuous canyon in the southern hemisphere of Ceres, south of Yalode Crater.

As summer approaches in Titan's northern hemisphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been monitoring Titan, anticipating an increase in cloud activity at high northern latitudes. 

The Cassini spacecraft watches Pandora, one of the F ring's two shepherding moons, orbiting beyond the thin ring. The small moon can be seen on the left of this image. Pandora (81 kilometers, or 5...

This global map of Saturn's moon Enceladus was created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage. The map is an equidistant...

This image shows Saturn, its ring structure and satellites to relative scale unless otherwise noted. By David Seal (P-46507BC). For a high resolution jpeg image, click here.

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows numerous linear chains and clusters of small craters on asteroid Vesta. These chains and clusters of craters were created by material that was ejected d...

These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moon Dione were taken on Dec. 12, 2011, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Although Cassini obtained more detailed images on previous flybys of Dione, this was ...

This image of fractures in Occator Crater on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 3, 2018 from an altitude of about 22 miles (35 kilometers).

Delicate Southern Detail September 14, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06476 Wavy cloud bands in Saturn's atmosphere near the south pole show a gre...

James Van Allen looking at the cone-shaped Pioneer IV probe, before it was gold plated and painted with stripes.

The Cassini spacecraft studies the dynamics of Saturn's blustery cloud bands as spring approaches in the northern hemisphere. Janus casts its shadow onto Saturn at right, just above the curving s...

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Aelia crater with a larger, more degraded crater to the left. Dark and bright material crops out from Aelia's rim and slumps towards i...

NASA’s Terra satellite caught a glimpse of plumes rising from two volcanoes in January 2018. 

From afar, Saturn's rings look like a solid, homogenous disk of material. But upon closer examination from Cassini, we see that there are varied structures in the rings at almost every scale imagin...

+ See contrast-enhanced version This mosaic features the highest resolution data yet captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft of the leading, or western, hemisphere of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. It sho...

Colorful Threads and Shadows September 16, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06114 Saturn's faintly banded atmosphere is delicately colored and i...