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Earth's Moon
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December 17, 2004
Earth's Moon
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Saturn's north polar hexagon appears to be a long-lived feature of the atmosphere, having been spotted in images of Saturn in the early 1980s, again in the 1990s, and then by the Cassini spacecraft...
The Persistent Hexagon
N00051621.jpg was taken on February 27, 2006 and received on Earth February 28, 2006. The camera was pointing toward TITAN at approximately 152,000 kilometers away, and the image was taken using th...
Titan -- T11
Saturn's moon Janus obscures part of the planet's A ring as the Cassini spacecraft looks toward the main rings and the thin F ring. Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) appears as a dark ov...
Janus in the Way
Saturn's Ring Shadow, Then and Now August 5, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06415 The image on the left was taken on Nov. 1, 1980, by NASA's V...
Saturn's Ring Shadow, Then and Now
Two images of Saturn's A and B ring showcase the opposition effect, a brightness surge that is visible on Saturn's rings when the Sun is directly behind the spacecraft. This view is of the B ring....
Opposition Surge on the B Ring
NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn's largest moon and sees sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere and forming a ring of color.
A Ring of Color
These six narrow-angle color images were made from the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1, which was more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ec...
Solar System Family Portrait
Dione's dark trailing hemisphere (toward the left) and bright leading hemisphere are both visible in this view centered on the moon's anti-Saturn facing side. The image was taken in visible light ...
Dione's Transition Zone
These two montages of images of Saturn's moon Phoebe, taken by Cassini in June 2004, show the names provisionally assigned to 24 craters on this Saturnian satellite by the International Astronomica...
Phoebian Explorers 2
NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn's moon Titan in a view that highlights the extended, hazy nature of the moon's atmosphere.
Highlighting Titan's Hazes
A great dark storm stares out from Saturn in this Cassini image, showing how beautiful and intricate the planet's atmosphere can be. Turbulent areas represent the boundaries between air masses movi...
Fluid Flow
Dione's shadow is elongated as it is cast onto the round shape of Saturn. The moon is not visible here. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane....
Dione's Distorted Shadow
Saturn's moon Atlas, shown at the center of this image, orbits within the Roche Division separating the A ring from the tenuous F ring. To learn more about the small moon Atlas (30 kilometers, 19 ...
Plying a Division
This false-color mosaic, made from infrared data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveals the differences in the composition of surface materials around hydrocarbon lakes at Titan, Saturn's ...
Titan's Northern Lakes: Salt Flats?
This dramatic view looks across the region of Enceladus' geyser basin and down on the ends of the Baghdad and Damascus fractures that face Saturn.
Elevated View of Enceladus' South Pole
Zooming In On Titan October 25, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06116 This map of Titan's surface, generated from images taken during Cassini's...
Zooming In On Titan
NASA's Dawn spacecraft flys over dwarf planet Ceres which Dawn has been orbiting for mre than a year, providing us with fascinating views of an alien world.
Dawn LAMO Image 53
A Delta II-Heavy rocket propelled NASA's Dawn spacecraft into space on its journey to the asteroid belt.
Dawn Spacecraft Launch
Towards the bottom of image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, slightly offset from the image center, is a small, young, fresh crater within a rectangular, older, heavily eroded crater.
Fresh Crater Inside a Rectangular Crater
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a series of linear features, which are depressions that located within the large Yalode Crater on Ceres.
Dawn LAMO Image 197
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows craters with both sharp and smooth rims, a 'ghost' crater and dark and bright material in asteroid Vesta's southern hemisphere.
Unusual Craters on Vesta IV
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on Aug. 20, 2011. This image was taken through the camera's clear filter. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.
Troughs Covered by Impacts
High in the Titan Atmosphere October 25, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06120 High-altitude haze and perhaps cloud layers are visible in t...
High in the Titan Atmosphere
Saturn's moon Enceladus, imaged at high phase, shows off its spectacular water ice plumes emanating from its south polar region. This image was captured at a phase, or sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, an...
High-Phase Plumes
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on Aug. 20, 2011. This image was taken through the camera's clear filter. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.
An Impact Structure Resembling a Snowman
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