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Saturn's Moons Titan and Enceladus

Three images of Saturn's moons Titan and Enceledas
Published: February 18, 2005

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has had a busy week, snapping stunning new images of two of Saturn's moons -- smoggy Titan on Feb. 15 and wrinkled Enceladus on Feb. 16.

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Huygens landing site on Titan
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This is a side-by-side view of large cyclones at both poles of Saturn obtained by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard the Cassini spacecraft.
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Infrared Images of Saturn's Poles
This excellent grouping of three moons --Dione, Tethys and Pandora-- near the rings provides a sampling of the diversity of worlds that exists in Saturn's realm. A 330-kilometer-wide (205 mile) im...
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A crescent Saturn is blemished by the black spot of its moon Dione seen orbiting between the planet and the Cassini spacecraft. Although Dione appears as only a black dot, there is actually a thin...
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This composite image shows a sliver of Pluto's large moon, Charon, and all four of Pluto's small moons, as resolved by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the New Horizons spacecraft.
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Shadows cast across Mimas' defining feature, Herschel Crater, provide an indication of the size of the crater's towering walls and central peak.
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The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on July 3, 2004, from a distance of 1.6 million kilometers (990,000 miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus...
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Icy Enceladus
Icy Enceladus
The Cassini spacecraft captures a glimpse of the moon Atlas shortly after emerging from Saturn's shadow.
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Emerging from Darkness
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Golden Rings
Bands and Swirls in Infrared June 18, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05409 Saturn¿s bright equatorial band displays an exquisite swirl near th...
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Bands and Swirls in Infrared
Two slim crescents smile toward the Cassini spacecraft following an occultation event. Taken only five minutes after Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles across) first approached the limb of Rh...
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Enceladus and Rhea
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Many features in Saturn's rings are thought to be induced by the gravity of the planet's moons. This view shows two different kinds of waves that are thought to be produced by different moon-relate...
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Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have enabled scientists to make the highest-resolution heat intensity maps yet for the hottest part of a ''tiger stripe'' fissure on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The...
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Heat intensity map for the hottest part of a 'tiger stripe' fissure on Enceladus
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Cassini's celestial sleuthing has paid off with this time-lapse series of images which confirmed earlier suspicions that a small moon was orbiting within the narrow Keeler gap of Saturn's rings. T...
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A lone moon coasts along in this view, which was taken from less than a degree below Saturn's sunlit ringplane. The rings are squashed into a narrow band from this viewing angle, foreshortening all...
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This image of Ceres is part of a sequence taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on April 29, 2015, from a distance of 8,400 miles (13,600 kilometers).
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the surface of asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on August 11, 2011. It was taken through the camera's clear filter. The image has a resolution of...
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The largest feature in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft is Geshtin crater, which is superposed (located on top of) by the younger Datan crater. On its upper-left rim, Datan is superposed by a...
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Dawn HAMO Image 57
Voyager 2 obtained this parting shot of Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, shortly after closest approach to the moon and passage through its shadow on the morning of Aug. 25, 1989.
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Saturn's moon Enceladus looks tranquil here, concealing the true nature of this active moon. To learn about the icy plumes jetting from Enceladus' south polar region, see Plumewatch and Jet Blue. ...
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