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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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Looking toward high northern latitudes on Titan, the Cassini spacecraft spies a banded pattern encircling the pole. This sort of feature is what scientists expect to see in the stratosphere of Tita...
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Titan
The Banded North
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the northeastern rim of Urvara Crater on Ceres at lower left. To the right of the crater, the long, narrow feature that appears to jut out toward the no...
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Pongal Catena on Ceres
Pongal Catena on Ceres
Believe it or not, this extreme close-up of Saturn's swirling clouds was acquired from more than one million kilometers (621,370 miles) from the gas giant planet. The rings' image is severely bent ...
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An extreme close-up of Saturn's swirling clouds
Atmospheric Illusion
These two Cassini images taken 23 minutes apart show many vortices and turbulent wakes in Saturn's atmosphere. They also show the overall filamentary structure of the flow in the atmosphere. Many ...
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two images of Saturn showing vortices and turbulent wake's in the atmosphere
"2-D" Flow
Saturn's shadow passes over its rings as the Cassini spacecraft looks on in this artist's concept. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech + High Resolution (.jpg, 412 KB) + Highest Resolution (.tif, 10.1 MB)
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Saturn's shadow passes over its rings as the Cassini spacecraft looks on in this artist's concept.
Cassini at Saturn View 2
The shadows of two moons appear on Saturn, above and below the plane of the planet's rings. North on Saturn is up in this image, and the shadow of Dione (1,123 kilometers, or 698 miles across) can...
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The shadows of Dione and Mimas appear on Saturn
Shadows Above and Below
In this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, ripples in the sand indicate which way the wind is moving.
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Wind Flow on Mars
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the crater Numisia, located just south of the equator in the Numisia quadrangle on asteroid Vesta.
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Bright Material at Numisia Crater
Bright Material at Numisia Crater
New structure, density and composition measurements of Enceladus' water plume were obtained when the Cassini spacecraft's Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph observed the star zeta Orionis pass behind...
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Enceladus' water plume
Stellar Data on Plume
This video describes a computer model that proposes a flow vortex in Saturn's upper atmosphere or ionosphere can explain periodic signatures observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in Saturn's magnet...
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Video shows different views of the interaction of Saturn's magnetosphere with the solar wind
Diagnosing Saturn's Magnetic Pulse
Saturn's moons create art on the canvas of Saturn's rings with gravity as their tool. 
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Here Prometheus is seen sculpting the F ring while Daphnis (too small to discern in this image) raises waves on the edges of the Keeler gap.
Artists at Work
This map of Ceres, made from images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the locations of about 130 bright areas across the dwarf planet's surface, highlighted in blue. Most of these bright areas...
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Bright Spot Locations on Ceres
Bright Spot Locations on Ceres
This view of the topography of asteroid Vesta's surface is composed of several images obtained with the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft on August 6, 2011. The image mosaic is shown superim...
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Topography of Vesta's Surface
Topography of Vesta's Surface
Tupo Crater on Ceres is seen in this view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. This crater, located in the southern hemisphere of Ceres, was named for a Polynesian god of turmeric. Dawn captured the scene ...
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Dawn LAMO Image 19
Dawn LAMO Image 19
This is a montage of New Horizons images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, taken during the spacecraft’s Jupiter flyby in early 2007.
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A montage of images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io
Jupiter and Io
This image of Rubria AV-L-16, from the atlas of the giant asteroid Vesta, was created from images taken as NASA's Dawn mission flew around the object, also known as a protoplanet.
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Rubria AV-L-16
Rubria AV-L-16
Cassini peers through the icy particles that comprise Saturn's rings as Prometheus sits perched on the planet's limb (edge). The rings cast shadows on the planet, with darker regions corresponding ...
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Cassini peers through the icy particles that comprise Saturn's rings as Prometheus sits perched on the planet's limb
Prometheus On the Edge
Hyperion is one of the smaller of Saturn's main satellites, is irregular in shape, about 400 by 250 by 240 kilometers (250 by 160 by 150 miles), and is noted for its odd scarp system. Scarps like t...
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Hyperion
Hyperion
A color portrait of Saturn's sunlight-scattering rings hosts a group of several moons. Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles across) is visible at top. At bottom, in increasing distance from the...
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Field of Moons
Craters give a rugged look to surface of Iapetus, especially in the large basin of Engelier visible along the southern limb of the moon in this view. The two-toned surface of the moon is evident i...
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Craters give a rugged look to surface of Iapetus, especially in the large basin of Engelier visible along the southern limb of the moon in this view.
Crater at the Edge
The slim crescent of Ceres smiles back as the dwarf planet awaits the arrival of an emissary from Earth. This image was taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on March 1, 2015, just a few days before it a...
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Ceres at Dawn - Take One
Ceres at Dawn - Take One
This image of Vibidia AV-L-20, from the atlas of the giant asteroid Vesta, was created from images taken as NASA's Dawn mission flew around the object, also known as a protoplanet.
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Vibidia AV-L-20
Vibidia AV-L-20
Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft using three different filters reveal cloud structures and movements at different depths in the atmosphere around Jupiter's south pole.
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Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft using three different filters reveal cloud structures and movements at different depths in the atmosphere around Jupiter's south pole.
Jupiter Clouds in Depth
This image, one of the first obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in its low altitude mapping orbit, shows a part of one of the troughs at the equator of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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Trough in Dark and Bright on Vesta
Trough in Dark and Bright on Vesta
Hyperion From Afar September 28, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06486 Cassini caught this glimpse of Hyperion as the moon tumbled chaotically in it...
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