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NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicles the change of seasons as it captures clouds concentrated near the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicles the change of seasons as it captures clouds concentrated near the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Equatorial Titan Clouds
Artist’s version of a star chart, complete with arrows to help locate Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL
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Star chart with Saturn
Sky Chart
Nitrogen dioxide pollution, averaged yearly from 2005-2011, has decreased across the United States.
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Animation showing decrease in nitrogen dioxide concentration from 2005 to 2011
Breathing Cleaner in the U.S.
One hemisphere of Iapetus is covered with very reflective material while the other hemisphere is covered with some of the darkest material in the solar system. The leading hemisphere of Iapetus (...
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Iapetus
Iapetus
Beside the swirling face of Saturn floats a small, icy attendant. Mimas (397 kilometers, or 247 miles across) hovers near its giant parent, beyond the gleaming, sunlit rings. This view looks towa...
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Saturn's rings and the moon Mimas
Regarding Mimas
During a non-targeted flyby by the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Nov. 26, 2005, Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer measured the spectrum of the plumes originating...
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Image top: signature of small ice particles in the plume data; image bottom: graph graph showing the measurements of the spectrum
Enceladus Plume
Russia's Zond 5 -- carrying an extensive biological payload including two steppe tortoises -- was the first successful circumlunar mission.
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Russia's Zond 5 -- carrying an extensive biological payload including two steppe tortoises -- was the first successful circumlunar mission.
Zond 5
The great planet Saturn reveals mysteries more profound, and stories more grand, than those occasioned by its ancient mythological namesake. The giant planet is a moody world whose disposition app...
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Saturn
The Lore of Saturn
Cassini in the environmental test chamber, 25' Space Simulator in building 150 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 
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Color image of spacecraft in test facility.
Cassini in the Space Simulator
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a very shadowed region in Vesta's northern hemisphere. Roughly the upper one third of asteroid Vesta's northern hemisphere is currently in shadow.
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A Part of Vesta's Shadowed Northern Hemisphere
A Part of Vesta's Shadowed Northern Hemisphere
Numerous linear crater chains on Ceres dominate this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which is centered at approximately 20 degrees north latitude, 198 degrees east longitude.
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Dawn HAMO Image 55
Dawn HAMO Image 55
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on Aug. 26, 2011 at a distance of 1,700 miles (2,740 kilometers). The image has a resolution of about 260 meters...
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Mountains Rising Over Vesta's Equatorial Region
Mountains Rising Over Vesta's Equatorial Region
This image of Occator Crater on Ceres limb -- long exposure -- was obtained by NASAs Dawn spacecraft on August 14, 2018 from an altitude of about 1149 miles (1849 kilometers).
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Occator Crater on Ceres' Limb -- Long Exposure
Occator Crater on Ceres' Limb -- Long Exposure
On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take a picture of Earth from about 898 million (1.44 billion kilometers) away, or nearly 10 times the distance between Earth and the sun. It will be...
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Computer generated image of Earth
Wave at Saturn
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught this image of Phoenix hanging from its parachute as it descended to the Martian surface in 2008.
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Image of crater with a small spacecraft and parachute in foreground.
Phoenix Lander Descending to Mars
This map of a portion of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan shows predictions for the areas that will be covered by selected combinations of images anticipated from the camera on the Huygens probe ...
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black and white image showing imaging coverage area of Huygens Titan descent
Expected Footprints of 36-Image Panoramas from Huygens Camera
Saturn's A ring is decorated with several kinds of waves. 
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Saturn's rings and Daphnis
Rings and Waves
Sunlight illuminates the deep cut of Ithaca Chasma on Saturn's moon Tethys. Ithaca Chasma runs roughly north-south for more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) on Tethys. See Steep Scarps for a clos...
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Tethys
Chasma Crescent
This orthographic projection shows dwarf planet Ceres as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
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This orthographic projection shows dwarf planet Ceres as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. ​
High Resolution Ceres View
NASA's Dawn spacecraft looked northward toward the limb of Ceres to capture this scene, with Rao Crater (7 miles, 12 kilometers) at bottom.
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Dawn LAMO Image 147
Dawn LAMO Image 147
NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this picture as it reached its new orbit to observe Ceres in opposition, when Dawn is directly between the sun and the Occator Crater bright spots.
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Ceres' Southern Hemisphere (Navigation Image)
Ceres' Southern Hemisphere (Navigation Image)
X-rays stream off the Sun in this image showing observations by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. 
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X-rays stream off the sun in this image showing NuSTAR data, seen in green and blue, revealing solar high-energy emission (green shows energies between 2 and 3 kiloelectron volts, and blue shows energies between 3 and 5 kiloelectron volts).
Sun Shines in High-Energy X-rays
The thin and meandering ribbon-like filaments seen here are much like those seen in PIA07594, indicative of two-dimensional turbulence. Contrast in the image was enhanced to aid the visibility of ...
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a closeup of Saturn's turbulent atmosphere
Mesmerizing Meanders
Saturn's brilliant limb shines through the semi-transparent A ring, while the outer F ring shepherd moon hangs against the black sky. F-ring shepherding moon Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 miles ac...
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Saturn's rings, Pandora and Prometheus
The Shepherd and Saturn
The globe of Saturn, seen here in natural color, is reminiscent of a holiday ornament in this wide-angle view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Saturn
Painted Lines on an Ornament

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