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Great Dark Spot
Artist's rendition of the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Lab...
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Artist's rendition of Cassini at Saturn
Cassini and Saturn
Seasonal changes in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon are captured in this natural color image, which shows Titan with a slightly darker top half and a slightly lighter bottom half. Titan's ...
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Titan
Two Halves of Titan
This is NASA InSight's first full selfie on Mars. It displays the lander's solar panels and deck.
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spacecraft on reddish surface seen from above
InSight's First Selfie
This 2013 animation shows multiple-planet systems discovered by Kepler. 
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This 2013 animation shows multiple-planet systems discovered by Kepler.
Kepler Orrery III
+ View Annotated version The dark hot spot in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a window deep into Jupiter's atmosphere. All around it are layers of higher clouds, with co...
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The dark hot spot in this false-color image of Jupiter's atmosphere
Peering Deep into Jupiter's Atmosphere
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an escarpment located in asteroid Vesta's near Rheasilvia quadrangle, near Vesta's south pole.
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Escarpment on Vesta
Escarpment on Vesta
The image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the northeast rim of Sintana Crater on Ceres. The crater's steep rim is shadowed in this particular view.
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Dawn LAMO Image 21
Dawn LAMO Image 21
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 oblique view of Saturn shows what may be localized upwellings in the clouds of Saturn's southern hemisphere. Although the contrast is low, a vortex is visible near lower right. This view look...
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An oblique view of Saturn
Saturn Aslant
This topographic map from NASA's Dawn mission shows the two large impact basins in the southern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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South Polar Impacts
South Polar Impacts
This southern hemisphere scene from dwarf planet Ceres encompasses parts of the craters Mondamin and Darzamat. Mondamin is large crater located in the top half of image, Darzamat is at bottom-right...
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Dawn XMO2 Image 15
Dawn XMO2 Image 15
Cassini's ability to remain sharply pointed at its targets allowed this image of Saturn's faint, dusty G ring to be made. The thin streaks visible here are star trails, which are created during lon...
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Saturn's G Ring
G Ring, Brightened by Time
Saturn's small moons Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus keep each other company in this Cassini spacecraft image of the planet's night side.
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Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus with Saturn and its rings (labeled version)
Brother Moons (Labeled)
This false-color composite image, constructed from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows Saturn's rings and southern hemisphere.
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This false-color composite image, constructed from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows Saturn's rings and southern hemisphere.
Majestic Saturn, in the Infrared
Comet ISON shines in this five-minute exposure taken at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on 8 Nov. at 5:40 a.m. EST.
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Comet ISON shines in this five-minute exposure taken at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on 8 Nov. at 5:40 a.m. EST.
Comet ISON Passes Through Virgo
NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied details on the pockmarked surface of Saturn's moon Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across) during a moderately close flyby on Dec. 6, 2015.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied details on the pockmarked surface of Saturn's moon Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across) during a moderately close flyby on Dec. 6, 2015.
Prometheus Up Close
Appearing like a cyclops gazing off into space, Saturn's moon Mimas and its large Herschel Crater are profiled in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Herschel Crater is 130 kilometers, or 80...
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Mimas
Mimas Three-Quarter Portrait
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn's north pole on April 26, 2017 -- the day it began its Grand Finale -- as it approached the planet for its first daring dive through the gap b...
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Saturn's clouds
Top of the World
This enhanced color view from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zooms in on the southeastern portion of Pluto's great ice plains, where at lower right the plains border rugged, dark highlands informal...
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This enhanced color view from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zooms in on the southeastern portion of Pluto's great ice plains, where at lower right the plains border rugged, dark highlands informally named Krun Macula.
The Jagged Shores of Pluto's Highlands
Presented here is a complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution Enceladus atlas, a project of the Cassini Imaging Team. The map sheets form a 15-quadrangle series covering the...
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Enceladus
The Enceladus Atlas (2008)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this raw image of Saturn's moons Titan and Tethys on Oct. 18, 2010. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is the larger, hazy moon in the background. Tethys is the bright...
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Titan and Tethys
Titan and Tethys -- Oct. 20, 2010 (raw)
Craters on Enceladus tend to be modified by a couple of different processes that are visible in this view. Most crater rims on this icy surface appear to have softened, or "relaxed," shapes compa...
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Enceladus
Reshaping the Craters
ORIGINAL CAPTION: At Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Station, one of three Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) is being installed on the Cassini spacecraft.
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Color image of a spacecraft power system.
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG)
The battered features of the moon Rhea, seen at low phase, appear washed out by the sun. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Rhea at a sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 15 degre...
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Rhea
Low Contrast Rhea

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