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Cassini Update

Candice Hansen
Published: September 22, 2006

An update on findings from Cassini's latest flyby of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

Candice Hansen, Titan discipline scientist.

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Behold Titan's Surface
Day breaks on the northern hemisphere of Saturn in this image from the Cassini spacecraft. The D ring is hidden below the horizon, but, working outward from the planet, this image shows the C, B, ...
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Saturn's northern hemisphere and the rings
Daybreak From Above
Moon shadows are cast on Saturn's A ring in this image taken almost a month after the planet's August 2009 equinox. Pan (28 kilometers, or 17 miles across) orbits in the Encke Gap of the A ring an...
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Moon shadows are cast on Saturn's A ring
Shadows on the A Ring
This picture shows the asteroids Ida (left) and Gaspra (right) to the same scale.
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Ida and Gaspra
Octavia Crater
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Octavia Crater
Octavia Crater
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Vortices Abound
This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed 'Pale Blue Dot', is a part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1.
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This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed 'Pale Blue Dot', is a part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1.
Solar System Portrait
This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn's rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral density wave. 
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Staggering Structure
This montage of images, made from data obtained by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows the location on Saturn where the NASA spacecraft entered Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15...
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Impact Site: Infrared Image
+ View Full Res This image was obtained by Cassini's radar instrument during a flyby on June 22, 2009. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 955 kilometers (593 miles) duri...
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The northern and southern hemispheres of Enceladus are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini and Voyager clear-filter images. Each map is centered on on...
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The northern and southern hemispheres of Enceladus are seen in these polar stereographic maps
Enceladus Polar Maps - February 2010
This image shows the first flash of sunlight reflected off a hydrocarbon lake on Saturn's moon Titan. The glint off a mirror-like surface is known as a specular reflection. This kind of glint was d...
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This image shows the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn’s moon Titan. The glint off a mirror-like surface is known as a specular reflection.
Reflection of Sunlight off Titan Lake
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Dawn XMO2 Image 29
Dawn XMO2 Image 29
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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Polar Region
Polar Region
This near-infrared color image shows a specular reflection, or sunglint, off of a hydrocarbon lake named Kivu Lacus on Saturn's moon Titan.
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Near-infrared image of Titan
Sunglint on a Hydrocarbon Lake
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Pluto and Charon
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 37
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Dawn Survey Orbit Image 37
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 37
Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer False-Color Image
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Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer False-Color Image
Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer False-Color Image
Jupiter's four largest satellites, including Io, the golden ornament in front of Jupiter in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, have fascinated Earthlings ever since Galileo Galilei discov...
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Io and Jupiter
Io over Jupiter
Reflected light from Saturn dimly illuminates the night side of the cratered moon Mimas in this Cassini image. Above, the outer edges of the planet's main rings show some interesting details. Mima...
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Mimas and the outer edges of Saturn's main rings
Outsider Moon
Saturn's moon Dione passes by the moon Tethys in this Cassini spacecraft depiction of a "mutual event." Mutual events occur when, from the vantage point of Cassini, one moon appears to pass close t...
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Dione and Tethys
Dione Sliding by Tethys
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Saturn's Atmosphere
Saturn's Atmosphere
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Impact Crater and Mountain-central Complex in Vesta's South Polar Region (Anaglyph)
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This mosaic depicts fan-like structures in Saturn's tenuous F ring.
'Fan' in the F Ring
This high-resolution view shows, at left, a spiral density wave in Saturn's inner B ring. A spiral density wave is a spiral-shaped massing of particles that tightly winds many times around the plan...
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Spiral density wave in Saturn's inner B ring
Tight Spiral

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