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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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The southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Tethys
Tethys Polar Maps - August 2010
In this image, Saturn's fascinating meteorology manifests itself in a "string of pearls" formation, spanning over 60,000 kilometers (37,000 miles). Seen in new images acquired by Cassini's visual ...
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Saturn in infrared
String of Pearls
This piece entitled "Cassini Tracking Saturn I" was painted by Florida artist Cecil Herring, who absolutely loves everything about space exploration. As part of her "Spacescapes" series, she uses a...
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Cassini Saturn Art
Cassini Saturn Art
Saturn's Yin-Yang Moon June 22, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05411 This Cassini image hints at the split personality of Saturn's 1,436 kilome...
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Saturn's Yin-Yang Moon
Saturn's Yin-Yang Moon
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 24, 2015, shows dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) with a resolution of 1,400 feet (410 meters) per pixel.
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Dawn Survey Orbit Image 40
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 40
This false-color, visible-light image of comet ISON was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.
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This false-color, visible-light image of comet ISON was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.
Compass and Scale Image for Comet ISON
Three of Saturn's moons -- Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas -- are captured in this group photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Three Times the Fun
These three enhanced-color views of an equatorial region on Saturn’s moon Rhea were made from data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The colors have been enhanced to show colorful splotches an...
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These three enhanced-color views of an equatorial region on Saturn’s moon Rhea were made from data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
The Colorful Equator of Rhea
This wide-angle view is one of the highest resolution images yet acquired by Cassini and shows what appears to be a geologically youthful, tectonically fractured terrain. A higher resolution, narr...
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Close-up view of Enceledus
Boulder-strewn Surface -- Wide-angle Camera View
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of bands of bright, feathery methane clouds drifting across Saturn's moon Titan on May 7, 2017. 
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Bands of bright, feathery methane clouds drifting across Saturn's moon Titan.
Cloud Bands Streak Across Titan
Like the rest of Rhea's surface, the southern polar region of this Saturn moon has been extensively re-worked by cratering over the eons. This close-up shows that most sizeable craters have smaller...
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The southern polar region of Rhea has been extensively re-worked by cratering over the eons
Rhea: Polar View
The Cassini spacecraft has beamed back a new, more detailed image of smog-enshrouded Titan.
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Through the Haze
Through the Haze
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
Myriad dark vortices, some large and some small, twirl in the high southern latitudes of Saturn. At left, the south polar vortex spins at the center of it all. This view looks toward the planet's ...
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Saturn's southern latitudes
Dance of the Clouds
View annotated version. This sequence of three images, obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over the course of about 10 minutes, shows the path of a newly found moonlet in a bright arc of Saturn'...
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Three images that show the path of a newly found moonlet in a bright arc of Saturn's faint G ring.
Tiny Moonlet Within G Ring Arc
The bright arc within Saturn's G ring is shown truncated by the shadow of the planet at the bottom of this image. Although it can't be seen here, the tiny moonlet Aegaeon (formerly known as S/2008...
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The bright arc within Saturn's G ring is shown truncated by the shadow of the planet
Slicing the Arc
+ View Full Res This raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Enceladus was taken on Oct. 19, 2011. As the spacecraft passed Enceladus, its infrared instruments, cameras and other instruments moni...
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Enceladus
Enceladus Flyby E-15 (Raw Image #8)
The terminator nearly covers the south pole of Saturn and its stormy vortex in darkness. As the southern hemisphere moves toward winter in the planet's 29-year orbit, darkness eventually will con...
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The terminator nearly covers the south pole of Saturn and its stormy vortex in darkness.
Vanishing Pole
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Kondos Crater on Ceres. Dawn took this image on June 10, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) ab...
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Dawn LAMO Image 199
Dawn LAMO Image 199
Saturn, stately and resplendent in this natural color view, dwarfs the icy moon Rhea. Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) orbits beyond the rings on the right of the image. The moon Tethy...
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Saturn and Rhea.
Stately Saturn
The Huygens probe is installed into the Cassini orbiter in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in July 1997.
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The Huygens probe is installed into the Cassini orbiter in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility
Huygens Installation
This image shows a rare and powerful storm on the night side of Saturn. Light from Saturn's rings (called "ringshine") provided the illumination, allowing the storm and other cloud features to be ...
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A storm on Saturn
Storm at Night (Reprojected View)
Saturn's northern hemisphere reached its summer solstice in mid-2017, bringing continuous sunshine to the planet's far north.
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Saturn's northern hemisphere
Good Old Summer Time
+ View False Color Version Ligeia Mare, shown here in a false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission, is the second largest known body of liquid on Saturn's moon Titan. It is filled with liquid ...
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Ligeia Mare on Titan
Vast Ligeia Mare (black and white mosaic)
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moon Dione were taken on Dec. 12, 2011, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Although Cassini obtained more detailed images on previous flybys of Dione, this was ...
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This Dione encounter was intended primarily for Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer and radio science subsystem.
Dione Rev 158 Raw Preview -- Image 4

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