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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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Recent Cassini images show arcs of material co-orbiting with the Saturnian moons Anthe and Methone. Arrows indicate the positions of Anthe, at top left, and Methone, at bottom right. Micrometeoro...
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Material co-orbiting with the Saturnian moons Anthe and Methone
Anthe and Methone Arcs
On a high-inclination orbit of Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft gazes down at the north polar region of Janus. This view looks toward Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) from a perspective ...
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The north polar region of Janus
North on Janus
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
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft show Marcia crater, after which Marcia quadrangle is named. Marcia crater is the largest and southernmost of the three Vestan craters nicknamed the 'Snowman.'
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Topography and Albedo Image of Marcia Crater
Topography and Albedo Image of Marcia Crater
Titan's polar collar -- previously seen by Voyager 2 and the Hubble Space Telescope -- has now been observed by the Cassini spacecraft, seen here in ultraviolet light. The collar is believed to be...
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Titan
Titan's Fancy Collar
Titan's fast-rotating atmosphere creates circumpolar bands in the north. The Cassini spacecraft acquired this view of the smoggy moon following a flyby of Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles a...
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Titan
Northern Bands
This global digital map of Saturn's moon Dione was created using data taken by the Cassini spacecraft, with gaps in coverage filled in by NASA's Voyager spacecraft data. The map is an equidistant p...
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Map of Saturn's moon Dione
Map of Dione - December 2006
Recent research suggests much of the eruption activity on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus could be in the form of broad, curtain-like eruptions, rather than discrete jets.
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A simulation of curtain eruption Enceladus
Icy Curtain Eruptions on Enceladus Create an Illusion of Discrete Jets
Shadows cast by Saturn's rings darken the southern hemisphere of the planet and give a truncated appearance to the bottom of this Cassini spacecraft image. Saturn's moon Tethys (1,062 kilometers, ...
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Saturn, its rings and Tethys
Cut Off by Shadows
Titan's detached, high-altitude haze layer encircles its smoggy globe in this ultraviolet view, which also features the moon's north polar hood. The northern hemisphere is currently in its Winter s...
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Titan
Titan's Hazes
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Aricia Tholus, a dark hill located in asteroid Vesta's Marcia quadrangle. Tholus is a word used to describe a small dome-like mountain or hill. Aricia w...
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Aricia Tholus
Aricia Tholus
Streamers, swirls and vortices roll across the dynamic face of Saturn. Unlike Earth, where most of the weather is driven by the Sun, Saturn's storms and circulation are driven in part by internal ...
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Close-up of Saturn's atmosphere
Psychedelic Saturn
Voyager 2 took this image of Neptune's irregularly-shaped satellite 1989N1 from a range of 870,000 kilometers (540,000 miles). 
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Voyager 2 took this image of Neptune's irregularly-shaped satellite 1989N1 from a range of 870,000 kilometers (540,000 miles).
1989N1
N00027998.jpg was taken on February 15, 2005 and received on Earth February 15, 2005. The camera was pointing toward TITAN, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CB3 filters. This image has not...
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N00027998.jpg
+ View Image without Labels The Cassini spacecraft captures eight new propeller-like features within Saturn's A ring in what may be the propeller "hot zone" of Saturn's rings. Propeller featur...
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Propeller-like features within Saturn's A ring
Propeller Belt
This extreme false-color view of Hyperion shows color variation across the impact-blasted surface of the tumbling moon. To create this false-color view, ultraviolet, green and infrared images were...
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False-color view of Hyperion
Eroded Moon
This view of Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on December 10, 2015, shows an area in the southern mid-latitudes of the dwarf planet.
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Dawn's Lowest Orbit: Southern Mid-Latitudes
Dawn's Lowest Orbit: Southern Mid-Latitudes
This false-color composite image, constructed from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the glow of auroras streaking out about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from the cloud tops of Satu...
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False-color composite image of the glow of auroras streaking out from Saturn's south polar region
Glowing Southern Lights
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
Shadows are cast by Daphnis and the moon's attendant edge waves in this Cassini spacecraft image taken about a month and a half before the Saturn's August 2009 equinox. Daphnis (8 kilometers, or 5...
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Saturn's rings and shadows cast by Daphnis
Shadows from the Waves
The first and last image taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft while in orbit at Mercury.
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The surface of Mercury.
From the First to the Last
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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A complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution Enceladus
The Enceladus Atlas (2010)
Rhea floats below the innermost regions of Saturn's amazing rings. This view of the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) allows a glimpse of the wispy terrain th...
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Rhea floats below the innermost regions of Saturn's amazing rings.
Sleek Rings, Rugged Moon
The candles are lit; the champagne is on ice. All you need now are flowers and a ring. This Valentine's Day, NASA's Spitzer and Cassini spacecraft provide you with both, in two intriguing new image...
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Valentine card with Saturn's rings on top and Lyra, the Ring Nebula
NASA and the Universe Send a Celestial Valentine
This image is the first skeet-shoot image taken during Cassini's very close flyby of Enceladus on Aug. 11, 2008. It captures a region near the Cairo Sulcus on Enceladus' south polar terrain that i...
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Enceladus
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