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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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Water ice plumes emanating from Enceladus' south polar region
High-Phase Plumes
Titan's First Close-Up October 26, 2004 This image is one of the closest ever taken of Saturn's hazy moon Titan. It was captured by Cassini's imaging scien...
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Titan's First Close-Up
Titan's First Close-Up
Cassini prepared for its rendezvous with Dione on Oct. 11, 2005, capturing the brilliant, cratered iceball in front of its shadow-draped planet. The terrain seen here becomes notably darker toward...
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Dione with Saturn in the background
On Approach to Dione
This map from NASA's Dawn mission shows the global distribution of hydrogen on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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Hydrogen Map of Vesta
Hydrogen Map of Vesta
This is a montage of New Horizons images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, taken during the spacecraft’s Jupiter flyby in early 2007.
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A montage of images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io
Jupiter and Io
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used a new drill method to produce a hole on February 26 in a target named Lake Orcadie. The hole marks the first operation of the rover's drill since a motor problem be...
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Saturnian Hurricane October 7, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06493 This close-up view shows lots of atmospheric detail, including a dark storm an...
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Saturnian Hurricane
Rhea and Enceladus shared the sky just before the smaller moon passed behind its larger, cratered sibling. This image is part of a "mutual event" series in which one moon passes close to or in fro...
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Rhea and Enceladus
Enceladus Approaches
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Caparronia crater on asteroid Vesta, an unusually shaped, irregular rim that is sharp and fresh in some areas and more rounded and degraded in others.
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Impact Crater with Unusual Rim
Impact Crater with Unusual Rim
As Saturn approaches its August 2009 equinox, a shadow is cast by a narrow, vertically extended feature in the F ring. Scientists are working to understand the origin of structures such as this on...
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a shadow is cast by a narrow, vertically extended feature in the F ring.
Punching through the F Ring
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
Saturn's moon Tethys, named for a sea goddess, shows off two of its more puzzling features in this Cassini image. Ithaca Chasma, near lower right, stretches for more than 1,000 kilometers (620 mile...
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Saturn's moon Tethys
Tethys Mysteries
This image of Enceladus has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the NASA Planetary Data System in 2012. For more information on raw images check o...
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Enceladus jets
Enceladus Jets (raw image)
The Cassini spacecraft presents a tempestuous scene in which the clouds of Saturn's bright equatorial region entwine with those in darker, southerly latitudes. See Seeing High in the Sky for a pre...
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Blustery Bands
+ Dunes, Tectonics and Possible Ice Volcanoes on Titan (non-annotated) + Dunes, Tectonics and Possible Ice Volcanoes on Titan (related image) The bright landmass of an enigmatic area known...
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Dunes, Tectonics and Possible Ice Volcanoes on Titan (Annotated)
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Color image of rocket launch
Clearing the Tower
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the surface of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixe...
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Dawn HAMO Image 21
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This image of Ceres is part of a sequence taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft April 24 to 26, 2015, from a distance of 8,500 miles (13,500 kilometers).
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Dawn RC3 Image 7
Dawn RC3 Image 7
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Tall Mountain: Enhanced View
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The primordial contact binary Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth (2014 MU69) as seen by New Horizons.
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This high-resolution swath of Pluto (right) sweeps over the cratered plains at the west of the New Horizons' encounter hemisphere and across numerous prominent faults, skimming the eastern margin o...
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This high-resolution swath of Pluto (right) sweeps over the cratered plains at the west of the New Horizons' encounter hemisphere and across numerous prominent faults, skimming the eastern margin of the dark, forbidding region informally known as Cthulhu Regio, and finally passing over the mysterious, possibly cryovolcanic edifice Wright Mons, before reaching the terminator or day-night line.
Zigzagging across Pluto
The graphic of Saturn depicts the actual magnetic field lines of the planetary magnetic field created deep within Saturn's core. It also depicts the exact alignment of the dipole axis and the rotat...
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Saturn's magnetic field lines
Saturn's magnetic field lines
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
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The first color image of Arrokoth (2014 MU69), taken at a distance of 45,601 miles (73,388 kilometerers).
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