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Cassini Photo Contest II

Artist's concept of the Cassini spacecreaft and a montage of images from near Saturn
Published: December 18, 2006

Join us as we approach the second anniversary of the Huygens Probe descent, and help us decide which of the Cassini spacecraft's many spectacular views from the last year and a half stands out the most.

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Some key numbers from the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn.
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A colorful spacecraft graphic showing highlighted numbers from the mission.
Cassini-Huygens By the Numbers
Artist's concept of the LADEE spacecraft at the Moon. 
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Spacecraft above the lunar surface.
LADEE Spacecraft at the Moon
Click here to play sounds of Saturn's radio emissions, which have changes in frequency (127Kb Wave Sound). Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions, which have been monitored by the Cassini...
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Diagram depicting Saturn's radio emissions.
Bizarre Sounds of Saturn's Radio Emissions
+ View unannotated version The vast hydrocarbon seas and lakes (dark shapes) near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan sprawl out beneath the watchful eye of NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Scientis...
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The vast hydrocarbon seas and lakes (dark shapes) near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan sprawl out beneath the watchful eye of NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Bird's Eye View of the Land of Lakes -- Annotated
The minimum concentration of ozone above Antarctica from 1979 to 2013.
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Animation of ozone concentration above Antarctica
Repairing the Ozone Hole
This set of enhanced-color maps made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's moons Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione and Rhea. The global maps show the colorful splotches and ba...
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This set of enhanced-color maps made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's moons Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione and Rhea.
Enhanced-Color Maps of Saturn Inner Moons
During its final months, the Cassini spacecraft will climb repeatedly high above the planet’s north pole and then dive between the planet and the innermost edge of its dazzling rings.​
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Illustration showing Cassini's final orbits.
Orbit Plot: Cassini Grand Finale (Artist's Concept)
This graphic shows a 3-D model of 98 geysers whose source locations and tilts were found in a Cassini imaging survey of Enceladus' south polar terrain by the method of triangulation.
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A 3-D model of 98 geysers on Enceladus
Geyser Basin in 3-D
Oct. 15, 2012 update: check out the top voted images for the 15th anniversary of the launch. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassinifeatures/feature20120926/ Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Cassini Shining Moment artwork
Cassini Shining Moments
+ View Unannotated 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 ...
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False-color image of Jupiter's atmosphere
Peering Deep into Jupiter's Atmosphere (Annotated)
An artist's rendition of the InSight lander operating on the surface of Mars.
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The InSight lander on Mars
InSight on the Surface of Mars
This diagram created by Cassini mission planners illustrates the close approaches of the spacecraft during its Grand Finale orbits between Saturn's innermost (D) ring and the giant planet's atmosph...
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Illustration showing close approach to Saturn's atmosphere.
Cassini Grand Finale: Navigating the Gap
The number of water particles in Enceladus' plume peaked over the area highlighted by the circle in this image of Enceladus, which is overlain by data from Cassini's Ion and Neutral Mass Spectromet...
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A graph of the number of water particles in Enceladus' plume
Peak Water Density
A diagram of instruments on the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft.
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Illustration showing spacecraft and parts.
Pioneer Spacecraft Diagram
Artist's rendition of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft at Jupiter.
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Illustration of spacecraft flying past the limb of Jupiter.
Pioneer 10 at Jupiter (Artist's Concept)
These three posters imagine future tourism possibilities based on the rich history of Saturn exploration from the twin Voyager's Grand Tour to the epic discoveries made by the Cassini-Huygens missi...
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Colorful, whimsical travel posters envision of future where the solar system is open to exploration.
Visions of the Future: Saturn Tour
This composite image of the Sun reveals the entire solar atmosphere in multiple wavelengths.
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The Sun visualized in multiple pie slice wavelengths.
Slices of the Sun
This graphic illustrates Cassini's trajectory, or flight path, during the final two phases of its mission. The view is toward Saturn as seen from Earth. The 20 Ring-Grazing Orbits are shown in gray...
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Illustration show Cassini orbiting Saturn.
Earth View of Final Orbits: Cassini Grand Finale (Artist's Concept)
Engineers too eager to wait for image processing hand-colored this first-ever TV image of Mars in 1964.
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Hand-colored image of Mars from orbit.
First TV Image of Mars (Hand Colored)
These Voyager mission infographics put solar system distances in perspective.
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This artist's concept puts solar system distances in perspective.
Oort Cloud and Scale of the Solar System (Infographic)
New data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that the shape of our solar system moving through the local Milky Way galaxy looks like a bubble.
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Model of the shape of our solar system
Bubble of Our Sun's Influence
Radio signals sent by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to Earth through Saturn's rings revealed the presence of highly unusual regular formations of densely grouped ring particles. The harmonic ring struc...
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Artist's representation of radio signals passing from the Cassini spacecraft, through Saturn's rings, and onto a satellite dish on earth.
Saturn's Ring Rhythm
This false-color image of Saturn was constructed by combining three images at three different infrared wavelengths. The image at the upper left was taken at 1.3 microns, where both Saturn and its ...
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False-color image of Saturn
Saturn's Kaleidoscope of Color
+ View Related Feature Story + View Labeled image Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted two features shaped like the 1980s video game icon "Pac-Man" on moons of Saturn. One was ...
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Mimas and Tethys
A Pair of 'Pac-Men' (unlabeled)
+ Version without labels Cassini shot past the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Aug. 11, 2008, acquiring a set of seven high-resolution images targeting known jet source locations on the mo...
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Enceladus
Baghdad and Cairo Sulci on Enceladus (labeled)

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