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Saturn As Seen From Earth

Saturn
Published: February 7, 2007

The ringed planet captured by Saturn Observation Campaign members Jeff Barton and Josh Walawender.

Credit: Jeff Barton and Josh Walawender

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This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows terrain on Ceres centered at approximately 37 degrees south latitude, 51 degrees east longitude.
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Dawn LAMO Image 151
Dawn LAMO Image 151
The faint G ring surrounding Saturn offers up a glimpse of its newfound tiny moonlet. The moonlet is near the center of this image. A long exposure of 46 seconds was required to capture the light ...
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The faint G ring and its newfound tiny moonlet, S/2008 S 1
Mini Moon
The flattened, potato-like form of Prometheus glides silently within the Roche Division, between Saturn's A and F rings.
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The flattened, potato-like form of Prometheus glides silently within the Roche Division, between Saturn's A and F rings.
Spotting Prometheus
Light from the star Beta Crucis (Mimosa) breaks through the plane of the A ring in the center of this image of a stellar occultation. Several of Cassini's remote-sensing instruments use occultatio...
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Saturn's rings
A Star Shines Through
The story of the solar system is written upon the faces of its many worlds, such as Saturn's icy moon Rhea, seen here in an image from Cassini. The moon's many impact craters attest to its violent ...
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Saturn's icy moon Rhea
Rhea's Memory
Part of the shadow of Saturn's moon Epimetheus appears as if it has been woven through the planet's rings in this Cassini image taken about a month and a half before the planet's August 2009 equino...
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The shadow of Saturn's moon Epimetheus appears as if it has been woven through the planet's rings
Woven Shadow
This enhanced-color mosaic of Saturn's icy moon Tethys shows a range of features on the moon's trailing hemisphere. 
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Tethys
The Colors of Tethys I
Two Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images from the radar experiment on NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that, between May 2013 and August 2014, a bright feature appeared in Kraken Mare, the largest h...
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Radar views of Titan
Bright Feature Appears in Titan's Kraken Mare
NASA's Dawn spacecraft will be getting an up-close look at the dwarf planet Ceres starting in late March or the beginning of April 2015. This graphic shows the science-gathering orbits planned for ...
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Closing in on Ceres
Closing in on Ceres
A dynamical interplay between Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and its rings is captured in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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A dynamical interplay between Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and its rings
The Synchronicity of Rhythms
NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this picture as it reached its new orbit to observe Ceres in opposition, when Dawn is directly between the sun and the Occator Crater bright spots.
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Ceres' Southern Hemisphere (Navigation Image)
Ceres' Southern Hemisphere (Navigation Image)
This image was acquired on 28 July 2008 with the nadir channel of the High Resolution Stereo Camera.
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This image was acquired on 28 July 2008 with the nadir channel of the High Resolution Stereo Camera.
Close-Up of Phobos from Mars Express
Blanket Installation
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Blanket Installation
Blanket Installation
Rhea transits the banded clouds of the Ringed Planet. The edge-on rings cast curved shadows onto Saturn's northern hemisphere. More subtle than the ring shadows, the zonal jet streams of Saturn str...
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Rhea and Saturn
Banded Giant
                  Haze Silhouettes Against Titan's Glow December 16, 2004   Full-Res: PIA06997   A high-altitude haze laye...
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Haze Silhouettes Against Titan's Glow
Haze Silhouettes Against Titan's Glow
The presence of the tiny ring moon Daphnis is betrayed by the edge waves it creates in the Keeler gap. The gap is a narrow lane, about 42 kilometers (26 miles) wide, in Saturn's outer A ring. Daph...
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Edge waves in Saturn's rings
Moon's Signature
The Cassini spacecraft looks toward high northern latitudes on Saturn and the wild cloud forms that swirl there. The view was taken from about 23 degrees above the ringplane and looks toward the u...
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Saturn
Over Your Head
This image, created by combining two different types of radar images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, reveals more details of Titan’s crater Menrva (at left) and its surroundings than a single image...
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Titan
Cassini Radar Zooms Out on Menrva
This map is part of a group release of cylindrical and polar stereographic projections of Jupiter. For the other maps see PIA07783 and PIA07784. (Related thumbnail images available here.) These...
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Map of Jupiter
Cassini's Best Maps of Jupiter (Cylindrical Map)
+ View Related Feature The Cassini spacecraft snapped this image of Saturn's moon Helene while completing the mission's second-closest encounter of the moon on June 18, 2011. Although Cassini's c...
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Helene
High-Res Helene
Cassini looked toward the night side of Saturn to spy the darkened orb of Mimas barely visible here near the center of the image hugging the planet's shadow. To the left of Mimas are several bright...
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Saturn and Mimas
Mimas Seeking Solitude
Pandora orbits near a kink in the F ring. Whether it was Prometheus or Pandora that created the kink is not obvious in this instance. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecra...
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Pandora and the F ring
Pandora Gets Kinky
Saturn's Layered Bands September 24, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06484 With alternating light and dark bands, Saturn's south pole looks somethi...
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Saturn's Layered Bands
Saturn's Layered Bands
This Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image is presented as a perspective view and shows a landscape near the eastern shoreline of Kraken Mare, a hydrocarbon sea in Titan's north polar region.
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Radar image of Titan's Kraken Mare
Perspective on Kraken Mare Shores
Craters within craters cover the scarred face of Saturn's moon Rhea in this oblique, high-resolution view of terrain on the moon's western hemisphere. A large, degraded crater lies at the center, ...
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Close-up view of Rhea
Craters, Craters Everywhere

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