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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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Never-before-seen tall vertical structures created by Saturn's moon Daphnis rise above the planet's otherwise flat, thin disk of rings to cast long shadows in this Cassini image.
Wavy Shadows
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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The Colors of Tethys I
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Dawn Survey Orbit Image 33
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Dawn LAMO Image 5
Japan's Subaru Telescope captured this near-infrared image of Uranus and moons Miranda (top center) and Ariel (bottom left).
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A New Look at Uranus
This shadowy scene is one of the Cassini spacecraft's closest views of Saturn's moon Janus. The slopes of some craters here display hints of the darker material better seen on Epimetheus in Epimet...
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This colorful view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as "the hexagon."
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Comet ISON appeared in the higher-resolution HI-1 camera on NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft.
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This enhanced-color image of the northern hemisphere of Saturn taken by Voyager 1 on November 5, 1980 at a range of 9 million kilometers (5.5 million miles) shows a variety of features in Saturn's ...
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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 15
Dawn HAMO Image 15
This mosaic of 15 Cassini images of Saturn's F ring shows how the moon Prometheus creates a gore in the ring once every 14.7 hours, as it approaches and recedes from the F ring on its eccentric orb...
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The Prometheus Effect
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Many Colors, Many Moons
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Chain of Craters
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