Saturn at Opposition

NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn's moon Titan in a view that highlights the extended, hazy nature of the moon's atmosphere. 

South Polar Cloud Movie October 26, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06124 QuickTime Movie This movie sequence of the south polar region of Titan w...

Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus reveals its elongated, irregular form to Cassini in this image. The moon's long axis points toward Saturn. Prometheus is 102 kilometers (63 miles) across. This vi...

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of boulders along Urvara Crater's wall was obtained from an altitude of about 28 miles (45 kilometers) above Ceres' surface.

Tholin formation in Titan's upper atmosphere Credit: Southwest Research Institute

Cassini Aims High in Upcoming Titan Flyby Cassini's next close flyby of Titan will be on Saturday, Sept. 23. This will be one of Cassini's closest flybys yet of Titan, at just 960 kilometers (600 ...

In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower. 

An Atlas-Centaur launches Mariner 9 toward Mars from Cape Kennedy's Launch Complex 36B. 

That's No Space Station July 26, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05423 Soon after orbital insertion, Cassini returned its best look yet at the h...

The northern and southern hemispheres of Rhea are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini and Voyager images. Six Voyager images fill in gaps in Cassini's...

This anaglyph made from images captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows a dramatic, 3-D view of one of the deep fractures nicknamed "tiger stripes" on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The fractures, whi...

On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take a picture of Earth from about 898 million (1.44 billion kilometers) away, or nearly 10 times the distance between Earth and the sun. It will be...

The thin and meandering ribbon-like filaments seen here are much like those seen in PIA07594, indicative of two-dimensional turbulence. Contrast in the image was enhanced to aid the visibility of ...

This image of bright spots in a small crater on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 1, 2018 from an altitude of about 179 miles (288 kilometers).

This global, colorized image of the giant asteroid Vesta from NASA's Dawn mission reveals how the minerals are distributed on the surface.

Mimas hangs above the hazy skies of Saturn. This view looks toward the leading hemisphere of Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles across). North is up and rotated 25 degrees to the left. The image...

This image was taken on 2017-08-20 08:01 (PDT) and received on Earth 2017-08-21 06:17 (PDT).

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.

This image of a fracture network in Occator Crater on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 1, 2018 from an altitude of about 29 miles (46 kilometers).

The young rays of Mena crater contrast brightly against the surrounding surface, though the rays will gradually fade with time. 

This mosaic of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the trail of a great northern storm on Saturn raging in full force. The contrast in the images has been enhanced to make the turbulent par...

An aurora, shining high above the northern part of Saturn, moves from the night side to the day side of the planet in this movie recorded by Cassini.

This artist's impression shows the 'light curve' produced by a star passing behind Titan, Saturn's biggest moon. When such occultation events take place, the light from the star is blocked out. B...

This image of Aquilia AV-L-24, from the atlas of the giant asteroid Vesta, was created from images taken as NASA's Dawn mission flew around the object, also known as a protoplanet.

Swirling cloud bands, delicate ring shadows and icy moons make the Saturn system a place of supreme natural beauty. Even Cassini's remarkable images can only provide the slightest sense of the expe...