Cassini Flies By Earth

These two images of Saturn show the entire south polar region, not just the little area around the core of the hurricane-like vortex.

On its fourth and final targeted flyby of Rhea, the Cassini spacecraft provided this stunning view of the ancient and heavily cratered surface. Billions of years of impacts have sculpted Rhea's sur...

This Cassini image captures three of Saturn's ring moons in a single view. From left to right, the moons seen in this view are Pandora (84 kilometers, or 52 miles across), Janus (181 kilometers, or...

This image from NASA's Cassini mission was taken on Nov. 27, 2012, with Cassini's narrow-angle imaging camera. The camera was pointing toward Saturn from approximately 248,578 miles (400,048 kilome...

This 1981 Voyager 2 image shows the vast Saturn ring system, as well as three small icy satellites and the shadow of a fourth. Saturn is the second largest planet in the Solar System. It has a vol...

The Cassini spacecraft looks to the night side of Saturn and its rings for a view that includes Dione. Dione (1,123 kilometers, or 698 miles across) is in the top right of the image. Tiny Pandora ...

Possible variations in chemical composition from one part of Saturn's ring system to another are visible in this Voyager 2 picture as subtle color variations that can be recorded with special compu...

The southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione is seen in this polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available clear-filter images from NASA's Cassini and Voyager missions. This map is...

Titan's smoggy atmosphere glows brilliantly in scattered sunlight, creating a thin, gleaming crescent beyond Saturn's rings. At this slight angle above the ringplane, the thin F ring shines brightl...

At first glance, it seems Epimetheus is the lone moon orbiting Saturn in this image, but a closer inspection reveals a couple of companions in the rings. Circling brightly outside the rings in the...

Frigid Ringworld August 6, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05429 A frigid ball of gas in the blackness of space, Cassini's new home, Saturn, appear...

Fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 approaching Jupiter in 1994.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of dark patches and stripes on crater walls on asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on August 18, 2011. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters p...

This image of Ceres is part of a sequence taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 22, 2015, from a distance of 3,200 miles (5,100 kilometers) with a resolution of 1,600 feet (480 meters) per pixel.

Several sets of shadows are cast onto the A ring in this image taken about a week after Saturn's August 2009 equinox. Near the middle of the image, shadows are cast by vertically extended clumps i...

Just as Saturn's famous hexagonal shaped jet stream encircles the planet's north pole, the rings encircle the planet, as seen from Cassini's position high above.

Artist's rendering of NASA's Cassini spacecraft observing a sunset through Titan's hazy atmosphere.

Wispy terrain winds across the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione in this Cassini view taken during the spacecraft's Jan. 27, 2010 non-targeted flyby.

This wide-angle Voyager 2 image, taken through the camera's clear filter, is the first to show Neptune's rings in detail. 

It is no Great Red Spot, but these two side-by-side views show the longest-lived electrical storm yet observed on Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

This oblique view of Saturn's moon Iapetus from high latitude shows how the dark, heavily cratered terrain of Cassini Regio transitions to a bright, icy terrain at high latitudes. In this mosaic o...

Spiral density waves in Saturn's A ring reveal the gravitational signatures of distant moons as they subtly tug on the countless particles orbiting in the ring plane. Resulting from a process call...

This image 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 out our Freque...

Titan's Whispers October 28, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06986 This image shows Titan data from the passive radiometer mode of Cassini's radar inst...

Saturn's hazy moon Titan appears to drift above Saturn's ringplane in this view taken only a 10th of a degree above the rings. Titan's small orbital inclination is enough to make it appear above th...