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F Ring -- Voyager vs Cassini

Saturn's F rings seen by Voyager, left, and Cassini
Published: November 11, 2010

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This set of six images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows trails that were dragged out from Saturn's F ring by objects about a half mile (1 kilometer) in diameter.
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Six Cassini images showing trails that were dragged out from Saturn's F ring
Classic Trails or Mini-Jets
The Cassini orbiter continues its observations of Saturn¿s mysterious moon Titan, stealing another early peek at the haze-enshrouded surface. Cassini's view of Titan now surpasses Earth-based obser...
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Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard assembling equipment on the Moon in 1971.
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Astronaut assembling a tube on the Moon.
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This frame from a video captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a flyover of the intriguing crater named Occator on dwarf planet Ceres. Occator is home to Ceres' brightest area.
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Cloud Phantoms
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a portion of the northern hemisphere of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image was taken on Sept. 22, 2015...
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Dawn HAMO Image 48
Dawn HAMO Image 48
Sinuous clouds and hurricane-sized vortices mingle in Saturn's northern skies. This view looks toward a region located at 70 degrees north latitude on Saturn. Despite the level of detail visible...
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Clouds and hurricane-sized vortices in Saturn's northern skies
Storms of the High North
Craters imprinted upon other craters record the long history of impacts endured by Saturn's moon Rhea. This view looks toward the mid-southern latitudes of the Saturn-facing side of Rhea (1,528 ki...
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Rhea
Crater Upon Crater
The Cassini spacecraft captured this close view of Saturn's moon Pandora during the spacecraft's flyby on June 3, 2010. Pandora is 81 kilometers (50 miles) across, and orbits beyond Saturn's thin ...
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Flying By Pandora
This close-up view of the inner A ring shows intriguing variations in brightness along the direction of ring motion -- from top to bottom. Close examination reveals dark regions that appear to wide...
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A close-up view of the inner A ring
Azimuthal Variability
Jupiter as seen from above its north pole by Pioneer 11 in 1974.
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Color image showing stipes and bands on Jupiter from Pioneer 11.
Pioneer 11's Jupiter
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows many highly degraded craters in the top part of the image. These craters are so degraded that their rims are only partially visible.
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Mass Wasting on Steep Slopes
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This image of the eastern rim of Occator Crater was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 10, 2018 from an altitude of about 22 miles (36 kilometers).
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Occator Crater Eastern Rim
Occator Crater Eastern Rim
This image of Eusebia AV-L-27, 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.
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Eusebia AV-L-27
Eusebia AV-L-27
+ View Labeled Version Details of Saturn's icy rings are visible in this sweeping view from Cassini of the planet's glorious ring system. This natural color mosaic, taken from 10 degrees below th...
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Saturn's rings, in a mosaic constructed from 45 images
A Full Sweep of Saturn's Rings (Unlabeled)
The Cassini spacecraft peers through the gossamer strands of Saturn's innermost rings, whose own shadows adorn the planet beyond. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 35 ...
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Saturn's rings
Northward Through the Rings
Bright clouds circumscribe Titan's north polar region -- a frigid land of methane seas. The clouds seen in this image and other recent Cassini spacecraft views are at higher latitudes than similar...
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Titan's Northern Streaks
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Windswept Opportunity Rover
The complete remote sensing pallet is lowered by technicians from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology and mated at the interface with the Cassini spacecraf...
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Remote Sensing Pallet Installation
Terrain seen in this view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft is in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. A sharp cliff separates Dada Crater, the smaller crater at top center, from Roskva Crater, the larger c...
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This colorized image of Europa is a product of clear-filter grayscale data from one orbit of NASA's Galileo spacecraft, combined with lower-resolution color data taken on a different orbit.
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Reddish Bands on Europa
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Saturn from Far and Near (Cassini-Huygens)
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This movie, made from images obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft of the outer edge of Saturn’s B ring, reveals the combined effects of a tugging moon and oscillations that can naturally occur in ...
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This movie, made from images obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft of the outer edge of Saturn’s B ring, reveals the combined effects of a tugging moon and oscillations that can naturally occur in disks like Saturn's rings and spiral galaxies.
Oscillations at B Ring Edge

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