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The crater Melanthius on Saturn's moon Tethys
Toward Melanthius
Saturn's sibling moons, Rhea and Dione, pose for the Cassini spacecraft in this view. Even at this distance, it is easy to see that Dione (below) appears to have been geologically active in the m...
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Dione and Rhea
Seeing Double
A single jet feature appears to leap from the F ring of Saturn in this image from the Cassini spacecraft.
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A jet feature appears to leap from the F ring of Saturn
The Subtle Jet
The Cassini spacecraft surveys the southern hemisphere on Dione's anti-Saturn side, spying a broad impact basin near bottom. Most of the medium-sized craters visible here have pointed central peaks...
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Dione
Rebounded Craters
Saturn's moon Pan, orbiting in the Encke Gap near the top of the image, casts a short shadow on the A ring in this image taken about six months after the planet's August 2009 equinox. Pan (28 kilo...
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Pan casts a short shadow on Saturn's A ring
Pan's Effects
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 17
Dawn HAMO Image 17
During its approach to Mimas on Aug. 2, 2005, the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera obtained multi-spectral views of the moon from a range of 228,000 kilometers (142,500 miles). This image...
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Mimas
Up Close to Mimas
Giant craters like the one seen in this view deform the shape of Hyperion, making it the largest irregularly shaped body in the Saturn System. The moon has such a low density -- about half that of...
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Hyperion
Chiseled Away
The cratered and cracked disk of Saturn's moon Dione looms ahead in this mosaic of images taken by Cassini on Oct.11, 2005, as it neared its close encounter with the icy moon. The images used for ...
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a closeup image of Dione
Dione in Full View
Saturn's rings cut across this view of the planet's largest moon, Titan. Dark albedo features on Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across) and the moon's north polar hood are visible here. S...
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Saturn's rings cut across Titan
Slicing Before Titan
This artist concept shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft above dwarf planet Ceres, as seen in images from the mission.
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Dawn Fires Its Engine Above Ceres (Artist Concept)
Dawn Fires Its Engine Above Ceres (Artist Concept)
The F ring shepherd moon Prometheus touches the face of Saturn once more before moving off into blackness and continuing in its orbit.
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The F ring shepherd moon Prometheus touches the face of Saturn once more before moving off into blackness and continuing in its orbit.
Prometheus Makes Contact
One of InSight's 7-foot (2.2 meter) wide solar panels seen from the lander's Instrument Deployment Camera.
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Round solar panel expanded over dusty red Martian plain.
InSight's Solar Panel
Cassini made a close flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007, and the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer obtained these images showing surface composition and particle size. The vis...
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Two views of Iapetus
Tiny Grains on Iapetus
                  Outer C Ring Detail December 9, 2004   Full-Res: PIA06539   This view of Saturn's outer C ring shows the...
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Outer C Ring Detail
Outer C Ring Detail
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a portion of the southern hemisphere of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). Toharu crater, named for the Pawnee g...
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Dawn HAMO Image 39
Dawn HAMO Image 39
This image of Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows Sintana Crater (36 miles, 58 kilometers wide) at top, just right of center. The rim of a large crater called Zadeni (80 miles, 128 kilome...
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Dawn HAMO Image 86
Dawn HAMO Image 86
Held in gravity's embrace, Saturn's darkened, icy rings encircle the clouded gas giant. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 29 degrees above the ringplane. The ri...
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Saturn's darkened, icy rings encircle the clouded gas giant
In Saturn's Grasp
Lots of Hydrocarbons October 27, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06980 This graph shows data acquired by Cassini as it flew by Titan at an altitude...
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Lots of Hydrocarbons
Lots of Hydrocarbons
 In 2002, NASA scientists and visualizers stitched together strips of brand new data, in natural color, collected over four months from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, ...
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View of the Earth from space
Blue Marble 2002
Saturn poses with Tethys in this Cassini view. The C ring casts thin, string-like shadows on the northern hemisphere. Above that lurks the shadow of the much denser B ring. Cloud bands in the atmo...
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Saturn and Tethys
Saturn and Tethys
The Cassini spacecraft surveys the battered surface of icy Tethys. The great impact basin straddling the terminator is itself overprinted by many smaller impact sites. The view in this image is to...
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Tethys
All Craters Great and Small
This amazing close-up of Saturn's rings reveals their incredible variety. In some regions there are wavelike structures, while in other places the rings' structure appears to be more chaotic. This...
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An amazing close-up of Saturn's rings
Scanning the Rings
The map is a Mercator projection and has a resolution of 460 feet (140 meters) per pixel. The images used to make this map were taken from Dawn's high-altitude mapping orbit (HAMO), at a distance o...
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Colorized Map of Ceres (Mercator Projection)
Colorized Map of Ceres (Mercator Projection)
The Encke Gap, the broad, vertical dark band running down the center of this image, is maintained by the small moon Pan (not pictured). Pan also shepherds three ringlets, all of which appear here a...
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Saturn's rings and the Encke Gap
Not-Quite-Empty Gap

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