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Helene
Saturn's Moon Helene (raw image)
As they wheel about the planet, Saturn's sunlit rings often exhibit dark, radial markings called spokes. Spokes are seen only in the broad B ring, and can also appear bright in certain viewing geo...
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Spokes on Saturn's rings
Spokes on the Wheel
                  From the Dark Side December 10, 2004   Full-Res: PIA06529   As Cassini swung around to the dark side of ...
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From the Dark Side
From the Dark Side
Saturn's graceful lanes of orbiting ice -- its iconic rings -- wind their way around the planet to pass beyond the horizon in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft
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Saturn and its rings
The Grace of Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this raw image of Saturn's moon Titan on Oct. 18, 2010. Bright clouds streak the moon's midsection, likely an indication of changing seasons and the arrival of sp...
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Titan under Saturn's rings
Titan -- Oct. 20, 2010 (raw)
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows craters in various states of degradation on the asteroid Vesta.
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Craters in Various States of Degradation
Craters in Various States of Degradation
Reflected light from Saturn dimly illuminates the night side of the cratered moon Mimas in this Cassini image. Above, the outer edges of the planet's main rings show some interesting details. Mima...
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Mimas and the outer edges of Saturn's main rings
Outsider Moon
As Cassini spacecraft images often show, the Sun is not the only source of illumination in the Saturn System. The huge, reflective planet also shines upon its moons. This image was acquired by Cas...
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Dione
The Light of Night
During a flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Oct. 1, 2011, the Cassini spacecraft snapped this portrait of the moon joined by its sibling Epimetheus and the planet's rings.
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Enceladus, Epimetheus and Saturn's rings
Hiding Little Brother
In KSC's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Charley Kohlhase (left), then Cassini's science and mission design manager, and Richard Spehalski, then program manager of the Cassini mission, displa...
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Managers
Managers
+ Original version + Image with labels   With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before,...
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Color-exagerated view of Saturn and its rings
In Saturn's Shadow (Color-exaggerated view)
The Cassini orbiter has revealed many surprises within the Saturn system, including the possible presence of a ring of debris surrounding the ancient heavily cratered surface of Rhea, Saturn's ...
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This perspective view shows one of a series of relatively blue patches that form a very narrow band only 10 kilometers wide that straddles Rhea's equator.
Rhea's Blue Streaks (Looking South)
+ View Unlabeled Version This is an artist's concept of the Saturnian plasma sheet based on data from Cassini magnetospheric imaging instrument. It shows Saturn's embedded "ring current," an invi...
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Artist's concept of the Saturnian plasma sheet based on data from Cassini magnetospheric imaging instrument.
Artist Concept of Particle Population in Saturn's Magnetosphere -- Labeled
+ See Unannotated Version This series of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the development of the largest storm seen on the planet since 1990. These true-color and composite near-true-co...
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This series of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the development of the largest storm seen on the planet since 1990.
Chronicling Saturn's Northern Storm -- Annotated
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows cratered terrain in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. Ikapati crater (top) appears with several flat plains filled by flows, smooth material and ejecta ...
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Dawn HAMO Image 64
Dawn HAMO Image 64
This very detailed image taken during the Cassini spacecraft's closest approach to Saturn's moon Dione on Dec. 14, 2004 is centered on the wispy terrain of the moon. To the surprise of Cassini ima...
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Highest Resolution View of Dione
Highest Resolution View of Dione
The moons Dione and Tethys face each other across the gulf of Saturn's rings. Here, the Cassini spacecraft looks on the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Tethys below and the anti-Saturn side of Dione ab...
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two moons and some rings
The Face-off
The terrain model of Vesta's southern hemisphere shows a big circular structure, its rim rising above the interior of the structure. This false-color map of the giant asteroid Vesta is from the fra...
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A False-Color Topography of Vesta's South Pole
A False-Color Topography of Vesta's South Pole
A string of icy moons stretches across the Saturn system in this view from nearly edge-on with the ringplane. Nearest to the Cassini spacecraft is Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) belo...
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Saturn's rings, Rhea, Atlas and Dione
Crowded Sky
This image shows the location of an area known as Sotra Facula on Saturn’s moon Titan. The black and white swaths show data obtained by the radar instrument on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The swaths...
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This image shows the location of an area known as Sotra Facula on Saturn’s moon Titan.
Global View of Sotra Facula, Titan
Wispy terrain reflects sunlight brightly in the lower left of this Cassini image of the northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Dione. These "wisps" are actually fractures on the trailing hemisphere of...
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Wispy terrain reflects sunlight brightly in the lower left of this Cassini image of the northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Dione.
Trailing Wisps
Bright, high-altitude clouds interact with dark, deeper structures near Saturn's south pole. The dark vortices near lower right are two especially large examples of such deep structures. These vort...
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Bright, high-altitude clouds interact with dark, deeper structures near Saturn's south pole.
Forces From the Deep
Feathery cloud bands fill Saturn's graceful crescent. Features in the atmosphere are visible all the way to the terminator, the boundary between night and day, where the Sun's rays are coming in al...
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Saturn
Clear Sky on High
Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. Cassini conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's...
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A simulated image of Saturn's rings
Small Particles in Ring A
Ceres' densely cratered landscape is revealed in this image taken by the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The craters show various degrees of degradation. The youngest craters have sha...
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Dawn LAMO Image 83
Dawn LAMO Image 83

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