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Three different views of the Martian moon Phobos, as seen by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter using its infrared camera.
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three color-coded views of rocky moonlet
Odyssey's Three Views of Phobos
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Oct. 17, 2016, captures the day-night boundary, or terminator, in the north polar region of Ceres. The north pole itself, which lies just slightly lef...
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Dawn XMO2 Image 32
Dawn XMO2 Image 32
Jagged looking shadows stretch away from vertical structures of ring material created by the moon Daphnis in this image taken as Saturn approaches its August 2009 equinox. Daphnis (8 kilometers, o...
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Saturn's rings
Sawtooth Shadows
Note: This image has been rotated 180 degrees from its original orientation published on Feb. 2, 2010. Caption updated July 28, 2014 Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice and vap...
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Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed "tiger stripes" near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Bursting at the Seams
Saturn's rings create a brilliant halo around the turbulent giant planet. Here, the Cassini spacecraft looks into Saturn's clouds using a spectral filter sensitive to absorption by methane. Light t...
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Saturn
Masked by Methane
Titan becomes obscured as it moves into eclipse by Saturn. Using a camera filter sensitive to near-infrared light, this image manages to show albedo features on the moon. For a view of Titan in ec...
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Titan becomes obscured as it moves into eclipse by Saturn.
Eclipsing Titan
Saturn's Stripes May 31, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05398 This image shows the delicate banded nature of Saturn's atmosphere. Notable is t...
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Saturn's Stripes
Saturn's Stripes
Prometheus poses here with its latest creation: a dark, diagonal gore in the tenuous material interior to Saturn's F ring. The shepherd moon creates a new gore each time it comes closest to the F r...
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an image of Prometheus with Saturn's F ring in the background
Drawing the Drapes
As Cassini approached the intriguing ice world of Enceladus for its extremely close flyby on July 14, 2005, the spacecraft obtained images in several wavelengths that were used to create this false...
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As Cassini approached the intriguing ice world of Enceladus for its extremely close flyby on July 14, 2005, the spacecraft obtained images in several wavelengths that were used to create this false-color composite view.
Enceladus in False Color
A new found ring of material, S/2004 1 R, in the orbit of Saturn's moon Atlas has been seen in this view of the region between the edge of Saturn's A ring and the F ring. 
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The Atlas Ring
The Atlas Ring
This image of Ceres is part of a sequence taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft April 24 to 26, 2015, from a distance of 8,400 miles (13,600 kilometers).
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Black and white image of Ceres
Dawn RC3 Image 3
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, located in asteroid Vesta's Marcia quadrangle, in Vesta's northern hemisphere, demonstrate a special analytical technique, which results in shadowed areas ...
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Revealing Shadows 3
Revealing Shadows 3
Colorful Saturn tilts its darkened ringplane toward Cassini. Against the dark sky, the rings are made visible by the light that scatters through them toward the camera. The F ring shepherd moon Pa...
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Saturn and its majestic rings
At a Tilt
Is Dione (698 miles or 1123 kilometers across) suddenly larger than Rhea (949 miles or 1527 kilometers across)?
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Dione and Rhea
Dione Dwarfing Rhea
These images are located in asteroid Vesta's Rheasilvia quadrangle, near Vesta's south pole. These images are centered on the large Tarpeia crater.
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Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Tarpeia Crater
Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Tarpeia Crater
This view of Saturn's moon Tethys shows the contrast between the more heavily cratered region near the top and the more lightly cratered (and presumably younger) plains toward the bottom part of ...
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the moon Tethys
North and South on Tethys
The Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn's tiny moon Aegaeon within the G-ring arc. The moonlet Aegaeon (formerly known as S/2008 S 1) can't be seen in this image, but it orbits in the bright ar...
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Saturn's tiny moon Aegaeon within the G-ring arc
Eye Toward Aegaeon
NASA's Dawn took this image on Oct. 17 showing the limb of dwarf planet Ceres shows a section of the northern hemisphere. A shadowy portion of Occator Crater can be seen at the lower right.
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Dawn XMO2 Image 10
Dawn XMO2 Image 10
To the Cassini spacecraft's infrared eyes, Saturn's graceful clouds sometimes take on the appearance of an impressionist's painting of the giant planet.
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Saturn
Impressionistic Saturn
The Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini spacecraft and its attached Huygens probe stand at Cape Canaveral Air Station's Launch Complex 40, awaiting liftoff. Clearly visible in this view are the ...
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Ready for Launch
Ready for Launch
This image of landslides along Ceres' Occator Crater's eastern rim was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 9, 2018 from an altitude of about 27 miles (44 kilometers).
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Landslides Along Occator Crater's Rim
Landslides Along Occator Crater's Rim
This infrared image of Saturn's moon Titan shows a large burst of clouds in the moon’s south polar region. These clouds form and move much like those on Earth, but in a much slower, more lingering...
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This infrared image of Saturn’s moon Titan shows a large burst of clouds in the moon’s south polar region.
Titan's South Polar Cloud Burst
NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured this portion of the southern hemisphere of Ceres on Dec. 20, 2015. The image is centered at approximately 46 degrees south latitude, 101 degrees east longitude.
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Dawn LAMO Image 11
Dawn LAMO Image 11
Encircled in purple stratospheric haze, Titan appears as a softly glowing sphere in this colorized image taken one day after Cassini's first flyby of the moon on July 2, 2004.
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Purple Haze
Purple Haze
Using its radar system, the Cassini spacecraft has imaged new lakes on Titan. The large dark patch seen on this image, at high latitudes surrounding Titan's north pole, is most likely a hydrocarb...
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Lakes on Titan
Titan's Great Lakes?

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