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This graphic shows Cassini's final descent toward Saturn beginning with a distant encounter with Titan. 
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Final week milestones
Milestones in Cassini's Final Week
This series of maps of Saturn's moon Iapetus shows how a computer model of migrating ice can explain most features of Iapetus' global appearance. The model starts with Iapetus uniformly covered in ...
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Series of maps of Saturn's moon Iapetus
Thermal Runaway Model
+ Unannotated Version The northern and southern hemispheres of Enceladus are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini clear-filter images. Each map is...
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The northern and southern hemispheres of Enceladus are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini clear-filter images.
Enceladus Polar Maps - December 2011 -- North -- Annotated
This image shows the location of Cassini's most precise measurements so far of the surface temperatures at the active "tiger stripe" fractures that cut the south polar region of Enceladus. The back...
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This image shows the location of Cassini's most precise measurements so far of the surface temperatures at the active 'tiger stripe' fractures that cut the south polar region of Enceladus.
Warm Tiger Stripes
This graphic plots the source locations of the geysers scientists have located on Enceladus' south polar terrain. 
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This graphic plots the source locations of the geysers scientists have located on Enceladus' south polar terrain.
Tendril-producing Geysers on Enceladus' South Polar Terrain
This graphic summarizes Cassini's 13 years orbiting Saturn, with moon flybys grouped into columns for each phase of the mission. 
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Cassini mission summary
Cassini's Mission at a Glance
This set of enhanced-color maps made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's moons Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione and Rhea. The global maps show the colorful splotches and ba...
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This set of enhanced-color maps made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's moons Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione and Rhea.
Enhanced-Color Maps of Saturn Inner Moons
This graphic shows the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon Enceladus on Oct. 31, 2008. At closet approach Cassini will be 197 kilometers (122.3 miles) from the su...
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This graphic shows the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon Enceladus on Oct. 31, 2008.
Cassini's E6 Trajectory -- Oct. 31, 2008
A colorful infographic detailing comet ISON's perilous trip to the sun.
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Infographic showing comet ISON's trajectory toward the sun
Eyes on Comet ISON
This still is from a short computer-animated film that highlights Cassini's accomplishments and Saturn and reveals the science-packed final orbits between April and September 2017.
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Iapetus and Saturn
Iapetus and Saturn
Tholin formation in Titan's upper atmosphere Credit: Southwest Research Institute
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Graphic showing formation of tholin in Titan's upper atmosphere
Tholin Formation in Titan's Upper Atmosphere
In the decade since NASA’s Cassini delivered ESA’s Huygens probe to the hidden surface of Titan, our knowledge of Saturn’s largest moon has grown by leaps and bounds.
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Infographic of Huygens at Titan
10th Anniversary of Huygens Arrival at Titan
Oct. 15, 2012 update: check out the top voted images for the 15th anniversary of the launch. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassinifeatures/feature20120926/ Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Cassini Shining Moment artwork
Cassini Shining Moments
This is an artist concept of a close-up view of Saturn's ring particles. The planet Saturn is seen in the background (yellow and brown). The particles (blue) are composed mostly of ice, but are not...
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Artist concept of a close-up view of Saturn's ring particles.
Saturn's Recycling Rings
This graphic illustrates Cassini's trajectory, or flight path, during the final two phases of its mission. The 20 Ring-Grazing Orbits are shown in gray; the 22 Grand Finale Orbits are shown in blue...
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Illustration showing Cassini orbits around Saturn.
Final Phases: Cassini Grand Finale (Artist's Concept)
This illustration depicts the best-known candidates in our search for life in the solar system.
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Infographic illustrating water in the Solar System
The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water (Infographic)
+ Unannotated version Almost all of the hydrocarbon seas and lakes on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan cluster around the north pole, as can be seen in this mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission....
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This mosaic, made from near-infrared images of Titan obtained by Cassini's imaging science subsystem, shows a view from the north pole (upper middle of mosaic) down to near the equator at the bottom.
Titan's North: The Big Picture -- Annotated
Ultraviolet and infrared images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope show active and quiet auroras at Saturn's north and south poles. Saturn's auroras glow when energetic el...
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Auroras on Saturn
Dance of Saturn's auroras
Milestones in Cassini's final dive toward Saturn. 
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Graphic of Cassini's final dive toward Saturn
Milestones in Cassini's Final Dive
Cassini's path into Saturn's upper atmosphere, with tick marks every 10 seconds. 
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Graphic of Cassini's path into Saturn's upper atmosphere
Cassini's path into Saturn's upper atmosphere
Presented here is a complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution Iapetus atlas, a project of the Cassini Imaging Team. The map sheets form a three-quadrangle series covering th...
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Cartographic map sheets of Iapetus
The Iapetus Atlas
This still is from a short computer-animated film that highlights Cassini's accomplishments and Saturn and reveals the science-packed final orbits between April and September 2017.
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Cassini entering atmosphere
Entering Atmosphere 2
    Topography on Titan October 28, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06989   This graph, produced using preliminary altimetry data from Cassini's radar instrument, show...
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Topography on Titan
Topography on Titan
Measurements by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal temperatures in a high layer of Saturn's atmosphere known as the stratosphere and show the dramatic effects of the massive storm deep below. In thes...
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Graph of measurements at Saturn
Taking the Temperature of a Saturn Storm
Clara, Sugar Plum Fairy, move aside. Saturn's moons give Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, "The Nutcracker," a graceful new spin in this video compiled from some 61 images taken by the Cassini spacecra...
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Saturn
Saturn Moon Ballet

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