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+ Higher Res This graphic shows highlights of the tour of NASA's Cassini spacecraft around the Saturn system. It was created by David Seal of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Credit: NASA/JP...
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This graphic shows highlights of the tour of NASA's Cassini spacecraft around the Saturn system
Cassini's Tour of the Saturn System
While the curtain-like auroras we see at Earth are green at the bottom and red at the top, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has shown us similar curtain-like auroras at Saturn that are red at the bottom a...
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Saturn's aurora
Saturn's Colorful Aurora (annotated)
Tycho Crater is one of the most prominent craters on the Moon.
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Moon with crater labeled in lower, left quadrant.
Tycho Crater on the Moon (Labeled)
This plot shows the variation in brightness of the plume of material, composed of all the geysers erupting from the south polar terrain of Saturn's moon Enceladus, as a function of the moon's orbit...
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This plot shows the variation in brightness of the plume of material on Enceladus
Enceladus' Plume Brightness Variations
+ View Non-Annotated Version Heat radiating from the entire length of 150 kilometer (95 mile)-long fractures is seen in this best-yet heat map of the active south polar region of Saturn's ice mo...
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Annotated heat map of the active south polar region of Enceladus
Jet Spots in Tiger Stripes (Annotated)
As Saturn's active moon Enceladus continues to spew icy particles into space, scientists struggle to understand the mechanics of what is going on beneath the fractured south polar terrain. This gra...
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Illustration depicting the interior
Enceladus
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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Proximal dive
Proximal Dive
This figure shows shifting stratospheric temperatures obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft between 2005 (left) to 2008 (right). The difference between the temperatures is shown in the middle, with...
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This figure shows shifting stratospheric temperatures obtained by Cassini between 2005 (left) to 2008 (right)
Changing Temperatures in Saturn's stratosphere
This whimsical travel poster imagines a future regatta where explorers recreate Voyager 1 and 2's historic Grand Tour of the outer solar system.
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Colorful poster with illustrated spacecraft flying past planets.
The Grand Tour: Visions of the Future Poster
This graphic shows the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon Enceladus on Aug. 11, 2008. At closet approach Cassini will be 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the surfac...
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Graphic showing the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon Enceladus on Aug. 11, 2008.
Enceladus Flyby Trajectory – Aug. 11, 2008
A diagram of instruments on the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft.
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Illustration showing spacecraft and parts.
Pioneer Spacecraft Diagram
This animated movie shows the simulated solar wind velocity from March 21 to May 10, 2013. 
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This animated movie shows the simulated solar wind velocity from March 21 to May 10, 2013.
Animation of Spaceweather Predictors 2
Cassini, namesake of the Cassini Orbiter, discovered four moons of Saturn and the large gap in Saturn's rings, now called the Cassini division. He also was the first director of the Paris Observato...
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Cassini, namesake of the Cassini Orbiter, with Birthday celebration
Happy Birthday to Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Born June 8, 1625
Artist's concept of Voyager 2 with nine facts listed around it. 
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Illustration of spacecraft surrounded by some of the impressive numbers logged by the mission.
Voyager 2: Interstellar-By the Numbers
MLS measures lower stratospheric temperature and concentrations of H2O, O3, ClO, BrO, HCl, OH, HO2, HNO3, HCN and N2O, for their effects on (and diagnoses of) ozone depletion, transformations of gr...
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Graphic showing the effects of temperature and atmospheric components on ozone depletion
Ozone Measurements Out on a Limb
The Cassini spacecraft has logged some impressive numbers in the 12 years since it arrived at Saturn on July 1, 2004. This infographic offers a snapshot of just a few of the mission's big numbers a...
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Infographic showing trivia numbers about the Cassini mission.
Cassini by the Numbers: 2016
This graphic depicts the interplanetary flight path beginning with launch from Earth on 15 October 1997, followed by gravity assist flybys of Venus (26 April 1998 and 24 June 1999), Earth (18 Augus...
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Interplanetary Trajectory
Interplanetary Trajectory
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
During its final months, the Cassini spacecraft will climb repeatedly high above the planet’s north pole and then dive between the planet and the innermost edge of its dazzling rings.​
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Illustration showing Cassini's final orbits.
Orbit Plot: Cassini Grand Finale (Artist's Concept)
The symbols for the planets, dwarf planet Pluto, Moon and Sun (along with the symbols for the zodiac constellations) were developed for use in both astronomy and astrology.
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Series of symbols.
Solar System Symbols
On July 11, 2005, the Cassini ultraviolet imaging spectrograph observed the star Bellatrix as it passed behind Enceladus, as seen from the spacecraft. The starlight was observed to dim when it got ...
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On July 11, 2005, the Cassini ultraviolet imaging spectrograph observed the star Bellatrix as it passed behind Enceladus, as seen from the spacecraft.
Enceladus Atmosphere Not Global
In its five-year tour of the Saturn system, Cassini has sent home a bounty of fruitful images showing delectable scenes that fill the mind with wonder and awe.
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The Saturn System: A Feast for the Eyes -- artists rendition of the Cassini spacecraft shown among images it has returned from the Saturnian system
The Saturn System: A Feast for the Eyes
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
Diagram of the Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe.
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Cassini Diagram No. 6
This is a drawing of Saturn made by an elementary school student.
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Drawing of Saturn
Student Rendering of Saturn

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