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This animation blinks between two images of NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander hardware around the mission's 2008 landing site on far-northern Mars. By late 2017, dust obscures much of what was visible two...
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NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander hardware
NASA's Phoenix Lander on Mars, Nearly a Decade Later
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
Cassini is honored to be one of NASA's annual π (pi) day challenges. 
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Colorful poster showing Pi problems.
Pi Day 2017
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
Ocean Worlds Infographic
Temperature changes mapped with Cassini's composite and infrared spectrometer throughout Saturn's main rings show the ring temperatures decreasing with the increase of the Sun-spacecraft-ring angle...
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This image shows temperature changes mapped with Cassini's composite and infrared spectrometer throughout Saturn's main rings
Slower Spinning Rings #2
Engineers too eager to wait for image processing hand-colored this first-ever TV image of Mars in 1964.
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Hand-colored image of Mars from orbit.
First TV Image of Mars (Hand Colored)
Learning what Jupiter is made of and how it works will tell us more about the rest of the solar system and our own planet, Earth.
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Infographic comparing Jupiter and Earth.
How Do Jupiter and Earth Compare
+ Video Launch Page The window at left shows the field-of-view of the prime instrument during Cassini's flyby Mar. 12, 2008, The right-hand windows show the view from the instrument boresights.
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Computer generated views of the Enceladus flyby
Enceladus Flyby (Fields of View) -- March 12, 2008
Presented here is a complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution atlas of Saturn's moon Mimas. The atlas is a product of the imaging team working with NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ...
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The Mimas Atlas -- Herschel
The Mimas Atlas -- Herschel
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
With NASA's Cassini prime mission concluded, the Cassini Equinox Mission begins. The spacecraft remains healthy and its international science team has planned for it to take closer looks at especia...
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A logo for the Cassini Equinox mission
Cassini Equinox Mission
The Cassini spacecraft views Saturn with a selection of its moons in varying sizes. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is in the center of the image. Titan is 5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles, across...
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The Cassini spacecraft views Saturn with a selection of its moons in varying sizes.
Moons Small to Large
A diagram of the Dawn spacecraft from 2006.
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Diagram of spacecraft
Dawn Spacecraft Diagram No. 2
For an Earth observer on May 3, 2005, the Cassini spacecraft appeared to pass behind the rings, then Saturn, then the rings again (the red line). The discovered harmonic structure was found on both...
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Illustration of the harmonic structure found in various parts of Saturn's rings
Saturn's Ring Rhythm #2
Pan Found!
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Pan Found!
Pan Found!
The Cassini mission’s epic 13-year exploration of Saturn is coming to a close. On Sept. 15, the spacecraft will make a planned plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn in order to protect pristine icy ...
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Computer generated animations, interviews and real images showing highlights of the Cassini mission.
A Journey's End
Regions of Saturn's Magnetosphere Click here for high resolution version.
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Diagram of Saturn's magnetosphere
Regions of Saturn's Magnetosphere
+ View related feature story + View unlabeled image Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted two features shaped like the 1980s video game icon "Pac-Man" on moons of Saturn. One wa...
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temperatures comparison between Mimas and Tethys
A Pair of 'Pac-Men'
Using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, giving researchers a 3-D tool for learning more about one of the most Ear...
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A global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan
Global Topographic Map of Titan
This composite image, which has become a popular poster, shows a global view of Earth at night, compiled from over 400 satellite images
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Global image of city lights.
Earth at Night
An artist's impression of Pioneer 10 heading out of the solar system towards the galactic center.
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Illustration of spacecraft with Milky Way in the background.
Outbound Pioneer (Artist's Concept)
The forceful storm generated unprecedented spikes in temperature and increased amounts of ethylene. In these two sets of measurements taken by Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer, yellow repr...
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In these two sets of measurements taken by Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer, yellow represents the highest temperatures. Each strip maps a single molecule (top: methane, bottom: ethylene), with temperature measurements taken in the northern hemisphere
Tracking the Saturn Storm in the Infrared
A whimsical mission poster inspired by classic 1960s pop culture art.
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Comic book style poster of Cassini racing past Saturn.
Cassini Retro Poster: Whoosh!
This graphic depicts Cassini's interplanetary flight path beginning with launch from Earth on 15 October 1997, followed by gravity assist flybys of Venus (26 April 1998 and 21 June 1999), Earth (18...
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Illustration of Cassini trajectory to Saturn.
Cassini 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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Huygens landing
Huygens Landing

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