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+ View unlabeled, uncropped version of the image Using images like the one presented here, Cassini imaging scientists have made a major finding about the mechanism powering the general circulation...

This image, taken on June 10, 2016 by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows cratered terrain on Ceres. Dawn took this image from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilome...

This image of a large block along the ridge of Urvara Crater was obtained by NASAs Dawn spacecraft on July 24, 2018 from an altitude of about 36 miles (58 kilometers).

The rings split the planet in two in this Cassini spacecraft view of a crescent Saturn. Saturn's moon Tethys (1,062 kilometers, or 660 miles across) is the small dot on the left of the image, belo...

This mosaic of Cassini images, part of a larger mosaic of images captured just hours before exact equinox at Saturn, shows that the spiral corrugation in the planet's inner rings continues right up...

This raw, unprocessed image of Titan behind Saturn's rings was taken on May 18, 2010, by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI + Raw Image

A Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff member inspects the heat shield of the Huygens probe after the shield was installed in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center, in July 1...

Hyperion is one of the smaller of Saturn's main satellites, is irregular in shape, about 400 by 250 by 240 kilometers (250 by 160 by 150 miles), and is noted for its odd scarp system. Scarps like t...

This dramatic view looks across the region of Enceladus' geyser basin and down on the ends of the Baghdad and Damascus fractures that face Saturn. 

+ View Full-Res This image was obtained by Cassini's radar instrument during a flyby on Jan. 13, 2007. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) ...

With its dazzling rings, Saturn radiates a beauty and splendor like no other known world. Here, Cassini has captured the cool crescent of Saturn from above the ringplane, with the planet's shadow c...

This false-color composite was created with images taken during the Cassini spacecraft's closest flyby of Titan on April 16, 2005. It was created by combining two infrared images (taken at 938 and ...

Rounding the Rings October 13, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06497 Cassini spied two members of Saturn's family rounding the rings in this image f...

One year of African fires are shown in red over the course of 2006.

This image of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows a region of craters softened by time and torn apart by tectonic stresses. Fractures 100 to 400 meters (330 to 1,300 feet) in width crosscut the terrain: ...

The Cassini spacecraft captures a far-off view of the two-toned surface of Saturn's moon Iapetus. Scientists continue to investigate the nature of this moon's surface. See The Other Side of Iapetu...

During its closest flyby of Saturn's wrinkled, icy moon Enceladus, Cassini obtained multi-spectral images of its cratered terrain that have been put together to create this false-color view. To hu...

This portrait looking down on Saturn and its rings was created from images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 10, 2013.

The northern and southern hemispheres of Dione are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available clear-filter images from NASA's Cassini and Voyager missions. Each map ...

Jupiter in blue, ultraviolet and near infrared October 23, 2000   These three images of Jupiter, taken through the narrow angle camera of NASA's Cassini spacecraft from a distance of ...

Summer is slowly coming to Saturn's northern hemisphere.

Flight across Titan

The Cassini spacecraft snapped this Saturn portrait from the distance of Iapetus, just before beginning its close encounter with the two-toned moon. Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) is...

This image from the Cassini spacecraft shows a ghostly white streak, called a spoke, in Saturn's B ring. This is the first sighting of a spoke in nearly a year, and the first spoke seen by Cassini ...

The most detailed images of Ultima Thule — obtained just minutes before the spacecraft's closest approach at 12:33 a.m. EST on Jan. 1, 2019 — have a resolution of about 110 feet (33 meters) per pix...