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  1. Hiding Little Brother

    During a flyby of Saturn moon Enceladus on Oct. 1, 2011, NASA Cassini spacecraft snapped this portrait of the moon joined by its sibling Epimetheus and the planet rings.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA145
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  2. South Polar Basin on Titan

    An enigmatic large basin appears in the south polar region of Saturn moon Titan at the center of this Titan Radar Mapper image from NASA Cassini spacecraft acquired on June 22, 2009.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA121
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  3. Enhanced-Color Maps of Saturn Inner Moons

    This set of enhanced-color maps made from data obtained by NASA Cassini spacecraft show Saturn moons Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione and Rhea.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA134
    Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/LPI

    #saturn #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  4. Fire and Ice

    Saturn's largest and second largest moons, Titan and Rhea, appear to be stacked on top of each other in this true-color scene from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The north polar hood can be seen on Titan (3,200 miles or 5,150 kilometers across) appearing as a detached layer at the top of the moon on the top right....

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA171
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  5. Fire and Ice

    Saturn's largest and second largest moons, Titan and Rhea, appear to be stacked on top of each other in this true-color scene from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The north polar hood can be seen on Titan (3,200 miles or 5,150 kilometers across) appearing as a detached layer at the top of the moon on the top right....

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA171
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  6. Fire and Ice

    Saturn's largest and second largest moons, Titan and Rhea, appear to be stacked on top of each other in this true-color scene from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The north polar hood can be seen on Titan (3,200 miles or 5,150 kilometers across) appearing as a detached layer at the top of the moon on the top right....

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA171
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  7. Moon With a Warm Heart

    Few large craters are to be found in the wrinkled terrain of Enceladus, where the surface has been reworked by geologic processes presumably resulting from the moon inner warmth

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA082
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  8. Map of Mimas - December 2006

    This global digital map of Saturn moon Mimas was created using data taken by the Cassini spacecraft, with gaps in coverage filled in by NASA Voyager spacecraft data

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA083
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #mimas #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  9. Ganymede and Jupiter

    The solar system largest moon, Ganymede, is captured here alongside the planet Jupiter in a color picture taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 3, 2000.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA028
    Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

    #jupiter #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  10. Oblate Mimas

    NASA Cassini spacecraft reveals the cratered surface of Mimas, a moon whose shape is flattened at the poles.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA116
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #mimas #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  11. Oblate Mimas

    NASA Cassini spacecraft reveals the cratered surface of Mimas, a moon whose shape is flattened at the poles.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA116
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #mimas #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  12. Oblate Mimas

    NASA Cassini spacecraft reveals the cratered surface of Mimas, a moon whose shape is flattened at the poles.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA116
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #mimas #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  13. Ring Backdrop

    Saturn moon Enceladus brightly reflects sunlight before a backdrop of the planet rings and the rings shadows cast onto the planet. NASA Cassini spacecraft captured this snapshot during its flyby of the moon on Nov. 30, 2010.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA127
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  14. Ring Backdrop

    Saturn moon Enceladus brightly reflects sunlight before a backdrop of the planet rings and the rings shadows cast onto the planet. NASA Cassini spacecraft captured this snapshot during its flyby of the moon on Nov. 30, 2010.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA127
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  15. Ring Backdrop

    Saturn moon Enceladus brightly reflects sunlight before a backdrop of the planet rings and the rings shadows cast onto the planet. NASA Cassini spacecraft captured this snapshot during its flyby of the moon on Nov. 30, 2010.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA127
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  16. Ring Backdrop

    Saturn moon Enceladus brightly reflects sunlight before a backdrop of the planet rings and the rings shadows cast onto the planet. NASA Cassini spacecraft captured this snapshot during its flyby of the moon on Nov. 30, 2010.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA127
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  17. Ring Backdrop

    Saturn moon Enceladus brightly reflects sunlight before a backdrop of the planet rings and the rings shadows cast onto the planet. NASA Cassini spacecraft captured this snapshot during its flyby of the moon on Nov. 30, 2010.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA127
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  18. Turbulent Region Near Great Red Spot

    This image is a still frame, created from images taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft, shows a turbulent region west of Jupiter Great Red Spot. The small, bright white spots are believed to be thunderstorms.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA028
    Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

    #jupiter #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  19. Perspective view of Damascus Sulcus, Enceladus

    This perspective view, generated from high resolution images acquired by NASA Cassini orbiter, highlights one of the wall scarps of the medial trough of Damascus Sulcus on Enceladus.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA122
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/Universities Space Research Association/Lunar & Planetary Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  20. Dont Forget Telesto

    Saturn moon Dione dwarfs the moon Telesto in this image captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft image. Dione is the fourth largest of Saturn moons, and it dominates this view. Tiny Telesto can be seen below and to the left of Dione.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA126
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #dione #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  21. A probe called Cassini spent thirteen years orbiting Saturn, flew through the plumes of its moon Enceladus, tasted water and organic molecules in the spray, and then was deliberately crashed into Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017 so it could not contaminate what might be a living ocean
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    <p>For thirteen years, a spacecraft called Cassini circled Saturn
    #thirteen #cassini #through #saturn

  22. Encroaching Shadow

    This image from NASA Cassini spacecraft, one of those acquired in the survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus, was taken as Cassini was looking across the moon south pole.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA171
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  23. Encroaching Shadow

    This image from NASA Cassini spacecraft, one of those acquired in the survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus, was taken as Cassini was looking across the moon south pole.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA171
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  24. Encroaching Shadow

    This image from NASA Cassini spacecraft, one of those acquired in the survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus, was taken as Cassini was looking across the moon south pole.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA171
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  25. Encroaching Shadow

    This image from NASA Cassini spacecraft, one of those acquired in the survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus, was taken as Cassini was looking across the moon south pole.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA171
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  26. Encroaching Shadow

    This image from NASA Cassini spacecraft, one of those acquired in the survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus, was taken as Cassini was looking across the moon south pole.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA171
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  27. Still from Processed Movie of Zonal Jets

    This image is one frame from a movie clip of cloud motions on Jupiter, from the side of the planet opposite to the Great Red Spot. It was taken in the first week of October 2000 by the narrow-angle camera on NASA Cassini spacecraft,

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA028
    Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

    #jupiter #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  28. Cassini Farewell to Jupiter

    On January 15, 2001, 17 days after it passed its closest approach to Jupiter, NASA Cassini spacecraft looked back to see the giant planet as a thinning crescent.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA034
    Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

    #jupiter #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  29. Cassini Farewell to Jupiter

    On January 15, 2001, 17 days after it passed its closest approach to Jupiter, NASA Cassini spacecraft looked back to see the giant planet as a thinning crescent.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA034
    Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

    #jupiter #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  30. Cassini Farewell to Jupiter

    On January 15, 2001, 17 days after it passed its closest approach to Jupiter, NASA Cassini spacecraft looked back to see the giant planet as a thinning crescent.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA034
    Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

    #jupiter #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  31. Cassini Farewell to Jupiter

    On January 15, 2001, 17 days after it passed its closest approach to Jupiter, NASA Cassini spacecraft looked back to see the giant planet as a thinning crescent.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA034
    Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

    #jupiter #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  32. Cassini Farewell to Jupiter

    On January 15, 2001, 17 days after it passed its closest approach to Jupiter, NASA Cassini spacecraft looked back to see the giant planet as a thinning crescent.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA034
    Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

    #jupiter #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  33. Map of Dione -- December 2005

    This global digital map of Saturn moon Dione was created using data taken during Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 977 meters 3,205 feet per pixel

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA077
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #dione #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  34. Relaxing on Enceladus

    Looking down onto the northern hemisphere of geologically complex Enceladus, the Cassini spacecraft spies softened, or relaxed, craters and east-west trending fractures and faults.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA083
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  35. Dione Deception

    At top of this image, Saturn moon Dione may appear closer to the spacecraft because it is larger than the moon Enceladus in the lower left. However, Enceladus was actually closer to the spacecraft in this image captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA127
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #dione #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  36. Hexagon and Rings

    Saturn north polar hexagon basks in the Sun light now that spring has come to the northern hemisphere. Many smaller storms dot the north polar region and Saturn signature rings put in an appearance in the background.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA146
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #saturn #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  37. Titan Subsurface Reservoirs Artist Concept

    Scientists modeled how methane rainfall runoff would interact with the porous, icy crust of Saturn moon Titan and found that a subsurface methane aquifer might have its composition changed over time due to the formation of materials called clathrates.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA184
    Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  38. Titan Subsurface Reservoirs Artist Concept

    Scientists modeled how methane rainfall runoff would interact with the porous, icy crust of Saturn moon Titan and found that a subsurface methane aquifer might have its composition changed over time due to the formation of materials called clathrates.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA184
    Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  39. Titan Subsurface Reservoirs Artist Concept

    Scientists modeled how methane rainfall runoff would interact with the porous, icy crust of Saturn moon Titan and found that a subsurface methane aquifer might have its composition changed over time due to the formation of materials called clathrates.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA184
    Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  40. Titan Subsurface Reservoirs Artist Concept

    Scientists modeled how methane rainfall runoff would interact with the porous, icy crust of Saturn moon Titan and found that a subsurface methane aquifer might have its composition changed over time due to the formation of materials called clathrates.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA184
    Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  41. Titan Subsurface Reservoirs Artist Concept

    Scientists modeled how methane rainfall runoff would interact with the porous, icy crust of Saturn moon Titan and found that a subsurface methane aquifer might have its composition changed over time due to the formation of materials called clathrates.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA184
    Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  42. Rings Interrupted

    Distant Titan, its northern hemisphere drenched in the sunlight of late spring, hangs above Saturn rings in this image captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA204
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  43. Rings Interrupted

    Distant Titan, its northern hemisphere drenched in the sunlight of late spring, hangs above Saturn rings in this image captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA204
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  44. Rings Interrupted

    Distant Titan, its northern hemisphere drenched in the sunlight of late spring, hangs above Saturn rings in this image captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA204
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  45. Rings Interrupted

    Distant Titan, its northern hemisphere drenched in the sunlight of late spring, hangs above Saturn rings in this image captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA204
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  46. Rings Interrupted

    Distant Titan, its northern hemisphere drenched in the sunlight of late spring, hangs above Saturn rings in this image captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA204
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #titan #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  47. Phantom Limb

    The brightly lit limb of a crescent Enceladus looks ethereal against the blackness of space. The rest of the moon, lit by light reflected from Saturn, presents a ghostly appearance. Enceladus (313 miles or 504 kilometers across) is back-lit in this image, as is apparent by the thin crescent. However, the Sun-...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA213
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #saturn #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  48. Storm Merger on Jupiter

    Taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft, a small white spot, probably a thunderstorm, lies to the south of a larger, brown spot on Jupiter.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA028
    Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

    #jupiter #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  49. Basking in Light

    Sunlight truly has come to Saturn's north pole. The whole northern region is bathed in sunlight in this view from late 2016, feeble though the light may be at Saturn's distant domain in the solar system. The hexagon-shaped jet-stream is fully illuminated here. In this image, the planet appears darker in r...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA205
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    #saturn #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  50. Young and Old

    Both ancient and more recent surfaces are exposed in this view taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft of Saturn moon Enceladus.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA125
    Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

    #enceladus #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics