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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA14582
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12111
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA13423
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/LPI

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17174
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17174
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17174
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA08249
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA08344
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA02862
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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Oblate Mimas

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

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA11642
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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Oblate Mimas

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

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA11642
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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Oblate Mimas

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

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA11642
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12747
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12747
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12747
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12747
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12747
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA02868
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12207
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/Universities Space Research Association/Lunar & Planetary Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12635
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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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
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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17184
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17184
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17184
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17184
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17184
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA02832
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA03451
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA03451
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA03451
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA03451
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA03451
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA07776
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA08312
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12749
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA14646
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18417
Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18417
Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18417
Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18417
Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18417
Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA20484
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA20484
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA20484
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA20484
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA20484
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA21346
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA02871
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA20513
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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Young and Old

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

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12589
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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