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A brilliant spot of sunlight, the opposition effect, travels outward across the rings as the Cassini spacecraft...
Sunlight was just starting to reach the high Northern latitudes in late winter when NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter...
NASA Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn largest moon and captures the halo-like ring produced...
The shadow of Saturn cuts across the rings as seen by NASA Cassini spacecraft. As the ring particles enter Saturn...
Sunlight passing through the Cassini Division between Saturn A and B rings sweeps across and illuminates the surface...
NASA Voyager 2 obtained this wide-angle image of the night side of Titan on Aug. 25, 1979. This is a view of Titan...
NASA Cassini Orbiter sees Titan become obscured as it moves into eclipse by Saturn. Most of the light comes from...
Saturn moon Enceladus reflects sunlight brightly while the planet and its rings fill the background in this view...
NASA Mercury Laser Altimeter MLA is shown ranging to Mercury surface from orbit. In this animation, yellow flashes...
Saturn moon Enceladus brightly reflects sunlight before a backdrop of the planet rings and the rings shadows cast...
Saturn moon Dione, in the foreground of this image from NASA Cassini spacecraft, appears darker than the moon...
Bright sunlight on Rhea shows off the cratered surface of Saturn second largest moon in this image captured by NASA...
Capturing the interplay between light and shadow, NASA Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn...
NASA Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Titan as a circle of light is produced by sunlight scattering...
Mimas plows along in its orbit, its pockmarked surface in crisp relief. The bright, steep walls of the enormous...
The Cassini spacecraft stares directly into the great Odysseus impact basin on Tethys. Peaks near the crater center...
Sunlight illuminates the deep cut of Ithaca Chasma on Saturn moon Tethys. Ithaca Chasma runs roughly north-south for...
This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows an area in Vesta northern hemisphere that has been illuminated by the...
The white portions of this observation are part of the South Polar residual ice cap, with the sunlight is coming...
This image from NASA Dawn mission reveals the creeping dawn over the north pole of the giant asteroid Vesta now that...
In the Arabian Sea, sunlight and nutrients has fueled a startling occurrence of colorful phytoplankton and bacterial...
NASA Cassini spacecraft captures a still and partially sunlit Enceladus. The Saturnian moon is covered in ice that...
Graceful giant Saturn poses with a few of the small worlds it holds close. From this viewpoint the Cassini...
In this stunning image, NASA Cassini spacecraft looks at the dark side of Saturn largest moon. The narrowing circle...