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Jul 21, 2014
Saturn Imitates the Moon
Saturn appears to NASA Cassini cameras as a thin, sunlit crescent in this unearthly view. Citizens of Earth, being...
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May 4, 2015
Swirls and Shadows
Saturn's surface is painted with swirls and shadows. Each swirl here is a weather system, reminding us of how...
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Jan 16, 2007
Scintillating C Ring
Both luminous and translucent, the C ring sweeps out of the darkness of Saturn's shadow and obscures the planet at...
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May 18, 2015
Janus Stands Alone
Although Janus should be the least lonely of all moons -- sharing its orbit with Epimetheus -- it still spends most...
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Feb 16, 2015
Janus the Jewel
In reality, Janus and the rings both orbit Saturn and are only weakly connected to each other through their mutual...
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Aug 18, 2014
Ring King
Saturn reigns supreme, encircled by its retinue of rings. Although all four giant planets have ring systems,...
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Jul 14, 2014
A Dot Does a Lot
Seen by NASA Cassini spacecraft within the vast expanse of Saturn rings, Prometheus appears as little more than a...
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May 27, 2008
Deep Clouds
Bright puffs and ribbons of cloud drift lazily through Saturn's murky skies. In contrast to the bold red, orange and...
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Sep 8, 2014
Pan Alone in the Gap
Saturn's innermost moon Pan orbits the giant planet seemingly alone in a ring gap its own gravity creates. Pan (17...
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Mar 30, 2015
20-20 Hindsight
Much as its name implies, tiny Epimetheus (Greek for hindsight) was discovered in hindsight. Astronomers originally...
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Nov 24, 2014
Circling Saturn
Saturn is circled by its rings (seen nearly edge-on in this image), as well as by the moons Tethys (the large bright...
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Feb 9, 2015
Study in Scarlet
If your eyes could only see the color red, this is how Saturn's rings would look. Many Cassini color images, like...
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Sep 22, 2014
The Odd Trio
The Cassini spacecraft captures a rare family photo of three of Saturn's moons that couldn't be more different from...
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Oct 20, 2014
Mini Moons
Are the moons tiny or are the rings vast? Both, in a way! The moons visible in this image from NASA Cassini...
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Nov 3, 2014
Mimicking the Moon
When Galileo first observed Venus displaying a crescent phase, he excitedly wrote to Kepler (in anagram) of Venus...
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Sep 2, 2014
Dot Against the Dark
As if trying to get our attention, Mimas is positioned against the shadow of Saturn's rings, bright on dark. As we...
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Dec 22, 2014
Darkness
Saturn's main rings, seen here on their "lit" face, appear much darker than normal. That's because they tend to...
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Mar 16, 2015
Groovy
From afar, Saturn's rings look like a solid, homogenous disk of material. But upon closer examination from Cassini,...
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Oct 30, 2017
The North
Reflected sunlight is the source of the illumination for visible wavelength images such as the one above. However,...
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Jun 9, 2014
Gored of the Rings
Prometheus is caught in the act of creating gores and streamers in the F ring. Scientists believe that Prometheus...
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Dec 1, 2014
Mighty Little Dot
Enceladus (visible in the lower-left corner of the image) is but a speck before enormous Saturn, but even a small...
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Feb 23, 2015
Cubist Saturn
Sometimes at Saturn you can see things almost as if from every angle at once, the way a Cubist might imagine things....
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Jan 26, 2015
The Shapers
Two masters of their craft are caught at work shaping Saturn's rings. Pandora (upper right) sculpts the F ring, as...
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Jul 7, 2014
Vortex and Rings
NASA Cassini spacecraft captures three magnificent sights at once: Saturn north polar vortex and hexagon along with...
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