The brightly reflective moon Enceladus appears before Saturn rings while the larger moon Titan looms in the distance. Jets of water ice and vapor emanating from the south pole of Enceladus hinting at subsurface sea rich in organics.
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NASA Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn largest moon and captures the halo-like ring produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan atmosphere.
Ver en NASA ↗While NASA Cassini spacecraft was pointed to study Saturn F ring, it happened to catch a globular star cluster passing through the camera field of view. Animations are available at the Photojournal.
Ver en NASA ↗The shadow of the moon Mimas strikes the F ring at a different angle than the angle at which it is cast on the A ring, illustrating differences in the vertical heights of the rings in this image taken as Saturn approaches its August 2009 equinox.
Ver en NASA ↗This psychedelic view of Saturn and its rings is a composite made from images taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light
Ver en NASA ↗This image shows a high-resolution heat intensity map of part of the south polar region of Saturn moon Enceladus, made from data obtained by NASA Cassini spacecraft.
Ver en NASA ↗Saturn moon Rhea passes in front of Dione, as seen from NASA Cassini spacecraft. These images are part of a mutual event sequence in which one moon passes close to, or in front of, another.
Ver en NASA ↗The moon Rhea moves behind Saturn largest moon, Titan, in this mutual event imaged by NASA Cassini spacecraft. Part of Rhea southern hemisphere is also visible here through the haze of Titan atmosphere.
Ver en NASA ↗This image taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft in 2009, shows the first flash of sunlight reflected off a hydrocarbon lake on Saturn moon Titan. The glint off a mirror-like surface is known as a specular reflection.
Ver en NASA ↗The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the innermost region of Saturn rings, capturing from right to left the C and B rings. The dark, inner edge of the Cassini Division is just visible in the lower left corner
Ver en NASA ↗The Cassini spacecraft gazes down through the dark side of Saturn rings toward the softly glowing planet. The night side southern hemisphere is lit by sunlight reflecting off the opposite side of the rings
Ver en NASA ↗NASA Cassini spacecraft watches a pair of Saturn moons, showing the hazy orb of giant Titan beyond smaller Tethys. In the foreground of the image, Ithaca Chasma can be seen running roughly north-south on Tethys.
Ver en NASA ↗Mimas drifts along in its orbit against the azure backdrop of Saturn northern latitudes in this true color view. The long, dark lines on the atmosphere are shadows cast by the planet rings.
Ver en NASA ↗This mosaic, made from radar images obtained by NASA Cassini spacecraft, shows parallel mountain chains on Saturn moon Titan, near an equatorial region known as Adiri.
Ver en NASA ↗Saturn moons Daphnis and Pan demonstrate their effects on the planet rings in this view from NASA Cassini spacecraft. Daphnis, at left, orbits in the Keeler Gap of the A ring; Pan at right, orbits in the Encke Gap of the A ring.
Ver en NASA ↗This cutaway view of Saturn moon Enceladus is an artist rendering that depicts possible hydrothermal activity that may be taking place on and under the seafloor of the moon subsurface ocean, based on published results from NASA Cassini mission.
Ver en NASA ↗Ultracold hydrocarbon lakes and seas dark shapes near the north pole of Saturn moon Titan can be seen embedded in some kind of bright surface material in this infrared mosaic from NASA Cassini mission.
Ver en NASA ↗A bright spoke extends across the unilluminated side of Saturn B ring about the same distance as that from London to Cairo. The background ring material displays some azimuthal i.e., left to right asymmetry
Ver en NASA ↗Looking like half of a figure eight, two of Saturn moons appear conjoined in this image from NASA Cassini spacecraft. The moon Dione, at the top in the image, is actually closer to the spacecraft, appearing to blend seamlessly with the moon Rhea.
Ver en NASA ↗The moon Prometheus casts a shadow on Saturn F ring near a streamer-channel it has created on the ring. The image was taken as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox.
Ver en NASA ↗Two moons, Rhea and Dione, join the planet and its rings in this view from NASA Cassini spacecraft. Rhea and Dione are respectively the second and fourth largest moons of Saturn, but they are tiny compared to the planet.
Ver en NASA ↗The southern hemisphere of Saturn moon Dione is seen in this polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available clear-filter images from NASA Cassini and Voyager missions.
Ver en NASA ↗This illustration depicts potential origins of methane found in the plume of gas and ice particles that sprays from Saturn moon, Enceladus, based on research by scientists working with the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer on NASA Cassini mission.
Ver en NASA ↗NASA Cassini spacecraft took images of the ropy, taffy-like topography of Saturn moon Enceladus from many different angles as the spacecraft flew by on Feb. 17, 2005. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
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