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- The Cassini Spacecraft Has Taken Some Incredible Images Of Saturn In Its Decade Circling The Planet
The Cassini Spacecraft Has Taken Some Incredible Images Of Saturn In Its Decade Circling The Planet
ScienceOn its way to Saturn, Cassini snapped this portrait of Jupiter from 6.2 million miles away composed of 27 images.
It caught the first high-resolution images of Saturn's moon Lapetus showing its geologic structures.
Cassini has given many great, close-up views of Saturn's moon Titan. Those clouds cover an incredible sight on this moons' surface.
Radar imaging by Cassini has shown that there are lakes on Titan, likely filled with a combination of ethane and methane. Scientists have just seen these lakes can change over time.
Saturn's moon, Pandora, has a rugged, irregular shape, with craters due to multiple impacts.
Saturn's eighth largest moon is Hyperion has a layer of organic dust on top of it ice.
Phoebe, another one of Saturn's moons, has an irregular topography.
Enceladus might be one of the most beautiful of Saturn's moons. This image, from 2008, shows the planet's tiger stripe fractures, or sulci, which indicate it's active under that icy surface.
That's been confirmed by other images. In this we can see the enhanced jets that are erupting geysers, from possible reservoirs of water under the surface of the moon.
Geysers crop up on the southern pole of the moon, where we've just recently found a huge underground lake of water.
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, behind Tethys, a bright icy moon.
This infrared image of Saturn's north pole shows energetic particles crashing into the atmosphere, creating bright auroras seen here.
Strange meteorology on Saturn creates a "string of pearls" that are clearing in its deep cloud system.
Monster storms called vortices, swirl in the atmosphere of Saturn. This giant one, which formed in 2010, left its mark all the way around the planet.
This image of the longest-lived electrical storm observed on Saturn was taken three months after the storm was detected.
With Saturn in front of the sun NASA found faint rings that were previously unknown to exist.
Saturn's rings in ultraviolet light show more ice in towards the outer areas. This observation give hints of how the rings were created and how they have evolved overtime.
False color mosaic from 25 images of Saturn captures both nighttime, on the right side, and daytime conditions on the left side.
Saturn is enormous compared to its moons. Tethys is on the right side of the image below the rings, Enceladus is on the left side below the rings, and Pandora is barely visible on the left edge of the image right above the rings.
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