Three Saturnian moons in one image
What looks like a pair of Saturnian satellites is actually a trio upon close inspection.
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Image: Enceladus and Saturn's rings
Although Enceladus and Saturn's rings are largely made up of water ice, they show very different characteristics. The small ring particles are too tiny to retain internal heat and have no way to get warm, so they are frozen ...
Space Exploration
Dec 15, 2015
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Cassini image: Water world
Although Enceladus and Saturn's rings are largely made up of water ice, they show very different characteristics. The small ring particles are too tiny to retain internal heat and have no way to get warm, so they are frozen ...
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2015
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Moons in hiding
Prometheus and Pandora are almost hidden in Saturn's rings in this image.
Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2015
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Image: Methane painting in the Saturn system
Why does Saturn look like it's been painted with a dark brush in this infrared image, but Dione looks untouched? Perhaps an artist with very specific tastes in palettes?
Space Exploration
Sep 11, 2015
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Image: Darkness descending on Saturn
Saturn's unusual appearance in this picture is a result of the planet being imaged via an infrared filter.
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2015
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Saturn's little wavemaking moon
Captured on January 15, this narrow-angle Cassini image shows an outer portion of Saturn's A ring on the left and the ropy F ring crossing on the right. The thin black line near the A ring's bright edge is the Keeler Gap, ...
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2013
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Saturn shows off its shadow
Take a look up at the enormous shadow cast by Saturn onto its own rings in this raw image, acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on September 18, 2012.
Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2012
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Image: Saturn and its moon Dione
(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn and Dione appear askew in this Cassini spacecraft view, with the north poles rotated to the right, as if they were threaded along on the thin diagonal line of the planet's rings.
Space Exploration
Feb 3, 2012
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Image: Closest Dione flyby
(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying past Saturn's moon Dione, Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet's rings.
Space Exploration
Jan 23, 2012
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