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Titan & Enceladus (RGB 5-21-11) (par Lights In The Dark)

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Images captured by cameras aboard the Cassini spacecraft on its mission to explore Saturn and its moons.

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thatsgoodsoup:

Looking Over Enceladus

The Cassini spacecraft looks over cratered and tectonically deformed terrain on Saturn’s moon Enceladus as the camera also catches a glimpse of the planet’s rings in the background. The image was captured during the spacecraft’s flyby of Enceladus on Nov. 30, 2010.

Geologically young terrain in the middle latitudes of the moon gives way to older, cratered terrain in the northern latitudes. See PIA11685 to learn more. This view is centered on terrain at 41 degrees north latitude, 202 degrees west longitude. North on Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles, across) is up and rotated 28 degrees to the right.

This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from less than a degree above the ringplane.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 46,000 kilometers (29,000 miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 14 degrees. Image scale is 276 meters (906 feet) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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unknownskywalker:

Highlighting Plumes

At least four distinct plumes of water ice spew out from the south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in this dramatically illuminated image taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 25, 2009 at a distance of approximately 617,000 kilometers from Enceladus. Light reflected off Saturn is illuminating the surface of the moon while the sun, almost directly behind Enceladus, is backlighting the plumes.

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schneckenhaus:

The dark side of Saturn cast’s a long heavy shadow across it’s rings – stunning! – the aforementioned moon of Thetys can be seen top right whilst Enceladus spins away bottom right.

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Cassini Equinox Mission: Move Over Caravaggio: Cassini’s Light and Dark Moons

unknownskywalker:

Dione: Study in Contrasts

Crisp details on Dione contrast with the haziness of Titan in this image of a pair of Saturn’s moons taken in visible blue light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 20, 2010.

Smaller Dione is at the bottom of the image, and that moon’s wispy terrain is visible. Titan dominates the rest of the image, and that moon’s north polar hood is visible here. Lit terrain seen here is on the trailing hemisphere of Dione (1,123 kilometers across) and in the area between the trailing hemisphere and anti-Saturn side of Titan (5,150 kilometers across).

Image Credit: NASA JPL

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asteroid 21 lutetia and saturn via esa’s rosetta blog and @psibawb.

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