Cassini Saturn Photo 2012
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12/19/2012
NASA Space Probe Snaps Spectacular Images Of Ringed Planet. Some didn't have descriptions, some I had to trim down.
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Flying past Saturn's moon Dione, Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet's rings. -
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The Cassini spacecraft looks at a brightly illuminated Enceladus and examines the surface of the leading hemisphere of this Saturnian moon. -
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The line of Saturn's rings disrupts the Cassini spacecraft's view of the moons Tethys and Titan. -
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Saturn's moon Mimas peeks out from behind the night side of the larger moon Dione in this Cassini image. -
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Saturn's small, potato-shaped moon Prometheus appears embedded within the planet's rings near the center of this Cassini spacecraft view while the larger moon Mimas orbits beyond the rings. -
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A quintet of Saturn's moons come together in the Cassini spacecraft's field of view for this portrait. -
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A quartet of Saturn's moons, from tiny to huge, surround and are embedded within the planet's rings in this Cassini composition. -
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained one of two unprocessed images on Dec. 12, 2011. -
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this unprocessed image on Dec. 12, 2011. -
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The colorful globe of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, passes in front of the planet and its rings in this true color snapshot. -
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Saturn's third-largest moon Dione can be seen through the haze of its largest moon, Titan. -
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A crescent Enceladus appears with Saturn's rings in this Cassini spacecraft view of the moon. -
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Although traveling at great speed, the Cassini spacecraft managed to capture this close view of Saturn's small moon Helene. -
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This stunning false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface. -
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Saturn sits nested in its rings of ice as Cassini once again plunges toward the graceful giant. -
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Recent Cassini images of Saturn's moon Enceladus backlit by the sun show the fountain-like sources of the fine spray of material that towers over the south polar region. -
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The best view of Saturn's rings in the ultraviolet indicates there is more ice toward the outer part of the rings. -
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The spacecraft views the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world. -
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Vertical structures, among the tallest seen in Saturn's main rings, rise abruptly from the edge of Saturn's B ring to cast long shadows on the ring . -
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