Blinding Saturn
Surely one of the most gorgeous sights the solar system has to offer, Saturn sits enveloped by the full splendor of its stately rings.
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The Great Crossing
This life-like movie sequence captures Saturn's rings during a ring plane crossing--which Cassini makes twice per orbit--from the spacecraft's point of view. The movie begins with a view of the sunlit side of the rings. As the spacecraft speeds from south to north, the rings appear to tilt downward and collapse to a thin plane, and then open again to reveal the un-illuminated side of the ring plane, where sunlight filters through only dimly.
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Ring World
Our robotic emissary, flying high above Saturn, captured this view of an alien copper-colored ring world. The overexposed planet has deliberately been removed to show the unlit rings alone, seen from an elevation of 60 degrees, the highest Cassini has yet attained.
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Tourniquet Shadows
Dark and sharply defined ring shadows appear to constrict the flow of color from Saturn's warmly hued south to the bluish northern latitudes.
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Pastel Planet
With pastel blues, pinks, greens and golds, Saturn displays a dazzling diversity of colors and hues.
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Symmetry in Shadow
Magnificent blue and gold Saturn floats obliquely as one of its gravity-bound companions, Dione, hangs in the distance. The darkened rings seem to nearly touch their shadowy reverse images on the planet below.
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Magnificent Vista
Cassini coasts beneath giant Saturn, staring upward at its gleaming crescent and icy rings.
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The Lore of Saturn
The great planet Saturn reveals mysteries more profound, and stories more grand, than those occasioned by its ancient mythological namesake.
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