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Quieted Storm
The Cassini spacecraft examines Saturn and the planet's northern hemisphere, which was ravaged by a huge storm for much of 2011.
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Dark Moon, Dramatic Plume
Below a darkened Enceladus, a plume of water ice is backlit in this view of one of Saturn's most dramatic moons.
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Distant Hyperion
The Cassini spacecraft gazes at Saturn's far-off moon Hyperion. This view was obtained at a distance of approximately 324,000 miles (521,000 kilometers) from Hyperion and at a Sun-Hyperion-spacecraft,...
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Haze Before Ice
Saturn's moon Tethys, with its stark white icy surface, peeps out from behind the larger, hazy, colorful Titan in this Cassini view of the two moons. Saturn's rings lie between the two.
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Portrait of Rhea
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Rhea on March 10, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 26,019 miles (41,873 kilometers) away.
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Rhea's Surface
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Rhea on March 10, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 26,257 miles (42,258 kilometers) away.
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Rhea Close-up
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Rhea on March 10, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 26,157 miles (42,096 kilometers) away.
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Across to Prometheus
The Cassini spacecraft looks across Saturn's rings and finds the moon Prometheus, a shepherd of the thin F ring.
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Prometheus (53 miles, or 86 kilometers across) looks like a small white bu... -
Cut-Off Rings
Saturn's moon Mimas joins the planet's rings which appear truncated by the planet's shadow in this Cassini spacecraft image.
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Saturn is off to the left, out of view here. The inner rings a... -
Layers of Titan
This artist's concept shows a possible model of Titan's internal structure that incorporates data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. In this model, Titan is fully differentiated, which means the denser c...
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Changes in Titan's North Polar Cloud
This series of images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows several views of the north polar cloud covering Saturn's moon Titan. The false-color images were obtained by Cassini's visual and infr...
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Snapshots of Titan's North Polar Cloud
This series of false-color images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the dissolving cloud cover over the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan. The images, obtained by Cassini's visual and infrar...
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Beside a Giant
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks small here, pictured to the right of the gas giant in this Cassini spacecraft view.
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Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across) is in the upper rig... -
Rhea Before Titan
Craters appear well defined on icy Rhea in front of the hazy orb of the much larger moon Titan in this Cassini spacecraft view of these two Saturn moons.
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Quintet of Moons
A quintet of Saturn's moons come together in the Cassini spacecraft's field of view for this portrait.
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Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) is on the far left. Pandora (81 kilomete... -
Rings and Enceladus
A crescent Enceladus appears with Saturn's rings in this Cassini spacecraft view of the moon.
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The famed jets of water ice emanating from the south polar region of the moon are faintly vis... -
Dione on a Diagonal
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.
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Pendent Pair
A pair of Saturn's moons appears as if hung below the planet's rings in this Cassini spacecraft view.
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Enceladus (313 miles, or 504 kilometers across) appears just below the rings here, ne... -
Planted Potato
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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Past Night
Saturn's moon Mimas peeks out from behind the night side of the larger moon Dione in this Cassini image captured during the spacecraft's Dec. 12, 2011, flyby of Dione.
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Dione is 698 miles,...