Launch with a Titan Rocket ![]() Figure caption |
6.7m high, 5.82 tonnes! ![]() Figure caption |
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is one |
Orbit to Saturn ![]() Figure caption |
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The spacecraft ![]() Figure caption |
The spacecraft ![]() Figure caption |
Voyager's view ![]() Figure caption |
Rings and moons ![]() Figure caption |
Cassini gazing down ![]() Figure caption |
Cassini's view ![]() Figure caption |
In Saturn's Shadow ![]() Full resolution image Figure caption |
The rings in their entirety ![]() Full resolution image Rings with Saturn removed Figure caption |
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B-ring, Mimas and Prometheus ![]() Figure caption |
F-ring and Mimas (8.8 · 106 km) ![]() Figure caption |
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Janus and Enceladus (26.3 · 106 km) ![]() Figure caption |
F-ring, Prometheus, Pandora and Janus ![]() Figure caption |
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Moons of Saturn ![]() Figure caption |
New ring discovered by Cassini ![]() Figure caption |
Clumps in F-ring (2 hours apart) ![]() Figure caption |
Irregularities in F-ring (157'000 km) ![]() Figure caption |
Density wave in A-ring (6.8 · 106 km) ![]() Figure caption |
Two waves in the A-ring ![]() Figure caption |
Titan Flyby (16 images mosaic) ![]() Figure caption |
Separation and descent on Titan ![]() Movie caption (3:30) |
Images taken during descent ![]() Figure caption |
360 degree panorama ![]() Figure caption |
River channels ![]() Figure caption |
Huygens instruments during descent ![]() Movie caption (4:39) |
Aerial views of Titan around ![]() Figure caption |
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Huygens on Titan: ![]() Movie caption (5:28) |
Liquid lakes on Titan ![]() Figure caption Another view of liquid lakes on Titan (Credit: NASA/JPL) |
Swaths of Titan's surface as ![]() Movie caption (3:03) |
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background photo: Saturn Rings viewed from Cassini (Credit: NASA and ESA)
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