Images for the NASA Cassini Mission to Saturn

Enceladus Flyby
October 3, 2008

The Cassini spacecraft makes a close pass by Saturn's inner moon Enceladus to study plumes from geysers that erupt from giant fissures in the moon's southern polar region.
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Sunset on Enceladus
April 8, 2008

A distant sun forms a halo (refracted sunlight by ice crystals) amid streamers of pure water ice particles, which spew into space from cracks in the south polar surface of Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus.
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The Fountains of Enceladus
April 10, 2008

This painting of the south polar region of Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus shows massive jets of water ice being blasted into space. The moon's lack of atmosphere and low gravity prevent the jets from fanning out quickly as they might on a more massive world. These plumes feed the extensive E ring of Saturn.
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Methane-Ethane Lakes of Titan
July 30, 2008

A flat, calm, liquid methane-ethane lake on Titan
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