[Wednesday, August 2, 2006] ESA's Huygens probe successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and safely landed on its surface on 14 January 2005. An extraordinary new world has been unveiled.

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[Saturday, August 5, 2006] It was reported in the Cassini Significant Events last week that the atmospheric density measured at Titan 16 was higher than expected.

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[Sunday, August 6, 2006] This extreme false-color view of Hyperion shows color variation across the impact-blasted surface of the tumbling moon.

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[Thursday, August 10, 2006] The rings cannot hide the ragged, icy crescent of Rhea, here imaged in color by the Cassini spacecraft. The second-largest moon of Saturn shines brightly through gaps in the rings.

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[Thursday, August 10, 2006] Unlike most of the dull grey moons in the Solar System, Hyperion's color is a rosy tan, as this view shows. The origin of the moon's unusual hue is not known.

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[Thursday, August 10, 2006] The Cassini spacecraft continues to profile the haze structure and opacity in Saturn's upper atmosphere with images like this, which captures Rigel, a star in Orion whose brightness is well-known, as it passes behind the planet.

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[Friday, August 11, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, August 9, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Sunday, August 13, 2006] This view of the inner A ring shows variations in brightness along the direction of ring motion from top to bottom. Close examination reveals dark regions that appear to widen and then narrow, and thin bright regions that disappear altogether.

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[Sunday, August 20, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, August 15, from the Goldstone tracking complex. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] This image was taken on August 11, 2006 and received on Earth August 13, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 2,599,737 kilometers away.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] This image was taken on August 16, 2006 and received on Earth August 18, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Mimas at approximately 220,488 kilometers away.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] This image was taken on August 16, 2006 and received on Earth August 18, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Saturn at approximately 199,224 kilometers away.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] This image was taken on August 17, 2006 and received on Earth August 18, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Helene at approximately 50,587 kilometers away.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] This image was taken on August 17, 2006 and received on Earth August 18, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Saturn's Rings at approximately 440,328 kilometers away.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] This image was taken on August 17, 2006 and received on Earth August 18, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 190,376 kilometers away.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] This image was taken on August 19, 2006 and received on Earth August 20, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Mimas at approximately 1,539,064 kilometers away.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] With Saturn's terminator as a backdrop, this view of the unlit face of the rings makes it easy to distinguish between areas that are actual gaps, where light passes through essentially unimpeded, and areas where the rings block or scatter light.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] Few large craters are to be found in the wrinkled terrain of Enceladus, where the surface has been reworked by geologic processes presumably resulting from the moon's inner warmth.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, August 23, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Wednesday, August 30, 2006] This view looks down onto the unlit side of Saturn's ringplane. It nicely shows a near-arm/far-arm brightness asymmetry in the B ring: The near arm of the B ring is notably darker from this viewing geometry than is the far arm.

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[Wednesday, August 30, 2006] In this very narrow region along the edge of the shadow, part (but not all) of the Sun is still visible around the side of the planet, creating only a partial shadow there and making the shadow edge look fuzzy.

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[Wednesday, August 30, 2006] Cassini looks into the 245-kilometer (150-mile) wide crater Melanthius in this view of the southern terrain on Tethys. The crater possesses a prominent cluster of peaks in its center which are relics of its formation.

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[Thursday, August 31, 2006] This splendid view showcases Dione's tortured complex of bright cliffs. At lower right is the feature called Cassandra, exhibiting linear rays extending in multiple directions.

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