[Wednesday, February 1, 2006] Scarred and battered Rhea fills the Cassini spacecraft's view. Notable here is the sharp relief of steep crater walls near the terminator.

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[Wednesday, February 1, 2006] This view highlights tectonic faults and craters on Dione, an icy world that has undoubtedly experienced geologic activity since its formation.

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[Wednesday, February 1, 2006] This close-up of Dione's icy surface shows deeply shadowed craters near the terminator, as well as a group of roughly linear faults above center.

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[Friday, February 3, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, February 1, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Sunday, February 5, 2006] This image was taken on February 04, 2006 and received on Earth February 05, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Prometheus at approximately 4,219,833 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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[Sunday, February 5, 2006] This image was taken on February 05, 2006 and received on Earth February 05, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus at approximately 4,126,232 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the BL1 and CL2 filters.

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[Sunday, February 5, 2006] This close-up of Dione's icy surface shows deeply shadowed craters near the terminator, as well as a group of roughly linear faults above center.

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[Sunday, February 5, 2006] Plunging cliffs and towering mountains characterize the gigantic impact structure called Odysseus on Saturn's moon Tethys. The great impact basin lies before the Cassini spacecraft in one of the best views yet obtained.

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[Sunday, February 5, 2006] The tumbling and irregularly shaped moon Hyperion hangs before Cassini in this image taken during a distant encounter in Dec. 2005. This still image is part of a movie sequence of 40 images taken over about two hours as Cassini sped past the icy moon.

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[Monday, February 6, 2006] The NASA Budget released today shortchanges space science in order to fund 17 projected space shuttle flights. It seriously damages the hugely productive and successful robotic exploration of our solar system and beyond.

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[Monday, February 6, 2006] For Enceladus, wrinkles mean the opposite of old age. This view of a crescent Enceladus shows a transition zone between a wrinkled and presumably younger region of terrain and an older, more heavily cratered region.

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[Sunday, February 12, 2006] A celestial swarm of stars will hover near a honey-colored Saturn for the next several months. Sky watchers will see the ringed planet together with the Beehive cluster, or M44, a group of stars that also make their home in the Milky Way galaxy.

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[Sunday, February 12, 2006] The three mosaics shown here were composed with data from Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer taken during the last three Titan flybys, on Oct. 28, 2005 (left image), Dec. 26, 2005 (middle image), and Jan. 15, 2006 (right image).

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[Sunday, February 12, 2006] This close pairing of Janus and Epimetheus shows the two moons at "high phase," meaning that only a thin sliver of sunlit terrain is visible on each moon. Portions of each are also lit feebly by reflected light from Saturn.

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[Sunday, February 12, 2006] The profile of Ithaca Chasma forms a great scar in the icy crescent of Tethys. The chasm stretches more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) over Tethys' surface, from north to south.

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[Sunday, February 12, 2006] These views show surface features and color variation on the Trojan moon Telesto. The smooth surface of this moon suggests that, like Pandora, it is covered with a mantle of fine, dust-sized icy material.

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[Sunday, February 12, 2006] This global infrared map of Titan was composed with data from Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer taken during the last two Titan flybys, on Dec. 26, 2005, and Jan. 15, 2006.

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[Sunday, February 12, 2006] These false-color images were taken at wavelengths of 1.6 microns shown in blue, 2.01 microns in green and 5 microns in red.

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[Sunday, February 12, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, February 8, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Wednesday, February 15, 2006] This view of Titan reveals structure in the moon's complex atmosphere. The geometry of the Cassini spacecraft's view of Titan during this flyby was similar to that of Voyager 1's pass in 1980.

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[Wednesday, February 15, 2006] The Cassini spacecraft passed within a cosmic stone's throw of Telesto in October, 2005 capturing this shot of the tiny Trojan moon.

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[Wednesday, February 15, 2006] This image shows a rare and powerful storm on the night side of Saturn. Light from Saturn's rings (called "ringshine") provided the illumination, allowing the storm and other cloud features to be seen.

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[Wednesday, February 15, 2006] This image shows a rare and powerful storm on the night side of Saturn. Light from Saturn's rings (called "ringshine") provided the illumination, allowing the storm and other cloud features to be seen.

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[Wednesday, February 15, 2006] This artist concept shows how Cassini is able to detect radio signals from lightning on Saturn. Lightning strokes emit electromagnetic energy across a broad range of wavelengths, including the visual wavelengths we see and long radio wavelengths.

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[Friday, February 17, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, February 15, from the Madrid tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Saturday, February 18, 2006] Researchers have modeled the properties of rocks at the temperatures and pressures likely to exist at the cores of Jupiter, Saturn and two exoplanets far from the solar system.

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[Monday, February 20, 2006] This fortunate view sights along Saturn's ringplane to capture three moons aligned in a row: Dione 1,126 kilometers across at left, Prometheus 102 kilometers across at center and Epimetheus 116 kilometers across at right.

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[Monday, February 20, 2006] Cassini looks toward Tethys and its great crater Odysseus, while at the same time capturing veiled Titan in the distance (at left).

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[Monday, February 20, 2006] After a year and a half in orbit, the Cassini spacecraft has begun to image Saturn's northern hemisphere in detail.

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[Friday, February 24, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, February 22, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Sunday, February 26, 2006] This image was taken on February 25, 2006 and received on Earth February 26, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Saturn at approximately 280,254 kilometers away.

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[Sunday, February 26, 2006] This image was taken on February 25, 2006 and received on Earth February 26, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Tethys at approximately 152,812 kilometers away.

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[Sunday, February 26, 2006] This image was taken on February 23, 2006 and received on Earth February 24, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Pandora at approximately 1,216,265 kilometers away.

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[Sunday, February 26, 2006] This image was taken on February 23, 2006 and received on Earth February 24, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Janus at approximately 1,183,153 kilometers away.

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[Sunday, February 26, 2006] This image was taken on February 23, 2006 and received on Earth February 24, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Hyperion at approximately 585,498 kilometers away.

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[Sunday, February 26, 2006] This image was taken on February 25, 2006 and received on Earth February 26, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Helene at approximately 67,828 kilometers away.

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[Sunday, February 26, 2006] This image was taken on February 24, 2006 and received on Earth February 24, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 341,997 kilometers away.

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[Sunday, February 26, 2006] This intense false-color view highlights and enhances color variations across the cratered and cracked surface of Saturn's moon Rhea.

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[Sunday, February 26, 2006] Bright, wispy markings stretch across a region of darker terrain on Rhea. In this extreme false-color view, the roughly north-south fractures occur within strips of material that are a different color from the surrounding cratered landscape.

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[Sunday, February 26, 2006] The now-familiar bluish appearance (in false color views) of the southern "tiger stripe" features and other relatively youthful fractures is almost certainly attributable to larger grain sizes of relatively pure ice, compared to most surface materials.

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