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Atlas »» Atlas

[Monday, July 3, 2006] This image was taken on June 30, 2006 and received on Earth June 30, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Atlas at approximately 429,181 kilometers away.

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Daphnis Orbits Amidst Saturn's Rings »» Daphnis Orbits Amidst Saturn's Rings

[Monday, July 3, 2006] This image was taken on June 30, 2006 and received on Earth June 30, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Daphnis.

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Pan and Saturn's Rings »» Pan and Saturn's Rings

[Monday, July 3, 2006] This image was taken on June 30, 2006 and received on Earth June 30, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Pan at approximately 299,929 kilometers away.

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Rhea Behind Saturn's Rings »» Rhea Behind Saturn's Rings

[Monday, July 3, 2006] This image was taken on July 01, 2006 and received on Earth July 01, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 1,170,687 kilometers away.

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Saturn's Faint Rings Share Some of Their Secrets »» Saturn's Faint Rings Share Some of Their Secrets

[Wednesday, July 5, 2006] NASA Cassini spacecraft images of Saturn's diaphanous G and E rings are yielding new clues about their structure and formation.

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Cassini Significant Events for 06/29/06 - 07/05/06 »» Cassini Significant Events for 06/29/06 - 07/05/06

[Friday, July 7, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Wednesday, July 5, 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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Cassini Significant Events  for 07/06/06 - 07/12/06 »» Cassini Significant Events for 07/06/06 - 07/12/06

[Friday, July 14, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, July 12, from the Madrid tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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NASA Cassini Radar Reveals Earth-like Land on Titan »» NASA Cassini Radar Reveals Earth-like Land on Titan

[Wednesday, July 19, 2006] New radar images from Cassini reveal geological features very similar to Earth on an Australia-size, bright region on Saturn's moon Titan. In one radar strip over Cassini provided a virtual goldmine, telling the region's complex geological story.

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Mimas in Hiding »» Mimas in Hiding

[Friday, July 21, 2006] Four minutes after Cassini captured dark Mimas and softly-lit Enceladus near the ringplane, Mimas had slipped into near-obscurity against Saturn's dark side.

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Land of Darkness - Mimas and Saturn's Rings »» Land of Darkness - Mimas and Saturn's Rings

[Friday, July 21, 2006] The narrow and twisted F ring lights up this scene, which features Mimas against the unlit side of Saturn's ringplane. The F ring contains a great deal of fine, icy particles that are quite effective at scattering sunlight at high phase angles.

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Planetglow - Rhea and Enceladus »» Planetglow - Rhea and Enceladus

[Friday, July 21, 2006] Two frigid moons, Rhea and Enceladus, shine in reflected light from Saturn. In such low light and at great distance, Rhea's cratered surface looks deceptively smooth.

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Cassini Significant Events for 07/13/06 - 07/19/06 »» Cassini Significant Events for 07/13/06 - 07/19/06

[Friday, July 21, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, July 19, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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NASA Cassini Radar Finds Hydrocarbon Lakes on Titan »» NASA Cassini Radar Finds Hydrocarbon Lakes on Titan

[Tuesday, July 25, 2006] The Cassini spacecraft, using its radar system, has discovered very strong evidence for hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Dark patches, which resemble terrestrial lakes, seem to be sprinkled all over the high latitudes surrounding Titan's north pole.

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Mimas glides silently in front of Dione »» Mimas glides silently in front of Dione

[Wednesday, July 26, 2006] The Cassini spacecraft looks across the unlit ringplane as Mimas glides silently in front of Dione. It is often difficult to tell from two-dimensional views like this where the moons are in relation to each other and Cassini.

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Shade from Epimetheus »» Shade from Epimetheus

[Wednesday, July 26, 2006] The shadow of Epimetheus, one of Saturn's co-orbital moons, races across the planet's restless cloud tops. Epimetheus, 116 kilometers across, cruises along beyond the orbits of the narrow F ring and its shepherd moons.

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Boosting the Signal: The ice jets of Enceladus »» Boosting the Signal: The ice jets of Enceladus

[Wednesday, July 26, 2006] The ice jets of Enceladus send particles streaming into space hundreds of kilometers above the south pole of this spectacularly active moon. Some of the particles escape to form the diffuse E ring around Saturn.

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Titan's pebbles 'seen' by Huygens radio »» Titan's pebbles 'seen' by Huygens radio

[Wednesday, July 26, 2006] An unexpected radio reflection from the surface of Titan has allowed ESA scientists to deduce the average size of stones and pebbles close to the Huygens' landing site. The technique could be used on other lander missions to analyse planetary surfaces.

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Cassini Reveals Titan's Xanadu Region To Be an Earth-like Land »» Cassini Reveals Titan's Xanadu Region To Be an Earth-like Land

[Thursday, July 27, 2006] New radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed geological features similar to Earth on Xanadu, an Australia-sized, bright region on Saturn's moon Titan.

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NASA Reports That Methane Drizzles on Saturn's Moon, Titan »» NASA Reports That Methane Drizzles on Saturn's Moon, Titan

[Thursday, July 27, 2006] Liquid methane drizzles on the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, according to a paper by NASA and university scientists that appears in today's issue of the journal, Nature.

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Infrared views of Huygens landing site - How the world watched Huygens »» Infrared views of Huygens landing site - How the world watched Huygens

[Thursday, July 27, 2006] As Huygens parachuted to the surface of Titan in January 2005, a battery of telescopes around the world were watching or listening.

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NASA Cassini Image: Enceladus Approaches »» NASA Cassini Image: Enceladus Approaches

[Sunday, July 30, 2006] Rhea and Enceladus shared the sky just before the smaller moon passed behind its larger, cratered sibling.

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Cassini Image: Down Under on Pan »» Cassini Image: Down Under on Pan

[Sunday, July 30, 2006] Hiding within the Encke gap is Pan, partly in shadow and party cut off by the outer A ring in this view. Similar to Atlas, Pan appears to have a slight ridge around its middle; and like Atlas, Pan's orbit also coincides with a faint ringlet.

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Saturn's View of Titan »» Saturn's View of Titan

[Sunday, July 30, 2006] As it approached Titan for yet another revealing encounter, the Cassini spacecraft acquired this image showing terrain on the moon's Saturn-facing hemisphere.

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Spokes Sighted Again! »» Spokes Sighted Again!

[Sunday, July 30, 2006] This image from the Cassini spacecraft shows a ghostly white streak, called a spoke, in Saturn's B ring. This is the first sighting of a spoke in nearly a year, and the first spoke seen by Cassini on the sunlit side of the rings.

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Saturn's Rings (1) »» Saturn's Rings (1)

[Sunday, July 30, 2006] This image was taken on July 26, 2006 and received on Earth July 26, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Saturn's rings at approximately 1,420,823 kilometers away.

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Saturn's Rings (2) »» Saturn's Rings (2)

[Sunday, July 30, 2006] This image was taken on July 26, 2006 and received on Earth July 26, 2006. The camera was pointing toward Saturn at approximately 1,495,916 kilometers away.

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Cassini Significant Events  for 07/20/06 - 07/26/06 »» Cassini Significant Events for 07/20/06 - 07/26/06

[Sunday, July 30, 2006] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, July 26, from the Goldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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