[Friday, October 7, 2005] Cassini looks up from beneath the ringplane to spot Prometheus and Atlas orbiting between Saturn's A and F rings. Prometheus is 102 kilometers (63 miles) across. Atlas is 20 kilometers (12 miles) across.

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[Friday, October 7, 2005] Coverage on Saturn extends here from 18 degrees south to 50 degrees south latitude. Contrast in the image was enhanced to aid the visibility of atmospheric features.

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[Friday, October 7, 2005] During its time in orbit, Cassini has spotted many beautiful cat's eye-shaped patterns like the ones visible here. These patterns occur in places where the winds and the atmospheric density at one latitude are different from those at another latitude.

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[Friday, October 7, 2005] Prometheus poses here with its latest creation: a dark, diagonal gore in the tenuous material interior to Saturn's F ring.

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[Friday, October 7, 2005] A 300-mile-wide patch that outshines everything else on Titan at long infrared wavelengths appears not to be a mountain, a cloud or a geologically active hot spot, University of Arizona scientists and Cassini team members say.

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[Friday, October 7, 2005] Imaging scientists expect the Dione encounter to be one of the highlights of Cassini's mission. In terms of planning, this particular flyby is perhaps the most sophisticated yet undertaken by the Cassini imaging team.

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[Friday, October 7, 2005] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, October 5, from the Canberra tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Tuesday, October 11, 2005] This image was taken on October 02, 2005 and received on Earth October 04, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Saturn at approximately 2,411,455 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the MT2 and CL2 filters.

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[Tuesday, October 11, 2005] When naming features on other worlds, scientists like to follow themes, and Dione is no exception. Dione possesses numerous features with names from Virgil's "Aeneid."

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[Tuesday, October 11, 2005] Pandora glides in front of the narrow F ring, making the moon's oblong outline visible. The image also shows the A ring, Cassini Division, B ring, and part of the C ring. This view is from beneath the ring plane. Pandora is 84 kilometers across.

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[Tuesday, October 11, 2005] The thin and meandering ribbon-like filaments seen here are indicative of two-dimensional turbulence. Contrast in the image was enhanced to aid the visibility of atmospheric features.

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[Wednesday, October 12, 2005] This half-lit view beautifully captures the ponderously old and cratered surface of Saturn's icy moon Rhea. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across.

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[Wednesday, October 12, 2005] Cassini completed its only flyby ofDione on Oct. 11. In the process, Cassini captured Dione eclipsing Rhea. In the picture above, the distance between Dione and Rhea was roughly 330,000 kilometers (205,000 miles)

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[Wednesday, October 12, 2005] This image was taken on October 11, 2005 and received on Earth October 12, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 38,352 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and IR1 filters.

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[Wednesday, October 12, 2005] W00011118.jpg was taken on October 11, 2005 and received on Earth October 12, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 14,199 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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[Wednesday, October 12, 2005] This image was taken on October 11, 2005 and received on Earth October 12, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 5,506 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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[Wednesday, October 12, 2005] This image was taken on October 11, 2005 and received on Earth October 12, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 18,627 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and IR3 filters.

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[Wednesday, October 12, 2005] This image was taken on October 11, 2005 and received on Earth October 12, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 16,998 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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[Thursday, October 13, 2005] This image was taken on October 11, 2005 and received on Earth October 12, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Telesto at approximately 14,630 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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[Friday, October 14, 2005] This image was taken on October 11, 2005 and received on Earth October 12, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 22,481 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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[Sunday, October 16, 2005] This image was taken on October 13, 2005 and received on Earth October 14, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Janus at approximately 874,222 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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[Sunday, October 16, 2005] This image was taken on October 13, 2005 and received on Earth October 14, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Mimas at approximately 710,721 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and GRN filters.

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[Sunday, October 16, 2005] This image was taken on October 13, 2005 and received on Earth October 14, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Mimas at approximately 710,418 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CB2 and IRP90 filters.

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[Monday, October 17, 2005] Speeding toward pale, icy Dione, Cassini's view is enriched by the tranquil gold and blue hues of Saturn in the distance. The horizontal stripes near the bottom of the image are Saturn's rings.

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[Monday, October 17, 2005] Speeding toward pale, icy Dione, Cassini's view is enriched by the tranquil gold and blue hues of Saturn in the distance. Sitting in the tranquility of space is the pale moon Dione, looking as if it's posing for a painter.

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[Tuesday, October 18, 2005] On the eighth anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, the teams involved can look back at a string of remarkable discoveries.

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[Tuesday, October 18, 2005] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, October 12, 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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[Tuesday, October 18, 2005] This image was taken on October 15, 2005 and received on Earth October 16, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus at approximately 1,506,634 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CB2 and IRP90 filters.

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[Tuesday, October 18, 2005] This image was taken on October 17, 2005 and received on Earth October 18, 2005. The camera was pointing directly toward Prometheus at approximately 2,358,256 kilometers away.

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[Thursday, October 20, 2005] University of Arizona scientists say that the peculiar clouds at middle latitudes in Titan's southern hemisphere may form in the same way as distinct bands of clouds form at Earth's equator.

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[Friday, October 21, 2005] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, October 19, from the Madrid tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Saturday, October 22, 2005] Saturn's moon Prometheus chases Pandora in this Cassini view, but the outcome of their race has already been decided by gravity. Prometheus orbits closer to Saturn and thus moves faster than does Pandora.

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[Saturday, October 22, 2005] This close-up view shows an inner region of Saturn's C ring. It covers a radial location on the rings located approximately 78,000 to 80,500 kilometers (48,500 to 50,000 miles) from the center of the planet.

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[Saturday, October 22, 2005] This detailed view of Saturn's mid-B ring shows intriguing structure, the cause of which has yet to be explained by ring scientists.

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[Saturday, October 22, 2005] The cratered and cracked disk of Saturn's moon Dione looms ahead in this mosaic of images taken by Cassini on Oct. 11, 2005, as it neared its close encounter with the icy moon.

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[Saturday, October 22, 2005] The cratered and cracked disk of Saturn's moon Dione looms ahead in this mosaic of images taken by Cassini on Oct.11, 2005, as it neared its close encounter with the icy moon.

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[Saturday, October 22, 2005] This close-up view of icy Dione reveals a wonderful variety of surface features that are simultaneously familiar and unlike any other place in the solar system.

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[Saturday, October 22, 2005] Rhea's distinctive bright and relatively fresh-rayed crater lies in stark contrast to the large, round basin which sits along the terminator (the boundary between day and night) in this unmagnified view.

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[Tuesday, October 25, 2005] Mimas is much smaller than Rhea, but the geometry of this scene exaggerates the actual differences in size. Here, Mimas is on the opposite side of the rings from Rhea and Cassini. Mimas' diameter is 397 km, while Rhea's diameter is 1,528 km.

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[Tuesday, October 25, 2005] Outside the soft edge of the F ring, Epimetheus and Janus negotiate their nearly-shared orbit. Their orbits are typically about 50 km apart, and they actually change orbits every few years.

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[Wednesday, October 26, 2005] This set of images show the areas mapped so far on Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini Radar Mapper using its Synthetic Aperture Radar imaging mode and the location of the upcoming Oct. 28, 2005, Titan flyby.

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[Wednesday, October 26, 2005] This map of Saturn's moon Titan shows the location of the upcoming Oct. 28, 2005, Titan flyby and the areas mapped so far by the Cassini Radar Mapper using its Synthetic Aperture Radar imaging mode.

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[Wednesday, October 26, 2005] This map of Titan's surface illustrates the regions that will be viewed by Cassini's imaging cameras during the spacecraft's close flyby of Titan on Oct. 28, 2005.

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[Wednesday, October 26, 2005] Images of Saturn's narrow and contorted F ring returned by cameras onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed phenomena not previously detected in any planetary ring.

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[Friday, October 28, 2005] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, October 26, from the Madrid tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Friday, October 28, 2005] In many ways Titan is similar to the Earth. It's about the size of our moon, so its gravity is less than Earth's, one-seventh. But it's the only world in the solar system that's got an atmosphere that has anywhere near the atmospheric pressure on Earth.

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