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Dione Has Her Faults
Dione Has Her Faults

This view of Dione, Saturn’s icy moon, highlights its tectonic faults and craters. To create this enhanced-color view, ultraviolet, green…

Titan’s Halo
Titan’s Halo

With its thick, distended atmosphere, Titan’s orange globe shines softly, encircled by a thin halo of purple light-scattering haze. This…

Flag-Draped Welcome
Flag-Draped Welcome

The STS-117 crewmembers and Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) director Michael L. Coats (right) are photographed during the STS-117 crew return…

Impact!
Impact!

The photo, taken on January 1, 1963, shows the “energy flash” that occurs when a projectile launched at speeds up…

Titan’s Purple Haze
Titan’s Purple Haze

Encircled in purple stratospheric haze, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears as a softly glowing sphere in this colorized image taken…

Lightness of Being
Lightness of Being

The bright sun dissects the airglow above Earth’s horizon in this view photographed with a digital still camera from the…

Saturn Is Red
Saturn Is Red

This false-color image of two density waves in Saturn’s A ring was made by the Cassini-Huygens Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph instrument.…

Full Moon Photographed by Expedition 10
Full Moon Photographed by Expedition 10

This view of a full moon was photographed by the Expedition 10 crew orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station.…

Cat’s Eye Rings and Peek-a-Boo Shadows
Cat’s Eye Rings and Peek-a-Boo Shadows

Astronomers have long known that Saturn’s rings reflect sunlight most strongly when Earth is located directly between Saturn and the…

Behold the Moon
Behold the Moon

A clear, beautiful and blistery cold night made for perfect viewing of February’s lunar eclipse. This image was taken at…