Saturn Gallery

This mosaic was made from first light images acquired by both of the cameras on NASA's Psyche spacecraft on Dec.…

This infrared global map of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus was created using images acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

New composite images made from NASA's Cassini spacecraft data are the most detailed global infrared views ever produced of Saturn's…

This illustration shows Saturn's icy moon Enceladus with the plume of ice particles, water vapor and organic molecules that sprays…

The first global geologic map of Titan is based on radar and visible-light images from NASA's Cassini mission, which orbited…

This illustration shows the process of organic compounds making their way onto ice grains emitted in plumes from Saturn's moon…

This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features…

This image of Saturn's rings, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, illustrates how textures in the rings can differ, even in…

NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows false-color spectral mapping images of Saturn's A, B and C rings.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows evidence in the core region of the F ring, visible here, that a population of small…

NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the sunlit side of Saturn's rings.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows this enhanced-color image mosaic of Daphnis, one of the moons embedded in Saturn's rings.

This graphic shows the ring moons inspected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in super-close flybys. The rings and moons depicted are…

This global mosaic of Titan's surface was generated by combining 9,873 separate ISS images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over…

This illustration imagines the view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft during one of its final dives between Saturn and its innermost…

This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings as…

This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn.

This compilation of images from nine flybys of Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2009 and 2010 captures three instances…

This frame from an animation shows clear bright spots on Saturn's moon, Titan, that have been interpreted as evidence of…

Artist's concept of a dust storm on Saturn's moon, Titan.

During NASA's Cassini mission's final distant encounter with Saturn's giant moon Titan, the spacecraft captured this view of the enigmatic…

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Tethys disappearing behind Titan as observed by Cassini on Nov. 26,…

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that the rings of Saturn are made mostly of particles of water ice…

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured five of Saturn's moons. Moons visible in this view: Janus; Pandora; Enceladus, Mimas…

These six infrared images of Saturn's moon Titan created using data acquired by the VIMS instrument onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft…

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows its view from orbit around Saturn on Jan. 2, 2010. The rings on…

On Aug. 17, 2015, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Odysseus crater with its ring of steep cliffs and…

The detached haze layer that surrounds Titan is clearly visible against Saturn and its rings in the background, the haze…

Saturn's rings cast dark bands across cloud tops in the northern hemisphere. Near the pole, an elongated shadow can be…

On March 13, 2006 Cassini's narrow-angle camera captured this look at Saturn and its rings, seen here nearly edge on.…

Saturn's rings display their subtle colors in this view captured on Aug. 22, 2009, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The ice…

Saturn's moon Dione drifts before the planet's rings, seen here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft almost edge on. For all their…

Saturn's rings cast shadows on the planet's cloud tops, providing a perfect backdrop for the brilliant sphere of Saturn's moon…

Saturn's shadow sweeps across the rings in a view captured on Nov. 5, 2006 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Countless icy…

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this striking view of Saturn's moon Dione on July 23, 2012. Its density suggests that about…

In this image, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sees Saturn and its rings through a wispy haze of Sun glare.

This view of Saturn looks toward the planet's night side, lit in golden hues by sunlight reflected from the rings…

Saturn's moon Enceladus drifts before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft…

In this view, Saturn's icy moon Rhea passes in front of Titan as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. While Rhea…

In this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, individual layers of haze can be distinguished in the upper atmosphere of Titan,…

Saturn's rings, made of countless icy particles, form a translucent veil in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's tiny…

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Enceladus drifting before the rings, which glow brightly in the sunlight.…

These two images illustrate just how far NASA's Cassini spacecraft traveled to get to Saturn. At left, one of the…

After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, NASA's Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian…

This image is of NASA's Cassini spacecraft's final observation of Saturn's icy moon Rhea on May 2, 2017. The spacecraft…

In this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, a bright and narrow ringlet located toward the outer edge of the C…

As NASA's Cassini hurtled toward its fatal encounter with Saturn, the spacecraft turned to catch this final look at Saturn's…

Reflected sunlight is the source of the illumination for visible wavelength images such as this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Saturn's graceful lanes of orbiting ice (its iconic rings) wind their way around the planet to pass beyond the horizon…

Cassini used its Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph to capture this final view of ultraviolet auroral emissions in Saturn's north polar region…

NASA's Cassini obtained this panoramic view of Saturn's rings on Sept. 9, 2017, just minutes after it passed through the…

Saturn looms in the foreground of this mosaic of NASA's Cassini images, taken by the spacecraft on May 28, 2017.…

Saturn's moon Dione is captured in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, half in shadow and half in light. Sinuous…

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's cloud belts moving around the planet in a circular path with the…

Stunning views like this image of Saturn's night side are only possible thanks to our robotic emissaries like NASA's Cassini…

The brightly lit limb of a crescent Enceladus looks ethereal against the blackness of space as seen by NASA's Cassini's…

NASA's Cassini spacecraft bids farewell to Saturn's yin-and-yang moon, Iapetus. This image is from the last set of observations Cassini…

This montage of images, made from data obtained by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows the location on Saturn…

This monochrome view is the last image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. It looks toward the planet's night side, lit…

This view of Saturn's A ring features a lone 'propeller,' one of many such features created by small moonlets embedded…

This image of Saturn's outer A ring features the small moon Daphnis and the waves it raises in the edges…

This image of Saturn's northern hemisphere was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017. It is among the…

This image of Saturn's rings was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017. It is among the last…

As it glanced around the Saturn system one final time, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of the planet's giant…

Saturn's active, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus sinks behind the giant planet in a farewell portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view…

NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazed toward the northern hemisphere of Saturn to spy subtle, multi-hued bands in the clouds there.

With this view, NASA's Cassini captured one of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance.…

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is the last dedicated observation of the Enceladus plume, taken Aug. 28, 2017.

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one the highest-resolution color images of any part of Saturn's rings, to date,…

This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn's rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral density…

These turbulent clouds are on top of the world at Saturn. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn's north…

This frame from a movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft offers a unique perspective on Saturn's ring system. Cassini from within…

NASA's Cassini gazes across the icy rings of Saturn toward the icy moon Tethys, whose night side is illuminated by…

Clouds on Saturn take on the appearance of strokes from a cosmic brush thanks to the wavy way that fluids…

During its final targeted flyby of Titan on April 22, 2017, NASA's Cassini radar mapper got the mission's last close…

NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn's moon Titan in a view that highlights the extended, hazy…

These two views of Saturn's moon Titan exemplify how NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed the surface of this fascinating world.

The thin sliver of Saturn's moon Prometheus lurks near ghostly structures in Saturn's narrow F ring in this view from…

NASA's Cassini saw Saturn's northern hemisphere reach its summer solstice in mid-2017, bringing continuous sunshine to the planet's far north.…

NASA's Cassini gazed toward high southern latitudes near Saturn's south pole to observe ghostly curtains of dancing light, Saturn's southern…

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the near-infrared images in this mosaic on June 29, 2017, as it raced toward the gap…

This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the rings beyond Saturn's sunlit horizon, where a thin haze can…

This colorful spectrogram represents data collected by the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument onboard NASA's Cassini's spacecraft as it…

Recent images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show features in Saturn's C ring called 'plateaus' revealing a streaky texture that…

The central feature in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is called Plateau P1. Plateau regions are brighter than their…

This mosaic combines views captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it made the first dive of the mission's Grand Finale…

This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from above the ringplane. Although the…

Enceladus' intriguing south-polar jets are viewed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft from afar, backlit by sunlight while the moon itself glows…

The light of a new day on Saturn illuminates the planet's wavy cloud patterns and the smooth arcs of the…

This zoomed-in view of Epimetheus, one of the highest resolution ever taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows a surface covered…

This montage of views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three of Saturn's small ring moons: Atlas (top), Daphnis (middle) and…

NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers toward a sliver of Saturn's sunlit atmosphere while the icy rings stretch across the foreground as…

Many of the features seen in Saturn's rings are shaped by the planet's moons. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft…

NASA's Cassini spacecraft sees bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Saturn's moon Titan, along with dark hydrocarbon…

The northern and southern hemispheres of Saturn's moon Mimas are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available…

This global map of Saturn's moon Mimas was created using images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft flybys. The moon's large,…

This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn-facing hemisphere of Iapetus. Cassini Regio on Iapetus is covered in a…

From high above Saturn's northern hemisphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes over the planet's north pole, with its intriguing hexagon and…

Working with image data from NASA's Cassini mission, researchers have found evidence that Saturn's moon Enceladus may have tipped over,…

This close-up view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the Keeler Gap, which is near the outer edge of Saturn's…