Images: Hot spot on Saturn
A new set of infrared images taken by the Keck I telescope in Hawaii shows a warm polar hot spot at Saturn's south pole.
Hot spot on Saturn
This mosaic false-color image of thermal heat emission from Saturn and its rings was taken with the Keck I telescope.
Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/NASA/JPL-G. Orton
Hot spot on Saturn
These false-color images show tropospheric temperatures (left) and stratospheric temperatures (right).
Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/NASA/JPL-G. Orton
Probe reaches Saturn moon
Photos taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe as it descended to the surface of Titan show a river channel and ridge area.
Credit: ESA
Probe reaches Saturn moon
This photo of Titan's surface reveals features such as evidence of flow around "islands," deposits of water ice and channels that could have been created by methane springs.
Credit: ESA
Probe reaches Saturn moon
This picture is a composite of 30 images from ESA's Huygens probe as it was decending toward the surface of Titan. The images were taken from an altitude between 8 kilometers and 13 kilometers.
Credit: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona
Probe reaches Saturn moon
This is a colorized view of the surface of Titan taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe. The two rock-like objects just below the middle of the image are about 6 inches (left) and about 1.5 inches (center) across respectively, at a distance of about about 33 inches from Huygens.
Credit: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona
Full moons over Saturn
This Cassini image shows predominantly the impact-scarred leading hemisphere of Saturn's icy moon Rhea.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Probe reaches Saturn moon
This map of a portion of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan shows predictions for the areas that will be covered by selected combinations of images anticipated from the camera on the Huygens probe.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Probe reaches Saturn moon
A colorized version of Titan, a moon which may have experienced its first visitor.
Credit: ESA
Full moons over Saturn
New images hint that the streaks visible on the surface of Dione are not ice, as previously believed, but cliffs.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Full moons over Saturn
Scientists captured images of the polar clouds of Titan in October. The appearance recently of other clouds (right), though, has been a surprise.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Full moons over Saturn
Prominent in the center of this image of Titan, taken Dec. 10 on Cassini's return trip, is Xanadu, a broad bright area. There is also a bright 345-mile semi-circle to the lower right on Xanadu, as well as a 205 mile multi-ringed feature to the upper right.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Full moons over Saturn
Residents of Dione would see nothing but Saturn for half the day.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Full moons over Saturn
Shown here are two images of the expected landing site of Cassini's Huygens probe.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Full moons over Saturn
Look closely and you'll see a trail of particles from Saturn's F ring to Prometheus, a moon that's 63-miles wide. Or, is the stream from Prometheus to the F ring?
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
