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Many Cassini views of Tethys

Here we bring you fifteen different Cassini views of the same world, a cratered ball of ice called Tethys.

A billion dollars won't get you back to Enceladus or Titan

The Outer Planets Assessment Group or OPAG met two weeks ago, and the presentations from the meeting were recently posted online.

Ratios reveal near-polar structures on Titan

Twilit (probable) lakes near Titan's north pole

This is a cool picture that was released a couple of weeks ago by Cassini's camera team.

Iapetus’ trailing hemisphere in false color (19 April 2007)

Cassini observes a new face of Iapetus

Cassini has just begun its 44th orbit of Saturn (called Rev 43), and is starting it off with lots of views of famously two-faced Iapetus.

Enceladus is a drag on Saturn's radio emissions

What should arrive in my inbox today but a press release from the Cassini RPWS and magnetometer teams saying, in part,

Discovery image of Enceladus' plumes (1 of 7)

LPSC: Tuesday: Volcanism and tectonism on Saturn's satellites

I received this report on the Tuesday afternoon special session on volcanism and tectonism on Saturn's satellites from Anne Verbiscer, an astronomer from the University of Virginia who I first met at the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in 2005.

LPSC: Wow, Titan can be a Really Flat Place, and other Titan Talks

Jason Perry, a member of the Cassini Imaging Team and an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona, reports from the Titan sessions.

Overexpossed Saturn and its rings near equinox

Cassini's global views of Saturn and its rings

Since late January Cassini has been acquiring several sets of images that show all of Saturn's globe and ring system at once from perspectives well above and below the ring plane.

Saturn from above (2007)

OK, I had planned to confine my posts this week to Rosetta and New Horizons, but I could not let these images sit on my computer until next week.

A new way to darken Iapetus

Iapetus is one of the many fascinating bodies in the Saturn system.

Saturn from above, in color

I wrote recently about a set of images of Saturn acquired by Cassini from a unique vantage point, well above the planet, looking down on the rings. Someone has taken up the challenge of assembling the 36 different images into a single mosaic, in color, and it is as lovely as I'd hoped.