Saturn and its Moons Viewed from Cassini Spacecraft
/ CBS News
The left-hand image, obtained by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe, shows rounded rocks from the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. Huygens rode with NASA's Cassini spacecraft to the Saturn system. The right-hand image, taken by amateur photographer Sandra M. Matheson, shows river rocks on Earth.
Northern Swirl
A large cloud formation swirls through the high northern latitudes of Saturn near the top of this Cassini spacecraft image.
Cut by Saturn's Shadow
Saturn's rings, partially darkened by the planet's shadow, cut a striking figure before Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Big Ding on Tethys
A huge impact created Odysseus Crater, which covers a large part of Saturn's moon Tethys in this Cassini spacecraft image.
Petite Pair Beyond Rings
Two of Saturn's small moons can be seen orbiting beyond the planet's thin F ring in this Cassini spacecraft image.
Bite Out of Iapetus
A large dark region fills a semicircle of the visible disk of Iapetus on the left of this Cassini spacecraft image, appearing like a bite taken out of this Saturnian moon.
Shadow Freckle
Appearing like a freckle on the face of Saturn, a shadow from the moon Enceladus blemishes the planet just below the ringplane in this Cassini spacecraft image.
Dione Sliding by Tethys
Saturn's moon Dione passes by the moon Tethys in this Cassini spacecraft depiction of a "mutual event." Mutual events occur when, from the vantage point of Cassini, one moon appears to pass close to or in front of another moon.
Crescent at Equinox
The Cassini spacecraft looks down and pictures Saturn wrapped in a pencil-thin shadow of the rings just days after the planet's August 2009 equinox.
Shadows from the Waves
Shadows are cast by Daphnis and the moon's attendant edge waves in this Cassini spacecraft image taken about a month and a half before the Saturn's August 2009 equinox.
Amateur photography of Saturn by Anthony Wesley
Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley obtained this image of a storm on Saturn from his backyard telescope in Murrumbateman, Australia, on March 22, 2010. He sent it to scientists working with NASA's Cassini spacecraft the next day.
Amateur photography of Saturn by Christopher Go
Amateur astronomer Christopher Go took this image of a storm on Saturn from his veranda in Cebu, Philippines, on March 13, 2010. The arrow indicates the location of the storm, around 40 degrees south latitude. Members of Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer team took an interest in the photograph, creating a callout that highlights the storm and outlines in red the areas where the spectrometer gathered data.