NASA's Observatorium Image Gallery -- Saturn

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A montage of images of Saturn and its six major moons: Dione, Rhea, Enceladus, Tethys, Titan, and Mimas. (43K) Image: NASA

Here are Saturn and its rings in full color as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 21, 1981. The moons Rhea and Dione appear as blue dots to the south and southeast of Saturn, respectively. (14K) Image: NASA

This image, taken from the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) planetary camera in blue and infrared light, shows Saturn's "white spot," or cloud, believed to be ammonia ice crystals. HST data was computer-processed to improve the sharpness of the image. (43K) Image: NASA

Artist's rendering of Cassini just after the main engine has fired. Cassini is to orbit Saturn for five months to observe the planet and its many rings. (24K) Image: NASA

Saturn is the second-largest planet in the solar system. It has a volume about 760 times that of Earth. Like Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, it has no solid surface, but is instead an enormous sphere of gas which gradually compresses into fluid at great depths beneath the clouds. Saturn is composed almost exclusively of hydrogen and helium. (10K) Image: NASA

Taken in October 1997, this is the first image of Saturn's ultraviolet aurora taken by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Saturn was 810 million miles (1.3 billion kilometers) from Earth when this picture was taken. The auroral displays are caused by an energetic wind from the Sun that sweeps over the planet. Saturn's aurora is only seen in ultraviolet light that is invisible from the Earth's surface, so the aurora can only be observed from space. (24K) Image: J. T. Trauger (JPL) and NASA.

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	A montage of images of Saturn and its six major moons: Dione, Rhea, Enceladus, Tethys, Titan, and Mimas. (43K) Image: NASA
	Here are Saturn and its rings in full color as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 21, 1981. The moons Rhea and Dione appear as blue dots to the south and southeast of Saturn, respectively. (14K) Image: NASA
	This image, taken from the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) planetary camera in blue and infrared light, shows Saturn's "white spot," or cloud, believed to be ammonia ice crystals. HST data was computer-processed to improve the sharpness of the image. (43K) Image: NASA
	Artist's rendering of Cassini just after the main engine has fired. Cassini is to orbit Saturn for five months to observe the planet and its many rings. (24K) Image: NASA
	Saturn is the second-largest planet in the solar system. It has a volume about 760 times that of Earth. Like Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, it has no solid surface, but is instead an enormous sphere of gas which gradually compresses into fluid at great depths beneath the clouds. Saturn is composed almost exclusively of hydrogen and helium. (10K) Image: NASA
	Taken in October 1997, this is the first image of Saturn's ultraviolet aurora taken by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Saturn was 810 million miles (1.3 billion kilometers) from Earth when this picture was taken. The auroral displays are caused by an energetic wind from the Sun that sweeps over the planet. Saturn's aurora is only seen in ultraviolet light that is invisible from the Earth's surface, so the aurora can only be observed from space. (24K) Image: J. T. Trauger (JPL) and NASA.