Postcards From Saturn

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Over the past few days NASA's Cassini spacecraft has performed flybys of several of Saturn's moons. From the ostentatious Enceladus with its icy geysers to the rugged relief of Rhea, the sharp peaks of Dione's frigid craters and even diminutive Janus, Cassini has once again returned a stack of stunning views from the Saturnian system, nearly 815 million miles from home.

Check out some of the images, and wish you were there!

[caption id="attachment_94381" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="110-mile (177-km) -wide Janus in front of Saturn's night side."]

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[caption id="attachment_94382" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="A crescent-lit Enceladus shows off its jets. (South is up.)"]

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[caption id="attachment_94383" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Enceladus' fractured surface is some of the most reflective terrain in the Solar System."]

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[caption id="attachment_94384" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Wide-angle view of Rhea, Saturn and Mimas"]

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[caption id="attachment_94385" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Crater peak on icy Dione"]

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And here's a color-composite of Janus I assembled from three raw images taken in ultraviolet, green and infrared color channels. The results were tweaked to make it a little more true-color as what we might see with our limited human vision:

[caption id="attachment_94386" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Color composite of Janus in front of Saturn, made from raw images taken in UV, green and IR color filters. (NASA/JPL/SSI/J. Major)"]

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– Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team leader

For more images from Cassini, check out

JPL's mission site

and the CICLOPS imaging lab site

here

.

Image credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.