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Keywords: rings, Tethys, Saturn
![Кольца и времена года Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/09/19/0001762811/saturn2004to2015_peach_960.preview.jpg)
18.09.2021
On Saturn, the rings tell you the season. On Earth, Wednesday marks an equinox, the time when the Earth's equator tilts directly toward the Sun. Since Saturn's grand rings orbit along...
![Сатурн ночью](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/11/27/0001859216/LastRingPortrait_Cassini_1080.preview.jpg)
25.11.2022
Saturn is still bright in planet Earth's night skies. Telescopic views of the distant gas giant and its beautiful rings often make it a star at star parties. But this stunning view of Saturn's rings and night side just isn't possible from telescopes closer to the Sun than the outer planet.
![Сатурн в инфракрасном свете от "Кассини"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/09/21/0001849524/SaturnIR_CassiniKakitsev_960.preview.jpg)
23.07.2022
Many details of Saturn appear clearly in infrared light. Bands of clouds show great structure, including long stretching storms. Also quite striking in infrared is the unusual hexagonal cloud pattern surrounding Saturn's North Pole. Each side of the dark hexagon spans roughly the width of our Earth.
![Кассини смотрит на Сатурн](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/12/23/0001864714/SaturnInsideOut2_cassini_960.preview.jpg)
22.12.2022
This is what Saturn looks like from inside the rings. In 2017, for the first time, NASA directed the Cassini spacecraft to swoop between Saturn and its rings. During the dive, the robotic spacecraft took hundreds of images showing unprecedented detail for structures in Saturn's atmosphere.
![Сатурн и шесть спутников](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/07/06/0001747808/SaturnAndMoons_Ranjbaran_960.preview.jpg)
5.07.2021
How many moons does Saturn have? So far 82 have been confirmed, the smallest being only a fraction of a kilometer across. Six of its largest satellites can be seen here in a composite...
![Цвета Сатурна от "Кассини"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/03/30/0001637404/SaturnColors_CassiniSchmidt_960.preview.jpg)
29.03.2020
What creates Saturn's colors? The featured picture of Saturn only slightly exaggerates what a human would see if hovering close to the giant ringed world. The image was taken in 2005 by the robot Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017.
![Кассини приближается к Сатурну](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/04/19/0001643852/saturn.preview.preview.jpg)
18.04.2020
What would it look like to approach Saturn in a spaceship? One doesn't have to just imagine -- the Cassini spacecraft did just this in 2004, recording thousands of images along the way, and hundreds of thousands more since entering orbit.
![Северный шестиугольник на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/07/05/0001674515/NorthSaturn_Cassini_960.preview.jpg)
4.07.2020
Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure. Originally discovered during the Voyager flybys of Saturn in the 1980s, nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System.
![Кратер Одиссей на Тефии](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/02/06/0001375481/Tethys_Cassini_960.preview.jpg)
4.02.2017
Some moons wouldn't survive the collision. Tethys, one of Saturn's larger moons at about 1000 kilometers in diameter, survived the collision, but today exhibits the resulting expansive impact crater Odysseus. Sometimes called...
![Диона, кольца, тени и Сатурн](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/08/24/0001341377/Dione02_Cassini_960.preview.jpg)
23.08.2015
What's happening in this strange juxtaposition of moon and planet? First and foremost, Saturn's moon Dione was captured here in a dramatic panorama by the robotic Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting the giant planet. The bright and cratered moon itself spans about 1100-km, with the large multi-ringed crater Evander visible on the lower right.
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