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Keywords: crater, Saturn, Mimas
![Кассини пересекает плоскость колец Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/31/0001220562/ringcross_cassini.preview.jpg)
31.01.2007
What would the rings of Saturn look like if you passed right through the ring plane? To find out, NASA aimed cameras from the Cassini spacecraft right at Saturn's rings as the robotic explorer passed from the sunlit side of the rings to the shadowed side.
![Инфракрасный Сатурн](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/14/0001217820/saturn98_nicmos_big.preview.jpg)
24.07.1999
This delightfully detailed false color image of Saturn was earmarked to celebrate the 8th anniversary of the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is a combination of three images taken in January 1998 and shows the lovely ringed planet in reflected infrared light.
![Инфракрасный Сатурн](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192822/saturn98_nicmos_big.preview.jpg)
24.04.1998
This delightfully detailed false color image of Saturn has been earmarked to celebrate the 8th anniversary of the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is a combination of three images taken in January of this year with the Hubble's new NICMOS instrument and shows the lovely ringed planet in reflected infrared light.
![Япет: спутник Сатурна со странной поверхностью](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/02/01/0001202666/iapetus_cassini.preview.jpg)
1.02.2005
What has happened to Saturn's moon Iapetus? A strange ridge crosses the moon near the equator, visible near the bottom of the above image, making Iapetus appear similar to the pit of a peach. Half of Iapetus is so dark that it can nearly disappear when viewed from Earth.
![Япет: раскрашенный спутник](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/08/09/0001235766/iapetus3_cassini.preview.jpg)
9.08.2009
What has happened to Saturn's moon Iapetus? Vast sections of this strange world are dark as coal, while others are as bright as ice. The composition of the dark material is unknown, but infrared spectra indicate that it possibly contains some dark form of carbon.
![Янус: картофельный спутник Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/07/0001217394/janus_cassini.preview.jpg)
7.11.2006
Janus is one of the stranger moons of Saturn. First, Janus travels in an unusual orbit around Saturn where it periodically trades places with its sister moon Epimetheus, which typically orbits about 50 kilometers away. Janus, although slightly larger than Epimetheus, is potato-shaped and has a largest diameter of about 190 kilometers.
![Гигантское пылевое кольцо вокруг Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/10/13/0001236477/saturndustring_spitzer.preview.jpg)
13.10.2009
What has created a large dust ring around Saturn? At over 200 times the radius of Saturn and over 50 times the radius of Saturn's expansive E ring, the newly discovered dust ring is the largest planetary ring yet imaged. The ring was found in infrared light by the Earth-orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope.
![Эпиметей и Янус: верные спутники Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/11/02/0001209180/interchangeable_cassini.preview.jpg)
2.11.2005
These two moons change places. Epimetheus and Janus, two small moons of Saturn, actually switch positions as they orbit their home planet. The orbital radii of the moons are strangely separated by less than the radii of the moons themselves: about 50 kilometers. One moon orbits Saturn well ahead of the other, at first.
![Цель: кратер Кабеус](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/10/08/0001236398/391631main_southpole2_c600.preview.jpg)
8.10.2009
About 100 kilometers from the Moon's South Pole, 100 kilometer wide crater Cabeus is the target for two LCROSS mission spacecraft on course to impact the Moon tomorrow. The shadowed crater is strongly foreshortened in this mosaic, a representative view of the region for earthbound telescopes.
![Кратеры Мессье на стереофотографии](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/12/11/0001237299/MessierCrater3d_vantuyneC900.preview.jpg)
11.12.2009
Many bright nebulae and star clusters in planet Earth's sky are associated with the name of astronomer Charles Messier, from his famous 18th century catalog. His name is also given to these two large and remarkable craters on the Moon.
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