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Keywords: cassini spacecraft, Titan
![На Титане открыт Южный полярный вихрь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/07/24/0001267971/titanvortex_cassini_960.preview.jpg)
24.07.2012
What's happening over the south pole of Titan? A vortex of haze appears to be forming, although no one is sure why. The above natural-color image shows the light-colored feature. The vortex was found on images taken last month when the robotic Cassini spacecraft flew by the unusual atmosphere-shrouded moon of Saturn.
![В тени колец Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/07/03/0001266777/saturntitan2_cassini_960.preview.jpg)
3.07.2012
Humanity's robot orbiting Saturn has recorded yet another amazing view. That robot, or course, is the spacecraft Cassini, while the new amazing view includes a bright moon, thin rings, oddly broken clouds, and warped shadows. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, appears above as a featureless tan as it is continually shrouded in thick clouds.
![Юпитер, Ио и Тень](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/12/09/0001181244/jupiterIo_cassini.preview.jpg)
6.12.2002
Pictured above is the innermost of Jupiter's Galilean satellites, Io, superposed in front of the gas giant planet. To the left of Io is a dark spot that is Io's own shadow. A solar eclipse would be seen from within the shadow spot on Jupiter.
![Ио: луна над Юпитером](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/04/08/0001263336/iojupiter_cassini_960.preview.jpg)
8.04.2012
How big is Jupiter's moon Io? The most volcanic body in the Solar System, Io (usually pronounced "EYE-oh") is 3,600 kilometers in diameter, about the size of planet Earth's single large natural satellite.
![Жидкое море на спутнике Сатурна Титане](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/05/30/0001222228/titansea_cassini.preview.jpg)
30.05.2007
What is this vast dark region on Titan? Quite possible a sea of liquid hydrocarbons. The region was imaged earlier this month when the robotic Cassini spacecraft swooped past Saturn's cloudy moon and illuminated part of it with radar.
![Пролет Кассини](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/14/0001217780/garradd_cassini_1.preview.jpg)
26.08.1999
Connect the dots and you'll trace the path of the Cassini spacecraft as it took a final turn by Earth on its way to the outer solar system. The dots (in a horizontal row just below center) are actually successive images of the spacecraft.
![Слоистая структура Фебы - спутника Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/06/14/0001198403/phoebe_cassini.preview.jpg)
14.06.2004
What caused the unusual light and dark layers on Saturn's moon Phoebe? The layers were discovered just Friday during the Cassini spacecraft flyby of the small moon. Such layering is particularly evident on the crater just above the image center, where alternating light and dark material makes this crater appear particularly structured.
![Стереоизображение кратеров Фебы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/07/12/0001198658/phoebe_stereo_pavac1.preview.jpg)
10.07.2004
Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze across the spectacular, cratered terrain of Saturn's icy moon Phoebe in stereo. The dramatic 3-D perspective spans roughly 50 kilometers and is based...
![В тени Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/01/11/0001232712/newrings_cassini.preview.jpg)
10.01.2009
In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet's shadow for about 12 hours and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other.
!["Кассини" пересекает плоскость колец Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/02/15/0001238502/saturnplane_cassini.preview.jpg)
14.02.2010
If this is Saturn, where are the rings? When Saturn's "appendages" disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand why. Later that century, it became understood that Saturn's unusual protrusions were rings and that when the Earth crosses the ring plane, the edge-on rings will appear to disappear.
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