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Oct 15, 2007:
| Flight over Iapetus - Cassini sails low over the surface of Iapetus on approach to its close encounter with the enigmatic moon on September 10, 2007. |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| The View from Iapetus - While on final approach for its Sept. 2007 close encounter with Iapetus, Cassini spun around to take in a sweeping view of the Saturn System.
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Oct 15, 2007:
| On the Final Frontier - Saturn sits nested in its rings of ice as Cassini once again plunges toward the graceful giant. |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| Rainbow on the Rings - The opposition effect is captured here as a colorful halo of light moving across Saturn's sunlit rings. |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| Soft Collision - Prometheus slowly collides with the diffuse inner edge of Saturn’s F ring in this movie sequence of Cassini images. |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| Grace & Beauty - Our robotic explorer Cassini regards the shadow-draped face of Saturn. |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| Shadowing Saturn - Like a silvery pearl, an icy moon crosses the face of Saturn, while two of its siblings cast shadows onto the planet. |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| Iapetan Geography - Cassini soars above the many pits and basins in the rolling landscape of Iapetus. |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| Frosty Scallops - The cold, cratered landscape of Tethys shines in stark relief in this crescent view. |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| The Crown of Tethys - The vast expanse of the crater Odysseus spreads out below Cassini in this mosaic view. |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| Rhea’s Pop-up Crater - Rhea’s surface gains some depth in this stereo anaglyph, which features the bright and geologically young-looking rayed crater on the moon’s leading hemisphere. |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| Titan Beyond the Rings - Cassini delivers this stunning vista showing small, battered Epimetheus and smog-enshrouded Titan, with Saturn’s A and F rings stretching across the scene. |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| Titan Makes Contact - The murky orange disk of Titan glides past -- a silent, floating sphere transiting Saturn. |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| Map of Titan – October 2007 - This global digital map of Titan was created using images taken by the Cassini spacecraft Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS). |
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Oct 15, 2007:
| Expanse of Ice - A scan across Saturn's incredible halo of ice rings yields a study in precision and order. |
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