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Shadow Cap
The shadow of Saturn's rings sits upon the northern hemisphere of Mimas like a dark cap. In this Cassini spacecraft view, which looks toward high northern latitudes on Mimas, the moon is just grazing the shadow of the rings.
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Saturn's Magnetic Personality Rubs Off on Titan
Cassini scientists found that Saturn's moon Titan, which has no magnetic field of its own, holds onto remnants of Saturn's magnetic field when it periodically moves out of the magnetosphere of its parent planet. A unique flyby of Titan caught the big moon on one of its excursions outside Saturn's magnetosphere.
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Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon. This is further evidence that most of the planet's small, inner moons orbit within partial or complete rings.
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Insider's Cassini -- Simulated Snafus
During this otherwise somewhat quiet time, Cassini management again took the opportunity to challenge the flight team with a simulated anomaly.
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Full of Holes
The sun's low angle near the terminator throws the craters of Mimas into stark relief.
This view looks toward high northern latitudes on Mimas from a position 72 degrees north of the moon's equator. The north pole is in darkness at center.
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Enceladus
25.0 km (15.5 mi)
Oct. 9, 2008 (SCET)
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