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Keywords: Phoebe, Saturn, cassini spacecraft
![Серп Реи на фоне серпа Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/01/04/0001329683/saturnrhea_cassini_960.preview.jpg)
3.01.2015
Soft hues, partially lit orbs, a thin trace of the ring, and slight shadows highlight this understated view of the majestic surroundings of the giant planet Saturn. Looking nearly back toward the Sun, the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn captured crescent phases of Saturn and its moon Rhea in color a few years ago.
![Мимас: маленький спутник с большим кратером](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/10/21/0001323942/mimas2_cassini_1024.preview.jpg)
21.10.2014
Whatever hit Mimas nearly destroyed it. What remains is one of the largest impact craters on one of Saturn's smallest moons. The crater, named Herschel after the 1789 discoverer of Mimas, Sir William Herschel, spans about 130 kilometers and is pictured above.
![Продолжительные полярные сияния на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/06/22/0001315390/saturnauroras_hubble_960.preview.jpg)
22.06.2014
Are Saturn's auroras like Earth's? To help answer this question, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Cassini spacecraft monitored Saturn's South Pole simultaneously as Cassini closed in on the gas giant in January 2004. Hubble snapped images in ultraviolet light, while Cassini recorded radio emissions and monitored the solar wind.
!["Змеиный шторм" на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/03/17/0001250437/SaturnMar14RGB5_combs.preview.jpg)
16.03.2011
Late last year, a new, remarkably bright storm erupted in Saturn's northern hemisphere. Nicknamed "the Serpent Storm", the northern hemisphere disturbance is still going strong and now circles far around the planet. Offering...
![Кассини подлетает к Сатурну](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/03/15/0001250410/cassini-saturn.preview.png)
14.03.2011
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 thousands more since entering orbit.
![Гиперион: луна со странными кратерами](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/03/16/0001250421/hyperion3_cassini_900.preview.jpg)
26.02.2011
What lies at the bottom of Hyperion's strange craters? Nobody's sure. To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn swooped past the sponge-textured moon in 2005 and 2010 and took images of unprecedented detail.
![Титан, кольца и Сатурн с аппарата Кассини](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/03/09/0001250309/titansaturn_cassini_900.preview.jpg)
7.03.2011
How thin are the rings of Saturn? Saturn's rings to be about one kilometer thick, making them many times thinner, in relative proportion, than a razor blade. This thinness sometimes appears in dramatic fashion during an image taken nearly along the ring plane.
![Ураган на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/01/19/0001249332/saturnestorm_dauvergnecassini_c.preview.jpg)
18.01.2011
Late last year, a new, remarkably bright storm erupted in Saturn's northern hemisphere. Amateur astronomers first spotted it in early December, with the ringed gas giant rising in planet Earth's predawn sky.
![Неутихающий ураган на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/27/0001255291/saturnstorm2_cassini_900.preview.jpg)
26.12.2011
It is one of the largest and longest lived storms ever recorded in our Solar System. First seen late last year, the above cloud formation in the northern hemisphere of Saturn started larger than the Earth and soon spread completely around the planet.
![Мощный ураган на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/04/28/0001286336/longstorm_cassini_960.preview.jpg)
28.04.2013
It was one of the largest and longest lived storms ever recorded in our Solar System. First seen in late 2010, the above cloud formation in the northern hemisphere of Saturn started larger than the Earth and soon spread completely around the planet.
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