Some great imaging was received by the Cassini space craft between Jun 4th and June 12th as it Orbited Saturn. Saturn, using is wide and narrow angle cameras captured great detail of Saturn's surface, rings, and Moons Titan and Rhea.
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| Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute |
On June 2nd, while turning to face it's moon Rhea, Cassini captured this image of the atmosphere of Saturn, including its northern polar region. This is using the CB2 and CL2 filters
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| Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute |
On June 3rd, angled its narrow angle camera towards its moon Rhea using its P0 and UV3 filters. It is illuminated as a full sunlit disk revealing its prominent craters. As you can see, it is much like our own moon.
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| Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute |
On June 4th, Cassini aimed it's narrow angle camera at Saturn's largest moon capturing this image with its CL1 and CB3 filters, Titan. Titan is covered with a methane case. You can see the atmosphere layer. The darker regions are surface features seen through the cloud layer.
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| Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute |
And finally, as it has swung around from its view on Titan, Cassini captured Saturn in all it's glory as it faces directly at Saturn, swooping down below its southern pole. The rights are very prominent in this image. Cassini at this time has passed the plane of its rings going from above the rings, capturing images, then passed below the rings looking out the south pole This is using its CL1 and Infrared 1 filters
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
As Cassini heads back north passed the plane of its rings again, it looks down at the rings on July 2nd. Top right of the screen you can see the white dot, that appears to be one of Saturns moons inside the inner ring.
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