Wow. I just had to share some of these pictures. I've been fascinated with the idea of space exploration and astronomy ever since I was a bespectacled preteen; stellar anomalies, quasars, and black holes always seemed to make more sense than girls, after all . . . plus, growing up in the dark unindustrial flatness of agri-rural West Tennessee allowed me phenonmenal opportunities to look up at the stars unimpeded by little things like pollution, or trees.

These are photos from the Cassini-Huygens NASA mission to Saturn and Titan.

This first photo shows Saturn as we never see it, at the edge of its rings:


Photo two shows the three moons Dione, Tethys and Pandora:


Photo three shows the icy moon Dione near Saturn itself:


Photo four shows the small Hyperion satellite that is actually located in the rings of Saturn:


And, finally, photo five shows an approach angle to the planet.

I hope you take a minute to browse the excellent multimedia images found on the NASA website.

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