标签: 土星

银河巨人土卫六和土星

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, looks quite small in comparison to the giant planet behind it in this natural color view from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft. This image from Aug. 29, 2012, also shows seasonal changes occurring on Saturn; as spring comes to the northern Saturnian hemisphere, the azure blue seen fades, while winter in the south adds a bluish hue...

土卫七: 有古老陨石坑的卫星

2023年3月12日 Saturn’s Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team Explanation: What lies at the bottom of Hyperion’s strange craters? To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft that once orbited Saturn swooped past the sponge-textured moon and took images of unprecedented detail. A six-image mosaic ...

土卫八: 有怪异表面的卫星

2023年2月26日 Saturn’s Iapetus: Moon with a Strange Surface Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team Explanation: What would make a moon look like a walnut? A strange ridge that circles Saturn’s moon Iapetus’s equator, visible near the bottom of the featured image, makes it appear similar to a popular edible nut. The origin of t...

被土星反照光照亮的土卫二

2023年2月5日 Enceladus by Saturnshine Image Credit: NASA; ESA, JPL, Cassini Imaging Team, SSI; Color Composite: Gordan Ugarkovic Explanation: This moon is shining by the light of its planet. Specifically, a large portion of Enceladus pictured here is illuminated primarily by sunlight first reflected from the planet Saturn. The result is that the normally snow-w...

卡西尼号从土星往外看

2022年12月23日 Cassini Looks Out from Saturn Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute Explanation: This is what Saturn looks like from inside the rings. In 2017, for the first time, NASA directed the Cassini spacecraft to swoop between Saturn and its rings. During the dive, the robotic spacecraft took hundreds of images showing unprecedented det...