Skip Navigation

Resources

Mosaic of the Vinalia Faculae in Occator Crater

Mosaic of the Vinalia Faculae in Occator Crater
Photojournal: PIA21925
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Published: July 16, 2018
This close-up image of the Vinalia Faculae in Occator Crater on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The mapping of this region in this orbit is almost complete.

Related

This poster shows a composite view from the descent imager/spectral radiometer taken while the European Space Agency's Huygens probe was setting on Titan's surface, juxtaposed with a similarly scal...
More
This poster shows a composite view from Huygens as the probe was setting on Titan's surface
Titan's Surface
Large Block Along the Ridge of Urvara Crater
More
Large Block Along the Ridge of Urvara Crater
Large Block Along the Ridge of Urvara Crater
Atmospheric Detail in Infrared July 13, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05415 Cassini captured intriguing cloud structures on Saturn as it near...
More
Atmospheric Detail in Infrared
Atmospheric Detail in Infrared
The rich dynamics of Saturn's F ring are on display in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Most of the features seen here are believed to be due to the ring's interactions with its shepher...
More
Saturn's F-ring
Ring Shines
The moon Enceladus seems to hover above the outer reaches of Saturn's B ring. Below and to the right of Enceladus, four faint bands lie in the center of the dark Cassini Division. Recently, scient...
More
Enceladus amongst the rings
Iceball Among Snowballs
Prometheus and Knots in the F Ring June 7, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05402 Saturn's moon Prometheus is seen orbiting inside the planet's...
More
Prometheus and Knots in the F Ring
Prometheus and Knots in the F Ring
As it zoomed in on Saturn's moon Dione for a close flyby, the Cassini spacecraft captured a set of images of the icy moon which have been combined into a mosaic here to provide a stunningly detaile...
More
Dione's Surprise
Dione's Surprise
+ View Labeled Version This image collage features Saturn and the moons Titan, Enceladus, Dione, Rhea and Helene, which will be studied in the extended mission. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Ins...
More
Image collage featuring Saturn and the moons Titan, Enceladus, Dione, Rhea and Helene
Saturn Moon Collage
Dawn LAMO Image 98
More
Dawn LAMO Image 98
Dawn LAMO Image 98
The disturbance visible at the outer edge of Saturn's A ring in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft could be caused by an object replaying the birth process of icy moons.
More
The disturbance visible at the outer edge of Saturn's A ring
Commotion at Ring's Edge May Be Effect of Small Icy Object
                  Titan Descent (3-D Black and White) December 13, 2004     In this artist rendition, the Huygens pro...
More
Titan Descent (3-D Black and White)
Titan Descent (3-D Black and White)
The Cassini spacecraft examines the anti-Saturnian side of Dione and shows the cratered surface east of the moon's distinctive wispy terrain. The wispy terrain, which consists of bright cliffs on ...
More
The Cassini spacecraft examines the anti-Saturnian side of Dione and shows the cratered surface east of the moon's distinctive wispy terrain.
East of Wisps
Flying past Saturn's moon Dione, Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet's rings.
More
Dione, Epimetheus and Prometheus near Saturn's rings
Closest Dione Flyby
Clouds near the boundary of day and night on Saturn show unusual three-dimensional structure in this Cassini view. At this location on the planet, the Sun is at a very low angle, causing vertical r...
More
Clouds on Saturn
3D Clouds
Fracture Network in Occator Crater
More
Fracture Network in Occator Crater
Fracture Network in Occator Crater
The Cassini spacecraft spies Titan's south polar vortex from below the moon in this image. Imaging scientists are monitoring the vortex to study its seasonal development. For a color image of the...
More
Titan
Spying on Titan
Polar Stratosphere August 16, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06470 This narrow angle ultraviolet image probes the high atmosphere above Saturn's s...
More
Polar Stratosphere
Polar Stratosphere
RCW 108 is a region where stars are actively forming within the Milky Way galaxy about 4,000 light years from Earth.
More
Color photo of star cluster embedded in a cloud of molecular hydrogen
Massive Young Stars Trigger Stellar Birth
Click here for QuickTime video (16 MB - no audio). This animation shows the Cassini spacecraft approaching Titan. The strips of data on the globe represent areas observed with the Cassini radar ...
More
Cassini Radar Titan Movie
Cassini Radar Titan Movie
+ Unannotated Version The northern and southern hemispheres of Enceladus are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini clear-filter images. Each map is...
More
The northern and southern hemispheres of Enceladus are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini clear-filter images.
Enceladus Polar Maps - December 2011 -- North -- Annotated
This atmosphere close-up shows bright clouds in Saturn's northern hemisphere being sheared apart. The clouds at the bottom of the image are tilted and stretched because the wind at those lower lati...
More
Saturn close-up, showing clouds
Shear Zone
Befitting moons named for brothers, the moons Prometheus and Epimetheus share a lot in common.
More
Epimetheus, Prometheus, Saturn and its rings
A Forethought and an Afterthought
North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Iceland, June 24, 2010.
More
Satellite view of phytoplankton bloom
Dance of the Plankton
The night skies of Saturn are graced by the planet's dazzling rings, but as this image shows, one's view could be very different depending on the season and from which hemisphere one gazes up. Thi...
More
The night skies of Saturn graced by the planet's dazzling rings
Night on Saturn
A lone moon coasts along in this view, which was taken from less than a degree below Saturn's sunlit ringplane. The rings are squashed into a narrow band from this viewing angle, foreshortening all...
More
Mimas and Saturn's rings
Collapsed Rings

You Might Also Like