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December 16, 2004
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T-15 Raw Image
This image was acquired on 28 July 2008 with the nadir channel of the High Resolution Stereo Camera.
Close-Up of Phobos from Mars Express
NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Sekhet Crater on Ceres has prominent shadows accentuating its central peak and mounds of material that have slumped downward from its walls.
Dawn LAMO Image 76
The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the limb of Saturn and, on the right of this image, views part of the rings through the planet's atmosphere. Saturn's atmosphere can distort the view of the rin...
Rings Through Atmosphere
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Laelia crater. The dark material inside of Laelia crops out from the rim and then slumps towards the crater's center.
Laelia Crater
Wispy terrain winds across the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione in this Cassini view taken during the spacecraft's Jan. 27, 2010 non-targeted flyby.
Profiling Dione's Wisps
This image, taken June 6, 2015 by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows Haulani crater on Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) with a resolution of 1,400 feet (410 meters) per pixel. No...
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 45
This image of Ceres is part of a sequence taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 16, 2015, from a distance of 4,500 miles (7,200 kilometers).
Dawn OpNav8 Image 3
The sunlight angle in this sharp view of Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea, highlights the moon's crater-strewn surface. Cassini will fly past Rhea on Nov. 26, 2005, at a distance of only 500 kilo...
Rhea's Ancient Surface
This montage of images of the Saturnian System was prepared from an assemblage of images taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft during its Saturn encounter in November 1980. This artist's arrangement ...
The Saturn System
This image shows Sekhet Crater, at right, in a shadowy scene from Ceres. Sekhet is 25 miles wide (41 kilometers wide). NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image on June 15, 2016. A smooth plain surrou...
Dawn LAMO Image 128
Thermal infrared images of Saturn from the Very Large Telescope Imager and Spectrometer for the mid-Infrared (VISIR) instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, on Cerro...
Saturn Northern Storm in Infrared and Visible Light
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Triple Crescents
These two false-color views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show detailed patterns that change during one Saturn day within the huge storm in the planet's northern hemisphere.
Churning Psychedelia
The first color image of Arrokoth (2014 MU69), taken at a distance of 45,601 miles (73,388 kilometerers).
First Color Image of Arrokoth (2014 MU69)
In the distance beyond Saturn's icy rings, the Cassini spacecraft glimpses faint details on the surface of Titan. In the foreground, the B ring displays several dark spokes. This view looks toward...
Far from Titan
Technicians Susan Ung and Andy Anderson cut and stitch the gold-colored thermal blankets for NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Cassini's Space Suit
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the brightest area seen on asteroid Vesta so far. It shows a crater located inside the rim of the Rheasilvia basin at the south pole of Vesta.
Extremely Bright Area
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This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet's trademark Great Red Spot.
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Penelope on Tethys
These images are located in asteroid Vesta's Rheasilvia quadrangle, near Vesta's south pole. These images are centered on the large Tarpeia crater.
Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Tarpeia Crater
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Crescent Moon with Rings
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2013 Supermoon Over the Washington Monument
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