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Spacecraft Trajectory
Published:
December 16, 2004
Spacecraft Trajectory
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Saturn's South Polar Region Revealed
NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image on June 6, 2015, which includes an intriguing pyramid-shaped mountain protruding from a relatively smooth area in the upper right.
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 6
This sequence of maps shows varying surface temperatures on Saturn's moon Titan at two-year intervals, from 2004 to 2016.
Titan Temperature Lag Maps & Animation
Saturn's moons Helene and tiny Polydeuces (not seen here) are Trojan moons of Dione, orbiting about 60 degrees ahead of and behind, the much larger moon. Trojan moons are found near gravitationall...
Helene from Afar
Active regions on the Sun give it the appearance of a jack-o'-lantern. This image is a blend of 171 and 193 angstrom light as captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Pumpkin Sun
Saturn's moon Daphnis gives a scalloped look to the edge of the A ring as the moon orbits within the Keeler Gap. Daphnis (8 kilometers, or 5 miles across) is the bright spot in the narrow gap near...
Gravity-Induced Undulations
This artist's concept shows a glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn's north pole that occurs at the "footprint" of the magnetic connection between Saturn and its moon Enceladus. The footpr...
Electrical Circuit Between Saturn and Enceladus
Mawrth Vallis is one of the oldest valleys on Mars, formed in and subsequently covered by layered rocks, from beneath which it is now being exhumed.
Layered Rocks near Mawrth Vallis
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
This view from NASA’s Dawn mission shows where ice has been detected in the northern wall of Ceres’ Juling Crater, which is in almost permanent shadow.
Juling Crater's shadow
A view of Huygens' probable landing site based on initial, best-guess estimates. Scientists on the Huygens Descent Imager/ Spectral Radiometer (DISR) science team are still working to refine the ex...
First 'Best-Guess' View of Huygens Landing Site
The brightly reflective moon Enceladus appears before Saturn's rings while the larger moon Titan looms in the distance. Jets of water ice and vapor emanating from the south pole of Enceladus (hint...
The Tale Continues...
This colorized image from the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows temperature variations at Tarpeia crater, near the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta.
Tarpeia Temperature
In this closest-yet view of Ceres, the brightest spots within a crater in the northern hemisphere are revealed to be composed of many smaller spots. This frame is from an animation of sequences tak...
Ceres RC3 Animation
A shepherd moon can do more to define ring structures than just keep the flock of particles in line, as Cassini spacecraft images such as this have shown. Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles a...
The Hand of Prometheus
The Veils of Titan May 06, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05390 The veils of Saturn's most mysterious moon have begun to lift in Cassini's eag...
The Veils of Titan
Deep Space 1 spacecraft at a distance of 2.3 million miles (3.7 million kilometers) from Earth.
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Two adjoining craters on Ceres are featured in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. A lobe-shaped feature is prominent in the larger crater's interior. Bright material is visible at the intersec...
Dawn LAMO Image 114
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A wide crater dominates the lower right of this image while part of Rhea's brightly lit, wispy terrain can still be seen near the limb of the moon. Smaller craters are overprinted upon this crater,...
Ancient Crater on Wispy Rhea
These two 591-second exposures of the rings of Neptune were taken with the clear filter by the Voyager 2 wide-angle camera on Aug. 26, 1989 from a distance of 280,000 kilometers (175,000 miles).
Rings of Neptune
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.
Commotion at Ring's Edge May Be Effect of Small Icy Object
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Drusilla crater, which is the irregularly shaped crater offset from the center of the image.
Drusilla Crater
An ethereal, glowing spot appears on Saturn's B ring in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Surge in the Ring
Cassini Approaches Saturn The above image is an artists' rendition of the Cassini spacecraft approaching the planet Saturn and its magnificent rings. The glint of light behind the magnetometer ...
Cassini Approaches Saturn
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