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High-Altitude Clouds
Published:
December 16, 2004
High-Altitude Clouds
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Smoke plume from California's Rim Fire, Aug. 23, 2013.
Smoke Plumes From Space
The Cassini spacecraft is lowered to the top of its Titan IV/Centaur launch vehicle at Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Station. Cassini is a cooperative project of NASA, the European...
Lowered onto Titan
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft taken on Oct. 18, 2015, from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers), shows Toharu crater (55 miles or 88 kilometers wide) at lower right.
Dawn HAMO Image 80
On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take a picture of Earth from about 898 million (1.44 billion kilometers) away, or nearly 10 times the distance between Earth and the sun. It will be...
Wave at Saturn
This false-color infrared image, obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows clouds of large ammonia ice particles dredged up by a powerful storm in Saturn's northern hemisphere. Large updrafts dr...
Updrafts of Large Ammonia Crystals in Saturn Storm
Saturn's north polar hexagon basks in the Sun's light now that spring has come to the northern hemisphere. Many smaller storms dot the north polar region and Saturn's signature rings, which appear...
Hexagon and Rings
Prometheus and Epimetheus, brothers in Greek mythology, share the stage in this Cassini spacecraft image of the two moons near the outer A ring and faint F ring.
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As summer approaches in Titan's northern hemisphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been monitoring Titan, anticipating an increase in cloud activity at high northern latitudes.
Titan's Northern Summer Clouds
Saturn's shadow cuts sharply across its rings as the orbits of ring particles carry them suddenly from day to night. With no atmosphere to scatter light, shadows in space are much darker than we're...
Long Day's Journey into Night
In this image, dwarf planet Ceres is seen on Feb. 4, 2015, from a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers). NASA's Dawn spacecraft is due to arrive at Ceres on March 6, 2015.
Ceres, Seen by Dawn on Approach
This close flyby of the south pole will feature fields and particles instruments learning more about the nature and number of the particles in the plumes. Remote sensing instruments will also be se...
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This anaglyph image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the topography of asteroid Vesta's south polar region. The material at the base of the scarp (right side) is probably due to landsliding.
Anaglyph Image of a Large Scarp in Vesta's South Polar Region
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this raw image of Saturn's moon Titan on Oct. 14, 2010, kicking off an action-packed long weekend that took the spacecraft by eight other moons. The camera was pointi...
Titan -- Oct. 14, 2010 (raw)
This set of images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows topography of the southern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta and a map of Vesta's gravity variations that have been adjusted to account for...
Shape and Gravity of Vesta's South Pole
This Ceres scene captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an ancient crater wall that has been disrupted, possibly by a landslide.
Dawn LAMO Image 100
Dantu crater on Ceres, seen in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft at left, reveals structures hinting at tectonic processes that formed the dwarf planet's surface. Linear structures are spread ...
Dawn HAMO Image 60
This view of the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Rhea shows the region's bright wispy markings, but also shows off the moon's craters in great detail. Of particular interest to imaging scienti...
Impact Central
This image captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows small craters within Meanderi Crater on Ceres, which measures 64 miles (103 kilometers) in diameter.
Dawn LAMO Image 93
Cassini captures a crater duo on Saturn's moon Dione that is superimposed on older, linear features. The upper of the pair, named Italus, is overprinted on a grouping of ancient troughs called Pete...
Helorus in Half-light
The narrow and twisted F ring lights up this scene, which features Mimas against the unlit side of Saturn's ringplane. The F ring contains a great deal of fine, icy particles that are quite effecti...
Land of Darkness
Atmospheric Detail and Enceladus June 8, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05403 The high clouds of Saturn's bright equatorial band appear to st...
Atmospheric Detail and Enceladus
Titan becomes obscured as it moves into eclipse by Saturn. Using a camera filter sensitive to near-infrared light, this image manages to show albedo features on the moon. For a view of Titan in ec...
Eclipsing Titan
Second Titan Targeted Flyby #3 December 13, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06153 This image was taken during Cassini's very close approach to Titan ...
Second Titan Targeted Flyby #3
The terrain model of Vesta's southern hemisphere shows a big circular structure, its rim rising above the interior of the structure. This false-color map of the giant asteroid Vesta is from the fra...
A False-Color Topography of Vesta's South Pole
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