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Io in Eclipse
Published:
December 16, 2004
Io in Eclipse
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Dawn LAMO Image 8
+ Annotated Version This global digital map of Rhea was created using data taken during Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 417 meters (...
Map of Rhea - March 2012 -- Unannotated
The Cassini spacecraft looks down under at the tortured south polar region of Enceladus, crossed by its "tiger stripes," or sulci, as the long, nearly parallel fractures are officially known. The u...
Icy Outpost?
Saturn's moon Atlas, shown at the center of this image, orbits within the Roche Division separating the A ring from the tenuous F ring. To learn more about the small moon Atlas (30 kilometers, 19 ...
Plying a Division
This global map from NASA's Dawn mission shows the topography of the giant asteroid Vesta, with the seven most prominent impact basins highlighted.
Global Topography of Vesta
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the surface of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixe...
Dawn HAMO Image 19
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The Cassini spacecraft observes the wispy terrain that covers the trailing side of Rhea. North on Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) is up and rotated 27 degrees to the right. The image...
Trailing Rhea
The northern and southern hemispheres of Tethys are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini images. Each map is centered on one of the poles, and surface ...
Tethys Polar Maps - June 2012
This image of Saturn's outer A ring features the small moon Daphnis and the waves it raises in the edges of the Keeler Gap. The image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017. It is...
Daphnis' Final Appearance
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This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows mountainous terrain along the rim of Ikapati Crater, located in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. The scene is lightly cratered, mostly by small i...
Dawn LAMO Image 49
This image of Paulina AV-L-15, from the atlas of the giant asteroid Vesta, was created from images taken as NASA's Dawn mission flew around the object, also known as a protoplanet.
Paulina AV-L-15
The right-hand limb of Saturn's moon Mimas appears flattened as Herschel Crater is viewed edge-on in this Cassini spacecraft image. The planet's rings are in the background. Herschel Crater is 130...
Mimas' Flat Spot
This raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Rhea was taken on Jan. 11, 2011, during the “R-3” flyby. The flyby returned Cassini's best imaging of Rhea to date. At closest approach, Cassini flew ju...
Craggy Craters on Rhea
Storms and Feathery Clouds June 1, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05399 Saturn's southern hemisphere shows dark spots and wisps of high clouds...
Storms and Feathery Clouds
This series of images captures cloud patterns near Jupiter's south pole, looking up towards the planet’s equator.
Time-lapse Sequence of Jupiter's South Pole
Saturn Storms Observed by Voyager August 5, 2004 Full-Res: PIA01364 Voyager 1 and 2 observed radio signals from lightning which w...
Saturn Storms Observed by Voyager
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Gegania quadrangle, just south of Vesta's equator. Rubria, with dark and bright material is above Divalia Fossa, and Occia, ...
Divalia Fossa and Rubria and Occia Craters, Apparent Brightness and Topography Images
Saturn's moon Tethys appears to float between two sets of rings in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but it's just a trick of geometry.
Ices and Shadows
Beside the swirling face of Saturn floats a small, icy attendant. Mimas (397 kilometers, or 247 miles across) hovers near its giant parent, beyond the gleaming, sunlit rings. This view looks towa...
Regarding Mimas
Dione and Saturn December 16, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06155 Cassini captured Dione against the globe of Saturn as it approached the icy ...
Dione and Saturn
Like the Voyager spacecraft that came before, the Cassini spacecraft chronicles ''wispy'' terrain on Saturn's moon Dione. See Dione's Icy Wisps to view another image of these bright fractures on t...
Recalling Voyager
This three-frame animation from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the swirling clouds in a vortex spawned by a great northern storm on Saturn. The clouds are moving in a clockwise direction. These...
Swirling Vortex
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