Skip Navigation
menu close modal

Resources

Dawn XMO2 Image 10

Dawn XMO2 Image 10
Photojournal: PIA21230
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: November 18, 2016

NASA's Dawn took this image on Oct. 17 showing the limb of dwarf planet Ceres shows a section of the northern hemisphere. A shadowy portion of Occator Crater can be seen at the lower right.

ENLARGE

Related

This mosaic shows extraordinary details of tectonic deformation in the fractured south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, where jets of water ice spray outward to form Saturn's E ring. The im...
More
This mosaic shows extraordinary details of tectonic deformation in the fractured south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, where jets of water ice spray outward to form Saturn's E ring.
Enceladan Tectonics
Daphnis, one of Saturn's ring-embedded moons, is featured in this view, kicking up waves as it orbits within the Keeler gap. 
More
Daphnis, one of Saturn's ring-embedded moons
The Realm of Daphnis
What's that bright point of light in the outer A ring? It's a star, bright enough to be visible through the ring! 
More
Saturn's rings
Wish Upon a Star
This mosaic shows an updated global map of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys. The map incorporates new images taken during flybys in October a...
More
Global map of Enceladus
Map of Enceladus - February 2010
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Tuccia quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere.
More
HAMO and LAMO Images of Antonia Crater
HAMO and LAMO Images of Antonia Crater
This diagram depicts conditions observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a flyby in Dec. 2013, when Saturn's magnetosphere was highly compressed, exposing Titan to the full force of the solar w...
More
This diagram depicts conditions observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a flyby in Dec. 2013, when Saturn's magnetosphere was highly compressed
Titan Observed Naked in the Solar Wind (annotated)
This view shows the unlit face of Saturn's rings, visible via scattered and transmitted light. In these views, dark regions represent gaps and areas of higher particle densities, while brighter reg...
More
the unlit face of Saturn's rings
Luminescent Rings
Saturn's dynamic F ring contains many different types of features to keep scientists perplexed.
More
Saturn's dynamic F ring contains many different types of features to keep scientists perplexed.
Gored Clump in Saturn's F Ring
These images, derived from data obtained by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, show the subtle ripples in the ring of Jupiter that scientists have been able to trace back to the impact of comet Shoemaker-L...
More
Subtle ripples in the ring of Jupiter
Subtle Ripples in Jupiter's Ring
This artist's illustration shows the likely interior structure of Saturn's moon Titan deduced from gravity field data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The investigation by Cassini's radio sc...
More
Artist's illustration of the likely interior structure of Titan
Titan's cool and sluggish interior
Using a special spectral filter, the high-resolution camera aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft was able to peer through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan.
More
Titan
Lakes Through the Haze (annotated)
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of Ceres shows a small, double-impact crater (at bottom) near a larger crater. The larger structure has a crater floor with roughly the same crater density.
More
Dawn LAMO Image 88
Dawn LAMO Image 88
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Aelia crater, located in Vesta's Lucaria Tholus quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere.
More
Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Aelia Crater
Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Aelia Crater
This synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) image was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 25, 2016, during its "T-121" pass over Titan’s southern latitudes. This view was produced using the same ...
More
Enhanced aerial view of the surface of Titan.
The 'Xanadu Annex' on Titan (Denoised)
Cassini's high-gain antenna is able to operate at S, X, Ka, and Ku-band frequencies. In addition to communications (X-band between Earth and orbiter, and S-band from probe to orbiter), radio scie...
More
Titan Radar
Titan Radar
A line of dark vortices charge through Saturn's "Storm Alley" -- a region that has seen intensive storm activity since the Cassini spacecraft began its observations of the planet in early 2004. Th...
More
A line of dark vortices charge through Saturn's "Storm Alley"
Swirling Storms
The huge Odysseus Crater disfigures the face of Saturn's moon Tethys. The crater, in the top right of the image, is 450 kilometers, or 280 miles, across (see The Great Basin for more information)....
More
The huge Odysseus Crater disfigures the face of Saturn's moon Tethys.
A Little Off the Top
This artist’s concept shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from Bennu. 
More
This artist’s concept shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from Bennu
Artist's concept
+ View Movie The 60th moon of Saturn reveals itself in a sequence of images. The discovery suggests that the new moon, along with its neighbors Methone and Pallene (discovered by the Cassini imagi...
More
The 60th moon of Saturn, S/2007 S4, reveals itself in a sequence of images
Sixty for Saturn
Saturn's moon Dione is about to swing around the edge of the thin F ring in this color view. More than one thin strand of the F ring's tight spiral can be seen here. The terrain seen on Dione is o...
More
Dione with rings behind
Wisps in Color
This image NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows is located in Vesta's Rheasilvia quadrangle, near Vesta's south pole. Severina crater has a fresh, sharp rim and a smaller, presumably younger, crater on its...
More
Severina Crater
Severina Crater
Saturn's moon Titan displays a detached, high-altitude global haze layer which is often its most prominent feature in ultraviolet views such as this one. See Titan's Halo [Dec. 22, 2005] to learn ...
More
Titan
Titan's Halo
Canyons slink southward on Dione, while bright-walled craters gleam in the sun. The Cassini spacecraft imaged this same region from a more southerly viewpoint during an approach earlier this year (...
More
Dione
Facing Dione
The Cassini spacecraft presents a tempestuous scene in which the clouds of Saturn's bright equatorial region entwine with those in darker, southerly latitudes. See Seeing High in the Sky for a pre...
More
Saturn
Blustery Bands
The Cassini spacecraft finds oddly-shaped Atlas gliding along the edge of the A ring. The moon has a prominent equatorial bulge, which is accentuated here by the grazing viewing angle of Cassini, m...
More
Atlas along the edge of the A ring
Watching Atlas's Waistline

You Might Also Like