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Great Dark Spot
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December 17, 2004
Great Dark Spot
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Weak sunlight illuminates Saturn's large, icy moon Tethys and its giant crater Odysseus. At the orbit of Saturn the Sun's light is between 80 and 100 times fainter than at Earth, depending on whe...
Cold Sunshine
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Dark Terrain
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
This image of Claudia AV-L-23, 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.
Claudia AV-L-23
This image is one several images NASA's Dawn spacecraft took on approach to Ceres on Feb. 4, 2015 at a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet.
Ceres on Approach
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This frame from an animation from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows intriguing bright spots on Ceres lie in a crater named Occator, which is about 60 miles (90 kilometers) across and 2 miles (4 kilomete...
Occator Crater: Enhanced View
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?
This image shows Saturn, its ring structure and satellites to relative scale unless otherwise noted. By David Seal (P-46507BC). For a high resolution jpeg image, click here.
Saturn Satellites, Rings
Twirling vortices swim through a vast ocean of hydrogen and helium in Saturn's far north. This view looks toward a region at 70 degrees north latitude. The image was taken with the Cassini spacec...
Paisley Skies
In this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, ripples in the sand indicate which way the wind is moving.
Wind Flow on Mars
Shadows seem ubiquitous in this Cassini spacecraft view of Saturn's rings captured shortly after the planet's August 2009 equinox. The moon Pan (28 kilometers, or 17 miles across) casts a long sha...
Shadows Everywhere
South Polar Structure August 4, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05427 Saturn's southern polar region exhibits concentric rings of clouds which ...
South Polar Structure
W00004705.jpg was taken on February 15, 2005 and received on Earth February 15, 2005. The camera was pointing toward TITAN, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CB3 filters. This image has not...
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Titan bears a distinct east-west banded pattern in this Cassini spacecraft image taken in the ultraviolet. The ultraviolet wavelength allows Cassini to see Titan's stratosphere, where superrotatio...
Bands of Titan
This Cassini image of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows a region containing bizarre, wrinkled terrain. Enceladus is covered with bright water ice. The part of its surface visible here appears to be la...
Wrinkles of Youth?
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
An intricate, fingerprint-like pattern of dunes is seen in this dramatic radar image of Saturn's moon Titan captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 21, 2009 from an altitude of 965 kilomet...
The Story Titan's Dunes Tell
Stunning details in Saturn's clouds suggest movement within bands of atmosphere. This false color enhancement makes visible an exciting level of detail in the bright and dark bands that is more eas...
Saturn Enhanced
Like hunters sighting a clay duck flying fast in the sky, Cassini obtained this mosaic from narrow camera angle 'skeet-shoot' images 1, 2, 3 and 4, all captured during the rapid Oct. 31, 2008, flyb...
Enceladus Rev 91 Flyby - Skeet Shoot 1-4 Mosaic
This image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Emesh, a crater on Ceres. Emesh, named after the Sumerian god of vegetation and agriculture, located at the edge of the Vendimia Planitia.
Emesh Crater on Ceres
The Sun rises over Mars' Utopia Planitia in this Viking 2 image.
Sunrise on Mars (Viking 2)
The F ring shows off a rich variety of phenomena in this image from the Cassini spacecraft.
F Ring Zoo
Cassini spies two icy denizens of the Saturn System as they hurtle past. The view captures Mimas (397 kilometers, or 247 miles across) at bottom, with Epimetheus (116 kilometers, or 72 miles acros...
Saturnian Citizens
Saturn's moon Dione hangs in front of Saturn's rings in this view taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the inbound leg of its last close flyby of the icy moon.
Dione: Craters and Rings
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