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Great Dark Spot
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December 17, 2004
Great Dark Spot
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn's moon Atlas (30 kilometers, or 19 miles across), with its smooth equatorial ridge, during a moderately close flyby on Dec. 6, 2015.
Atlas Escaping
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This image, one of the first obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in its low altitude mapping orbit, shows a part of one of the troughs at the equator of the giant asteroid Vesta.
Trough in Dark and Bright on Vesta
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Southern Hemisphere in Ultraviolet
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North on Janus
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Marvelous Mini-Jet
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All Eyes on Vesta
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Titan's fast-rotating atmosphere creates circumpolar bands in the north. The Cassini spacecraft acquired this view of the smoggy moon following a flyby of Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles a...
Northern Bands
This wide and sweeping view of the sunlit rings of Saturn takes in the impressive variety in their structure -- from the clumpy and perennially intriguing F ring to the many waves, ringlets and gap...
So Much to See
This image taken on August 17, 2016 from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a complex set of fractures found in the southwestern region of the floor of Occator Crater on Ceres.
Spiderweb-like Fractures in Occator Crater
Part of our solar system, along with other stars of the Milky Way galaxy, as seen over Lone Rock in Skull Valley, Utah.
Parade of Planets
This photo was taken around the time of the Mariner 4 launch to Mars, which launched on 28 November 1964.
Working Long Hours on Mariner 4
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Passing Tethys
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Art and Science
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Xanadu's channels and dunes (Annotated)
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Young and Old Crater at the Night and Day Boundary on Vesta
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