Skip Navigation

Resources

Dawn LAMO Image 88

Dawn LAMO Image 88
Photojournal: PIA20668
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: May 13, 2016
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.

Related

Saturn's moon Enceladus drifts before the rings, which glow brightly in the sunlight.
More
Enceladus and Saturn's rings
All Aglow
This image was taken on 2017-08-20 08:01 (PDT) and received on Earth 2017-08-21 06:17 (PDT).
More
Raw Image of Sun taken by Cassini
Image of Sun
This low-phase Cassini image shows bright areas between dark spokes in Saturn's B ring. The dark spokes are not as conspicuous here as the bright regions separating them. The view was acquired at ...
More
This low-phase Cassini image shows bright areas between dark spokes in Saturn's B ring.
Between the Spokes
Saturn appears serene and majestic in the first color composite made of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its approach to the ringed planet, with arrival still 20 months away. The plane...
More
Saturn, Titan
Saturn, Titan
This image shows the potentially hazardous near-Earth object 1998 KN3 as it zips past a cloud of dense gas and dust near the Orion nebula.
More
This image shows the potentially hazardous near-Earth object 1998 KN3 as it zips past a cloud of dense gas and dust near the Orion nebula.
Asteroid Zips By Orion
Bennu and other asteroids represent building blocks of our solar system’s rocky planets. 
More
artist's concept of asteroids in space
Bennu and other asteroids
The Cassini spacecraft looks at a brightly illuminated Enceladus and examines the surface of the leading hemisphere of this Saturnian moon.
More
Enceladus
Brilliant Enceladus
This map of Saturn's moon Titan shows the location of the upcoming April 30, 2006, Titan flyby and the areas mapped so far by the Cassini radar mapper using its synthetic aperture radar imaging mod...
More
Location of the upcoming April 30, 2006, Titan flyby and the areas mapped so far by Cassini
Titan (T13) Viewed by Cassini's Radar Flat Map
About 200 people gathered on the mall at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to wave at Saturn on July 19, 2013. At the time NASA's Cassini spacecraft had turned to take a picture o...
More
A Crowd at JPL Wave at Saturn
A Crowd at JPL Wave at Saturn
This computer rendering shows the surface of Rhea, Saturn's second largest satellite behind Titan. Like Dione and Iapetus, there is a noticeable difference between the two hemispheres of the satel...
More
Rhea
Rhea
NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its Oct. 1 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, capturing these raw, unprocessed images of the moon and its dramatic plumes of water vapor and ice. Th...
More
Enceladus
Enceladus Flyby E-14 (Raw Image #5)
This computer animation shows the observations to be taken by the Cassini spacecraft spanning roughly a nine-hour period surrounding its upcoming flyby of Dione on Dec. 14, 2004.
More
Dione Flyby Animation
Dione Flyby Animation
Dawn LAMO Image 11
More
Dawn LAMO Image 11
Dawn LAMO Image 11
Rhea's crater-saturated surface shows a large bright blotch, which was likely created when a geologically recent impact sprayed bright, fresh ice ejecta over the moon's surface. The rim of the gre...
More
Saturn's moon Rhea
Bright Ice Below
Crater Impacts on Vesta
More
Crater Impacts on Vesta
Crater Impacts on Vesta
The Cassini spacecraft spies the small moon Atlas, accompanied by bright clumps of material in the F ring, as it gazes down at the unilluminated side of the rings. This view looks toward the rings...
More
Saturn's rings and the moon Atlas
Darkside Beauty
Pretty in Pink August 19, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06422 Saturn and its rings are prominently shown in this color image, along with thre...
More
Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink
Saturn in the Cassini era has proved to be an unexpectedly colorful place, compared to the browns and golds imaged by the two Voyager spacecraft. Saturn is headed toward equinox in 2009, followed...
More
Saturn
The Painted Globe
The Cassini spacecraft looks down on the north pole of Titan, showing night and day in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's largest moon. This view is centered on terrain at 49 degrees north latitu...
More
Titan
Colorful Northern Crescent
Dione looms large before the rings of Saturn. Atlas (32 kilometers, or 20 miles across) can be spotted to the lower left of the larger moon, peeking out from behind the rings. This view looks tow...
More
Saturn's Ring with Dione and Atlas
Inclined Dione
Shadow-striped Saturn and its exquisitely thin rings occupy the near-field view in this Cassini image, while a crescent moon Rhea hangs in the distance. A couple of bright pixels at the center of ...
More
Saturn and a nearly edge-on view of the rings, along with Rhea
In Orbit with Rhea
This false-color mosaic, made from infrared data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveals the differences in the composition of surface materials around hydrocarbon lakes at Titan, Saturn's ...
More
A false-color mosaic of Titan
Titan's Northern Lakes: Salt Flats? (Annotated version)
The moon Hyperion tumbles as it orbits Saturn. The moon's spin axis has a chaotic orientation in time, meaning that it is essentially impossible to predict how the moon will be spinning in the futu...
More
Hyperion
Chaos at Hyperion
This image is from the last sequence of images NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained of the giant asteroid Vesta, looking down at Vesta's north pole as it was departing. 
More
cratered surface of asteroid
A Last Look Back at Vesta
This Voyager 2 image of Saturn was acquired on Aug. 4, 1981, from a distance of 21 million kilometers (13 million miles).
More
This Voyager 2 image of Saturn was acquired on Aug. 4, 1981, from a distance of 21 million kilometers (13 million miles).
Saturn Taken from Voyager 2

You Might Also Like

Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and deliberate the future landing site for NASA's next Red Planet rover – Mars 2020.
More
Scientists to Debate Landing Site for Next Mars Rover
Scientists to Debate Landing Site for Next Mars Rover
NASA's Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system.
More
NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space
NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space
Cassini's Grand Finale orbits pay off: Final dives tell the story of the previously unexplored region between Saturn and its rings
More
Groundbreaking Science Emerges from Ultra-Close Orbits of Saturn
Groundbreaking Science Emerges from Ultra-Close Orbits of Saturn
Astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system.
More
Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System
Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, this week commanded the agency's Curiosity rover to switch to its second computer. The switch will enable engineers to do a detailed diagnosis of a technical issue that has prevented the rover's active computer from storing science and some key engineering data since Sept. 15.
More
Curiosity Rover to Temporarily Switch 'Brains'
Curiosity Rover to Temporarily Switch 'Brains'
A team of researchers have found a distant Kuiper Belt Object with an orbit that supports the theory of a distant, undiscovered large planet on the far edge of our solar system.
More
New Extremely Distant Solar System Object Found During Hunt for Planet X
New Extremely Distant Solar System Object Found During Hunt for Planet X