Skip Navigation

Resources

Dawn LAMO Image 72

Dawn LAMO Image 72
Photojournal: PIA20567
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: April 21, 2016

Omonga Crater on Ceres was named for a rice spirit who dwells in the moon, according to legends of the Mori people of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. NASA's Dawnspacecraft spotted Omonga from above the surface.

ENLARGE

Related

Numerous small, bright spots appear on asteroid Vesta, as seen in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. This region is just north of the equator, to the west of Marcia crater.
More
Bright Spots Near Marcia
Bright Spots Near Marcia
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Rubria and Occia craters. Both Rubria and Occia contain dark and bright material and both have reasonably sharp, well-defined and regu...
More
Rubria and Occia Craters
Rubria and Occia Craters
Probe Landing on Titan
More
Probe Landing on Titan
Probe Landing on Titan
The Cassini spacecraft surveys Saturn's outstretched ring system in the infrared from a vantage point high above the planet's northern latitudes. Nearly the full expanse of the main rings is visibl...
More
Saturn in infrared
Blue Expanse
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a scene from the northern hemisphere of Ceres, north of Occator Crater, which is home of the brightest area on the dwarf planet.
More
Dawn LAMO Image 69
Dawn LAMO Image 69
The cratered and cracked disk of Saturn's moon Dione looms ahead in this mosaic of images taken by Cassini on Oct. 11, 2005, as it neared its close encounter with the icy moon. In this false-color...
More
a false-color image of Dione
Dione in Full View False Color
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Floronia quadrangle, in Vesta's northern hemisphere. Licinia is the large, bowl shaped crater in the center with a sharp rim...
More
Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Licinia Crater
Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Licinia Crater
Saturn and its satellites Tethys (outer left), Enceladus (inner left) and Mimas (right of rings) are seen in this mosaic of images taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Oct. 30, 1980, from a distance of 1...
More
Saturn with Moons
Saturn with Moons
These false-color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle a day in the life of a huge storm that developed from a small spot that appeared 12 weeks earlier in Saturn's northern mid-latitudes.
More
False-color images chronicle a day in the life of a huge storm on Saturn
A Day in the Life
Enceladus is a world divided. To the north, we see copious amounts of craters and evidence of the many impacts the moon has suffered in its history. However, to the south we see a smoother body wit...
More
Enceladus
Dichotomy
Soaring above the alien, icy wastelands of Saturn's moon Iapetus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a series of high-resolution images of the transition region from dark to bright terrain at south...
More
High-resolution images of the transition region from dark to bright terrain on Iapetus
The Transition Zone
The horizontal banding visible in Saturn's clouds is a result of rising and falling air masses stretched by Saturn's rotation. Different wind speeds are observed at different latitudes. Near Saturn...
More
Saturn's Winds
Saturn's Winds
Recent Cassini images of Saturn's moon Enceladus backlit by the sun show the fountain-like sources of the fine spray of material that towers over the south polar region.
More
Enceladus backlit, showing foutain-like sources of fine spray
Fountains of Enceladus - Image #2
Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., prepare NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Observatory for acoustic environmental testing.
More
Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., prepare NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Observatory for acoustic environmental testing.
LADEE Test
This montage of two views is published by the Cassini team to mark the 10th anniversary of the Phoebe flyby.
More
Phoebe
Arrival and Departure at Phoebe
Dramatic edge-on Cassini views of Saturn's E ring, like these side-by-side images, reveal for the first time a double-banded structure. The structure is similar to that of Jupiter's gossamer ring a...
More
Edge-on views of Saturn's E ring
Double-Banded E Ring
This brief animation "flickers" between New Horizons spacecraft views of Ultima Thule, the spacecraft's New Year's 2019 flyby target in the Kuiper Belt.
More
rapidly alternating views of cratered, two-lobed object
2014 MU69 "Ultima Thule" in Stereo (Flicker Effect)
+ Unannotated version These images show views of Earth and the moon from NASA's Cassini (left) and MESSENGER spacecraft (right) from July 19, 2013. In the Cassini image, the wide-angle camera ha...
More
These images show views of Earth and the moon from NASA's Cassini (left) and MESSENGER spacecraft (right) from July 19, 2013.
Two Views of Home -- Annotated
Faint features in Saturn's innermost ring, the D ring, are brought into view in this strongly contrast-enhanced Cassini image. A few background stars are visible through the sheer ring as squiggly ...
More
Faint features in Saturn's innermost ring, the D ring
D-Ring Structure
The shadow of the moon Epimetheus is cast onto Saturn's rings, striking the outer-most part of the A ring and only just nipping the F ring. Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles across) is not s...
More
Epimetheus casts a shadow onto Saturn's rings
Epimetheus' Shadow
On Jan. 3, 2019 the Chinese spacecraft Chang'e 4 safely landed on the floor of Von Kármán crater. Four weeks later, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this spectacular view looking across ...
More
oblique view of large crater with arrows marking spot of landing
First Look: Chang'e 4
These images were obtained by the Dawn spacecraft on July 23, 2011. The bottom two images are false-color, where different colors represent visible and infrared light wavelengths.
More
Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer False-Color Image
Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer False-Color Image
Since NASA's Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in mid-2004, the planet's appearance has changed greatly.
More
Since NASA's Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in mid-2004, the planet's appearance has changed greatly.
Saturn, Approaching Northern Summer
N00151527.jpg was taken on February 13, 2010 and received on Earth February 14, 2010. The camera was pointing toward MIMAS at approximately 20,032 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the...
More
Raw image of Mimas
Mimas Flyby Raw Image 1
This image is one of seven from the narrow-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft assembled as a brief movie of high-altitude cloud movements on Jupiter. It was taken in early October 2000.
More
High Clouds
High Clouds

You Might Also Like