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Jean-Pierre Lebreton
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April 11, 2011
Jean-Pierre Lebreton
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This color picture of Antarctica is one part of a mosaic of pictures covering the entire Antarctic continent taken during the hours following Galileo's historic first encounter with its home planet...
Earth - Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
A Turbulent Interface October 12, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06496 The southern edge of Saturn's equatorial b...
A Turbulent Interface
This image shows InSight's domed Wind and Thermal Shield, which covers its seismometer.
InSight's Seismometer on the Martian Surface
This movie taken by the Cassini spacecraft shows the surface and atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan over a range of infrared wavelengths, from .8 to 5.1 microns.
Window to Titan's Surface
This raw image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken on March 27, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Saturn's moon Janus. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrat...
Portrait of Janus (Raw image)
Two Views of Titan's Haze October 28, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06987 These images show two views of Titan's planet-wide stratospheric haze just ...
Two Views of Titan's Haze
The moon Prometheus creates an intricate pattern of perturbation in Saturn's F ring while the moon Daphnis disturbs the A ring in this image taken after the planet's August 2009 equinox. Prometheu...
Pulchritudinous Perturbations
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of a dark band on asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on August 19, 2011. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.
A Dark Band on Vesta
Rounding the Rings October 13, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06497 Cassini spied two members of Saturn's family rounding the rings in this image f...
Rounding the Rings
The Cassini spacecraft carried the European Space Agency's Huygens probe to Saturn and released it in December 2004. The probe landed on Titan Jan. 14, 2005, acquiring a set of images using the de...
Pinpointing Huygens Landing Site
This Cassini spacecraft view looks almost directly at the south pole of Tethys. The large crater Melanthius is seen above center. Tethys is 1,062 kilometers (660 miles) across. The image was take...
On the South Side
A ghostly view of Enceladus reveals the specter of the moon's icy plume of fine particles. Scientists continue to monitor the plume, where mission planning allows, using the Cassini spacecraft's im...
Out of the Noise
Saturn's moon Pan, orbiting in the Encke Gap near the top of the image, casts a short shadow on the A ring in this image taken about six months after the planet's August 2009 equinox. Pan (28 kilo...
Pan's Effects
The limb of Saturn appears bright as the Cassini spacecraft peers through several of the planet's rings. The curvature of the planet can be seen on the bright left half of the image. From top to b...
Saturn Bright Through Rings
These mosaics (6 frames each) show the appearance of the Great Red Spot in infrared light (757 nanometers at upper left), violet light (415 nanometers at upper right), and infrared light within bot...
The Great Red Spot at Four Different Wavelengths
Closing in on Titan July 3, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06111 Titan's veil begins to lift as Cassini's cameras peer through the hazy moon. ...
Closing in on Titan
Atmospheric Detail in Infrared July 13, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05415 Cassini captured intriguing cloud structures on Saturn as it near...
Atmospheric Detail in Infrared
Cassini takes in a wide-angle view of majestic, golden-hued Saturn ... home to our robotic spacecraft for two years now. The ringplane cuts across the center of Saturn's crescent which wears shadow...
The Golden Giant
This mosaic of Cassini images, part of a larger mosaic of images captured just hours before exact equinox at Saturn, shows that the spiral corrugation in the planet's inner rings continues right up...
Inner B Ring Terminus
In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.
Perseid Meteor Shower 2015
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Urbinia quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere.
Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Canuleia and Sossia Craters
Many features in Saturn's rings are thought to be induced by the gravity of the planet's moons. This view shows two different kinds of waves that are thought to be produced by different moon-relate...
Two Kinds of Wave
This is the most accurate natural color image of Charon taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
True Colors of Charon
Saturn's moon Daphnis, appearing as a tiny speck in the Keeler Gap of the A ring on the far right of this Cassini spacecraft image, is almost lost among the moon's attendant edge waves. Daphnis (8...
Hidden Among Waves
False-color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the development of a hood of high-altitude haze - which appears orange in this image -- forming over the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan. T...
Winter's Coming
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