Skip Navigation

Resources

Dawn Survey Orbit Image 10

Dawn Survey Orbit Image 10
Photojournal: PIA19578
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: June 22, 2015

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 14, 2015, shows an intriguing mountain on dwarf planet Ceres protruding from a relatively smooth area.

ENLARGE

Related

These polar maps show the first global, topographic mapping of Saturn's moon Titan, using data from NASA's Cassini mission. To create these maps, scientists employed a mathematical process called s...
More
Polar maps of Titan
Polar Views of Titan's Global Topography
This set of images shows the areas mapped so far on Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini radar mapper using its synthetic aperture radar imaging mode. Labels represent the approximate central longitu...
More
Three images: radar swaths superimposed on a false-color image made from observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Titan Viewed by Cassini's Radar
MESSENGER's Earth flyby on Aug. 2, 2005, not only adjusted the spacecraft's path to Mercury - the gravity assist maneuver allowed the spacecraft team to test several MESSENGER science instruments b...
More
MESSENGER's Earth flyby on Aug. 2, 2005, not only adjusted the spacecraft's path to Mercury - the gravity assist maneuver allowed the spacecraft team to test several MESSENGER science instruments by observing its home planet.
Twins Image
Overexposed Mimas stands starkly against the disk of Saturn as the dim shadow of Epimetheus is captured through the C ring in the planet's rings (right of center at the bottom of the image). In rea...
More
Saturn, Mimas and Epimetheus
Saturn and Mimas
+ Unannotated Version Like an ancient mariner charting the coastline of an unexplored wilderness, Cassini's repeated encounters with Titan are turning a mysterious world into a more familiar place...
More
Mosaic of Titan
Naming New Lands -- September Flyby with Labels
This moody portrait of Saturn captures a razor-thin ringplane bisecting the clouds of the bright equatorial region. The rings cast dark, shadowy bands onto the planet's northern latitudes. At left...
More
Saturn with its rings casting shadows on the planet. Dione also appears here.
Tilted Giant
NASA's Dawn spacecraft views Oxo Crater (6 miles, 10 kilometers wide) in this view from Ceres, taken on June 4, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilo...
More
Dawn LAMO Image 188
Dawn LAMO Image 188
+ View Image without Labels The Cassini spacecraft captures eight new propeller-like features within Saturn's A ring in what may be the propeller "hot zone" of Saturn's rings. Propeller features ...
More
Propeller-like features within Saturn's A ring
Propeller Belt
View unannotated version. This sequence of three images, obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over the course of about 10 minutes, shows the path of a newly found moonlet in a bright arc of Satur...
More
This sequence of three images shows the path of a newly found moonlet in a bright arc of Saturn's faint G ring.
Tiny Moonlet Within G Ring Arc -- Annotated
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
NASA's Dawn spacecraft will be getting an up-close look at the dwarf planet Ceres starting in late March or the beginning of April 2015. This graphic shows the science-gathering orbits planned for ...
More
Closing in on Ceres
Closing in on Ceres
Jupiter's four largest satellites, including Io, the golden ornament in front of Jupiter in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, have fascinated Earthlings ever since Galileo Galilei discover...
More
Jupiter's four largest satellites, including Io, the golden ornament in front of Jupiter in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, have fascinated Earthlings ever since Galileo Galilei discovered them in 1610 in one of his first astronomical uses of the telescope.
Io in Front of Jupiter
                  Cassini Enters Saturn's Orbit July 1, 2004     After becoming the first spacecraft to enter Saturn'...
More
Cassini Enters Saturn's Orbit
Cassini Enters Saturn's Orbit
South Polar Cloud Movie October 26, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06124 QuickTime Movie This movie sequence of the south polar region of Titan w...
More
South Polar Cloud Movie
South Polar Cloud Movie
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.
More
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
This ancient crater on Ceres displays a flattened floor and a low, rounded central peak. NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured the scene on Jan. 2, 2016.
More
Dawn LAMO Image 26
Dawn LAMO Image 26
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft show part of Rheasilvia quadrangle in asteroid Vesta's southern hemisphere. The hummocky, undulating terrain surrounding the central complex feature consist...
More
Topography and Albedo Image of Central Complex and Hummocky Terrain
Topography and Albedo Image of Central Complex and Hummocky Terrain
This image, taken on June 25, 2015 by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a portion of the southern hemisphere of dwarf planet Ceres. The large crater with a central peak at bottom is Zadeni crater.
More
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 41
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 41
Just before the eastern sky brightens with sunrise, three planets and the waning crescent moon join the starry twilight tapestry. Then, as the bright stars of Gemini and Orion fade with oncoming da...
More
View of the planets: August 2006
August 2006: View of the Planets
+ Lightning in Blue -- Annotated These false-color mosaics from NASA's Cassini spacecraft capture lightning striking within the huge storm that encircled Saturn's northern hemisphere for much of 2...
More
These nearly-true-color mosaics from NASA's Cassini spacecraft capture lightning striking within the huge storm that encircled Saturn's northern hemisphere for much of 2011.
Lightning in Blue -- Unannotated
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the surface of asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on August 11, 2011. It was taken through the camera's clear filter. The image has a resolution of...
More
Equatorial Grooves Imaged at the Limb of Vesta
Equatorial Grooves Imaged at the Limb of Vesta
The Cassini spacecraft surveys the south polar region of icy Rhea. This is a similar view to Above Rhea's South Pole. This view is a bit farther south and has slightly different solar illumination...
More
Rhea
South on Rhea
Mosaic of Triton constructed from 16 individual images. 
More
Mosaic of Triton constructed from 16 individual images.
Triton Mosaic
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the surface of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixe...
More
Dawn HAMO Image 16
Dawn HAMO Image 16
This image of Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot (GRS) was created by citizen scientist Björn Jónsson using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft.
More
This image of Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot (GRS) was created by citizen scientist Björn Jónsson using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot in True Color

You Might Also Like