Skip Navigation
menu close modal

Resources

Ceres Awaits Dawn

Ceres Awaits Dawn
Photojournal: PIA18920
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: March 2, 2015

Ceres rotates in this frame from a movie comprised of images taken by NASA's Dawn mission during its approach to the dwarf planet. The images were taken on Feb. 19, 2015, from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers).

ENLARGE

Related

The existence of oceans or lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan was predicted more than 20 years ago. 
More
Radar imaging data of large bodies of liquid on Titan
Liquid Lakes on Titan
The flattened, potato-like form of Prometheus glides silently within the Roche Division, between Saturn's A and F rings.
More
The flattened, potato-like form of Prometheus glides silently within the Roche Division, between Saturn's A and F rings.
Spotting Prometheus
The Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe begin their seven-year journey to the ringed planet. The successful launch of Cassini aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur occured at 4:43 a.m. EDT, October 15, 1997.  
More
Wide View
Wide View
Kitty Joyner, electrical engineer, at Langley in 1952.
More
Kitty Joyner, electrical engineer, at Langley in 1952.
Kitty Joyner, Electrical Engineer
Rhea's Battered Surface November 9, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06516 This view of Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or ...
More
Rhea's Battered Surface
Rhea's Battered Surface
This image of asteroid Vesta from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an old, very degraded crater that is almost completely filled with regolith. Regolith is the fine-grained material that covers most of...
More
An Old Crater Almost Completely Filled with Regolith
An Old Crater Almost Completely Filled with Regolith
The fragile F ring bears the signs of a moon's bruising passage. The A ring and its Keeler Gap sit idly by on the right of this image, but on the left dark lines cut across the F ring and mark whe...
More
Saturn's F ring
Tortured Ring
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an unnamed Cerean crater that is surrounded by a smooth blanket of ejecta, including bright material. Both the area around the crater and its floor are p...
More
Dawn LAMO Image 43
Dawn LAMO Image 43
N00063394.jpg was taken on July 02, 2006 and received on Earth July 03, 2006. The camera was pointing toward TITAN at approximately 183,007 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 an...
More
Titan
T-15 Raw Image
Ultraviolet Enceladus September 23, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06483 Looking beyond Saturn's south pole, this was the Cassini spacecraft's...
More
Ultraviolet Enceladus
Ultraviolet Enceladus
The Sun's rays strike the terrains near the terminator on Tethys at low angles, throwing features there into sharp relief. The cluster of peaks at the center of the crater Odysseus (450 kilometers,...
More
Tethys near a portion of Saturn's rings
Rough Sphere of Tethys
Spiral density waves in Saturn's A ring reveal the gravitational signatures of distant moons as they subtly tug on the countless particles orbiting in the ring plane. Resulting from a process call...
More
Saturn's A ring
Saturn's Watch Spiral
Multiple faint, streamer-like objects can be seen in this high resolution Cassini spacecraft view of the F ring's bright core. The regular spacing of some of the features extending from the core i...
More
Multiple faint, streamer-like objects in the F ring's bright core
A Compelling Case
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...
More
Saturn
The Golden Giant
Cassini images reveal the existence of a faint arc of material orbiting with Saturn's small moon Anthe. The moon is moving in a counterclockwise direction in this perspective, and is about to reac...
More
A faint arc of material orbiting with Saturn's small moon Anthe
Anthe's Faint Arc
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft obtained this image of Saturn’s moon Dione on Sept. 3, 2010. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 49,969 kilometers (31,049 miles) away. This image has...
More
Dione
Dione Raw Image II, Sept. 3, 2010
Prometheus dips into the inner F ring at its farthest point from Saturn in its orbit, creating a dark gore and a corresponding bright streamer. Gores created during previous apoapsis (the name for ...
More
Prometheus dips into the inner F ring
Act of Creation
Titan's equatorial latitudes are distinctly different in character from its south polar region, as this image shows. The dark terrain, presumably lowland, seen here does not extend much farther so...
More
Titan's equatorial latitudes are distinctly different in character from its south polar region, as this image shows
Dawn at the Huygens Site
Sunlight reflects off the bright, frozen surfaces of the billions and billions of particles comprising Saturn's rings to brighten the planet's southern skies. The particles in Saturn's rings are e...
More
Saturn and a nearly edge-on view of the rings, along with Enceladus
One Moon Among Billions
A meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower.
More
Meteor streak across dark sky.
Perseid Meteor 2016
Some of Saturn's satellites lie within the rings while others are outside the ring system. This slide illustrates the relationship between satellites and rings around Saturn. The ring plane crossin...
More
Saturn Systems Road Map
Saturn Systems Road Map
Approach to Saturn February 27, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05380 The narrow angle camera onboard the Cassini spacecraft took a series of e...
More
Approach to Saturn
Approach to Saturn
This illustration is a representation of the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus with a global liquid water ocean between its rocky core and icy crust.
More
Illustration of the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus showing a global liquid water ocean between its rocky core and icy crust.
Global Ocean on Enceladus (Artist's Rendering)
The bright arc in Saturn's faint G ring contains a little something special. Although it can't be seen here, the tiny moonlet Aegaeon (formerly known as S/2008 S 1) orbits within the bright arc. S...
More
The bright arc in Saturn's faint G ring
Faint Ring, Bright Arc
Vesta is the largest asteroid visited by a spacecraft. It is currently being observed by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has entered orbit around Vesta.
More
Vesta Sizes Up
Vesta Sizes Up

You Might Also Like