Skip Navigation

Resources

Mountains Rising Over Vesta's Equatorial Region

Mountains Rising Over Vesta's Equatorial Region
Photojournal: PIA14791
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 28, 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on Aug. 26, 2011 at a distance of 1,700 miles (2,740 kilometers). The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.

ENLARGE

Related

This spectacular view is a mosaic of four high resolution images taken by the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on Feb. 16, 2005, during its close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The view i...
More
Enceladus' myriad of faults, fractures, folds, troughs and craters
Enceladus Mosaic
The Cassini data presented in this view appear to confirm a region of warm atmospheric descent into the eye of a hurricane-like storm locked to Saturn's south pole. The view shows temperature data ...
More
Temperatures from the composite infrared spectrometer overlaid onto an image of Saturn's south pole
The Hole at the Pole
Small water ice particles fly from fissures in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus in this image taken during the Aug. 13, 2010, flyby of the moon by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
More
Small water ice particles fly from fissures in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus in this image taken during the Aug. 13, 2010, flyby of the moon by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Looming Enceladus
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of asteroid Vesta's south polar scarp with its framing camera on August 12, 2011. The image was taken through the framing camera's clear filter. The image...
More
South Polar Scarp
South Polar Scarp
Three of Saturn's brood are captured near the rings in this view from the Cassini spacecraft. Together they showcase the rich variety of worlds found in the Saturn system. Pictured here are: Titan...
More
Saturn, Titan, Dione and Janus
A Diverse Family
The scene shows a complex of craters in mid-southern latitudes on Ceres, just west of the peaks known as Niman Rupes. NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image on June 15, 2016.
More
Dawn LAMO Image 138
Dawn LAMO Image 138
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Bellicia quadrangle, in Vesta's northern hemisphere.
More
HAMO and LAMO Images of Arruntia Crater
HAMO and LAMO Images of Arruntia Crater
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft features a relatively fresh crater on Ceres with prominent spurs of compacted material and gullies along its rim. Boulders of a variety of sizes litter the cr...
More
Dawn LAMO Image 85
Dawn LAMO Image 85
As northern winter ends on Saturn and the Cassini spacecraft's view of the north pole improves, the swirls and eddies visible until now only in the south are gradually coming into view in the north...
More
Northern hemisphere of Saturn
Hoping for a Hex
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 System Road Map
Saturn System Road Map
The Cassini spacecraft examines Titan's north polar hood, the part of the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon appearing dark at the top of this image. See Titan's Hazes and Haze Layers on Titan to...
More
The Cassini spacecraft examines Titan's north polar hood, the part of the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon appearing dark at the top of this image.
Above Titan's North
test add metadata
More
test add metadata
test add metadata
Enceladus in the Distance November 3, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06512 Cassini spied the moon Enceladus in the distance beyond Saturn's sou...
More
Enceladus in the Distance
Enceladus in the Distance
                  Pandora and Prometheus Near F Ring May 24, 2004   Full-Res: PIA05393                     Two of Satu...
More
Pandora and Prometheus Near F Ring
Pandora and Prometheus Near F Ring
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a portion of Ceres known as Erntedank Planum, a broad plateau 345 miles (555 kilometers) wide. The terrain seen here lies just to the southeast of Occat...
More
Dawn LAMO Image 106
Dawn LAMO Image 106
Mosaic of Triton constructed from 16 individual images. 
More
Mosaic of Triton constructed from 16 individual images.
Triton Mosaic
This picture captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a crater in the southern hemisphere of Ceres with a complex of central peaks.
More
Dawn LAMO Image 104
Dawn LAMO Image 104
+ Original version + Color-exagerated version With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, reve...
More
Panorama of Saturn and its ring with labels
In Saturn's Shadow (with labels)
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows different types of terrain located side by side on Ceres: a smooth terrain at right with numerous small impact craters, and a less-cratered, hummocky ter...
More
Dawn HAMO Image 70
Dawn HAMO Image 70
The shadow of the moon Enceladus appears on Saturn just south of the thin shadow of the planet's rings in this image captured shortly after Saturn's August 2009 equinox. Enceladus (504 kilometers,...
More
The shadow of the moon Enceladus appears on Saturn
Shadow South of Another
Cassini peeks at Saturn's relatively dark south pole, providing an up-close look at the haze-free upper atmosphere there. The banded structure around the pole seems to be superimposed on the chara...
More
An up-close look at the haze-free upper atmosphere of Saturn's relatively dark south pole.
Close Look at the Pole
South Polar Turbulence August 30, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06465 Structures in the turbulent cloud bands near Saturn's south pole are visibl...
More
South Polar Turbulence
South Polar Turbulence
Saturn's moon Enceladus looks tranquil here, concealing the true nature of this active moon. To learn about the icy plumes jetting from Enceladus' south polar region, see Plumewatch and Jet Blue. ...
More
Enceladus
Serene Enceladus
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
Cassini images have revealed the presence of previously unseen faint rings in some of the gaps in Saturn's rings -- possible indicators of small yet-unseen moons. Image A is a contrast-stretched v...
More
Four views of Saturn's rings labeled A through D, including arrows described in the caption
Rings and More Rings

You Might Also Like