Skip Navigation
menu close modal

Resources

Venus, Moon and a Bit of Earth

bright star and crescent moon above a rocky cliff
Source: NASA/Bill Dunford 
Published: January 31, 2019
Historical Date: January 31, 2019

Venus and the waning crescent Moon rise above the Wasatch Mountains near Salt Lake City on Jan. 31, 2019.

ENLARGE

Related

Saturn in Full View August 2, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05425 Two weeks after orbit insertion, Cassini glanced back at Saturn, taking in ...
More
Saturn in Full View
Saturn in Full View
Storms whip up the cloud bands of Saturn's southern hemisphere in this infrared view. Small fractions of the A and F rings are visible at right. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wid...
More
Saturn's southern hemisphere
Saturnian Squiggles
On Sept. 23-24, 2005, the Cassini-Huygens radar team continuously scans Saturn from pole to pole, letting Saturn's rotation sweep the atmosphere across the track. This image details the planned pas...
More
Image of Saturn showing planned radar targets with green and blue circles
Saturn Atmosphere Thermal Emission
This image was taken on 2004-02-19 20:44 (PST) and received on Earth 2004-02-21 17:21 (PST).
More
Cassini raw image of Saturn
Image of Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft snapped this Saturn portrait from the distance of Iapetus, just before beginning its close encounter with the two-toned moon. Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) is...
More
Saturn
Snapshot from Afar
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 18
Dawn HAMO Image 18
A close-up view of an astronaut's bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the moon.
More
Photograph of close-up of astronaut footprint in lunar soil
Close-up View of Astronaut's Footprint in Lunar Soil
The Cassini spacecraft reveals Titan's upper-most atmospheric hazes, creating the appearance of a halo around Saturn's largest moon. For a color view of the atmosphere's upper layers from another ...
More
Titan's upper-most atmospheric hazes
Hazy Halo
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Canuleia crater, a large, irregularly shaped crater. Other interesting features of Canuleia include the diffuse bright material that i...
More
Canuleia Crater
Canuleia Crater
Students from McMurry University, in Abilene, Texas, were inspired by Cassini's story to design and build a permanent memorial sculpture.
More
Group of smiling people around statue of spacecraft and Saturn.
Remembering Cassini, Texas Style
Cassini peers through the murky orange haze of Titan to spy what are believed to be bodies of liquid hydrocarbons, two of them as large as seas on Earth, near the moon's north pole.
More
Lakes on Titan
Exploring the Wetlands of Titan
Shadows cast by Saturn's rings darken the southern hemisphere of the planet and give a truncated appearance to the bottom of this Cassini spacecraft image. Saturn's moon Tethys (1,062 kilometers, ...
More
Saturn, its rings and Tethys
Cut Off by Shadows
What's that bright point of light in the outer A ring? It's a star, bright enough to be visible through the ring! 
More
Saturn's rings
Wish Upon a Star
This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft features a blue planet, but unlike the view from July 19, 2013 (The Day the Earth Smiled) that featured our home planet, this blue orb is Uranus, imaged by ...
More
Saturn's rings and the planet Uranus
Blue Orb On The Horizon
This image, taken on June 10, 2016 by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows cratered terrain on Ceres. Dawn took this image from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilome...
More
Dawn LAMO Image 201
Dawn LAMO Image 201
This image, taken on June 18, 2015 by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) -- a mountain 3 miles (5 kilometers) high, surrounded by re...
More
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 18
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 18
                  Titan's surface revealed July 3, 2004   Full-Res: PIA06407   Piercing the ubiquitous layer of smog ...
More
Titan's surface revealed
Titan's surface revealed
In this image, Cassini sees Saturn and the rings through a haze of Sun glare on the camera lens.
More
Saturn and the rings through a haze of Sun glare on the camera lens
Glare on the 'Window'
Cassini scientist Dr. Kevin Baines discusses Saturn's Cyclones. Saturn’s serene appearance belies the roiling atmosphere beneath the clouds that is producing features such as cyclones. + See view...
More
Kevin Baines
Kevin Baines on Saturn's Cyclones
+ See Annotated Version + High Resolution Version This artist’s concept shows a possible model of Titan’s internal structure that incorporates data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. In this model, ...
More
This artist’s concept shows a possible model of Titan’s internal structure that incorporates data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
Layers of Titan -- Unannotated
This image obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a field of small craters next to Kokopelli Crater, seen at bottom right in this image, on dwarf planet Ceres.
More
Kokopelli Crater on Ceres
Kokopelli Crater on Ceres
The brightly reflective moon Enceladus appears before Saturn's rings while the larger moon Titan looms in the distance.
More
The brightly reflective moon Enceladus appears before Saturn's rings while the larger moon Titan looms in the distance.
The Tale Continues...
This false-color image of Saturn's main rings was made by combining data from multiple star occultations using the Cassini ultraviolet imaging spectrograph.
More
A false-color image of Saturn's main rings
Mapping Clumps in Saturn's Rings
+ Highest Resolution Available An artist's imagination of hydrocarbon pools, icy and rocky terrain on the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan. Image by Ron Jackson -- Binghamton, N.Y.
More
Pools on Titan
Pools on Titan
This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows terrain on Saturn's moon Dione that is entirely lit by reflected light from Saturn, called Saturnshine.
More
This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows terrain on Saturn's moon Dione that is entirely lit by reflected light from Saturn, called Saturnshine.
Dione's Saturn-lit Surface

You Might Also Like