Skip Navigation
menu close modal

Resources

Pioneer 11 Press Conference

Two met at conference table.
Source: NASA Ames
Published: February 13, 2018

Legendary space scientist James van Allen is seen smoking a pipe alongside physicist Edward Smith at a Pioneer 11 press conference in 1974.

ENLARGE

Related

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an area in Vesta's northern hemisphere that has been illuminated by the sun. As asteroid Vesta progresses from its winter to its spring the sunlight is ...
More
Light and Shadow
Light and Shadow
+ Color-exaggerated version + Image with labels With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, r...
More
A marvelous panoramic view of Saturn and it's stunning rings
In Saturn's Shadow
Scientists collect a meteorite in Antarctica.
More
Two scientists examining a meteorite on snow-covered ground.
Antarctic Meteorite
The Cassini spacecraft catches a glimpse of Janus, an irregularly shaped moon. Lacking sufficient gravity to pull itself into a round shape, Janus has had its lumpy primordial shape only slightly m...
More
Janus
Lumpy Janus
Saturn's two largest moons meet in the sky in a rare embrace. Smog-enshrouded Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across) glows to the left of airless Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles acros...
More
Titan and Rhea
Titan's Kiss
Cassini's celestial sleuthing has paid off with this time-lapse series of images which confirmed earlier suspicions that a small moon was orbiting within the narrow Keeler gap of Saturn's rings. T...
More
This movie sequence consists of 12 images taken over 16 minutes while Cassini gazed down upon the sunlit side of the A ring, shows a tiny moon orbiting in the center of the Keeler gap, churning up waves in the gap edges as it goes.
Discovery of the Wavemaker (movie)
Great Dark Spot
More
Great Dark Spot
Great Dark Spot
The shadow of Tethys drifts across the face of Saturn. Nearby, shadows of the planet's rings form a darkened band above the equator. This view looks toward Saturn from a vantage point 63 degrees n...
More
The shadow of Tethys drifts across the face of Saturn
Moon Spot
Titan's smoggy atmosphere glows brilliantly in scattered sunlight, creating a thin, gleaming crescent beyond Saturn's rings.
More
Titan's smoggy atmosphere glows brilliantly in scattered sunlight, creating a thin, gleaming crescent beyond Saturn's rings.
Titan Shines Through
This view of Saturn looks toward the planet's night side, lit by sunlight reflected from the rings. The mosaic shows the location where Cassini entered Saturn's atmosphere.
More
Saturn's night side
Final Frontier
The smooth, linear contours and long, gently meandering character of the clouds in this view suggest stable prevailing winds at these latitudes, from 57 to 67 degrees north on Saturn. The image wa...
More
Close-up of Saturn
Smooth Sailing
This view of the two moons of Mars comes from a set of images taken by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity as the larger moon, Phobos, passed in front of the smaller one, Deimos, from Curiosity's perspecti...
More
This view of the two moons of Mars comes from a set of images taken by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity as the larger moon, Phobos, passed in front of the smaller one, Deimos, from Curiosity's perspective, on Aug. 1, 2013.
Two Moons of Mars in One Enhanced View
The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is designed to study the Moon's thin exosphere and the lunar dust environment.
More
The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is designed to study the Moon's thin exosphere and the lunar dust environment.
LADEE 3D Rendering (Gray Background)
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
This false-color mosaic, made from infrared data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveals the differences in the composition of surface materials around hydrocarbon lakes at Titan, Saturn's ...
More
A false-color mosaic of Titan
Titan's Northern Lakes: Salt Flats?
These two views of Saturn's moon Titan show the southern polar vortex, a huge, swirling cloud that was first observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2012.
More
These two views of Saturn's moon Titan show the southern polar vortex
Spectral Map of Titan with Polar Vortex
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
Saturn's moon Mimas poses with the larger moon Dione in this handsome portrait. The wispy fractured terrain of Dione's trailing side is visible here. Mimas is 397 kilometers (247 miles) across, w...
More
Mimas and Dione
Mimas and Dione
The F ring shepherd moon Prometheus touches the face of Saturn once more before moving off into blackness and continuing in its orbit.
More
The F ring shepherd moon Prometheus touches the face of Saturn once more before moving off into blackness and continuing in its orbit.
Prometheus Makes Contact
This sequence of nine true-color, narrow-angle images shows the varying appearance of Jupiter as it rotated through more than a complete 360-degree turn. The smallest features seen in this sequen...
More
Full Rotation
Full Rotation
This image of asteroid Vesta, from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, calculated from a shape model, shows a tilted view of the topography of the south polar region. This perspective removes the overall curva...
More
Oblique View of Vesta's South Polar Region
Oblique View of Vesta's South Polar Region
NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained these false-color images of a circular feature in a region known as Xanadu on Saturn's moon Titan. The images, obtained by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping s...
More
NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained these false-color images of a circular feature in a region known as Xanadu on Saturn's moon Titan.
Circular Feature at Xanadu, Titan
+ See Viewing Options
More
Cosmic Messengers From Saturn
Saturn dust
Terrain shown in this view from Ceres lies within the large, southern hemisphere impact basin named Zadeni. NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image on June 17, 2016.
More
Dawn LAMO Image 139
Dawn LAMO Image 139
This monochrome view is the last image taken by the imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. It looks toward the planet's night side, lit by reflected light from the rings, and shows the locat...
More
Black and white image of Saturn.
Impact Site: Cassini's Final Image

You Might Also Like