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Dunes on Plains, 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey images

Dunes on Plains, 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey images

These dunes are located on the plains around Doanus Vallis as seen by NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft. NASA/JPL/ASU

The Gulch, NASA history collection

The Gulch, NASA history collection

This archival image was released as part of a gallery comparing JPL's past and present, commemorating the 80th anniversary of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Oct. 31, 2016. At the northeast end of the Jet ... More

A Snowy Entrance, NASA history collection

A Snowy Entrance, NASA history collection

This archival image was released as part of a gallery comparing JPL's past and present, commemorating the 80th anniversary of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Oct. 31, 2016. This photograph from 1949 shows ... More

Shiveluch Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

Shiveluch Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

On the night of June 4, 2001, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) captured this thermal image of the erupting Shiveluch volcano. Located on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, S... More

Odyssey/White Rock, 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey images

Odyssey/White Rock, 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey images

These Mars Odyssey images show the White Rock feature on Mars in both infrared left and visible right wavelengths. White Rock is the unofficial name for this landform that was first observed during NASA Mariner... More

Voyager First Science Meeting, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

Voyager First Science Meeting, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

This archival image was released as part of a gallery comparing JPL's past and present, commemorating the 80th anniversary of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Oct. 31, 2016. In December 1972, the science st... More

Deep Space Antenna 210' at Goldstone, CA  (JPL ref: P-116594AC) ARC-1972-A72-2699

Deep Space Antenna 210' at Goldstone, CA (JPL ref: P-116594AC) ARC-19...

Deep Space Antenna 210' at Goldstone, CA (JPL ref: P-116594AC)

Intercrater Plains and Heavily Cratered Terrain

Intercrater Plains and Heavily Cratered Terrain

This image, from NASA Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows intercrater plains and heavily cratered terrain typical of much of Mercury outside the area affected by the formation of the Caloris bas... More

Dark-rimmed Crater and Extensive Ejecta Blanket

Dark-rimmed Crater and Extensive Ejecta Blanket

NASA Mariner 10 took this picture about an hour after it passed under the South Pole of Mercury in 1974. NASA/JPL/Northwestern University

Landing Accuracy on Mars: A Historical Perspective

Landing Accuracy on Mars: A Historical Perspective

This image illustrates how spacecraft landings on Mars have become more and more precise over the years. Since NASA first Mars landing of Viking in 1976, the targeted landing regions, or ellipses, have shrunk. ... More

Range :  4.2 million kilometers (2.6 million miles) Ganymede is Jupiter's Largest Galilean satellites and 3rd from the planet.  Photo taken after midnight  Ganymede is slightly larger than Mercury but much less dense (twice the density of water).  Its surface brightness is 4 times of Earth's Moon.  Mare regions (dark features) are like the Moon's but have twice the brightness, and believed to be unlikely of rock or lava as the Moon's are.  It's north pole seems covered with brighter material and may be water frost.  Scattered brighter spots may be related to impact craters or source of fresh ice. ARC-1979-A79-7016

Range : 4.2 million kilometers (2.6 million miles) Ganymede is Jupite...

Range : 4.2 million kilometers (2.6 million miles) Ganymede is Jupiter's Largest Galilean satellites and 3rd from the planet. Photo taken after midnight Ganymede is slightly larger than Mercury but much less... More

Europa, taken from Voyager 1 to Jupiter

Europa, taken from Voyager 1 to Jupiter

Range : 5.9 million kilometers (3.66 million miles) Europa is Jupiter's 2nd Galilean satellites from the planet and the brightest. Photo taken early morning through violet filter. Faint swirls and linear patt... More

Jupiter as seen by Voyager 1, mosic of Great Red Spot.  (JPL ref. No. P-21203) ARC-1979-AC79-7012

Jupiter as seen by Voyager 1, mosic of Great Red Spot. (JPL ref. No. ...

Jupiter as seen by Voyager 1, mosic of Great Red Spot. (JPL ref. No. P-21203)

P-21742 BW Range: 6 million kilometers (3.72 million miles) This Voyager 2 image shows the region of Jupiter extending from the equator to the southern polar latitudes in the neighborhood of the Great Red Spot. A white oval, different from the one observed in a similiar position at the time of the Voyager 1 encounter, is situated south of the Great Red Spot. The region of white clouds now extends from east of the red spot and around its northern boundary, preventing small cloud vortices from circling the feature. The disturbed region west of the red spot has also changed since the equivalent Voyager 1 image. It shows more small scale structure and cloud vortices being formed out of the wave structures. ARC-1979-A79-7077

P-21742 BW Range: 6 million kilometers (3.72 million miles) This Voyag...

P-21742 BW Range: 6 million kilometers (3.72 million miles) This Voyager 2 image shows the region of Jupiter extending from the equator to the southern polar latitudes in the neighborhood of the Great Red Spot.... More

P-21738 BW Raange: 4.76 million kilometers (2.9 million miles) This Voyager 2 picture of Io was taken in ultraviolet light and shows one of the volcanic eruption plumes first photographed by Voyager 1. (the bright spot on the right limb) The plume is more than 200 kilometers (124 miles) high. The volcano apparently has been erupting since it was observed by Voyager 1 in March, 1979. This suggests that the volcanoes on Io probably are in continuous eruption. ARC-1979-A79-7073

P-21738 BW Raange: 4.76 million kilometers (2.9 million miles) This Vo...

P-21738 BW Raange: 4.76 million kilometers (2.9 million miles) This Voyager 2 picture of Io was taken in ultraviolet light and shows one of the volcanic eruption plumes first photographed by Voyager 1. (the bri... More

P-21737 BW This picture shows a region of the southern hemisphere extending from the Great Red Spot to the south pole. The white oval is seen beneath the Great Red Spot, and several small scale spots are visible farther to the south. Some of these organized cloud spots have similiar morphologies, such as anticyclonic rotations and cyclonic regions to their west. The presence of the white oval causes the streamlines of the flow to bunch up between it and the Great Red Spot. ARC-1979-A79-7072

P-21737 BW This picture shows a region of the southern hemisphere exte...

P-21737 BW This picture shows a region of the southern hemisphere extending from the Great Red Spot to the south pole. The white oval is seen beneath the Great Red Spot, and several small scale spots are visibl... More

This color reconstruction of part of the northern hemisphere of Ganymede was made from pictures taken at a range of 313,000 km (194,000 mi.).  The scene is approx. 1,300 km (806 mi.) across.  It shows part of dark, densely cratered block which is bound on the south by lighter, and less cratered, grooved terrain.  The dark blocks are believed to be the oldest parts of Ganymede's surface.  Numerous craters are visible, many with central peaks.  The large bright circular features have little relief and are probably the remnants of old, large craters that have been annealed by flow of the icy near-surface material.  The closely-spaced arcuate, linear features are probably analogous to similar features on Ganymede which surround a large impact basin.  The linear features here may indicate the former presence of a large impact basin to the southwest. ARC-1979-A79-7089

This color reconstruction of part of the northern hemisphere of Ganyme...

This color reconstruction of part of the northern hemisphere of Ganymede was made from pictures taken at a range of 313,000 km (194,000 mi.). The scene is approx. 1,300 km (806 mi.) across. It shows part of d... More

Range :   1.5 million km  ( 930,000 miles ) This high resolution view of Jupitor's ring,  part of a set obtained by Voyager 2  (A79-7101), suggests that it may be divided into several components, as are the rings of Saturn.  Seen within  the inner edge  of the brighter ring is a fainter ring, which may extend all the way down to Jupiter's cloud tops. The ring was unexpectedly bright, due to forward scattering of sunlight by small ring particles. The rings were discovered in March 1979 by Voyager 1. ARC-1979-A79-7109

Range : 1.5 million km ( 930,000 miles ) This high resolution view ...

Range : 1.5 million km ( 930,000 miles ) This high resolution view of Jupitor's ring, part of a set obtained by Voyager 2 (A79-7101), suggests that it may be divided into several components, as are the rin... More

Opportunity View After 72-Meter Drive, Sol 1912

Opportunity View After 72-Meter Drive, Sol 1912

NASA Opportunity had driven 72.3 meters southward 237 feet that sol. Engineers drove the rover backward as a strategy to counteract an increase in the amount of current drawn by the drive motor of the right-fro... More

Rover Panorama Taken Amid Murray Buttes on Mars

Rover Panorama Taken Amid Murray Buttes on Mars

Original Caption Released with Image: This 360-degree panorama was acquired by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover while the rover was in an area called "Murray Buttes" on lower Mount ... More

Opportunity View After 72-Meter Drive, Sol 1912 Polar

Opportunity View After 72-Meter Drive, Sol 1912 Polar

NASA Opportunity had driven 72.3 meters southward 237 feet that sol. Engineers drove the rover backward as a strategy to counteract an increase in the amount of current drawn by the drive motor of the right-fro... More

Dust Devil West of Spirit, Sol 1913 Stereo

Dust Devil West of Spirit, Sol 1913 Stereo

The navigation camera on NASA Spirit caught this stereo view of a dust devil during the on May 21, 2009. The view is to the west from Spirit position at the Troy location where Spirit had become embedded a few ... More

Range :  7.7 million km. ( 4.8 million miles ) P-29465 In this image captured by Voyager 2, three newly discovered satellites of Uranus can be seen orbiting outside of the nine known rings of Uranus. The outermost of the rings, the Epsilon Ring can be seen here at upper right. The largest of the three moons viewed here, 1986U1, was discovered January 3rd. it is an estimated 90 km. ( 55 mi. )  across and its orbits Uranus every 12 hours, 19 minutes ata distance of 66,090 km. ( 41,040 mi.) from the planets center. the other two moons are slightly smaller, 1986U3 orbits every 11 hours, 6 minutes at 61,750 km. ( 38,350 mi.),1986U4 every 13 hours, 24 minutes at 69,920 km.  ( 43,420 mi.). They were dicovered on January 9th and 13th, respectively. Long exposures were required to bring out these small objects. As a result of the relative motions of the spacecraft and the moons, they appear slightly elongated. ARC-1981-A86-7005

Range : 7.7 million km. ( 4.8 million miles ) P-29465 In this image c...

Range : 7.7 million km. ( 4.8 million miles ) P-29465 In this image captured by Voyager 2, three newly discovered satellites of Uranus can be seen orbiting outside of the nine known rings of Uranus. The outerm... More

Saturn and it's rings, with callouts, as photographed by Voyager 2 ARC-1981-AC81-7070

Saturn and it's rings, with callouts, as photographed by Voyager 2 ARC...

Saturn and it's rings, with callouts, as photographed by Voyager 2

Galileo Probe Descent module and deceleration module aeroshell (heat shield) ARC-1984-AC84-0228-3

Galileo Probe Descent module and deceleration module aeroshell (heat s...

Galileo Probe Descent module and deceleration module aeroshell (heat shield)

Ariel at Voyager Closest Approach

Ariel at Voyager Closest Approach

This picture is part of NASA Voyager 2 imaging sequence of Ariel, a moon of Uranus taken on January 24, 1986. The complexity of Ariel surface indicates that a variety of geologic processes have occurred. http:... More

P-29506BW Range: 1.12 million kilometers (690,000 miles) This high-resolution image of the epsilon ring of Uranus is a clear-filter picture from Voyager's narrow-angle camera and has a resolution of about 10 km (6 mi). The epsilon ring, approx. 100 km (60 mi) wide at this location, clearly shows a structural variation. Visible here are a broad, bright outer component about 40 km (25 mi) wide; a darker, middle region of comparable width; and a narrow, bright inner strip about 15 km (9 mi) wide. The epsilon-ring structure seen by Voyager is similiar to that observed from the ground with stellar-occultation techniques. This frame represents the first Voyager image that resolves these features within the epsilon ring. The occasional fuzzy splotches on the outer and innerparts of the ring are artifacts left by the removal of reseau marks (used for making measurements on the image). ARC-1986-A86-7022

P-29506BW Range: 1.12 million kilometers (690,000 miles) This high-res...

P-29506BW Range: 1.12 million kilometers (690,000 miles) This high-resolution image of the epsilon ring of Uranus is a clear-filter picture from Voyager's narrow-angle camera and has a resolution of about 10 km... More

Range :  12 million km (7.5 million miles) Resolution 110 km (68 miles) per pixel. These 2 images of Neptune were taken by Voyager 2's narrow-angle camera.  During the 17.6 hours between the left and right images, the Great Dark Spot, at 22 degrees south latitude (left of center), has completed a little less than one rotation of Neptune.  The smaller dark spot, at 54 south, completed a little more than one rotation, as can be seen by comparing its relative positions in the two pictures.  The Great Dark Spot and the smaller spot have a relative velocity of 100 meters per second (220 miles an hour).  The light and dark bands circling Neptune indicate predominantly zonal (east-west) motion.  The diffuse white feature north of the Great Dark Spot is near Neptune's equator, and rotates with about the same period as the Great Dark Spot.  Streak of bright clouds at the south edge, and just east of the Great Dark Spot, are its constatnt companions, and change the details of their appearance, often within a few hours.  Changing brightness of the cloud streaks could be a result of vertical mortions. ARC-1989-A89-7006

Range : 12 million km (7.5 million miles) Resolution 110 km (68 miles...

Range : 12 million km (7.5 million miles) Resolution 110 km (68 miles) per pixel. These 2 images of Neptune were taken by Voyager 2's narrow-angle camera. During the 17.6 hours between the left and right imag... More

Voyager II Imagery - Neptune: This image of clouds in Neptune's atmosphere is the first that tests the accuracy of the weather forecast that was made eight days earlier to select targets for the Voyager narrow-angle camera.  Three of the four targeted features are visible in this photograph; all three are close to their predicted locations. The Great Dark Spot with its bright white companion is slightly to the left of center. The small bright Scooter is below and to the left, and the second dark spot with its bright core is below the Scooter. Strong eastward winds -- up to 400 mph -- cause the second dark spot to overtake and pass the larger one every five days.  The spacecraft was 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from the planet at the time of camera shuttering, and the images use the orange, green and clear filters of the camera.  The Voyager Mission is conducted by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications.   (JPL ref P-34632  Voyager 2 N-32C) ARC-1989-AC89-7010

Voyager II Imagery - Neptune: This image of clouds in Neptune's atmosp...

Voyager II Imagery - Neptune: This image of clouds in Neptune's atmosphere is the first that tests the accuracy of the weather forecast that was made eight days earlier to select targets for the Voyager narrow-... More

Range :  4 million km. ( 2.5 million miles ) P-34654 This Voyager 2 image of Neptune's satteltite Triton was made by combining images taken through the green, clear, and violet filters. The smallest feature seen are about 74 km, or 46 miles accross. The south pole of Triton is currently tipped toward the sun and it is summer in the southern hemisphere. The south pole is located about a quarter of the way up from the bottom if the image. The bright band near the top of the image nearly coincides with the equator of Triton. One prominent and several smaller bright, wispy streaks extend from the band into the darker northern hemisphere. The prominent wispy streak shows bluish-white color, while the darker northern hemisphere is reddish in color. This may indicate that the streak is freshly deposited frost while the red color in the northern hemisphere may result from methane frost that has been darkened by radiation. Individual markings appear to rotate with the satellite and retain their shapes indicating they are indeed surface features and not in the tenuous atmosphere. ARC-1989-AC89-7016

Range : 4 million km. ( 2.5 million miles ) P-34654 This Voyager 2 im...

Range : 4 million km. ( 2.5 million miles ) P-34654 This Voyager 2 image of Neptune's satteltite Triton was made by combining images taken through the green, clear, and violet filters. The smallest feature see... More

Range :  35,000 miles plus. This color image of the Simpson Desert in Australia was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft at aboaut 2:30 pm PST.  The color composite was made from images taken through the red, green and violet filters.  The area shown, about 280 miles wide by about 340 miles north-to-south, is southeast of Alice Springs.  At lower left is Lake Eyre, a salt lake below sea level, subject to seasonal water-level fluctuations; when this image was acquired the lake was nearly dry.  At lower right is the greenish Lake Blanche.  Fields of linear sand dunes stretch north and east of Lake Eyre, shaped by prevailing winds from the south and showing, in different colors, the various sources and/or ages of their sands. ARC-1990-AC91-2009

Range : 35,000 miles plus. This color image of the Simpson Desert in ...

Range : 35,000 miles plus. This color image of the Simpson Desert in Australia was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft at aboaut 2:30 pm PST. The color composite was made from images taken through the red, gre... More

Photo by Peter McGregor  Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter; impact of Fragment G of Comet Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter. The fireball is seen 12 minutes after impact at 2.34 microns. The impact A site is seen on the oposite limb of the planet. Image at 2.34 microns with CASPIR by Peter McGregor ANU 2.3m telescope at Siding Spring. (JPL Ref; P-44419) ARC-1994-AC94-0353-3

Photo by Peter McGregor Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter; imp...

Photo by Peter McGregor Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter; impact of Fragment G of Comet Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter. The fireball is seen 12 minutes after impact at 2.34 microns. The impact A site is see... More

Photo Artwork composite by JPL This depiction of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter is shown from several perspectives. IMAGE B shows the perspective from Galileo spacecraft which can observe the impact point directly. For visual appeal, most of the large cometary fragments are shown close to one another in this image. At the time of Jupiter impact, the fragments will be separated from one another by serveral times the distances shown. This image was created by D.A. Seal of JPL's Mission Design Section using orbital computations provIded by P.W. Chodas and D.K. Yeomans of JPL's Navigation Section. ARC-1994-AC94-0353-2B

Photo Artwork composite by JPL This depiction of comet Shoemaker-Levy ...

Photo Artwork composite by JPL This depiction of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter is shown from several perspectives. IMAGE B shows the perspective from Galileo spacecraft which can observe the impact p... More

Saturn - False Color of Southern Hemisphere

Saturn - False Color of Southern Hemisphere

This false-color image of Saturn southern hemisphere taken by NASA Voyager 1 on Nov. 6, 1980, shows the unique red oval cloud feature located at 55 degrees south latitude. NASA/JPL

Miranda Geologic History Variety of Terrain

Miranda Geologic History Variety of Terrain

Miranda reveals a complex geologic history in this view, acquired by NASA's Voyager 2 on Jan. 24, 1986, around its close approach to the Uranian moon. At least three terrain types of different age and geologic ... More

Uranus Tenth Ring, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

Uranus Tenth Ring, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

On Jan. 23, 1986, NASA Voyager 2 discovered a tenth ring orbiting Uranus. The tenth ring is about midway between the bright, outermost epsilon ring and the next ring down, called delta. http://photojournal.jpl... More

Earth - South America First Frame of Earth Spin Movie

Earth - South America First Frame of Earth Spin Movie

This color image of the Earth was obtained by NASA's Galileo at about 6:10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on Dec. 11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.3 million miles from the planet during the first of two Ea... More

Venus - Lada Terra Region, Venus Magellan Images

Venus - Lada Terra Region, Venus Magellan Images

This NASA Magellan radar image mosaic is of part of Venus, centered at 51 degrees south latitude, 21 degrees east longitude. Running from west to east across the center of the image is part of a wide lava chann... More

Moon - North Pole Mosaic - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images

Moon - North Pole Mosaic - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images

This view of the Moon north pole is a mosaic assembled from 18 images taken by NASA's Galileo imaging system through a green filter as the spacecraft flew by on December 7, 1992. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.g... More

Venus - Rhea Mons Volcano, Venus Magellan Images

Venus - Rhea Mons Volcano, Venus Magellan Images

Two mosaiced pieces of NASA Magellan image strips display the area east of the Rhea Mons volcano on Venus. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00208 NASA/JPL

Venus - 3-D Perspective of Golubkina Crater

Venus - 3-D Perspective of Golubkina Crater

This three dimensional representation of brightness variations in NASA Magellan radar image of Golubkina crater enhances the structural features of the crater. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00209 NASA/JPL

Venus - Multiple Views of High-level Clouds

Venus - Multiple Views of High-level Clouds

This series of pictures shows four views of the planet Venus obtained by NASA Galileo Solid State Imaging System at ranges of 1.4 to 2 million miles as the spacecraft receded from Venus. http://photojournal.jp... More

Venus - Left and Right Looking Images of Lavinia Region

Venus - Left and Right Looking Images of Lavinia Region

These two radar images from NASA Magellan spacecraft are centered about 60.5 degrees south latitude and 348.8 degrees east longitude in the eastern Lavinia Region of Venus. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cat... More

Venus - Comparison of Left and Right Looking Views of Imdr Region

Venus - Comparison of Left and Right Looking Views of Imdr Region

As NASA Magellan mission progressed, areas of Venus became accessible for a second look. During Magellan second 243-day global mapping cycle, the spacecraft was rotated 180 degrees to view the surface from the ... More

Venus - Volcano With Massive Landslides

Venus - Volcano With Massive Landslides

This is full-resolution mosaic from NASA Magellan spacecraft. The bright feature, slightly south of center is interpreted to be a volcano with a large apron of blocky debris to its right and some smaller aprons... More

Ganymede at 2.6 million miles. NASA public domain image colelction.

Ganymede at 2.6 million miles. NASA public domain image colelction.

Ganymede at 2.6 million miles http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00351 NASA/JPL

Ganymede at 87,000 miles, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

Ganymede at 87,000 miles, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

Ganymede at 87,000 miles http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00354 NASA/JPL

Venus - 3-D Perspective View of Maat Mons

Venus - 3-D Perspective View of Maat Mons

Maat Mons is displayed in this computer generated three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus. This NASA's Magellan image was released on April 22, 1992. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA0... More

Early Voyager 1 Images of Jupiter

Early Voyager 1 Images of Jupiter

These Jupiter photographs are part of a set taken by NASA Voyager 1 on December 10 and 11, 1978 from a distance of 83 million km 52 million miles or more than half the distance from the Earth to the sun. At thi... More

Jupiter Great Red Spot and South Equatorial Belt

Jupiter Great Red Spot and South Equatorial Belt

NASA Voyager 2 shows the Great Red Spot and the south equatorial belt extending into the equatorial region. At right is an interchange of material between the south equatorial belt and the equatorial zone. The ... More

Venus - Venera 8 Landing Site in Navka Region

Venus - Venera 8 Landing Site in Navka Region

This image is a mosaic of 24 orbits of the Navka region of Venus. The image is centered at about 10 degrees south latitude and 335 degrees east longitude. The image is about 400 km (240 miles) across. 'Behepa 8... More

Triton - False Color of Cantaloupe Terrain

Triton - False Color of Cantaloupe Terrain

Voyager violet, green, and ultraviolet images of Triton were map projected into cylindrical coordinates and combined to produce this false color terrain map. Several compositionally distinct terrain and geologi... More

Venus - A Large Elongated Caldera Sacajawea Patera

Venus - A Large Elongated Caldera Sacajawea Patera

This image from NASA Magellan spacecraft reveals Sacajawea Patera, a large, elongate caldera located in Western Ishtar Terra on the smooth plateau of Lakshmi Planum. NASA/JPL

Venus - Volcanic Domes on Flank of Volcanic Maat in East Ovda Region

Venus - Volcanic Domes on Flank of Volcanic Maat in East Ovda Region

This image from NASA Magellan spacecraft is from the eastern Ovda region of Venus. The image shows some small volcanic domes on the flank of the volcano Maat. NASA/JPL

Venus - Three-Dimensional Perspective View of Alpha Region

Venus - Three-Dimensional Perspective View of Alpha Region

A portion of Alpha Regio is displayed in this three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus from NASA Magellan spacecraft. In 1963, Alpha Regio was the first feature on Venus to be identified from ... More

Concentric Rings Surrounding Valhalla, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

Concentric Rings Surrounding Valhalla, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

The concentric rings surrounding Valhalla are perhaps the most distinctive geological feature on Callisto. This NASA Voyager 1 close-up shows a segment of the ridged terrain. NASA/JPL

Gaza Strip and the Mediterranean Sea from the Shuttle KidSat Camera

Gaza Strip and the Mediterranean Sea from the Shuttle KidSat Camera

This image from NASA Kidsat electronic still camera was requested by Buist Academy for the purpose of studying the coast of Israel and the Mediterranean Sea. NASA/JPL

The Centaur upper stage of the Titan IV expendable launch vehicle that will propel the Cassini spacecraft to Saturn and its moon Titan is unloaded from a jet cargo aircraft at the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS). The Titan IV is currently scheduled to lift off from Launch Pad 40 at CCAS on October 6. Once deployed from the Centaur upper stage, Cassini will conduct gravity-assist flybys of the planets Venus and Jupiter, then arrive at Saturn in July 2004. Once there, it will perform an orbital survey of Saturn and send the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe into the dense and seemingly Earthlike atmosphere of Titan. The Cassini project is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California KSC-97pc246

The Centaur upper stage of the Titan IV expendable launch vehicle that...

The Centaur upper stage of the Titan IV expendable launch vehicle that will propel the Cassini spacecraft to Saturn and its moon Titan is unloaded from a jet cargo aircraft at the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral A... More

Big Joe in the Chryse Planitia. NASA public domain image colelction.

Big Joe in the Chryse Planitia. NASA public domain image colelction.

Big Joe in the Chryse Planitia NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility prepare to begin prelaunch processing of the Huygens probe, which will study the clouds, atmosphere and surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, as part of the Cassini mission to Saturn. The probe was designed and developed for the European Space Agency (ESA) by a European industrial consortium led by Aerospatiale as prime contractor. Over the past year, it was integrated and tested at the facilities of Daimler Benz Aerospace Dornier Satellitensysteme in Germany. The probe will be mated to the Cassini orbiter, which was designed and assembled at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. The Cassini launch is targeted for October 6 from CCAS aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur expendable launch vehicle. After arrival at Saturn in 2004, the probe will be released from the Cassini orbiter to slowly descend through the Titan atmosphere to the moon's surface KSC-97pc609

Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility prepare to begin p...

Workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility prepare to begin prelaunch processing of the Huygens probe, which will study the clouds, atmosphere and surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, as part of th... More

Large Boulders at Landing Site. NASA public domain image colelction.

Large Boulders at Landing Site. NASA public domain image colelction.

Large boulders are visible in this enlargement of pictures taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) lander camera on July 4, 1997. The landing site is in the dry flood channel named Ares Valles. The boulde... More

Airbags and Sojourner Rover, Mars Pathfinder Images

Airbags and Sojourner Rover, Mars Pathfinder Images

This image from the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) camera shows the rear part of the Sojourner rover, the rolled-up rear ramp, and portions of the partially deflated airbags. The Alpha Proton X-ray Spectromet... More

Rover, Airbags, & Surrounding Rocks, Mars Pathfinder Images

Rover, Airbags, & Surrounding Rocks, Mars Pathfinder Images

This image of the Martian surface was taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) before sunset on July 4, 1997 (Sol 1), the spacecraft's first day on Mars. The airbags have been partially retracted, and port... More

Rover Touchdown on Martian Surface

Rover Touchdown on Martian Surface

This picture taken by the IMP (Imager for Mars Pathfinder) aboard the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft depicts the rover Sojourner's position after driving onto the Martian surface. Sojourner has become the first aut... More

Pathfinder Ramp Deploy Image, Mars Pathfinder Images

Pathfinder Ramp Deploy Image, Mars Pathfinder Images

Mars Pathfinder's forward rover ramp can be seen successfully unfurled in this image, taken at the end of Sol 2 by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP). This ramp was not used for the deployment of the microrov... More

The complete remote sensing pallet is lowered by  technicians from  the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology to  mate with the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC in  July. A four-year, close-up study of the Saturnian system, the Cassini mission is  scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral Air Station in October 1997. It will take seven  years for the spacecraft to reach Saturn. Scientific instruments carried aboard the  spacecraft will study Saturn’s atmosphere, magnetic field, rings, and several moons. JPL  is managing the Cassini project for NASA KSC-97PC1027

The complete remote sensing pallet is lowered by technicians from th...

The complete remote sensing pallet is lowered by technicians from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology to mate with the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Se... More

A Rover Wheel in Soil - Color. NASA public domain image colelction.
Sojourner APXS at Work, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner APXS at Work, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner APXS at Work NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sojourner near Barnacle, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner near Barnacle, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner near Barnacle NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Forward Ramp and Twin Peaks - 3-D

Forward Ramp and Twin Peaks - 3-D

Many prominent rocks near the Sagan Memorial Station are featured in this image, from NASA Mars Pathfinder. Flat Top and Little Flat Top are at center. 3-D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail. NASA/JPL

Sojourner, Barnacle Bill, Yogi, & Couch

Sojourner, Barnacle Bill, Yogi, & Couch

This area of terrain near the Sagan Memorial Station was taken by NASA Mars Pathfinder. The curved rock dubbed Couch. 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail. NASA/JPL

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers Dan  Maynard and John Shuping prepare to install a radioisotope thermoelectric generator  (RTG) on the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF).  The three RTGs which will provide electrical power to Cassini on its mission to the  Saturnian system are undergoing mechanical and electrical verification testing in the  PHSF. RTGs use heat from the natural decay of plutonium to generate electric power.  The generators enable spacecraft to operate far from the Sun where solar power  systems are not feasible. The Cassini mission is scheduled for an Oct. 6 launch aboard  a Titan IVB/Centaur expendable launch vehicle. Cassini is built and managed for NASA  by JPL KSC-97PC1068

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers Dan Maynard and John Shuping ...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers Dan Maynard and John Shuping prepare to install a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) on the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHS... More

Flight mechanics from NASA’s Jet Propulsion  Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., lower the Cassini spacecraft onto its launch vehicle  adapter in KSC’s  Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The adapter will later be mated  to a Titan IV/Centaur expendable launch vehicle that will lift Cassini into space.  Scheduled for launch in October, the Cassini mission, a joint US-European four-year  orbital surveillance of Saturn's atmosphere and magnetosphere, its rings, and its moons,  seeks insight into the origins and evolution of the early solar system. It will take seven  years for the spacecraft to reach Saturn. JPL is managing the Cassini project for NASA KSC-97PC1110

Flight mechanics from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasad...

Flight mechanics from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., lower the Cassini spacecraft onto its launch vehicle adapter in KSC’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The adapter will ... More

Diversity of Soils near Rover Deploy Region

Diversity of Soils near Rover Deploy Region

Diversity of Soils near Rover Deploy Region NASA/JPL/Johns Hopkins University

Three Classes of Martian rocks. NASA public domain image colelction.

Three Classes of Martian rocks. NASA public domain image colelction.

Three Classes of Martian rocks NASA/JPL/Johns Hopkins University Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sojourner at "Mermaid Dune", Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner at "Mermaid Dune", Mars Pathfinder Images

This is an image of the rover Sojourner at the feature called Mermaid Dune at the MPF landing site. Mermaid is thought to be a low, transverse dune ridge, with its long (approximately 2 meters) axis transverse ... More

Diverse Rock Named Squash, Mars Pathfinder Images

Diverse Rock Named Squash, Mars Pathfinder Images

Diverse Rock Named Squash NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Atmospheric Pressure During Landing, Mars Pathfinder Images

Atmospheric Pressure During Landing, Mars Pathfinder Images

Atmospheric Pressure During Landing NASA/JPL

Dust Devil Schematic, Mars Pathfinder Images

Dust Devil Schematic, Mars Pathfinder Images

Dust Devil Schematic NASA/JPL Public domain photograph related to NASA research activity, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sojourner at Wedge, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner at Wedge, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner at Wedge NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detail of Ganymede Uruk Sulcus Region as Viewed by Galileo and Voyager

Detail of Ganymede Uruk Sulcus Region as Viewed by Galileo and Voyager

Detail of Ganymede Uruk Sulcus Region as Viewed by Galileo and Voyager NASA/JPL

Europa Active Surface, NASA / JPL Europa Image

Europa Active Surface, NASA / JPL Europa Image

On June 27, 1996, during Galileo first orbit around Jupiter, a newly discovered impact crater could be seen just right of the center of this image of Jupiter moon Europa returned by NASA Galileo spacecraft came... More

MGS Approach Image - 172.4° W Longitude

MGS Approach Image - 172.4° W Longitude

MGS Approach Image - 172.4° W Longitude NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

The Cassini spacecraft, covered by an environmentally controlled protective enclosure, is lifted at Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS), in preparation to mate it to the top of its Titan IV/Centaur launch vehicle. Cassini is an international mission conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The two-story-tall spacecraft, scheduled for launch on Oct. 13, is destined to arrive at Saturn in July 2004, where it will orbit and study Saturn, its rings, moons and magnetic environment in detail over a four-year period. The Cassini mission is managed for NASA's Office of Space Science by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology KSC-11401f24

The Cassini spacecraft, covered by an environmentally controlled prote...

The Cassini spacecraft, covered by an environmentally controlled protective enclosure, is lifted at Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS), in preparation to mate it to the top of its Titan IV/Cen... More

New View of Twin Peaks Region. NASA public domain image colelction.

New View of Twin Peaks Region. NASA public domain image colelction.

New View of Twin Peaks Region NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sojourner Farthest Journey, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner Farthest Journey, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner Farthest Journey NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

3000 Mile Laser Altimeter Profile Across Northern Hemisphere of Mars

3000 Mile Laser Altimeter Profile Across Northern Hemisphere of Mars

3000 Mile Laser Altimeter Profile Across Northern Hemisphere of Mars NASA/JPL/GSFC

Sockets and Pebbles, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sockets and Pebbles, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sockets and Pebbles NASA/JPL/USGS

Launch of Cassini Orbiter and Huygens Probe on Titan IV

Launch of Cassini Orbiter and Huygens Probe on Titan IV

A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying NASA Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe. NASA/JPL/KSC

360-degree Color Panorama, Mars Pathfinder Images

360-degree Color Panorama, Mars Pathfinder Images

360-degree Color Panorama NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Passes

Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Passes

Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Passes NASA/JPL/GSFC

Magnetic Anomalies on Mars, NASA Mars Images

Magnetic Anomalies on Mars, NASA Mars Images

Magnetic Anomalies on Mars NASA/JPL/GSFC Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Callisto Southern Hemisphere - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images

Callisto Southern Hemisphere - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images

These views of Callisto southern hemisphere were taken by NASA Galileo spacecraft on May 6, 1997. The upper left view contains Buri, a crater with a diameter of about 60 km. NASA/JPL

TOPEX/El Niño Watch - Warm Water Pool is Increasing, Nov. 10, 1997

TOPEX/El Niño Watch - Warm Water Pool is Increasing, Nov. 10, 1997

This image of the Pacific Ocean was produced using sea surface height measurements taken by the U.S./French TOPEX/Poseidon satellite. The image shows sea surface height relative to normal ocean conditions on No... More

Ridges on Europa, NASA / JPL Europa Image

Ridges on Europa, NASA / JPL Europa Image

This view of Jupiter's moon Europa shows a portion of the surface that has been highly disrupted by fractures and ridges. This picture covers an area about 238 kilometers (150 miles) wide by 225 kilometers (140... More

Callisto Crater Chain Mosaic - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images
Jovian Lightning - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images

Jovian Lightning - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images

Jovian Lightning NASA/JPL Public domain photograph related to NASA research activity, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Regional View of Mars on Orbit 63

A Regional View of Mars on Orbit 63

A Regional View of Mars on Orbit 63 NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

MOC View of Mars98 Landing Zone - 12/24/97

MOC View of Mars98 Landing Zone - 12/24/97

MOC View of Mars98 Landing Zone - 12/24/97 NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Europa Pwyll Crater, NASA / JPL Europa Image

Europa Pwyll Crater, NASA / JPL Europa Image

Europa Pwyll Crater NASA/JPL/ASU

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