My Favorite Images from the Planetary Photojoural
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Catalog # Target Mission Instrument Addition Date Size
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10560 Dione Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-01-20 641x641x1
Dione's Icy Wisps
Title:
Dione's Icy Wisps
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11591 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-09-30 727x672x1
Bright Penelope
Title:
Bright Penelope
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10099 Io New Horizons
LEISA
Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI)
2007-10-09 959x704x3
A global map of Jupiter's moon Io derived from eight images taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the New Horizons spacecraft, as it passed Jupiter on its way to Pluto in late February 2007.
Title:
Changes on Io
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11967 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
2009-03-30 1024x1024x1
Bright Soil Churned by Spirit's Sol 1861 Drive
Title:
Bright Soil Churned by Spirit's Sol 1861 Drive
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11501 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-05-27 1500x1500x1
Streaking Through the South
Title:
Streaking Through the South
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10009 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
UVIS
2007-10-09 3618x796x3
Two Ultraviolet Views of Iapetus
Title:
Two Ultraviolet Views of Iapetus
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA06666 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
C-Band Radar
X-Band Radar
2004-09-03 8200x5389x3
Southern Florida, Shaded Relief and Colored Height
Title:
Southern Florida, Shaded Relief and Colored Height
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11571 Daphnis Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-09-02 1020x1020x1
Waves in the edges of the Keeler gap in Saturn's A ring, created by the embedded moon Daphnis, show considerable complexity in this image taken as Saturn approached its August 2009 equinox.
Title:
Complex Edge Waves
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA04316 Mars Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
Imager for Mars Pathfinder
2003-03-11 768x300x1
Sol 8
Title:
Sol 8
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02136 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
Autonomous Navigation System
2005-07-05 720x540x3
This image shows how NASA's Deep Impact's impactor targeted comet Tempel 1 as the spacecraft made its final approach in the early morning hours of July 4, 2005.
Title:
A Cyber-Astronaut's Final Moves
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12310 Sol (our sun) Cassini-Huygens
Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument
2009-10-15 1280x720x3
The Bubble of Our Solar System
Title:
The Bubble of Our Solar System Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA04969 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
C-Band Radar
X-Band Radar
2004-07-13 3987x10607x3
Western Tibet, Shaded Relief with Color as Height
Title:
Western Tibet, Shaded Relief with Color as Height
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09851 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
2008-03-05 1020x1020x1
Scattered Sunlight
Title:
Scattered Sunlight
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA05077 Ganymede Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
2004-08-13 720x540x3
This mosaic of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede consists of more than 100 images acquired with NASA’s Voyager and Galileo spacecrafts, showing irregular lumps beneath the icy surface.
Title:
Lumps Within Ganymede
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00389 Mars Viking
Camera 1
1996-12-12 251x512x1
Trench Excavated By Viking 1 Surface Sampler
Title:
Trench Excavated By Viking 1 Surface Sampler
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09332 Sol (our sun) Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)
SECCHI/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
2007-04-27 1920x1080x3
NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory satellites have provided the first 3-dimensional images of the Sun. This view will aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics to improve space weather forecasting.
Title:
Left Limb of North Pole of the Sun, March 20, 2007
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12256 Spitzer Space Telescope
2009-10-07 3000x2400x3
This artist's conception shows a nearly invisible ring around Saturn -- the largest of the giant planet's many rings. It was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Title:
The King of Rings (Artist Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10115 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
Ultraviolet/Visible Camera
2007-11-14 1122x1122x3
NGC 4569
Title:
NGC 4569
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01661 Europa Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
1999-01-18 988x900x1
Large Impact Structures on Europa
Title:
Large Impact Structures on Europa
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00369 Uranus Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
1996-10-23 506x958x1
These time-lapse images of Uranus. taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on Jan. 14, 1986, show the movement of two small, bright, streaky clouds -- the first such features ever seen on the planet.
Title:
Uranus Cloud Movement
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09917 Dione Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
2008-06-05 1020x1020x1
Raging Planet
Title:
Raging Planet
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09342 Jupiter New Horizons
LORRI
2007-05-01 3000x2025x1
Jupiter's Rings: Sharpest View
Title:
Jupiter's Rings: Sharpest View
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12226 Moon Chandrayaan-1
Moon Mineralogy Mapper
2009-09-24 630x390x3
Water Around a Fresh Crater
Title:
Water Around a Fresh Crater
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02405 Mars Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
Imager for Mars Pathfinder
1999-09-08 7238x3135x3
Twin Peaks in Super Resolution - Left Eye
Title:
Twin Peaks in Super Resolution - Left Eye
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02246 Triton Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
2000-02-16 450x450x3
Features as small as 100 km (62 miles) across can be seen in this color image of Neptune's satellite Triton, photographed by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 20, 1989, while it was still 5.4 million km (3.3 million miles) from Neptune.
Title:
Voyager's Color Image of Triton
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11601 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-10-14 369x362x1
Smooth and Rough Enceladus
Title:
Smooth and Rough Enceladus
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00033 U Rings Voyager
1996-01-29 399x500x3
This false-color view of the rings of Uranus was made from images taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on Jan. 21, 1986. All nine known rings are visible here; the somewhat fainter, pastel lines seen between them are contributed by the computer enhancement.
Title:
Uranus Rings in False Color
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00043 Miranda Voyager
1996-08-01 2500x2200x1
This mosaic of Miranda was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 during its close flyby of the Uranian moon. Miranda exhibits varied geologic provinces where ridges and valleys of one province are cut off against the boundary of the next province.
Title:
Miranda - High Resolution Mosaic
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00098 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
1998-06-03 723x425x1
Close-up view of Yavine Corona
Title:
Close-up view of Yavine Corona
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12001 Spitzer Space Telescope
IRAC
2009-04-30 1750x940x3
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy NGC 2841, located about 46 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy is helping astronomers solve one of the oldest puzzles in astronomy.
Title:
Why Are Galaxies So Smooth?
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09756 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2007-10-24 266x269x1
Flyby Follow-up
Title:
Flyby Follow-up
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02858 Io Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
2000-12-19 260x260x1
Jupiter-shine' on Io
Title:
Jupiter-shine' on Io Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00078 Gaspra Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
1996-01-29 1200x1050x1
Gaspra, Deimos, and Phobos Comparison
Title:
Gaspra, Deimos, and Phobos Comparison
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12091 Earth Terra
ASTER
2009-06-29 1488x1493x3
Death Valley, Calif., has the lowest point in North America, Badwater at 85.5 meters (282 feet) below sea level. It is also the driest and hottest location in North America. This image is from NASA' Terra spacecraft.
Title:
Death Valley, California
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12147 Jupiter IRTF
2009-07-20 806x1450x1
This image shows a large impact shown on the bottom left on Jupiter's south polar region captured on July 20, 2009, by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Title:
Jupiter Impact Scar
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10591 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
2009-03-04 1014x1014x1
Southern Storms
Title:
Southern Storms
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01333 Phobos Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
2000-09-16 683x1000x1
High-Resolution MOC Image of Phobos
Title:
High-Resolution MOC Image of Phobos
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02578 Ganymede Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
2000-12-16 1228x512x3
Bright-Dark terrain boundary in stereo
Title:
Bright-Dark terrain boundary in stereo
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11976 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
2009-04-05 4000x4000x1
Time for a Change; Spirit's View on Sol 1843 (Vertical)
Title:
Time for a Change; Spirit's View on Sol 1843 (Vertical)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11510 Dione Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-06-09 549x549x1
Down Dione Way
Title:
Down Dione Way
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11560 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-08-18 1500x1500x1
The Cassini spacecraft charts a quartet of dark albedo features on the moon Titan. From upper left to lower right of the image are Fenzal, Aztlan, Aaru and Senkyo.
Title:
Low Albedo Foursome
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02127 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS)
2005-07-04 500x500x1
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Title:
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00997 Phobos Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
Imager for Mars Pathfinder
1997-11-04 384x384x1
Phobos
Title:
Phobos
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11996 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
2009-04-23 1024x1024x1
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its navigation camera to capture this view of the terrain toward the southeast from the location Spirit reached on the 1,871st Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (April 8, 2009).
Title:
'Von Braun' Mound in Spirit's Drive Direction
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11456 Dione Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-03-25 432x432x1
Dione's Pockmarked Side
Title:
Dione's Pockmarked Side
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11830 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
2009-03-24 2748x1750x3
Ganesa Macula
Title:
Ganesa Macula Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11580 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-09-15 640x632x1
Two sources of light illuminate the textured surface of the moon Enceladus in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow angle camera.
Title:
Twice-Lit Moon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02652 Mars Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
Imager for Mars Pathfinder
2000-09-05 4096x4096x3
Mars Pathfinder
Title:
Mars Pathfinder "Filled Donut" Mosaic
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11215 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
2008-10-13 1034x1034x3
Infrared Movie of Saturn's North Polar Region
Title:
Infrared Movie of Saturn's North Polar Region Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10599 Janus Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-03-16 448x448x1
Two-Faced Janus
Title:
Two-Faced Janus
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11137 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
2008-12-15 640x479x1
Reconstructing the Past on Enceladus
Title:
Reconstructing the Past on Enceladus Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01578 Mars Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
Rover Cameras
1999-07-02 416x343x1
Close-up View of Chimp - Left Eye
Title:
Close-up View of Chimp - Left Eye
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12099 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
2009-06-30 1856x1371x3
Rover team members Kim Lichtenberg (left) and Mike Seibert fill a mixer 
with powdered clay and diatomaceous earth, a combination found to offer 
physical properties similar to the soil where NASA's rover Spirit is embedded on Mars.
Title:
Preparing a Test Mixture
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02500 Europa Galileo
Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
1999-09-30 837x796x3
Frozen sulfuric acid on Jupiter's moon Europa is depicted in this image produced from data gathered by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The brightest areas, where the yellow is most intense, represent regions of high frozen sulfuric acid concentration.
Title:
Sulfuric Acid on Europa
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11147 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
2009-01-29 1950x1935x1
Changes in Titan's Lakes
Title:
Changes in Titan's Lakes
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12009 Moon Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)
2009-05-18 6000x4000x3
The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission utilizes the technique of twin spacecraft flying in formation with a known altitude above the lunar surface and known separation distance to investigate the gravity field of the moon.
Title:
GRAIL's Twin Spacecraft fly in Tandem Around the Moon (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02590 Europa Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
2001-06-22 536x900x3
Europa's Frozen Surface
Title:
Europa's Frozen Surface
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02205 Neptune Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
1999-08-08 400x318x1
NASA's Voyager 2 obtained these images of satellite 1989N2 and revealed it to be and irregularly shaped, dark object. The satellite appeared to have several craters. The irregular outline suggests that this moon has remained cold and rigid throughout much
Title:
Neptune
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12079 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System - Wide Angle
2009-06-16 672x653x3
On Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER shows the smooth floor of Titian is a brighter orange color than the surrounding area, likely due to being filled with volcanic material. Ejecta from Titian appears blue.
Title:
Colors Reveal What Lies Beneath
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00090 Moon DSPSE
Ultraviolet/Visible Camera
1998-06-03 4316x4299x3
Multispectral Mosaic of the Aristarchus Crater and Plateau
Title:
Multispectral Mosaic of the Aristarchus Crater and Plateau
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02275 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
2000-05-23 707x730x1
Saturn's rings - high resolution
Title:
Saturn's rings - high resolution
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA08380 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2007-10-09 3767x2177x1
The Transition Zone
Title:
The Transition Zone
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11588 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
2009-09-25 1016x1016x1
The shadow of the moon Enceladus appears on Saturn just south of the thin shadow of the planet's rings in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Title:
Shadow South of Another
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01622 J Rings Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
1998-09-15 1078x636x1
Jupiter's Main Ring and Halo
Title:
Jupiter's Main Ring and Halo
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00569 Mars Viking
Camera 2
1997-02-28 457x350x3
Bright Summer Afternoon on the Mars Utopian Planitia
Title:
Bright Summer Afternoon on the Mars Utopian Planitia
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11838 Titan Cassini-Huygens
2009-03-24 4240x3300x3
Rainy Day at Hotei Arcus (Artist's Concept)
Title:
Rainy Day at Hotei Arcus (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09247 Jupiter New Horizons
LORRI
2007-04-02 1740x1940x1
The Little Red Spot: Closest View Yet
Title:
The Little Red Spot: Closest View Yet
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12323 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Thermal Emission Imaging System
2009-10-23 1266x3013x1
Terra Cimmeria Dunes (VIS)
Title:
Terra Cimmeria Dunes (VIS)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11568 Janus Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
2009-08-28 1020x1020x1
The shadow of the moon Janus crosses the Encke Gap as it strikes the plane of Saturn's rings in this image taken as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox.
Title:
Shadow Crosses a Gap
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA03214 Ganymede Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
2001-03-13 1078x636x3
Sippar Sulcus, Ganymede
Title:
Sippar Sulcus, Ganymede
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12285 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System - Narrow Angle
2009-10-12 720x1400x1
Look Back -- Look Ahead
Title:
Look Back -- Look Ahead
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09237 Jupiter New Horizons
LORRI
2007-04-02 850x512x1
Ganymede's Shadow
Title:
Ganymede's Shadow
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10010 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
2007-10-09 1743x708x3
Tiny Grains on Iapetus
Title:
Tiny Grains on Iapetus
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11518 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
2009-06-19 829x719x3
From Rings to Planet
Title:
From Rings to Planet
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01669 Europa Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
1999-01-18 1192x1636x3
Model of Europa's Subsurface Structure
Title:
Model of Europa's Subsurface Structure
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00361 Io Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
1999-08-31 619x721x3
Io Surface Deposits and Volcano
Title:
Io Surface Deposits and Volcano
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09579 Messier 81 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
GALEX Telescope
Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)
Visible Light
2007-06-01 3180x2456x3
The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this new composite from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
Title:
M81 Galaxy is Pretty in Pink
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11465 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-04-07 834x834x1
Rhea's Real Big Rays
Title:
Rhea's Real Big Rays
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00311 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
1998-06-04 2100x900x3
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows the boundary between the lowland plains and characteristic Venusian highland terrain in Ovda Region.
Title:
Magellan's Perspective View of Ovda Regio, 0° S, 129° E
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11380 Mars Phoenix
Surface Stereo Imager (SSI)
2008-10-29 1024x1024x3
The Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander took this anaglyph on Oct. 21, 2008; the trench on the upper left is called 'Upper Cupboard.' 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
Title:
Phoenix Deepens Trenches on Mars (3D)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11485 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
2009-05-05 971x971x1
Hazy Halo
Title:
Hazy Halo
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11523 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
2009-06-26 979x979x1
The shadow of the moon Tethys is revealed on Saturn's B and C rings in this image which also includes the planet.
Title:
Exposing a Shadow
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11893 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Thermal Emission Imaging System
2009-06-25 1310x2797x1
This 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS VIS image of the western portion of Sirenum Fossae shows mesa formation.
Title:
Sirenum Fossae
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02114 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
2005-07-01 512x512x1
Less Than Three Days Away!
Title:
Less Than Three Days Away!
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11553 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-08-07 1018x714x1
The moon Prometheus casts a shadow on the thin F ring marked with streamer-channels created by the moon in this image taken as Saturn approaches its August 2009 equinox.
Title:
Shadow and Streamer-channels
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09653 NGC 362 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
Far-ultraviolet Detector
Near-ultraviolet Detector
2007-06-20 2250x2550x3
Galaxy Evolution Explorer Spies Band of Stars
Title:
Galaxy Evolution Explorer Spies Band of Stars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10474 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2008-09-22 585x579x1
The sun's low angle near the terminator highlights the topography of 
craters within Rhea's wispy terrain
Title:
Rhea's Roughness
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10391 Hubble Space Telescope
Wide Field Planetary Camera 2
2008-04-24 2371x2371x3
Interacting Galaxies
Title:
Interacting Galaxies
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12174 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
2009-08-19 3000x1800x3
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory combined data making this diagram illustratrating the extent to which astronomers have been underestimating the proportion of small to big stars in certain galaxies.
Title:
Adding up Stars in a Galaxy
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10237 Abell 1689 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
Advanced Camera for Surveys
Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)
NICMOS
2008-02-12 3813x3367x3
A massive cluster of yellowish galaxies is seemingly caught in a spider web of eerily distorted background galaxies in the left-hand image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Title:
Astronomers Uncover One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10494 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2008-10-20 1017x1018x3
The Cassini spacecraft looks toward Rhea's cratered, icy landscape with the dark line of Saturn's ringplane and the planet's murky atmosphere as a background. Rhea is Saturn's second-largest moon, at 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across.
Title:
Icy Profile
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12042 Mercury MESSENGER
Mercury Dual Imaging System - Narrow Angle
2009-03-31 1018x1025x1
Raditladi basin, imaged during MESSENGER's first Mercury flyby and named 
in April 2008, is intriguing for several reasons.
Title:
The Curious Case of Raditladi Basin
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11609 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2009-10-26 1016x1016x1
NASA's Cassini Orbiter captures a far-off view of the two-toned surface of Saturn's moon, Iapetus.
Title:
Shadow and a Wave
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10532 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2008-12-11 994x1015x1
Prometheus Lurking in the Rings
Title:
Prometheus Lurking in the Rings
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09765 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
2007-11-06 996x560x1
Darkside Beauty
Title:
Darkside Beauty
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12032 Dawn
2009-05-29 1200x675x3
Artist's concept of Dawn spacecraft leaving Earth.
Title:
Dawn Spacecraft Leaving Earth (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10371 Phobos Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
2008-04-09 1952x1442x3
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took two images of the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, within 10 minutes of each other on March 23, 2008. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
Title:
Phobos in Stereo
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10542 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
2008-12-25 582x582x1
Where Have All the Shadows Gone?
Title:
Where Have All the Shadows Gone?
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00157 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
1998-06-04 4064x4064x3
The hemispheric view of Venus, as revealed by more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in NASA's 1990-1994 Magellan mission, is centered at 0 degrees east longitude.
Title:
Hemispheric View of Venus Centered at 0 Degrees East Longitude
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02581 Ganymede Galileo
Solid-State Imaging
2000-12-16 3328x2330x1
Not-so-smooth bright terrain of Harpagia Sulcus
Title:
Not-so-smooth bright terrain of Harpagia Sulcus
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12018 Dawn
2009-05-29 2000x3008x3
Dawn Spacecraft Ready for Payload Fairing Installation
Title:
Dawn Spacecraft Ready for Payload Fairing Installation
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02214 Triton Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
1999-08-20 424x499x3
This false color image of Triton is a composite of images taken through the violet, green and ultraviolet filters. The image was taken early on Aug. 25, 1989 when Voyager 2 was about 190,000 kilometers (118,000 miles) from Triton's surface.
Title:
Triton