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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Io Voyager
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These photos of the four Galilean satellites of Jupiter were taken by NASA's Voyager 1 during its approach to the planet in early March 1979. Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto are shown in their correct relative sizes.
PIA00012:
Galilean Satellites
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-08-29 Earth Voyager
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This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by NASA's Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth.
PIA00013:
Crescent Earth and Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn and two of its moons, Tethys (above) and Dione, were photographed by NASA's Voyager 1 on November 3, 1980, from 13 million kilometers (8 million miles).
PIA00024:
Saturn With Tethys and Dione
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This image of Oberon, Uranus' outermost moon, was captured by NASA's Voyager 2 on Jan. 24, 1986. Clearly visible are several large impact craters in Oberon's icy surface surrounded by bright rays.
PIA00034:
Oberon at Voyager Closest Approach
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This image of Miranda, obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on approach in 1986, shows an unusual 'chevron' figure and regions of distinctly differing terrain on the Uranian moon.
PIA00038:
Miranda - 'Chevron' Grooves
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-08-01 Miranda Voyager
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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.
PIA00043:
Miranda - High Resolution Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-19 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, is of the northern half of Mercury's Shakespeare Quadrangle.
PIA00066:
Mercury: Photomosaic of the Shakespeare Quadrangle (Northern Half) H-3
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-23 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This computer generated photomosaic from NASA's Mariner 10 is of the southern half of Mercury's Shakespeare Quadrangle, named for the ancient Shakespeare crater located on the upper edge to the left of center.
PIA00067:
Mercury: Photomosaic of the Shakespeare Quadrangle of Mercury (Southern Half) H-3
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Triton Voyager
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This global color mosaic of Triton, taken in 1989 by NASA's Voyager 2 shows Triton, the largest satellite of Neptune. Triton has the coldest surface known anywhere in the solar system; it is so cold that most of Triton's nitrogen is condensed as frost.
PIA00317:
Global Color Mosaic of Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Io Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 computer color mosaics, shown in approximately natural color and in Lambertian equal-area projections, show the Eastern (left) and Western (right) hemispheres of Io.
PIA00318:
Io Shown in Lambertian Equal Area Projection and in Approximately Natural Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Io Voyager
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The eruption of Pele on Jupiter's moon Io. The volcanic plume rises 300 kilometers above the surface in an umbrella-like shape. This image is from NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA00323:
Eruption of Pele
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Triton Voyager
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This computer generated montage created from images obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 shows Neptune as it would appear from a spacecraft approaching Triton, Neptune's largest moon at 2706 km (1683 mi) in diameter.
PIA00340:
Montage of Neptune and Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Saturn Voyager
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This enhanced-color picture from NASA's Voyager shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Tethys, Dione, and Rhea are visible against the darkness of space, and another smaller satellite (Mimas) is visible against Saturn's cloud tops.
PIA00349:
Saturn and 4 Icy Moons, Enhanced Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Saturn Voyager
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This approximate natural-color image from NASA's Voyager 2 shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Three satellites Tethys, Dione, and Rhea are visible against the darkness of space.
PIA00400:
Saturn and 4 Icy Moons in Natural Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Moon Galileo
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During its flight, the Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Moon. The Galileo spacecraft surveyed the Moon on December 7, 1992, on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-1997. Seen here at left is part of the north pole.
PIA00404:
Moon - North Polar Mosaic, Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Moon Galileo
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NASA's Galileo spacecraft took this image of Earth's moon on December 7, 1992 on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-97. The distinct bright ray crater at the bottom of the image is the Tycho impact basin.
PIA00405:
Earth's Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-27 Toutatis 4096x3072x3
This computer generated image depicts a view of Earth as seen from the surface of the asteroid Toutatis on Nov 29th 1996. A 2.5 degree field-of-view synthetic computer camera was used for this simulation.
PIA00515:
Computer Generated View of Earth as seen from the Asteroid Toutatis
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-12-16 Ganymede Galileo
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NASA's Voyager images were used to create a global view of Ganymede. The cut-out reveals the interior structure of this icy moon.
PIA00519:
Ganymede G1 & G2 Encounters - Interior of Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-01-15 1930x2440x3
This is a montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top to bottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
PIA00545:
Solar System Montage
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-10-23 Earth Cassini-Huygens
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This image from 1997 is of the Titan IVB/Centaur carrying NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Station, the Mobile Service Tower has been retracted away.
PIA00747:
Cassini Orbiter and Huygens Probe aboard the Titan IV
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-10-23 Earth Cassini-Huygens
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A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn began on Oct. 15, 1997 with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying NASA's Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe.
PIA00748:
Launch of Cassini Orbiter and Huygens Probe on Titan IV
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-10-23 Earth Cassini-Huygens
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A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn began on Oct. 15, 1997 with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying NASA's Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe
PIA00749:
Launch of Cassini Orbiter and Huygens Probe on Titan IV
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-10-23 Earth Cassini-Huygens
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A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying NASA's Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe.
PIA01050:
Launch of Cassini Orbiter and Huygens Probe on Titan IV
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-10-23 Earth Cassini-Huygens
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A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying NASA's Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe.
PIA01051:
Launch of Cassini Orbiter and Huygens Probe on Titan IV
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-03 2000x2445x3
This is an updated montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top to bottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
PIA01341:
Solar System Montage (Updated)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-21 Callisto Galileo
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This artist's concept, a cutaway view of Jupiter's moon Callisto, is based on recent data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft which indicates a salty ocean may lie beneath Callisto's icy crust.
PIA01478:
Callisto Cutaway with Ocean (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Jupiter Voyager
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Jupiter and its four planet-size moons, called the Galilean satellites, were photographed in early March, 1980, by NASA's Voyager 1 and assembled into this collage. They are not to scale but are in their relative positions
PIA01481:
Jupiter System Montage
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-02 Io Voyager
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The South Polar region of Jupiter's moon Io, seen by NASA's Voyager 1 as it passed beneath in the early 1980s.
PIA01485:
South Polar Region of Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Miranda Voyager
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Uranus' moon Miranda is shown in a computer-assembled mosaic of images obtained Jan. 24, 1986, by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Miranda is the innermost and smallest of the five major Uranian satellites,
PIA01490:
South Polar View of Miranda
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Neptune Voyager
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This image was returned by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 3, 1989. The planet and its largest satellite, Triton, are captured in view; Triton appears in the lower right corner at about 5 o'clock relative to Neptune.
PIA01491:
Neptune and Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 Titan Voyager
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This photograph of Titan is from NASA's Voyager 2, taken Aug. 23, 1981 from a range of 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles), shows some detail in the cloud systems on this Saturnian moon.
PIA01532:
Titan's Cloud Systems
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 Titan Voyager
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Layers of haze covering Saturn's satellite Titan are seen in this image taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980 at a range of 22,000 kilometers (13,700 miles).
PIA01533:
Titan Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-07-02 Io Galileo
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During its 14th orbit of Jupiter in March 29, 1998, NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured an image of Jupiter's moon, Io, that has the same lighting geometry that will exist during Io's close Io flyby on October 11, 1999 (the 24th orbit).
PIA01605:
Io imaging during Galileo's 24th orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-13 Callisto Galileo
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This fascinating region of Jupiter's icy moon, Callisto, shows the transition from the inner part of an enormous impact basin, Asgard, to the outer 'surrounding plains.' Image obtained by the Solid State Imaging (SSI) system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01629:
Textured Terrain in Callisto's Asgard Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-15 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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Ancient lava flows dating back 2,000 to 15,000 years are shown in light green and red on the left side of this space radar image from NASA's Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture of the Craters of the Moon National Monument area in Idaho.
PIA01819:
Space Radar Image of Craters of the Moon, Idaho
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-01-19 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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The Kuiper Quadrangle was named in memory of Dr. Gerard Kuiper, an imaging team member, and well-known astronomer, of NASA's Mariner 10 Venus/Mercury. The Kuiper crater is seen left of center in this image.
PIA02236:
Mercury: Photomosaic of the Kuiper Quadrangle H-6
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-01-26 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, is of the Michelangelo Quadrangle, which lies in Mercury's southern polar region. The Mercurian surface is heavily marred by numerous impact craters.
PIA02237:
Mercury: Photomosaic of the Michelangelo Quadrangle H-12
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, is of the H-7 Beethoven Quadrangle, and lies in Mercury's Equatorial Mercator. NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft imaged the region during its initial flyby of the planet.
PIA02255:
Mercury: Beethoven Quadrangle, H-7
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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As NASA's Mariner 10 approached Mercury at nearly seven miles per second on March 29, 1974, its TV camera took this picture from an altitude of 35,000 kilometers (21,700 miles) The picture shows a heavily-cratered surface with many low hills.
PIA02407:
Mercury's Heavily Cratered Surface
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Cratered terrain very similar to that on the Moon is shown in this TV photo of Mercury taken by NASA's Mariner 10. Numerous small craters and linear grooves radial to the crater can be seen.
PIA02408:
Mercury's Cratered Terrain
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A fresh new crater in the center of an older crater basin is shown in this picture of the surface of Mercury taken March 29, 1974 by NASA's Mariner 10.
PIA02409:
Fresh Crater in Center of Older Crater Basin
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NASA's Mariner 10 took this picture of the densely cratered surface of Mercury when the spacecraft was 18,200 kilometers (8085 miles) from the planet on March 29, 1974.
PIA02410:
Mercury's Densely Cratered Surface
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NASA's Mariner 10 took this picture some 2 1/2 hours before it passed Mercury on March 29, 1974. The bright-floored crater is the center of a very large bright area which could be seen in pictures from more than two million miles distant
PIA02411:
Kuiper Crater
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A dark, smooth, relatively uncratered area on Mercury was photographed two hours after NASA's Mariner 10 flew by the planet. The prominent, sharp crater with a central peak is 30 kilometers (19 miles) across.
PIA02412:
Uncratered Area on Mercury
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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After passing Mercury the first time and making a trip around the Sun, NASA's Mariner 10 again flew by Mercury on Sept. 21, 1974. This encounter brought the spacecraft in front of Mercury in the southern hemisphere.
PIA02413:
Hero Rupes Scarp
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After passing Mercury the first time and making a trip around the Sun, NASA's Mariner 10 again flew by Mercury on Sept. 21, 1974. This encounter brought the spacecraft in front of Mercury in the southern hemisphere.
PIA02414:
Similarities to Lunar Highlands
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After passing Mercury the first time and making a trip around the Sun, NASA's Mariner 10 again flew by Mercury on Sept. 21, 1974. The south pole is located on the right hand edge of Chao Meng Fu crater that has only its rim sticking up into the light.
PIA02415:
Mercury's South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft was coaxed into a third and final encounter with Mercury in March of 1975. This is one of the highest resolution images of Mercury acquired by the spacecraft.
PIA02416:
High Resolution View of Mercury
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NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft was coaxed into a third and final encounter with Mercury in March of 1975. This is one of the highest resolution images of Mercury acquired by the spacecraft. The prominent scarp snaking up the image was named Discovery Rupes.
PIA02417:
Discovery Rupes Scarp
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This mosaic, made from over 140 individual TV frames taken about two hours after encounter, shows the planet Mercury as seen by NASA's Mariner 10 as it sped away from the planet on March 29, 1974.
PIA02418:
Outgoing Hemisphere
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows a crater just north of the Caloris Planitia displays interior and central peaks rising up from a hilly floor.
PIA02419:
Interior Peaks and Hilly Floored Crater
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This crater illustrates the narrow hummocky rim facies, radial ridges, and surrounding extensive field of secondary craters. This image of Mercury was taken by NASA's Mariner 10.
PIA02420:
Terraced Craters
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, is located about 500 km east of the Caloris basin and shows hummocky plains interpreted as Caloris ejecta in the upper half of the picture and smooth plains in the lower half.
PIA02421:
Hummocky and Smooth Plains
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, includes part of the floor of the Caloris basin showing the ridges and fractures.
PIA02422:
Ridges and Fractures on Floor of Caloris Basin
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The craters in this image NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft, which launched in 1974, have interior rings of mountains and ejecta deposits which are scarred by deep secondary crater chain groves.
PIA02423:
Crater Chain Groves Inside Larger Craters
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, features a 140 kilometer diameter crater and its surrounding zone of secondary craters. T
PIA02424:
Large Mercurian Crater
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows young craters superposed on smooth plains. Larger young craters have central peaks, flat floors, terraced walls, and radial ejecta deposits.
PIA02425:
Young Craters on Smooth Plains
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows that several west-facing lobate scarps occur in the hummocky plains interpreted as Caloris ejecta.
PIA02426:
Lobate Scarps within the Hummocky Plains East of Caloris Basin
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, is of the northeastern quadrant of the Caloris basin showig the smooth hills and domes between the inner and outer scarps and the well-developed radial system east of the outer scarp.
PIA02427:
Northeastern Quadrant of the Caloris Basin
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, was taken during the spacecraft's first encounter with Mercury.
PIA02428:
Lineated Terrain
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This photograph of Mercury, taken by NASA's Mariner 10, shows two prominent rayed craters. Bright halos extend as far as 2 crater diameters beyond crater rims. Individual rays extend from halo.
PIA02429:
Prominent Rayed Craters
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Antoniadi Ridge, over 450 kilometers long, runs along the right side of this acquired image during NASA's Mariner 10's first encounter with Mercury after its launch in 1974.
PIA02430:
Antoniadi Ridge
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows a broadly curved lobate scarp running from left to right in the large crater to the right of center in this image.
PIA02431:
Curved Lobate Scarp on Crater Floor
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows a scarp (upper left corner of the image) about 130 kilometers long cutting two craters (older crater is at extreme left corner, younger is diagonally below).
PIA02432:
Crater Rim Offset 10 Kilometers by Scarp
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows several scarps, which appear to be confined to crater floors. The scarp in the crater at the upper left of the image has been diverted by the central peaks.
PIA02433:
Scarps Confined to Crater Floors
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, is a high-resolution picture of a 65-kilometer diameter crater and the scarp transecting its floor.
PIA02434:
Crater Rim Offset 10 kilometers by Scarp-High Resolution
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This photograph of Mercury was taken by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft shows smooth plains areas on Mercury that are thought to be volcanic in origin with lava flows filling in heavily cratered areas.
PIA02438:
Heavily Cratered Terrain and Smooth Plain
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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Caloris Basin on Mercury, is one of the largest basins in the solar system, its diameter exceeds 1300 kilometers and is in many ways similar to the great Imbrium basin on the Moon. This image is from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974.
PIA02439:
Caloris Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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Updated calibration and subsequent mosaicing led to substantial improvements in NASA's Mariner 10 color image data; the spacecraft launched in 1974.
PIA02440:
Incoming Hemisphere - Enhanced Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-21 Earth Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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The Earth and Moon were imaged by NASA's Mariner 10, launched on November 3, 1973, from 2.6 million km while completing the first ever Earth-Moon encounter by a spacecraft capable of returning high resolution digital color image data.
PIA02441:
Earth and Moon as Viewed by Mariner 10
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-21 Moon Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This view from NASA's Mariner 10 is of eastern Mare Frigor near the center, while Mare Crisiumis the large circular feature near the lower right. The heavily cratered region shown in the top of the mosaic shows portions of the Moon not seen from the Earth
PIA02442:
Moon's North Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-01-18 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows plains filling this basin are uniformly brighter and slightly redder than the surrounding cratered terrain.
PIA02443:
Smooth Volcanic Plains
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Intercrater plains and heavily cratered terrain typical of much of Mercury outside the area affected by the formation of the Caloris basin are shown in this image taken during the NASA's Mariner 10's first encounter with Mercury in 1974.
PIA02444:
Intercrater Plains and Heavily Cratered Terrain - First Encounter
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows hilly and lineated terrain and a patch of smooth plains in a large degraded crater.
PIA02445:
Hilly and Lineated Terrain
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One of the most prominent lobate scarps (Discovery Scarp), photographed by NASA's Mariner 10 during it's first encounter with Mercury, is located at the center of this image (extending from the top to near bottom).
PIA02446:
Discovery Scarp
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This image was taken by NASA's Mariner 10 during it's first encounter with Mercury in 1974. The scarp forms a broad lobe whose southern end abuts against and follows closely the irregular contour of the crater wall.
PIA02447:
Scarps Confined to Crater Floors - High Resolution
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-17 Io Galileo
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This false-color infrared image of the Sunlit disk of Jupiter's moon Io was taken at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, a few hours after a November 25, 1999 close Io flyby by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA02522:
Earth-Based Observations of a Fire Fountain on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-17 Io Galileo
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Like a terrestrial weather map, this map made by the photopolarimeter-radiometer onboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft shows how temperatures vary across the surface of Jupiter's moon Io. In this case temperatures are due to volcanic activity, not weather.
PIA02524:
Galileo PPR Temperature Maps of Loki in October 1999
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-08-05 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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A faint double ring crater is seen at upper right in this picture of Mercury taken one hour and 40 minutes before NASA's Mariner 10's second rendezvous with the planet Sept. 21, 1975
PIA02936:
Double Ring Craters
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NASA's Mariner 10 photo reveals a heavily cratered terrain on Mercury with a prominent scrap extending several hundred kilometers across the upper left. A crater, nested in a larger crater, is at top center.
PIA02937:
Heavily Cratered Terrain at South Pole
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A field of bright rays, created by ejecta from a crater, radiating to the north (top) from off camera (lower right) is seen in this view of Mercury taken Sept. 21, 1974 by NASA's Mariner 10.
PIA02938:
Field of Bright Rays
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NASA's Mariner 10 took this picture about an hour after it passed under the South Pole of Mercury in 1974.
PIA02939:
Dark-rimmed Crater and Extensive Ejecta Blanket
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-08-05 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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One of NASA's Mariner 10's two TV cameras took this picture of a densely cratered region of Mercury on Sept. 21, 1974, 80 minutes prior to the spacecraft's second close encounter with the planet.
PIA02940:
Densely Cratered Region
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Mercury's south pole was photographed by one of NASA's Mariner 10's TV cameras; the pole is located inside the large crater on Mercury's limb (lower center).
PIA02941:
Mercury's South Pole
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Taken about 40 minutes before NASA's Mariner 10 made its close approach to Mercury on Sept. 21,1974, this picture shows a large double-ringed basin (center of picture) located in the planet's south polar region
PIA02942:
Large Double-ringed Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-08-06 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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A scarp, or cliff, extends diagonally from upper left to lower right in this picture of Mercury taken by NASA's Mariner 10. The structures are believed to be formed by the compressive forces due to crustal shortening.
PIA02943:
300 Kilometer Long Scarp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-08-05 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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During its second encounter with Mercury on Sept. 21, 1974, NASA's Mariner 10 took this picture of the planet's South Polar Region. Many of the craters have denuded rims peppered by smaller craters.
PIA02944:
Small Craters Peppering South Polar Region
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A cratered area near Mercury's South Pole was photographed by NASA's Mariner 10 during its second flyby of the planet of Sept. 21, 1974 (the spacecraft made its first encounter with Mercury on March 19, 1974).
PIA02945:
South Pole - Ridges, Scarps, Craters
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As NASA's Mariner 10 passed by Mercury on its second encounter with the planet on Sept. 21, 1974, this picture of a large circular (350 kilometer, 220 mile diameter) basin was obtained near the morning terminator.
PIA02946:
Large Circular Basin Flooded and then Cratered
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This image, from NASA's 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 basin.
PIA02947:
Intercrater Plains and Heavily Cratered Terrain
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, shows an old basin's hummocky rim is partly degraded and cratered by later events.
PIA02948:
Old Basin Filled by Smooth Plains
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This double ring basin (top center of image) was photographed during NASA's Mariner 10's second encounter and shows two craters about 30 km in diameter which have been engulfed by smooth plains on the floor of the inner ring.
PIA02949:
Small Craters Engulfed by Smooth Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-08-24 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This picture, taken only minutes after NASA's Mariner 10 made its closest approach to Mercury, is one of the highest resolution pictures obtained. Abundant craters in various stages of degradation dot the surface.
PIA02961:
Mercury at First Encounter Closest Approach
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-08-24 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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NASA's Mariner 10 shows a close-up view of one-half of a circular basin the largest observed on Mercury. Hills and valleys extend in a radial fashion outward from the main ring.
PIA02962:
Large Circular Basin - 1300-km diameter
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This solar system montage of the nine planets and four large moons of Jupiter in our solar system are set against a false-color view of the Rosette Nebula.
PIA02973:
The New Solar System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-11-04 Moon Ranger 7
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The dark flat floor of Mare Nubium on Earth's Moon dominates most of the image taken by NASA's Ranger 7 on July 31, 1964.
PIA02974:
Guericke Crater as seen by Ranger 7
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Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the Moon by aU.S. spacecraft, on 31 July 1964 at 13:09 UT (9:09 AM EDT) about 17 minutes before impacting the lunar surface.
PIA02975:
First Image of the Moon taken by a U.S. Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-11-04 Moon Surveyor 5
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Surveyor 5 image of the footpad resting in the lunar soil. The trench at right was formed by the footpad sliding during landing. Surveyor 5 landed on the Moon on 11 September 1967 at 1.41 N, 23.18E in Mare Tranquillitatis.
PIA02978:
Surveyor 5 Footpad Resting on the Lunar Soil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-01-11 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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This image, from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974, is of the southern hemisphere of Mercury.
PIA03101:
Mercury's Southern Hemisphere
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This computer photomosaic is of the Caloris Basin, the largest basin on Mercury. NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft imaged the region during its initial flyby of the planet after its launch in 1974.
PIA03102:
Mercury's Caloris Basin
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