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Add Image to Favorite List 1986-01-25 Miranda Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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Uranus' icy moon Miranda is seen in this image from Voyager 2 on January 24, 1986.
PIA18185:
Miranda's Icy Face
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Add Image to Favorite List 1986-12-18 Uranus Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This is an image of the planet Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986.
PIA18182:
Uranus as seen by NASA's Voyager 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 1989-10-02 Triton Voyager
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A several-kilometers-tall, geyser-like eruption of dark material is seen shooting almost straight up from the surface of Neptune's moon, Triton, in this NASA Voyager 2 image, acquired on Aug. 24, 1989, from a distance of 99,920 kilometers.
PIA14448:
Triton's Dark Plume
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Add Image to Favorite List 1989-10-27 Triton Voyager
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These three sequential images of an erupting volcano on Neptune's large moon Triton were taken by NASA's Voyager 2 as the spacecraft approach the moon on Aug. 26, 1989.
PIA14449:
Triton's Volcanic Plumes
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
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This computer generated map of Jupiter was made from 10 color images of Jupiter taken Feb. 1, 1979, by NASA's Voyager 1, during a single, 10 hour rotation of the planet.
PIA00011:
Cylindrical Projection of Jupiter
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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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.14 MB)     JPEG (74.25 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
VG Imaging Science Subsystem
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This large brown oval, photographed on Mar. 2, 1979 by NASA's Voyager 1. Features of this sort are not rare on Jupiter and have an average lifetime of one to two years. Above the feature is the pale orange North Temperate Belt.
PIA00015:
Large Brown Oval
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
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This view of the region just to the Southeast of the Great Red Spot was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on March 4, 1979 at a distance of 1,100,000 miles (1,800,000 km).
PIA00017:
Cloud Layers Southeast of the Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
Imaging Science Subsystem
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This view of the Great Red Spot is seen in greatly exaggerated color. The colors do not represent the true hues seen in the Jovian atmosphere but have been produced by special computer processing to enhance subtle variations in both color and shading.
PIA00018:
Exaggerated Color View of the Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
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This color view of the region just to the East of the Great Red Spot was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on March 4, 1979 at a distance of 1,000,000 miles (1,800,000 km).
PIA00019:
Cloud Layers East of the Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
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This view from NASA's Voyager 1 in 1979 is of the region just to the east of the Red Spot, seen in greatly exaggerated color.
PIA00020:
Exaggerated Color East of the Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Io Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This full-disk image of Jupiter's satellite Io was made from several frames taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Mar. 4, 1979, as the spacecraft neared the satellite.
PIA00023:
Io - Full Disk
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.21 MB)     JPEG (40.95 kB)
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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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Saturn Voyager
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This false-color image of Saturn's southern hemisphere taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 6, 1980, shows the unique red oval cloud feature located at 55 degrees south latitude.
PIA00025:
Saturn - False Color of Southern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Saturn Voyager
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Two brown ovals, at right, some 10,000 km (6,000 miles) across, were found at approximately 40` and 60` latitude in Saturn's northern hemisphere by NASA's Voyager 1. The photo was taken on November 7, 1980.
PIA00026:
Saturn - Brown Ovals in Northern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 U Rings Voyager
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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.
PIA00033:
Uranus Rings in False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Oberon Voyager
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Miranda Voyager
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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 1996-01-29 Titania Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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On Jan. 24, 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 returned the highest-resolution picture of Titania, Uranus' largest satellite. Abundant impact craters of many sizes pockmark the ancient surface; most prominent features are fault valleys that stretch across Titania.
PIA00039:
Titania - Highest Resolution Voyager Picture
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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These images taken by NASA's Voyager 2 show changes in the clouds around Neptune's Great Dark Spot (GDS) over a four and one-half-day period. From top to bottom the images show successive rotations of the planet an interval of about 18 hours.
PIA00045:
Neptune - Changes in Great Dark Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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The bright cirrus-like clouds of Neptune change rapidly, often forming and dissipating over periods of several to tens of hours as seen in this sequence spanning two rotations of Neptune (about 36 hours) by NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA00047:
Neptune - Changes in Great Dark Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 N Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Wide Angle
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In this image from NASA's Voyager wide-angle image taken on Aug. 23 1989, the two main rings of Neptune can be clearly seen. In the lower part of the frame the originally announced ring arc, consisting of three distinct features, is visible.
PIA00053:
Neptune Rings and 1989N2
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Nereid Voyager
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Nereid, the last satellite of Neptune to be discovered before NASA's Voyager's discoveries in 1989, was first seen by Gerard Kuiper in 1949.
PIA00054:
Nereid
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this image of Neptune's irregularly-shaped satellite 1989N1 from a range of 870,000 kilometers (540,000 miles).
PIA00055:
1989N1
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Triton Voyager
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This is one of the most detailed views of the surface of Triton taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on its flyby of the large satellite of Neptune early in the morning of Aug. 25, 1989. The picture was stored on the tape recorder and relayed to Earth later.
PIA00061:
Triton High Resolution View of Northern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This image of Neptune's satellite 1989N1 was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 25, 1989 from a range of 146,000 kilometers (91,000 miles).
PIA00062:
1989N1 Surface Detail
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This bulls-eye view of Neptune's small dark spot (D2) was obtained by NASA' s Voyager 2's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 24, 1989, when Voyager 2 was within 1.1 million km (680,000 miles) of the planet.
PIA00064:
Neptune's Dark Spot (D2) at High Resolution
Full Resolution:     TIFF (499.8 kB)     JPEG (135.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Miranda Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image of the Uranian moon, Miranda, was taken Jan 24, 1986 by NASA's Voyager 2. This image reveals a bewildering variety of fractures, grooves and craters, as well as features of different albedos (reflectancea).
PIA00140:
Miranda Fractures, Grooves and Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Miranda Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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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 style are evident.
PIA00141:
Miranda's Geologic History (Variety of Terrain)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 U Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Wide Angle
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This image captured by NASA's Voyager 2 in 1986 revealed a continuous distribution of small particles throughout the Uranus ring system. This unique geometry, the highest phase angle at which Voyager imaged the rings, allowed us to see lanes of fine dust.
PIA00142:
Uranus Ring System
Full Resolution:     TIFF (147.9 kB)     JPEG (168.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Saturn Voyager
VG Imaging Science Subsystem
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'true color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981. The moons Rhea and Dione appear as blue dots to the south and southeast of Saturn, respectively.
PIA00030:
Saturn With Rhea and Dione (True Color)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.305 MB)     JPEG (35.65 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Titania Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This high-resolution color composite of Titania was made from NASA's Voyager 2 images taken Jan. 24, 1986, as the spacecraft neared its closest approach to Uranus. A large, trenchlike feature is seen near the terminator.
PIA00036:
Titania High-Resolution Color Composite
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.017 MB)     JPEG (24.12 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 U Rings Voyager
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On Jan. 23, 1986, NASA's 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.
PIA00035:
Uranus' Tenth Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Ariel Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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On Jan. 24, 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 obtained this color picture of the Uranian moon, Ariel. Most of the visible surface consists of relatively intensely cratered terrain transected by fault scarps and fault-bounded valleys (graben).
PIA00041:
Ariel - Highest Resolution Color Picture
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.506 MB)     JPEG (45.92 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Miranda Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image of Miranda, Uranus' moon, was acquired by NASA's Voyager 2 on Jan. 24, 1986. Miranda displays a dramatically varied surface. Well shown are numerous ridges and valleys -- a topography that was probably produced by compressional tectonics.
PIA00044:
Miranda High Resolution of Large Fault
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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During August 16 and 17, 1989, the Voyager 2 narrow-angle camera was used to photograph Neptune almost continuously, recording approximately two and one-half rotations of the planet.
PIA00046:
Neptune Full Disk
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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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 NASA's Voyager narrow angle camera.
PIA00048:
Neptune - Great Dark Spot and Scooter
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.924 MB)     JPEG (55.04 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This photograph of Neptune's southern hemisphere was taken by the narrow-angle camera on NASA's Voyager 2 when the spacecraft was 4.2 million km (2.6 million miles) from the planet.
PIA00050:
Neptune's Southern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
VG ISS - Wide Angle
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In this false color image of Neptune, objects that are deep in the atmosphere are blue, while those at higher altitudes are white. The image was taken by Voyager 2's wide-angle camera through an orange filter and two different methane filters.
PIA00051:
Neptune in False Color
Full Resolution:     TIFF (352 kB)     JPEG (20.01 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This false color photograph of Neptune was made from Voyager 2 images taken through three filters: blue, green, and a filter that passes light at a wavelength that is absorbed by methane gas.
PIA00057:
Neptune False Color Image of Haze
Full Resolution:     TIFF (267.8 kB)     JPEG (25.29 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 captured this high resolution color image, taken 2 hours before closest approach, providing obvious evidence of vertical relief in Neptune's bright cloud streaks.
PIA00058:
Neptune Clouds Showing Vertical Relief
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
VG ISS - Wide Angle
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This image of the blue-hued Neptune was taken by NASA's Voyager 2; small trails of similar clouds trending east to west and large scale structure east of the Great Dark Spot all suggest that waves are present in the atmosphere and play a large role.
PIA00063:
Neptune - True Color of Clouds
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.472 MB)     JPEG (56.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Ganymede Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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The hemisphere of Ganymede that faces away from the Sun displays a great variety of terrain in this mosaic from NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA00081:
Ganymede Mosaic
Full Resolution:     TIFF (9.883 MB)     JPEG (445.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Uranus Voyager
VG ISS - Wide Angle
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This view of pale blue-green Uranus was recorded by NASA's Voyager 2 on Jan 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet behind. The thin crescent of Uranus is seen here between the spacecraft, the planet and the Sun.
PIA00143:
Uranus - Final Image
Full Resolution:     TIFF (788.1 kB)     JPEG (21.25 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter and two of its satellites (Io, left, and Europa) on Feb. 13, 1979. Io is above Jupiter's Great Red Spot; Europa is above Jupiter's clouds. The poles are dark and reddish.
PIA00144:
Jupiter with Satellites Io and Europa
Full Resolution:     TIFF (821.7 kB)     JPEG (31.32 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-31 Umbriel Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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The southern hemisphere of Umbriel displays heavy cratering in this NASA Voyager 2 image, taken Jan. 24, 1986. This frame is the most detailed image of Umbriel, the darkest of Uranus' larger moons.
PIA00040:
Umbriel at Closest Approach
Full Resolution:     TIFF (34.1 kB)     JPEG (7.48 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-02-01 Jupiter Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This dramatic view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its surroundings was obtained by NASA's Voyager 1 on Feb. 25, 1979. The colorful, wavy cloud pattern to the left of the Red Spot is a region of extraordinarily complex end variable wave motion.
PIA00014:
Jupiter Great Red Spot
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.502 MB)     JPEG (56.12 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-03-13 Jupiter Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter Feb. 1, 1979. Voyager scientists saw that different colors in clouds around the Great Red Spot imply that the clouds swirl around the spot at varying altitudes.
PIA00235:
Jupiter with Satellite Io
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.226 MB)     JPEG (37.26 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-06-03 Io Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 image of Io showing active plume of Loki on limb. Heart-shaped feature southeast of Loki consists of fallout deposits from active plume Pele.
PIA00010:
Io with Loki Plume on Bright Limb
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.65 MB)     JPEG (50.29 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-07-17 Ganymede Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This photo of Ganymede, largest of Jupiter's Galilean satellites and the third from the planet, was taken shortly after midnight March 1, 1979 by NASA's Voyager 1 from a distance of 2.6 million miles (4.2 million kilometers).
PIA00351:
Ganymede at 2.6 million miles
Full Resolution:     TIFF (33.81 kB)     JPEG (4.17 kB)
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VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This color picture of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest satellite, was taken on the afternoon of March 2, 1979, by NASA's Voyager 1 from a distance of about 3.4 million kilometers (2.1 million miles).
PIA00352:
Ganymede at 3.4 million miles
Full Resolution:     TIFF (133.4 kB)     JPEG (5.592 kB)
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VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This picture of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest satellite was taken on the afternoon of March 5, 1979 by NASA's Voyager 1 from a range 145,000 km (87,000 mi).
PIA00354:
Ganymede at 87,000 miles
Full Resolution:     TIFF (218.7 kB)     JPEG (115.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-08-01 Jupiter Voyager
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This photo of Jupiter's Great Red Spot was taken by Voyager 1 in early March 1979.
PIA00022:
Jupiter Great Red Spot Mosaic
Full Resolution:     TIFF (10.08 MB)     JPEG (324 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-08-01 Uranus Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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These two images of Uranus, one in true color and the other in false color, were compiled from images returned in 1986, by the narrow-angle camera of NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA00032:
Uranus in True and False Color
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.847 MB)     JPEG (99.59 kB)
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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.831 MB)     JPEG (294.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-08-09 Europa Voyager
Near Infrared Camera
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Europa looks like a cracked egg in this computer mosaic of the best of NASA's Voyager 2 images.
PIA00366:
Europa - Mosaic
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.213 MB)     JPEG (223.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-08-09 Europa Voyager
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This picture of Europa, the smallest Galilean satellite, was taken in the afternoon of March 4, 1979, from a distance of about 2 million kilometers (1.2 million miles) by NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA00016:
Europa - Full Disk
Full Resolution:     TIFF (160.8 kB)     JPEG (6.943 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-08-12 Callisto Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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Callisto was revealed by NASA's Voyager cameras to be a heavily cratered and hence geologically inactive world.
PIA00080:
Callisto Mosaic
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.114 MB)     JPEG (252.5 kB)
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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (49.07 kB)     JPEG (9.171 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-12 Earth Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed 'Pale Blue Dot', is a part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA00452:
Solar System Portrait - Earth as 'Pale Blue Dot'
Full Resolution:     TIFF (698 kB)     JPEG (30.18 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-13 Sol (our sun) Voyager
VG ISS - Wide Angle
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This color image of the sun, Earth and Venus was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft Feb. 14, 1990, when it was approximately 32 degrees above the plane of the ecliptic and at a slant-range distance of approximately 4 billion miles.
PIA00450:
Solar System Portrait - View of the Sun, Earth and Venus
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.676 MB)     JPEG (515.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-13 Sol (our sun) Voyager
VG ISS - Wide Angle
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The cameras of Voyager 1 on Feb. 14, 1990, pointed back toward the sun and took a series of pictures of the sun and the planets, making the first ever 'portrait' of our solar system as seen from the outside.
PIA00451:
Solar System Portrait - 60 Frame Mosaic
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.124 MB)     JPEG (166.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-13 Earth Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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These six narrow-angle color images were made from the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by NASA's Voyager 1, which was more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic.
PIA00453:
Solar System Portrait - Views of 6 Planets
Full Resolution:     TIFF (530.3 kB)     JPEG (33.82 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Jupiter Voyager
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This mosaic of Jupiter's Great Red Spot taken by NASA's Voyager 1, shows the area around the northern boundary where a white cloud is seen which extends to east of the region.
PIA00065:
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Region
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.892 MB)     JPEG (115.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Jupiter Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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These Jupiter photographs are part of a set taken by NASA's 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.
PIA00454:
Early Voyager 1 Images of Jupiter
Full Resolution:     TIFF (491.5 kB)     JPEG (21.78 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Jupiter Voyager
Imaging Science Subsystem
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NASA'S Voyager 1 took this picture of the planet Jupiter on Jan. 6, 1979, the first in its three-month-long, close-up investigation of the largest planet.
PIA00029:
First Close-up Image of Jupiter from Voyager 1
Full Resolution:     TIFF (280.8 kB)     JPEG (10.37 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Jupiter Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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Jupiter's satellite Io poses before the giant planet in this photo returned January 17, 1979. The satellite's shadow can be seen falling on the face of Jupiter at left. Io is traveling from left to right in its orbit around Jupiter.
PIA00455:
Jupiter with Io Crossing
Full Resolution:     TIFF (412 kB)     JPEG (15.15 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Jupiter Voyager
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NASA's 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.
PIA00456:
Jupiter's Great Red Spot and South Equatorial Belt
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Callisto Voyager
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This false color picture of Callisto was taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on July 7, 1979 at a range of 1,094,666 kilometers (677,000 miles) and is centered on 11 degrees N and 171 degrees W.
PIA00457:
Callisto False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Jupiter Voyager
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This image returned NASA's Voyager 2 shows one of the long dark clouds observed in the North Equatorial Belt of Jupiter. A high, white cloud is seen moving over the darker cloud, providing an indication of the structure of the cloud layers.
PIA00458:
Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Europa Voyager
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This color image of the Jovian moon Europa was acquired by NASA's Voyager 2 during its close encounter on Jul. 9, 1979. Europa, the size of our moon, is thought to have a crust of ice perhaps 100 kilometers thick which overlies the silicate crust.
PIA00459:
Europa During Voyager 2 Closest Approach
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Triton Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 acquired this black and white image of Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, during the night of Aug. 24-25, 1989. Triton's limb cuts obliquely across the middle of the image. The field of view is about 1,000 km (600 miles) across.
PIA00056:
Triton - Detail of Dark and Light Material
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This image from NASA's Voyager 2 of the south polar terrain of Triton, was taken on Aug. 25, 1989 revealing about 50 dark plumes or 'wind streaks' on the icy surface.
PIA00059:
Triton South Polar Terrain
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This image of the south polar terrain of Triton, taken NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 25, 1989 reveals about 50 dark plumes or 'wind streaks' on the icy surface.
PIA00060:
Triton - False Color of 'Cantaloupe' Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Dione Voyager
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Many impact craters -- the record of the collision of cosmic debris -- are shown in this mosaic from NASA's Voyager 1 of Saturn's moon Dione.
PIA00028:
Dione Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-10-23 Uranus Voyager
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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.
PIA00369:
Uranus Cloud Movement
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-13 Jupiter Voyager
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This photograph of the southern hemisphere of Jupiter was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on June 25, 1979. Seen in front of the turbulent clouds of the planet is Io, the innermost of the large Galilean satellites of Jupiter.
PIA00371:
Jupiter - Io In Front of Jupiter's Turbulent Clouds
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This picture from NASA's Voyager 2 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.
PIA00372:
Jupiter - Region from the Great Red Spot to the South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-16 Io Voyager
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The detailed structure near the volcano Loki is like nothing seen elsewhere on Io. When NASA's Voyager 1 took this picture, the main eruptive activity came from the lower left of the dark linear feature (perhaps a rift) in the center.
PIA00375:
Io - Volcano Loki and Loki Patera
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This photo of a volcanic eruption on Jupiter's satellite Io (dark fountain-like feature near the limb) was taken March 4, 1979, about 12 hours before NASA's Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter.
PIA00373:
Io - Volcanic Eruption
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This photo of an active volcanic eruption on Jupiter's satellite Io was taken 1 hour, 52 minutes after the accompanying picture, late in the evening of March 4, 1979, by NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA00374:
Io - One of at Least Four Simultaneous Erupting Volcanic Eruptions
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-26 U Rings Voyager
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On Jan. 18, 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 discoverd three Uranus satellites. All three lie outside the orbits of Uranus nine known rings, the outermost of which, the epsilon ring, is seen at upper right.
PIA00368:
Uranus Satellites
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This false-color picture of Uranus, obtained by NASA's Voyager on Jan. 14, 1986, shows a discrete cloud seen as a bright streak near the planet's limb.
PIA00370:
Uranus - Discrete Cloud
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-01-09 Io Voyager
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This photo of Jupiter's satellite Io was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 about 4:30 p.m. (PST) March 2, 1979. The spacecraft was about 5 million miles (8.3 million kilometers away).
PIA00378:
Io At 5 Million Miles
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-01-09 Ganymede 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.
PIA00380:
Ganymede At 150,000 Miles
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-01-09 Io Voyager
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This dramatic view of Jupiter's satellite Io shows two simultaneously occurring volcanic eruptions, as seenby NASA's Voyager 1 on March 8, 1979, looking back 2.6 million miles (4.5 

million kilometers) at Io, three days after its historic encounter.
PIA00379:
Volcanic Eruptions on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-01-09 Callisto Voyager
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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.
PIA00484:
Concentric Rings Surrounding Valhalla
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-01-09 J Rings Voyager
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The rings of Jupiter proved to be unexpectedly bright when seen with the Sun nearly behind them. Strong forward scattering of sunlight is characteristic of small particles. This view was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA00376:
Rings of Jupiter Star Trail
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-01-09 J Rings Voyager
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The rings of Jupiter proved to be unexpectedly bright when seen with the Sun nearly behind them. Strong forward scattering of sunlight is characteristic of small particles. This view was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA00377:
Rings of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-01-09 Jupiter Voyager
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This NASA Voyager 1 image was taken of Jupiter's darkside on March 5, 1979 when the spacecraft was in Jupiter's shadow, about 6 hours after closest approach to the planet at a distance of 320,000 miles.
PIA00204:
Lights In The Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-05-24 S Rings Voyager
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This wide-angle image of Saturn's rings was taken Aug. 26 just before NASA's Voyager 2's crossing of the plane of these complex structures. The spacecraft was 103,000 kilometers (64,000 miles) from the rings when it acquired this image.
PIA00534:
Wide-Angle Image of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-09-25 Titan Voyager
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Titan, the largest of Saturn's 14 known satellites, shows little more than the upper layers of clouds covering the moon in this picture from NASA's Voyager 1, taken on November 4, 1980 at a range of 12 million kilometers (7,560,000 miles).
PIA00733:
Titan's Brighter Southern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-01-08 Neptune Voyager
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This photograph of Neptune was reconstructed from two images taken by NASA's Voyager 2. At the north (top) is the Great Dark Spot.
PIA00049:
Neptune - Great Dark Spot, Scooter, Dark Spot 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-01-08 Neptune Voyager
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This photograph of Neptune was reconstructed from two images taken by NASA's Voyager 2. At the north (top) is the Great Dark Spot, accompanied by bright, white clouds that undergo rapid changes in appearance.
PIA01142:
Neptune Scooter
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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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Io's volcanic plains are shown in NASA's Voyager 1 image mosaic which covers the area roughly from latitude 60 deg N. to latitude 60 deg S. and longitude 100-345. Numerous volcanic calderas, lava flows, and volcanic eruption plumes are visible here.
PIA00319:
Global Mercator Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Io Voyager
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A huge area of Io's volcanic plains is shown in this archival image mosaic from NASA's Voyager 1. Numerous volcanic calderas and lava flows are visible here. Loki Patera, an active lava lake, is the large shield-shaped black feature.
PIA00320:
Loki Patera
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Io Voyager
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Io's volcanic plains are shown in this image mosaic from NASA's Voyager 1. Also visible are numerous volcanic calderas and lava flows. Ra Patera with its multihued lava flows is below and right of the mosaic's center.
PIA00321:
Io, the Ra Patera, Mazda Catena, and Gibil Patera Area
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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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