original feedSubscribe
Your search criteria found 7 images
Target is Asteroid and Comets
Go directly to image (PIxxxxxx):

Other Search Methods
Sub-select this list of images by:
Mission:
Instrument:
Click on a column heading to sort the list
Click on an image for detailed information
My
List 		Addition Date Target Mission InstrumentSort Ascending Size
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-25 Comet Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
 WISE Telescope
 640x359x3
This image shows asteroids observed so far by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. An animation is available at the Photojournal.
PIA13113:
Scanning for Asteroids and Comets Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (690.2 kB)     JPEG (16.57 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-04 Comet Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
 WISE Telescope
 568x561x3
This frame from a video demonstrates how NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer surveys asteroids and comets in the solar system. Perspective shown here is looking down from high above Earth's North Pole, a kind of bird's eye view of the solar system.
PIA13435:
Asteroid and Comet Census from WISE
Full Resolution:     TIFF (957.3 kB)     JPEG (61.23 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-05 Comet Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
 WISE Telescope
 2148x1331x3
This visitor from deep space, seen here by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, is comet Hartley 2, the destination for NASA's EPOXI mission. The comet's tail is seen here as a fuzzy streak to the right of the comet.
PIA13438:
Icy Visitor from Beyond
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.588 MB)     JPEG (446.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-01 Comet Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
 WISE Telescope
 3754x3004x3
During its one-year mission, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, mapped the entire sky in infrared light. Among the multitudes of astronomical bodies that have been discovered by the NEOWISE portion of the WISE mission are 20 comets.
PIA13457:
Comets WISE -- A Family Portrait
Full Resolution:     TIFF (33.83 MB)     JPEG (1.278 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-05 Comet Deep Impact
 Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
 786x720x1
This frame from an animation series of images of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) was taken by the Medium-Resolution Imager of NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft over a 36-hour period on Jan. 17 and 18, 2013.
PIA16748:
NASA'S Deep Impact Spacecraft Images Comet ISON Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (566.7 kB)     JPEG (54.79 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-01 Comet 720x573x3
It Happens in a Flash
PIA02108:
It Happens in a Flash
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.239 MB)     JPEG (46.81 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-01 Comet Spitzer Space Telescope
 646x486x3
This artist's animation depicts one of the most widely accepted theories pertaining to the origin of comets. This image is courtesy of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
PIA02107:
Genesis of a Comet (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (943.1 kB)     JPEG (30.67 kB)
Currently displaying images: 1 - 7 of 7