My Favorite Images from the Planetary Photojoural
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List 		Catalog # Target Mission Instrument Addition Date Size
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA13974 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
 WISE Telescope
 2011-04-01 10300x10100x3
A rich collection of colorful astronomical objects is revealed in this picturesque image of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer; the cloud is found rising above the plane of the Milky Way in the night sky.
Title:
WISE Unveils a Treasure Trove of Beauty
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09708 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
 2007-05-23 2048x4775x1
Proposed MSL Site in West Candor
Title:
Proposed MSL Site in West Candor
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09716 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
 2007-05-30 2048x4782x1
Fans of Lava Flows on the Flanks of Olympus Mons
Title:
Fans of Lava Flows on the Flanks of Olympus Mons
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA13929 Spitzer Space Telescope
 IRAC
Visible Light
 2011-04-04 2829x1401x3
This image layout shows two views of the same baby star from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Spitzer's view shows that this star has a second, identical jet shooting off in the opposite direction of the first.
Title:
Undercover Jet Exposed
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA21149 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 CheMin
 2016-12-13 583x583x3
This graphic shows proportions of minerals identified in mudstone exposures at the 'Yellowknife Bay' location where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover first analyzed bedrock, in 2013, and at the 'Murray Buttes' area investigated in 2016.
Title:
Mineral Content Comparison at Two Gale Crater Sites
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12566 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
 2010-03-03 4583x4583x1
The northern and southern hemispheres of Saturn's moon Enceladus are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available NASA Cassini and Voyager clear-filter images.
Title:
Enceladus Polar Maps - February 2010
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02923 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
 Multi-Spectral Imager
 2000-06-10 760x838x1
This image of asteroid Eros, taken by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker on Feb. 29, 2000, shows the north polar region highlighting the major physiographic features of the northern hemisphere; the saddle seen at the bottom.
Title:
Mosaic of Eros' Northern Hemisphere
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11505 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-02 679x679x1
The huge Odysseus Crater disfigures the face of Saturn's moon Tethys in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Apr. 24, 2009.
Title:
A Little Off the Top
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA13445 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
 WISE Telescope
 2010-11-17 2618x2618x3
A colorful creature in a starry sea stands out in this image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer; infrared light that has been assigned visible colors we see with our eyes. The jellyfish-looking object is actually a very close pair of dying stars.
Title:
Cosmic Ocean Dweller
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA26094 Carbon Mapper
 Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer
 2023-09-14 3024x4032x3
An engineer prepares the imaging spectrometer instrument for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at JPL. The instrument will be part of an effort led by the nonprofit Carbon Mapper organization to collect data on greenhouse gas point-source emissions.
Title:
Imaging Spectrometer Vacuum Chamber Test
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA25785 SPHEREx
 2023-11-09 8256x5504x3
Part of one of the protective photon shields for NASA's SPHEREx telescope are shown here being assembled at Applied Aerospace Structures in Stockton, California.
Title:
SPHEREx Photon Shields Assembled
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11516 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-17 582x582x1
The Odysseus Crater dominates this view of Saturn's moon Tethys in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on May 14, 2009.
Title:
Broad Impact on Tethys
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA13551 Spitzer Space Telescope
 IRAC
 2010-10-27 3300x2550x3
An infrared photo of the Small Magellanic Cloud taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is shown in this artist's illustration; an example of a planetary nebula, and a magnified depiction of buckyballs.
Title:
Extragalactic Space Balls (Artist Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA13782 Subaru Telescope
 2011-01-12 1100x1100x3
Astronomers have discovered a massive cluster of young galaxies forming in the distant universe. The growing galactic metropolis is known as COSMOS-AzTEC3. This image was taken Japan's Subaru telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Title:
Galactic City at the Edge of the Universe
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA22473 Earth Jason-3
 2018-06-06 3300x1555x3
This image from the U.S./European Jason-3 satellite shows a comparison of sea surface height with respect to the seasonal cycle and the long-term trend between April 9 and May 9, 2018.
Title:
Downwelling Kelvin Wave in the Pacific
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11177 Sol (our sun) SDO
 Atmosphere Imaging Assembly
 2017-02-06 1500x1500x3
Between Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory saw a substantial coronal hole rotating across the face of the sun this past week and is again streaming solar wind towards Earth.
Title:
Returning Coronal Hole Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09781 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2007-11-28 356x356x1
Tethys hangs before NASA's Cassini spacecraft, its great crater Odysseus in view. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665 miles across).
Title:
Toward Tethys
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA13304 Spitzer Space Telescope
 IRAC
 2010-07-28 3000x3000x3
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a wispy, vast structure in the constellation Perseus with a small bubble right in its center puffed out by spasms of fresh-formed, heavyweight stars.
Title:
Awash in Green and Red
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA08843 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2006-12-29 851x1019x1
A close-up of the F ring shows dark gores in its interior faint ringlets following the passage of Prometheus. Each gore represents a single interaction of the moon with the F ring material as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Title:
Stretching the Gores
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA13844 Spitzer Space Telescope
 IRAC
MIPS
 2011-02-10 6800x6800x3
This visible light/infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a swirling landscape of stars known as the North America nebula. Clusters of young stars (about one million years old) can be found throughout the image.
Title:
An Extended Stellar Family
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA20474 Sol (our sun) SDO
 Atmosphere Imaging Assembly
 2016-02-09 768x576x3
The magnetic field lines of three active regions in close proximity to one another interacted with each other over two and a half days (Feb. 8-10, 2016). This image is from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Title:
Solar Triumvirate Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA08882 Daphnis Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2007-02-22 608x974x1
Daphnis cruises through the Keeler Gap, raising edge waves in the ring material as it passes. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Title:
Disturbances by Daphnis
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA21147 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 CheMin
 2016-12-13 660x424x3
Data graphed here from the CheMin instrument on NASA's Mars Curiosity rover show a difference between clay minerals in powder drilled from mudstone outcrops at two locations, 'Yellowknife Bay' and 'Murray Buttes' in Mars' Gale Crater.
Title:
Detecting a Difference in Clay Minerals at Two Gale Crater Sites
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12615 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2010-04-20 1176x1176x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks at Belet, a dark region on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The Cassini spacecraft looks at Belet, a dark region on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Title:
Behold Belet
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01587 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
 WFPC2
 1999-08-23 3001x2070x3
Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.
Title:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - 4 Views
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01510 Callisto Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
 1999-03-15 300x300x3
This photo of Callisto, outermost of Jupiter's four Galilean satellites, was taken a few minutes after midnight (PST) Feb. 26, 1979 by NASA's Voyager 1.
Title:
Callisto From 8,023,000 kilometers
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10420 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2008-07-08 494x505x1
Saturn's icy moon Tethys sports an enormous impact basin, Odysseus. The impact basin is 280-miles wide and contains a central complex of mountains. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
Title:
Odysseus the Great
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA07550 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2005-07-26 1018x953x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft's keen vision, with its variety of spectral filters, allows for revealing views of the eastward- and westward-flowing cloud bands that encircle the ringed giant, Saturn.
Title:
Bright Bands
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA14097 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
Spitzer Space Telescope
 IRAC
Ultraviolet/Visible Camera
 2011-05-25 2853x1903x3
This montage combines observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft showing three examples of colliding galaxies from a new photo atlas of galactic 'train wrecks.'
Title:
Galactic Train Wrecks
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09714 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
 2007-05-30 2048x6283x1
Large Lava Fan on the Northwestern Flank of Olympus Mons
Title:
Large Lava Fan on the Northwestern Flank of Olympus Mons
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA13781 Spitzer Space Telescope
 IRAC
 2011-01-12 800x800x3
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was able to show that a 'standard candle' used to measure cosmological distances is shrinking, a finding that affects precise measurements of the age, size and expansion rate of our universe.
Title:
Standard Candle in the Wind
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12576 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
 2010-04-14 528x492x1
This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the first of its kind, shows lightning on Saturn's night side flashing in a cloud that is illuminated by light from Saturn's rings.
Title:
Lightning Flashing on Saturn Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12546 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2010-02-10 645x645x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a crescent of crater-covered surface on the moon Rhea. Lit terrain seen here is on the trailing hemisphere of Rhea. North on Rhea is up.
Title:
Crescent of Craters
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA21008 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2016-09-30 1403x1442x3
The Blackhawk landslide, Lucerne Valley, California, is a lobe of marble breccia, as shown in this image from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
Title:
Blackhawk Landslide, California
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA08870 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
 2007-02-06 1245x604x3
These side-by-side natural color and false-color views show cratered terrain on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Tethys -- the side that always faces away from Saturn.
Title:
Odysseus on the Edge
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA13126 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
 WISE Telescope
 2010-08-25 4600x5200x3
Unicorns and roses are usually the stuff of fairy tales, but a new cosmic image taken by NASA's WISE mission shows the Rosette nebula in the constellation Monoceros, or the Unicorn.
Title:
WISE Captures the Unicorn's Rose
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11463 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 2009-04-03 604x604x1
The orbits of Dione and Titan bring them together in one frame in this distant glimpse from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Jan. 28, 2009.
Title:
Two Moons, One Picture
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12557 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
 2010-02-25 762x762x1
The limb of Saturn appears bright as NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers through several of the planet's rings. The curvature of the planet can be seen on the bright left half of the image.
Title:
Saturn Bright Through Rings
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA13303 Spitzer Space Telescope
 IRAC
 2010-07-28 2400x2400x3
A star-forming region shines from the considerable distance of more than 30,000 light-years away in the upper left of this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This image is a combination of data from Spitzer and the Two Micron All Sky Survey.
Title:
Beastly Stars and a Bubble
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA26165 Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)
 2024-03-07 8272x6200x3
Members of the CADRE assembly, test, launch, and operations team pose with completed hardware in a clean room at JPL in late January, 2024.
Title:
CADRE ATLO Team Presents Completed Rovers
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11442 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
 2008-12-04 1416x998x1
Periodic Layering in Martian Sedimentary Rocks, Oblique View
Title:
Periodic Layering in Martian Sedimentary Rocks, Oblique View
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02933 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
 Multi-Spectral Imager
 2000-07-06 893x651x1
This image of asteroid Eros, taken by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker on May 14, 2000, shows bright patches at upper right that are relatively freshly exposed regolith on the inside wall of the crater.
Title:
Southwest of the Big Crater (Mosaic)