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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Europa Clipper
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Scientists think six icy moons in our solar system may currently host oceans of liquid water beneath their outer surfaces.
PIA26103:
Icy Moons in Our Solar System That May Have Oceans Now
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
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The filters on NASA's Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument's Color Filter Assembly each block all but a specific wavelength of light. Many of the filters appear dark in this photo because they are transparent only to infrared light.
PIA25436:
Roman Coronagraph Instrument Color Filter Assembly
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-16 Triton Trident
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A new Discovery mission proposal, Trident would explore Neptune's largest moon, Triton, which is potentially an ocean world with liquid water under its icy crust.
PIA23874:
Trident: Exploring the Mysteries of Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-07 Kepler
Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's illustration shows the newfound planet K2-288Bb is slightly smaller than Neptune.
PIA23004:
K2-288Bb (Artist's Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-07 Kepler
Spitzer Space Telescope
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This diagram image shows the estimated radii of the six planets in the planetary system K2-128, as well as their distance from the parent star.
PIA23003:
K2-138 System Diagram
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-12-10 Voyager Interstellar Mission
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This artist's concept puts solar system distances -- and the travels of NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft -- in perspective.
PIA22921:
Voyager 2 and the Scale of the Solar System (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-11 Charon New Horizons
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This annotated map projection from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft shows Charon, the largest of Pluto's five moons, annotated with its first set of official feature names.
PIA00442:
Charon's First Official Feature Names
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-11 Kepler
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This artist concept shows the K2-138 system, the first multi-planet system discovered by citizen scientists.
PIA22088:
Kepler K2-138 System (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-25 Neptune Cassini-Huygens
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On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Neptune and that planet's largest moon Triton. The Cassini mission is publishing this image to celebrate the anniversary of that event.
PIA21629:
Neptune from Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-17 Spitzer Space Telescope
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By using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have found that the varying glow of brown dwarfs over time can be explained by bands of patchy clouds rotating at different speeds, as shown in this artist's concept.
PIA21752:
Brown Dwarf Weather (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-22 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This frame from a video depicts artist's concepts of each of the seven planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, an ultra-cool dwarf star. Over 21 days.
PIA21468:
TRAPPIST-1 Planets - Flyaround Animation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-22 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star.
PIA21422:
TRAPPIST-1 Planet Lineup
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-01-30 HD 141569 W. M. Keck Observatory
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This image shows the dusty disk of planetary material surrounding the young star HD 141569, located 380 light-years away from Earth.
PIA21090:
Young Star HD 141569
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-06-20 Kepler
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When a planet such as K2-33b passes in front of its host star, it blocks some of the star's light.shown in this frame from an animation as discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.
PIA20692:
Young Star and Its Infant Planet (Artist's animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-01-08 Pluto New Horizons
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft continues to transmit the sharpest views of Pluto that it obtained (and recorded) during its flyby of the distant planet on July 14, 2015.
PIA20336:
Pluto's Icy Plains Captured in Highest-Resolution Views from New Horizons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft shows Solis Planum, a huge mound south of Valles Marineris. Like Earth's water table, Mars has an ice table.
PIA20208:
The Coming and Going of Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-05 Pluto New Horizons
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This frame from a movie is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby of the distant planet on July 14, 2015.
PIA20202:
New Horizons' Very Best View of Pluto (movie)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-05 Pluto New Horizons
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This mosaic is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby of the distant planet on July 14, 2015.
PIA20201:
New Horizons' Very Best View of Pluto (Mosiac)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-11 Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed a proposed helium planet, GJ 436b.This diagram illustrates how hypothetical helium atmospheres might form. These would be on planets about the mass of Neptune, or smaller.
PIA19345:
How to Make a Helium Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-11 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Planets having atmospheres rich in helium may be common in our galaxy, according to a new theory based on data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This artist's concept depicts a proposed helium-atmosphere planet called GJ 436b.
PIA19344:
Helium-Shrouded Planets (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-24 Hubble Space Telescope
Kepler
Spitzer Space Telescope
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Scientists were excited to discover clear skies on a relatively small planet, about the size of Neptune, using the combined power of NASA's Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes.
PIA18838:
A Sunny Outlook for 'Weather' on Exoplanets (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-24 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
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A Neptune-size planet with a clear atmosphere is shown crossing in front of its star in this artist's depiction. Such crossings, or transits, are observed by telescopes like NASA's Hubble and Spitzer to glean information about planets' atmospheres.
PIA18837:
Seeing Starlight Through a Planet's Rim (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-21 Triton Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Triton, a moon of Neptune, on August 25, 1989. This frame from a video using Voyager data recreates that exciting encounter.
PIA18669:
Triton Video Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-21 Triton Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Triton, a moon of Neptune, in the summer of 1989. Dr. Paul Schenk, a scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, used Voyager data to construct the best-ever global color map of Triton.
PIA18668:
Map of Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-01 Uranus Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft features a blue planet, Uranus, imaged by Cassini for the first time. Uranus is a pale blue in this natural color image because its visible atmosphere contains methane gas and few aerosols or clouds.
PIA17178:
Blue Orb on the Horizon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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Voyager 1 has entered interstellar space. NASA's spacecraft, which rose from Earth on a September morning 36 years ago, has traveled farther than anyone, or anything, in history.
PIA17046:
Voyager Goes Interstellar (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-12-25 Mercury MESSENGER
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A Mercury Christmas Carol
PIA16666:
A Mercury Christmas Carol
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-07-18 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds the size of Earth -- one of the smallest on record.
PIA15808:
Exoplanet is Extremely Hot and Incredibly Close (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-08 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept depicts 55 Cancri e as it orbits its star. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time, captured the light emanating from a distant super Earth, a planet more massive than Earth but lighter than Neptune.
PIA15623:
Super Earth Reveals Itself to Spitzer (Artist Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-08 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept shows how NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was able to detect a super Earth's direct light for the first time using its sensitive heat-seeking infrared vision.
PIA15622:
First-of-Its-Kind Glimpse at a Super Earth (Artist Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-08 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This plot of data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals the light from a 'super Earth' called 55 Cancri e. The planet is the smallest yet, beyond our solar system, to reveal its direct light.
PIA15621:
Magician of a Planet Disappears to Reveal Itself
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-03-29 SOFIA
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Researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured infrared images of the last exhalations of a dying sun-like star. This image is of the planetary Nebula M2-9.
PIA15420:
NASA's SOFIA Captures Images of the Planetary Nebula M2-9
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-29 Kuiper Belt 2100x1995x3
These artist's concepts show some of the best known objects found outside Neptune's orbit. Included are Pluto and fellow plutinos, Kuiper Belt Objects, and an Oort Cloud object.
PIA17308:
Transneptunian Object Sizes (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-18 Solar System MESSENGER
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A Solar System Family Portrait, from the Inside Out.
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A Solar System Family Portrait, from the Inside Out.
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-27 Neptune New Horizons
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NASA's New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) observed Neptune on June 23, apl2010, as part of a test of the critical optical navigation Annual Checkout (ACO)-4.
PIA07433:
In Tune with Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-21 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept illustrates a hot, Neptune-sized planet called GJ 436b. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence that GJ 436b, orbiting a star beyond our sun lacks methane -- an ingredient common to many planets in our own solar system.
PIA13054:
Exotic Exoplanet (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-04 HR 8799 Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR 8799, located 129 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus.
PIA12336:
A Picture of Unsettled Planetary Youth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-25 Triton Voyager
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This simulated voyage over the surface of Neptune's large moon Triton was produced using topographic maps derived from images acquired by NASA's Voyager spacecraft during its August 1989 flyby, 20 years ago this week.
PIA12187:
Flight Over Triton Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-25 Triton Voyager
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This view of the volcanic plains of Neptune's moon Triton was produced using topographic maps derived from images acquired by NASA's Voyager spacecraft during its August 1989 flyby, 20 years ago this week.
PIA12186:
Triton's "Cantaloupe" Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-25 Triton Voyager
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This view of the volcanic plains of Neptune's moon Triton was produced using topographic maps derived from images acquired by NASA's Voyager spacecraft during its August 1989 flyby, 20 years ago this week.
PIA12185:
Triton's Volcanic Plains #2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-25 Triton Voyager
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This view of the volcanic plains of Neptune's moon Triton was produced using topographic maps derived from images acquired by NASA's Voyager spacecraft during its August 1989 flyby, 20 years ago this week.
PIA12184:
Triton's Volcanic Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-01-07 Comet Hubble Space Telescope
 Advanced Camera for Surveys
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These bright arrowheads, or bow shocks, can be seen in these four images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The bow shocks form when the stars' powerful stellar winds, streams of matter flowing from the stars, slam into surrounding dense gas.
PIA11749:
Stellar Interlopers Caught Speeding Through Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-19 Solar System 1806x2035x3
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are known as the jovian (Jupiter-like) planets because they are all gigantic compared with Earth, and they have a gaseous nature. This diagram shows the approximate distance of the jovian planets from the Sun.
PIA17304:
Gas Planet Orbits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-18 Neptune European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO)
 Mid-infrared Camera/Spectrometer (VISIR)
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These thermal images show a 'hot' south pole on the planet Neptune. These warmer temperatures provide an avenue for methane to escape out of the deep atmosphere. The images were obtained with the Very Large Telescope in Chile Sept. 1 and 2, 2006.
PIA09927:
Neptune's "Hot" South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-13 Hubble Space Telescope
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This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful 'last hurrah' of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core.
PIA09194:
The Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is of Saturn's G ring over a full orbital revolution captures its single bright arc on the ring's inner edge.
PIA08327:
Rounding the Corner Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-19 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Cassini casts powerful eyes on our home planet, and captures Earth, a pale blue orb -- and a faint suggestion of our moon -- among the glories of the Saturn system.
PIA08324:
Pale Blue Orb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-19 Earth Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini casts powerful eyes on our home planet, and captures Earth, a pale blue orb, and a faint suggestion of our moon, among the glories of the Saturn system in this image taken Sept. 15, 2006.
PIA08323:
Pale Blue Orb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from a movie shows a bright arc of material flashing around the edge of Saturn's G ring, a tenuous ring outside the main ring system. The images were acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on April 25, 2006.
PIA07805:
Persistent Arc Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-11 G29-38 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept illustrates a comet being torn to shreds around a dead star, or white dwarf, called G29-38. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed a cloud of dust around this white dwarf that may have been generated from comet disruption.
PIA03652:
Comet 'Bites the Dust' Around Dead Star (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Jets of icy particles burst from Saturn's moon Enceladus in this brief movie sequence of four images taken on Nov. 27, 2005. The discovery of active eruptions on a third outer solar system body is one of the great highlights of NASA's Cassini mission.
PIA07762:
Enceladus Plume Movie Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's northern hemisphere is presently a serene blue, more befitting of Uranus or Neptune, as seen in this natural color image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06177:
Saturn's Blue Cranium
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-23 Phoebe Cassini-Huygens
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These set of images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft were created during the Phoebe flyby on June 11, 2004.
PIA06400:
Phoebe's Mineral Distribution
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-23 Phoebe Cassini-Huygens
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During its historic close encounter with Phoebe, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a series of high resolution images of the small moon, six of which have been put together to create this mosaic.
PIA06073:
Phoebe Hi-Resolution Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-12-18 Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an image of an unusual comet that experiences frequent outbursts, which produce abrupt changes in brightness.
PIA04943:
Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann I
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of Galle Crater. It was taken far enough south and late enough into the southern hemisphere fall to observe water ice clouds partially obscuring the surface.
PIA03832:
Galle Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-29 4500x5600x3
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.
PIA03153:
Solar System Montage - High Resolution 2001 Version
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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 2000-04-01 N Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager spacecraft was 8.6 million kilometers (5.3 million miles) from Neptune when it took this 61 second exposure through the clear filter with the narrow angle camera on August 19, 1989.
PIA02256:
Neptune: Ring Arcs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-16 Triton Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained this parting shot of Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, shortly after closest approach to the moon and passage through its shadow on the morning of Aug. 25, 1989.
PIA02247:
Voyager's Parting Shot of Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-16 Triton Voyager
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Features as small as 100 km (62 miles) across can be seen in this color image of Neptune's satellite Triton, photographed by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 20, 1989, while it was still 5.4 million km (3.3 million miles) from Neptune.
PIA02246:
Voyager's Color Image of Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-16 Neptune Voyager
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Neptune's blue-green atmosphere is shown in greater detail than ever before by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft as it rapidly approaches its encounter with the giant planet. This color image shows several complex and puzzling atmospheric features.
PIA02245:
Neptune's Blue-green Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-01-16 Triton Voyager
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This picture of Triton is a mosaic of the highest resolution images taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 25, 1989 from a distance of about 40,000 kilometers (24,800 miles).
PIA02235:
Triton Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-01-16 Triton Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 was 530,000 kilometers (330,000 miles) from Neptune's largest satellite, Triton, when this photo was taken, Aug. 24, 1989. This is the first photo of Triton to reveal surface topography.
PIA02234:
Triton's Surface Topography
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-29 N Rings Voyager
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This 591-second exposure of the rings of Neptune were taken with the clear filter by NASA's Voyager 2 wide-angle camera. The two main rings are clearly visible and appear complete over the region imaged.
PIA02224:
Neptune's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-29 Neptune Voyager
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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. Banding surrounding the feature indicates unseen strong winds.
PIA02223:
Neptune's Small Dark Spot (D2)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-29 Neptune Voyager
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This photo was taken by NASA's Voyager 2's wide-angle camera. Light at methane wavelengths is mostly absorbed in the deeper atmosphere. The bright, white feature is a high-altitude cloud just south of the Great Dark Spot.
PIA02222:
Neptune Clouds on the Dark Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-29 Triton Voyager
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This photo of Triton is one of a continuing series of 'observatory phase' images obtained by NASA's Voyager spacecraft. Lines inscribed on the image at right form a reference grid used by the Imaging Science Team.
PIA02221:
Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-15 Neptune Voyager
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This image of Neptune shows the discovery of shadows in Neptune's atmosphere, shadows cast onto a deep cloud band by small elevated clouds. They are the first cloud shadows ever seen by NASA's Voyager on any planet.
PIA02220:
Neptune Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-14 Neptune Voyager
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This photograph of Neptune shows three of the features that NASA's Voyager 2 has been photographing during recent weeks. At the north is the Great Dark Spot, accompanied by bright, white clouds that undergo rapid changes in appearance.
PIA02219:
Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-14 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. In this sequence NASA's Voyager 2 observed cloud evolution in the region around the Great Dark Spot (GDS).
PIA01982:
Neptune's Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-14 Neptune Voyager
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These three images of Neptune were acquired 90 minutes apart by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on April 3, 1989, from a range of 208 million kilometers (129 million miles). Several atmospheric features (clouds) are visible.
PIA01363:
3 Images of Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-30 Neptune Voyager
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This photograph shows the last face on view of the Great Dark Spot that NASA's Voyager made with its narrow angle camera.
PIA00052:
Neptune Great Dark Spot in High Resolution
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-25 Triton Voyager
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Mosaic of Triton constructed from 16 individual images. After globally minimizing the camera pointing errors, the frames we reprocessed by map projections, photometric function removal and placement in the mosaic.
PIA02216:
Triton Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Neptune Voyager
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This dramatic view of the crescents of Neptune and Triton was acquired by Voyager 2 approximately 3 days, 6 and one-half hours after its closest approach to Neptune (north is to the right).
PIA02215:
Crescents of Neptune and Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-20 Triton Voyager
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This false color image of Triton is a composite of images taken through the violet, green and ultraviolet filters. The image was taken early on Aug. 25, 1989 when Voyager 2 was about 190,000 kilometers (118,000 miles) from Triton's surface.
PIA02214:
Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-20 Triton Voyager
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This natural color image of the limb of Triton was taken early in the morning of Aug. 25 1989, when the Voyager 2 spacecraft was at a distance of about 210,000 kilometers (128,000 miles) from the icy satellite.
PIA02213:
The Limb of Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-19 Triton Voyager
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This image, taken by NASA's Voyager 2 early in the morning of Aug. 23, 1989, is a false color image of Triton, Neptune's largest satellite; mottling in the bright southern hemisphere is present.
PIA02212:
Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-19 Triton Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained this color image of Neptune's largest satellite,Triton, on Aug. 22, 1989. The south pole of Triton is tipped toward the sun and it is summer in the southern hemisphere.
PIA02211:
Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-19 Neptune Voyager
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This contrast enhanced color picture of Neptune was acquired by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 14, 1989. As Voyager 2 approached Neptune, rapidly increasing image resolution is revealed striking new details. Bright, wispy clouds are seen overlying the Great Dar
PIA02210:
Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-18 Neptune Voyager
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These pictures of Neptune were obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on Apr. 26,1989. The picture on the right was taken five hours after that at left, during which time the planet rotated 100 degrees.
PIA02209:
Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-08 Triton Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this picture of Neptune's largest satellite,Triton, from less than 80,000 km (50,000 miles). The image shows an area in Triton's northern hemisphere. The Sun is just above the horizon, so features cast shadows that accentuate height
PIA02208:
Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-08 N Rings Voyager
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This wide-angle image from NASA's Voyager 2, taken in 1989, was taken through the camera's clear filter, and was the first to show Neptune's rings in detail.
PIA02207:
Neptune's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-08 1989N2 Voyager
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These NASA Voyager 2 images of satellite 1989N2 at a resolution of 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles) per pixel reveal it to be and irregularly shaped, dark object.
PIA02206:
Satellite 1989N2
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-08 Neptune Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained these images of satellite 1989N2 and revealed it to be and irregularly shaped, dark object. The satellite appeared to have several craters. The irregular outline suggests that this moon has remained cold and rigid throughout much
PIA02205:
Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-01 Neptune Voyager
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This mosaic from NASA's Galileo Probe is of an equatorial 'hotspot' on Jupiter and shows the features of a hazy cloud layer tens of kilometers above Jupiter's main visible cloud deck.
PIA02204:
Neptune's Bright Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-01 Triton Voyager
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This mosaic from NASA's Galileo Probe is of an equatorial 'hotspot' on Jupiter and shows the features of a hazy cloud layer tens of kilometers above Jupiter's main visible cloud deck.
PIA02203:
Limb clouds over Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-30 N Rings Voyager
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This mosaic from NASA's Galileo Probe is of an equatorial 'hotspot' on Jupiter and shows the features of a hazy cloud layer tens of kilometers above Jupiter's main visible cloud deck.
PIA02202:
Neptune - Full Ring System
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-25 N Rings Voyager
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These two 591-second exposures of the rings of Neptune were taken with the clear filter by the NASA's Voyager 2 wide-angle camera on Aug. 26, 1989. The two main rings are clearly visible and appear complete over the region imaged.
PIA01997:
Rings of Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-25 Neptune Voyager
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This image of Neptune's south polar region was obtained by NASA's Voyager on Aug. 23, 1989. The image shows the discovery of shadows in Neptune's atmosphere, shadows cast onto a deep cloud bank by small elevated clouds.
PIA01996:
Neptune - Closest Approach
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-25 Neptune Voyager
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This image of Neptune's south polar region was obtained by NASA's Voyager on Aug. 23, 1989. The smallest cloud features are 45 kilometers (28 miles) in diameter. The image shows the discovery of shadows in Neptune's atmosphere, shadows cast onto a deep cl
PIA01995:
Neptune's South Polar Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-25 Triton Voyager
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Intriguing patterns of unknown origin appeared on the surface of Neptune's largest satellite, Triton, in this image returned by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 22, 1989. Voyager images showed that Triton is one of the brightest objects in the solar system,
PIA01994:
Triton - Neptune's Largest Satellite
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-25 Neptune Voyager
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These two images of Neptune were taken by NASA's Voyager 2's narrow angle camera when the spacecraft was about 12 million km (7.5 million miles) from Neptune.
PIA01993:
Neptune - Two Images
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-25 Neptune Voyager
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This clear filter image was acquired by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 14, 1989. The image shows a dark feature extending westward (left) and northward (up) toward the equator from the Great Dark Spot (GDS).
PIA01992:
Neptune - Dark Feature
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-25 Neptune Voyager
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This mosaic from NASA's Galileo Probe is of an equatorial 'hotspot' on Jupiter and shows the features of a hazy cloud layer tens of kilometers above Jupiter's main visible cloud deck.
PIA02200:
Neptune - Partial Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-25 Neptune Voyager
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This image captured by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 30, 1989, was used to confirm the discovery of three new satellites orbiting Neptune.
PIA01991:
Neptune - Three New Satellites
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-25 Neptune Voyager
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On July 23, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took this picture of Neptune through a clear filter on its narrow-angle camera. The image on the right has a latitude and longitude grid added for reference. Neptune's Great Dark Spot is visible on the left.
PIA01999:
Neptune Through a Clear Filter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-25 Neptune Voyager
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This image of Neptune was taken through the clear filter of the narrow-angle camera on July 16, 1989 by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. The image was processed by computer to show the newly resolved dark oval feature embedded in the middle of the dusky south
PIA01998:
Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-25 Neptune Voyager
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The large, dark oval spot in Neptune's atmosphere is just coming into view in this picture returned from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on June 30, 1989.
PIA01990:
Neptune - Dark Oval
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-21 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 looked back at Saturn on Nov. 16, 1980, four days after the spacecraft flew past the planet, to observe the appearance of Saturn and its rings from this unique perspective.
PIA01969:
Saturn and its Rings
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