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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Bold scarps and extensional features (grabens) record multiple stages of caldera collapse at the summit of Olympus Mons. The wrinkle ridges are contractional feature. This image was captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in October 2003.
PIA04786:
The Summit of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows strangest-looking surfaces on Mars occur in northwestern Hellas Planitia informally known as 'taffy-pull' terrain.
PIA04771:
Hellas "Taffy Pull"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the western summit region of Olympus Mons on Mars featuring a lava flow that was cut by the pit walls when the caldera collapse occurred.
PIA04689:
Top of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows some of the lava flows and leveed lava channels on the southeastern flank of Olympus Mons on Mars. These flows have been covered by a thick mantle of dust.
PIA04687:
Southeast Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Mars' two natural satellites, or moons, Phobos and Deimos.
PIA04589:
Phobos Over the Martian Limb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in the Solar System. The surface is rugged, with many overlapping lava flow structures, all of which are mantled by a thick blanket of dust and wind-scoured sediment.
PIA04583:
Flows on Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a crater on the floor of the caldera, a large volcanic/collapse crater, of a giant martian volcano, Arsia Mons on Mars.
PIA04581:
Impact on Arsia Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-15 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This image was used in a contest to rename the Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (SIRTF), now known as the Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA04497:
Help Stamp Out Boring Space Acronyms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-09 Borrelly Deep Space 1 (DS1)
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Artist's concept of NASA's Deep Space 1 Encounter with Comet Borrelly.
PIA04496:
Artist's Concept of Deep Space 1 Encounter with Comet Borrelly
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-01-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Islands of older high-standing terrain rise above a sea of relatively young, platy lava flows between two of the largest volcanoes in the solar system in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA04078:
A Sea of Lava
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-21 Deep Space 1 (DS1)
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This image of a xenon ion engine prototype, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it was being tested at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shows the faint blue glow of charged atoms being emitted from the engine.
PIA04238:
Deep Space 1's Ion Engine
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Like drippings from a candle, these lava flows on the flank of Olympus Mons volcano, seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, demonstrate how it became the largest volcano in the solar system.
PIA04063:
Olympus Mons Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-06 Io Galileo
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A field of bright lava flows next to a shield volcano could be a source of recent sulfur volcanism on Io, as detected by instruments aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA03887:
Potential Source of Sulfur Flow on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-11-05 Annefrank Stardust
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False colors emphasize the variations in surface brightness on asteroid Annefrank, as seen in an image taken by NASA's Stardust spacecraft during a Nov. 2, 2002 flyby of the asteroid.
PIA02886:
Annefrank Near Closest Approach
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-11-05 Annefrank Stardust
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Asteroid Annefrank is seen as irregularly shaped, cratered body in this image taken by NASA's Stardust spacecraft during a Nov 2, 2002 flyby of the asteroid.
PIA02885:
Stardust Image of Asteroid Annefrank
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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, which displays clearly the contrast between bedrock, sand, and dust surfaces, covers a portion of Coprates Chasma, part of the Valles Marineris system of canyons that stretch for thousands of kilometers.
PIA03834:
Coprates Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The movement pathways of molten rock, or lava, is demonstrated in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft of a portion of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in our solar system.
PIA03821:
Southeastern Scarp of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows the transition zone between maze-like troughs of Noctis Labyrinthus and the main Valles Marineris canyon system. This huge system of troughs near the equator of Mars was most likely created by tectonic forces.
PIA03813:
Noctis Labyrinthus/Valles Marineris transition
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image of Tharsis Rise from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a series of linear features called graben, which are associated with crustal extension resulting in up and down blocks of crust that run perpendicular to the direction of the extension.
PIA03810:
Tharsis Rise Graben
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the northern interior wall of Coprates Chasma, one of the major canyons that form Valles Marineris.
PIA03809:
Coprates Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Although the largest volcanoes on Mars (and in the solar system) are located in the geologically young Tharsis region, there are many Martian volcanoes that display equally interesting features, such as Hadriaca Patera in this NASA Mars Odyssey image.
PIA03798:
Hadriaca Patera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows a close-up view of the ridged plains in Hesperia Planum, a classic locality for Martian surfaces that formed in the 'middle ages' of the planet's history.
PIA03797:
Hesperia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image is of the ridged plains of Lunae Planum in the northern hemisphere of Mars. Wrinkle ridges, a very common landform on Mars, Mercury, Venus, and the Moon, are found mostly along the eastern side of the image.
PIA03793:
Wrinkle Ridges and Young Fresh Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-28 Io Galileo
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The Amirani lava flow on Jupiter's moon Io appears to be made up of many individual flows; the newest flows are the brightest spots in this infrared image from NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA03533:
Amirani Lava Flow on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-28 Io Galileo
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Scientists pointed NASA's Galileo spacecraft camera at the Tohil region of Jupiter's moon Io to investigate the curious relationship between Io's mountains and its volcanoes.
PIA03527:
Detailed View of Mountain and Craters at Tohil, Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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At the top right of this NASA Mars Odyssey image, the rim of the caldera of Pavonis Mons, one of four exceptionally large volcanoes in the Tharsis region, is barely visible with steep cliffs formed by the collapse of a portion of the volcano's summit.
PIA03790:
Pavonis Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image covers a tract of plateau territory called Ophir Planum. The most obvious features in this scene are the fractures (ranging from 1 to 5 km wide) running from the upper left to lower right.
PIA03784:
Crustal Fractures of Ophir Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Noctis Labyrinthus, a large valley system at the western end of the Valles Marineris canyon system notable for a pattern of intersecting valleys, which give it a maze-like appearance when viewed from above.
PIA03783:
Noctis Labyrinthus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Olympus Mons, imaged here by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, stands 26 km above the surrounding plains, which is three times taller than Mt. Everest, and is the tallest volcano in the solar system.
PIA03763:
Olympus Mons Lava Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-02-27 Jupiter Cassini-Huygens
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Details in radiation belts close to Jupiter are mapped from measurements that NASA's Cassini spacecraft made of radio emission from high-energy electrons moving at nearly the speed of light within the belts.
PIA03478:
Inner Radiation Belts of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-02-27 Jupiter Cassini-Huygens
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The vast magnetosphere of charged particles whirling around Jupiter, normally invisible, can be imaged by a new type of instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft and is seen here.
PIA03476:
Jupiter's Magnetosphere Made Visible
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-11-29 Callisto Galileo
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The heavily cratered portion of the surface of Jupiter's moon Callisto, seen in this image recorded by NASA's Galileo spacecraft, resembles most of Callisto that's been seen in high resolution.
PIA02593:
Opposite Side of Callisto from Valhalla Impact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-11-27 Io Galileo
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In this view from NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 2001, the Pele hot spot on Jupiter's moon Io shows a complex pattern of areas glowing in the dark, including areas likely to be fresh overturning of a lava lake's crust.
PIA02596:
Io's Pele Glowing in the Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03162:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 2000
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03161:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1999
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03160:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1998
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03159:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1997
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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A series of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03158:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn - October, 1996
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-07-21 Saturn Hubble Space Telescope
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These NASA Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000, show Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.
PIA03156:
A Change of Seasons on Saturn
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.312 MB)     JPEG (220 kB)
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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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-29 Io Cassini-Huygens
Galileo
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Two tall volcanic plumes and the rings of red material they have deposited onto surrounding surface areas appear in images taken of Jupiter's moon Io by NASA's Galileo and Cassini spacecraft in late December 2000 and early January 2001.
PIA02588:
Galileo and Cassini Image Two Giant Plumes on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-02-23 Io Galileo
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These images from NASA's Galileo spacecraft show changes in the largest active field lava flows in the solar system, the Amirani lava flow on Jupiter's moon Io. Scientists have identified 23 distinct new flows by comparing the two images.
PIA02585:
Amirani's Big Lava Flow on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-02-09 Earth Landsat
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This view acquired by NASA's Landsat 4 satellite on December 14, 1982, shows Barringer Crater, also known as 'Meteor Crater,' a deep hole in the flat-lying desert sandstones west of Winslow, Arizona.
PIA03212:
Barringer Meteor Crater, Arizona
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-12-23 Jupiter Cassini-Huygens
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The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, is captured here alongside the planet Jupiter in a color picture taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 3, 2000.
PIA02862:
Ganymede and Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-12-21 Jupiter Cassini-Huygens
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One moment in an ancient, orbital dance is caught in this color picture taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 7, 2000, just as two of Jupiter's four major moons, Europa and Callisto, were nearly perfectly aligned with each other.
PIA02861:
Europa and Callisto under the Watchful Gaze of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-12-20 Jupiter Cassini-Huygens
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Jupiter's four largest satellites, including Io, the golden ornament in front of Jupiter in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA02860:
Io in Front of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-11-06 4206x3306x3
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 2000-10-26 Jupiter Galileo
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The first discrete ammonia ice cloud positively identified on Jupiter is shown in this image taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Ammonia ice is shown in clouds to the northwest of the Great Red Spot.
PIA02569:
Ammonia Ice near Jupiter's Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-10-26 Io Galileo
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This mosaic combines images collected in February 2000 and the summer of 1999 by NASA's Galileo spacecraft to highlight new details of the longest active lava flow known in the solar system.
PIA02567:
Giant Lava Flow on Io, in Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-10-26 Io Galileo
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Most of the 12 images in this mosaic were taken on February 22, 2000, by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. It has been merged with lower-resolution color data acquired by Galileo during the summer of 1999.
PIA02566:
Io's Chain of Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 Mimas Voyager
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This NASA Voyager 1 picture of Mimas shows a large impact structure at 110 W Long., located on that face of the moon which leads Mimas in its orbit. The feature, about 130 kilometers in diameter, is more than one-quarter the diameter of the entire moon.
PIA02266:
Mimas - Large Impact Structure
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows wide impact crater on the floor of a larger crater in the Nepenthes Mensae region on Mars.
PIA02343:
Layers and Boulders in Crater Wall, Nepenthes Mensae Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-11 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows complex erosional patterns that have developed on Mars' south polar cap, perhaps by a combination of sublimation, wind erosion, and ground-collapse.
PIA02391:
High-Resolution South Polar Cap Mosaics
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-11 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows complex erosional patterns that have developed on Mars' south polar cap, perhaps by a combination of sublimation, wind erosion, and ground-collapse.
PIA02390:
High-Resolution South Polar Cap Mosaics
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-11 Masursky Cassini-Huygens
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The face of asteroid Masursky as seen by NASA's Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS), January, 2000.
PIA02449:
Masursky
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-17 Io Galileo
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This mosaic of images collected by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1999 shows a fountain of lava spewing above the surface of Jupiter's moon Io.
PIA02525:
Interpreted Lava Fountains on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-17 Io Galileo
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This mosaic of images collected by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1999 shows a fountain of lava spewing above the surface of Jupiter's moon Io.
PIA02519:
Lava Fountains on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-10 Earth Voyager
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This image of the Earth is one of 60 frames taken by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990 from a distance of approximately 4 billion miles and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane.
PIA02228:
Solar System Portrait - Earth
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-07 Mercury Mariner Venus Mercury (Mariner 10)
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Caloris Basin on Mercury, is one of the largest basins in the solar system, its diameter exceeds 1300 kilometers and is in many ways similar to the great Imbrium basin on the Moon. This image is from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which launched in 1974.
PIA02439:
Caloris Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-01 Protostellar Disk L1157 Owens Valley Millimeter Array
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These observations of interstellar dark cloud L1157, are located in the Cepheus constellation. The multi-colored area shows a dust disk surrounding a newborn star.
PIA04211:
Protostellar Disk L1157
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-01 Globular cluster M22 Hubble Space Telescope
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Scientists are mystified by what may be unexpected, wandering, planet-sized objects. This image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope implies the presence of these objects.
PIA04202:
Globular Cluster M22
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-11-19 Io Galileo
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This image shows Loki, the most powerful volcano in the solar system, which has been constantly active on Jupiter's moon Io. NASA's Galileo spacecraft took these images during its approach to Io on October 10, 1999.
PIA02514:
Loki as viewed by Galileo NIMS
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-08 Io Galileo
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This pair of volcanic features on Jupiter's moon Io represents the longest active lava flow known to exist in our solar system. This image, one of the highest resolution pictures ever taken of Io, was obtained by NASA s Galileo spacecraft on July 3, 1999.
PIA02506:
Amirani-Maui: Longest Known Active Lava Flow in the Solar System
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-08 Io Galileo
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The volcano called Prometheus, found on Jupiter's moon Io, could be called the Old Faithful of the outer solar system, because its volcanic plume has been visible every time it has been observed since 1979. Image obtained by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA02505:
Close-up of Prometheus, Io (color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-07 Callisto Galileo
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These images from NASA's Galileo spacecraft show a comparison of the surfaces of the three icy Galilean satellites, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, scaled to a common resolution of 150 meters per picture element (pixel).
PIA01656:
Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto: Surface Comparison at High Spatial Resolution
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-07 Callisto Galileo
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This single-frame image from NASA's Galileo spacecraft shows crater Tindr on Jupiter's satellite Callisto, the moon with the oldest surface of the four so-called 'Galilean' satellites (of which Callisto is also most distant from Jupiter).
PIA01657:
Crater Tindr on Callisto - an Oblique Impact?
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-24 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01593:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - Montage
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
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Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - June, 1999
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
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Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - April, 1997
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA02400:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - October, 1996
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
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Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - October, 1995
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01598:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - February, 1995
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01597:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - August, 1994
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01596:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - July, 1994
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01595:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - May, 1992
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The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System, as shown in this image obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself.
PIA01594:
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - Full Disk
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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.
PIA01587:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - 4 Views
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this view of Mars taking advantage of the space-based observatory's close approach to Mars, centering on the region known as Tharsis, home of the largest volcanoes in the solar system.
PIA01590:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - Tharsis
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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 1999-05-21 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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Using powerful ground-and space-based NASA telescopes, scientists have obtained a moving look at some of the wildest, weirdest weather in the solar system.
PIA01542:
Neptune's Stormy Disposition
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This is an updated montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top to bottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
PIA01341:
Solar System Montage (Updated)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-18 Europa Galileo
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These artist's drawings depict two proposed models of the subsurface structure of the Jovian moon, Europa. Geologic features on the surface were imaged by the Solid State Imaging (SSI) system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01669:
Model of Europa's Subsurface Structure
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This global view of Jupiter's moon, Io, was obtained during the tenth orbit of Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Io, which is slightly larger than Earth's moon, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.
PIA01667:
Io's Pele Hemisphere After Pillan Changes
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The anaglyph shows Pwyll crater on Jupiter's icy satellite Europa, captured by NASA's Galileo Orbiter. 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.
PIA01665:
Red-Blue Three Dimensional View of Pwyll crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-05 Tethys Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained these as yet highest-resolution view of Tethys on August 26, 1980, when the spacecraft was 120,000 kilometers (74,500 miles) from this satellite of Saturn.
PIA01386:
High Resolution View of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-07 Callisto Galileo
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These images of Callisto, the outermost of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter, reveal a surface characterized by impact craters. The global view (lower left) is dominated by a large bulls-eye feature. Images captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01649:
The Valhalla Multi-ring Structure on Callisto
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-03 Ida Galileo
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During its examination of the asteroid Ida, NASA's Galileo spacecraft returned images of a second object, Dactyl--the first confirmed satellite or moon of an asteroid; the much smaller moon is visible to the right of Ida.
PIA00333:
Asteroid Ida and its Satellite Dactyl in Enhanced Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-14 Jupiter Galileo
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These images show a newly created large-scale storm on Jupiter, known as a white oval. This storm is the size of Earth and was observed by the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Galileo spacecraft's photopolarimeter radiometer in July 1998.
PIA01477:
Jupiter's White Ovals
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-13 Callisto Galileo
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This high resolution image from NASA's Galileo spacecraft of Jupiter's icy moon, Callisto, shows two, probably related, phenomena that were quite surprising to planetary scientists. First, a dark, mobile blanket of material covers Callisto's surface.
PIA01631:
So few Small Craters on Callisto
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-09-26 Titan Hubble Space Telescope
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Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. Images were captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during 14 observing runs between Oct. 4 - 18.
PIA01465:
Hubble Observes Surface of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-09-15 J Rings Galileo
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This mosaic of Jupiter's ring system was acquired by NASA's Galileo spacecraft when the Sun was behind the planet, and the spacecraft was in Jupiter's shadow peering back toward the Sun.
PIA01621:
Jupiter's Ring System
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These three NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the planet Uranus reveal the motion of a pair of bright clouds in the planet's southern hemisphere, and a high altitude haze that forms a 'cap' above the planet's south pole.
PIA01283:
Hubble the Rotation of Uranus
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the planet Uranus reveals the planet's rings and bright clouds and a high altitude haze above the planet's south pole.
PIA01282:
Hubble Observes the Planet Uranus
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the planet Uranus reveals the planet's rings, at least five of the inner moons, and bright clouds in the planet's southern hemisphere.
PIA01281:
Hubble Observes the Moons and Rings of Uranus
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Mars Viking
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The Alba Patera region of Mars; north toward top. This scene shows a central circular depression surrounded by splays of fractures, named Alba Fossae and Tantalus Fossae, as seen by NASA's Viking spacecraft.
PIA00409:
Alba Patera
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The Tharsis region of Mars; north toward top. This scene shows the Tharsis bulge, a huge ridge covered by the 3 large aligned Tharsis Montes shield volcanoes (from lower l to r): Arsia, Pavonis, and Ascraeus Mons as seen by NASA's Viking spacecraft.
PIA00408:
Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Saturn Voyager
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This approximate natural-color image from NASA's Voyager 2 shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Three satellites Tethys, Dione, and Rhea are visible against the darkness of space.
PIA00400:
Saturn and 4 Icy Moons in Natural Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Mars Viking
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NASA's Viking Orbiter 1 spies the north polar residual ice cap, which is cut by spiral-patterned troughs and surrounded by the dark lowland plains of Vastitas Borealis, Mars is located at the top.
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Center is at Latitude 30 Degrees North, Longitude 150 Degrees
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-05 Mars Viking
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Mars digital-image mosaic merged with color of the MC-8 quadrangle, Amazonis region of Mars. This image is from NASA's Viking Orbiter 1.
PIA00168:
MC-8 Amazonis Region
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