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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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (60.79 MB)     JPEG (3.337 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Saturn Voyager
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This enhanced-color picture from NASA's Voyager shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Tethys, Dione, and Rhea are visible against the darkness of space, and another smaller satellite (Mimas) is visible against Saturn's cloud tops.
PIA00349:
Saturn and 4 Icy Moons, Enhanced Color
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.15 MB)     JPEG (48.46 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Enceladus Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This color image mosaic from NASA's Voyager 2 shows the water-ice-covered surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's icy moons. Enceladus' diameter of just 500 km would fit across the state of Arizona,
PIA00347:
Voyager 2 Color Image of Enceladus, Almost Full Disk
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.99 MB)     JPEG (95.52 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Ida Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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This set of color images of asteroid 243 Ida was taken by the imaging system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it approached and raced past the asteroid on August 28, 1993.
PIA00331:
Nine Galileo Views in Exaggerated Color of Main-Belt Asteroid Ida
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.713 MB)     JPEG (76.92 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Ida Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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This set of color images of asteroid 243 Ida was taken by the imaging system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it approached and raced past the asteroid on August 28, 1993.
PIA00330:
Nine Galileo Views in Natural Color of Main-Belt Asteroid Ida
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.692 MB)     JPEG (75.18 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Io Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 computer color mosaics, shown in approximately natural color and in Lambertian equal-area projections, show the Eastern (left) and Western (right) hemispheres of Io.
PIA00318:
Io Shown in Lambertian Equal Area Projection and in Approximately Natural Color
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.241 MB)     JPEG (259.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Triton Voyager
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This global color mosaic of Triton, taken in 1989 by NASA's Voyager 2 shows Triton, the largest satellite of Neptune. Triton has the coldest surface known anywhere in the solar system; it is so cold that most of Triton's nitrogen is condensed as frost.
PIA00317:
Global Color Mosaic of Triton
Full Resolution:     TIFF (29.1 MB)     JPEG (2.06 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Mars Viking
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Shown here is a digital mosaic of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the Solar System, as seen by NASA's Viking Orbiter 1. Much of the plains surrounding the volcano are covered by the ridged and grooved 'aureole' of Olympus Mons.
PIA00300:
Olympus Mons
Full Resolution:     TIFF (41.13 MB)     JPEG (2.08 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Mars Viking
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Mars digital-image mosaic merged with color of the MC-2 quadrangle, Diacria region of Mars. This image is from NASA's Viking Orbiter 1.
PIA00162:
MC-2 Diacria Region
Full Resolution:     TIFF (43.55 MB)     JPEG (2.043 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-08 Io Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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In this family portrait the four largest moons of Jupiter are shown to scale in increasing distance from Jupiter are (left to right) Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. This image was taken by NASA's Galileo in November, 1997.
PIA01400:
The Galilean Satellites
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.237 MB)     JPEG (134.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-08 Io Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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This composite includes the four largest moons of Jupiter which are known as the Galilean satellites. Shown from left to right are Io, closest to Jupiter, followed by Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
PIA01299:
The Galilean Satellites
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.132 MB)     JPEG (156.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-08 Callisto Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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Four views of Jupiter's second largest moon, Callisto, highlight how increasing resolutions enable interpretation of the surface. North is to the top of these frames which were taken by the Solid State Imaging (SSI) system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01297:
View of Callisto at Increasing Resolutions
Full Resolution:     TIFF (891.9 kB)     JPEG (115 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-28 Pluto Hubble Space Telescope
 Faint Object Camera
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This image-based surface map of Pluto was assembled by computer image processing software from four separate images of Pluto's disk taken with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
PIA00826:
Map of Pluto's Surface
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.149 MB)     JPEG (231.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-26 Europa Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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These 15 frames show the great variety of surface features on Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, which were revealed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft Solid State Imaging (CCD) system during its first six orbits around Jupiter from June 1996 to February 1997.
PIA00746:
Various Landscapes and Features on Europa
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.904 MB)     JPEG (570.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-26 Io Galileo
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NASA's Galileo spacecraft observed Io on nearly every orbit as part of a program monitoring the level of volcanic activity on this moon. Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System.
PIA00899:
New Hot Spot on Io Discovered by NIMS During Orbit C9
Full Resolution:     TIFF (783.9 kB)     JPEG (130.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-26 J Rings Galileo
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A mosaic of four images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on November 8, 1996, at a resolution of approximately 46 kilometers (28.5 miles) per picture element (pixel) along Jupiter's rings.
PIA00701:
Jupiter's Main Ring/Ring Halo
Full Resolution:     TIFF (281.3 kB)     JPEG (62.93 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-26 J Rings Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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Jupiter's ring system, as seen by NASA's Galileo Orbiter, is composed of three parts, a flat main ring, a lenticular halo interior to the main ring, and the gossamer ring, which lies exterior to the main ring.
PIA00658:
Jupiter's Ring Halo
Full Resolution:     TIFF (52.69 kB)     JPEG (44.59 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-26 J Rings Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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Jupiter's ring system is composed of three parts: a flat main ring, a toroidal halo interior to the main ring, and the gossamer ring, which lies exterior to the main ring, as seen in this image from NASA's Galileo spacecraft taken on Nov. 9, 1996.
PIA00659:
Jupiter's Gossamer Ring
Full Resolution:     TIFF (162.3 kB)     JPEG (17.35 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-26 J Rings Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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A mosaic of four images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on Nov. 8, 1996, Jupiter's ring system is composed of three parts,a flat main ring, a lenticular halo interior to the main ring, and the gossamer ring, which lies exterior to the main ring.
PIA00657:
Jupiter's Main Ring
Full Resolution:     TIFF (107.1 kB)     JPEG (21.63 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-02 Europa Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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This computer-generated perspective view of the Pwyll impact crater on Jupiter's moon Europa was created using images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft camera when the spacecraft flew past that moon on Feb. 20 and Dec. 16, 1997.
PIA01175:
Pwyll Impact Crater: Perspective View of Topographic Model
Full Resolution:     TIFF (568.2 kB)     JPEG (46.53 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1997-12-18 Io Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system is seen in the highest resolution obtained to date [Sept.7 & Nov. 6, 1996] by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA00583:
High Resolution Global View of Io
Full Resolution:     TIFF (9.084 MB)     JPEG (400.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1997-11-18 Callisto Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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This composite portait includes the four largest moons of Jupiter which are known as the Galilean satellites. From left to right, the moons shown are Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa.
PIA00601:
The Galilean Satellites
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.108 MB)     JPEG (144.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1997-11-18 Jupiter Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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This 'family portrait,' a composite of the Jovian system, includes the edge of Jupiter with its Great Red Spot, and Jupiter's four largest moons, known as the Galilean satellites. From top to bottom, the moons shown are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
PIA00600:
Family Portrait of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the Galilean Satellites
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.21 MB)     JPEG (112.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1997-11-18 Ganymede Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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Circular rims of these craters located at a high northern latitude on Jupiter's moon Ganymede are seen in this image taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on September 6, 1996.
PIA00496:
Ice-frosted crater tops on Ganymede
Full Resolution:     TIFF (162.4 kB)     JPEG (31.02 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1997-11-18 Io Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, is seen in front of Jupiter's cloudy atmosphere in this image taken Sept. 7, 1996, by NASA's Galileo spacecraft, now orbiting the giant planet.
PIA00494:
Io in front of Jupiter
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.13 MB)     JPEG (88.84 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1997-01-15 1930x2440x3
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.
PIA00545:
Solar System Montage
Full Resolution:     TIFF (9.644 MB)     JPEG (250.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-26 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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This synthetic aperture radar mosaic from NASA's Magellan spacecraft is a global view of the surface of Venus.
PIA00478:
Venus - Global View Centered at 180 degrees
Full Resolution:     TIFF (44.9 MB)     JPEG (8.515 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-16 Io Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This photo of a volcanic eruption on Jupiter's satellite Io (dark fountain-like feature near the limb) was taken March 4, 1979, about 12 hours before NASA's Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter.
PIA00373:
Io - Volcanic Eruption
Full Resolution:     TIFF (66.68 kB)     JPEG (11.83 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-16 Io Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This photo of an active volcanic eruption on Jupiter's satellite Io was taken 1 hour, 52 minutes after the accompanying picture, late in the evening of March 4, 1979, by NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA00374:
Io - One of at Least Four Simultaneous Erupting Volcanic Eruptions
Full Resolution:     TIFF (25.26 kB)     JPEG (4.047 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-13 Jupiter Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This photograph of the southern hemisphere of Jupiter was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on June 25, 1979. Seen in front of the turbulent clouds of the planet is Io, the innermost of the large Galilean satellites of Jupiter.
PIA00371:
Jupiter - Io In Front of Jupiter's Turbulent Clouds
Full Resolution:     TIFF (797.6 kB)     JPEG (28.95 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-12 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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Sapas Mons is displayed in the center of this computer-generated three-dimensional perspective view from NASA's Magellan spacecraft of the surface of Venus.
PIA00107:
Venus - 3-D Perspective View of Sapas Mons
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.277 MB)     JPEG (1.445 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-12 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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This global view from NASA's Magellan spacecraft is of the surface of Venus is centered at 180 degrees east longitude.
PIA00104:
Venus - Computer Simulated Global View Centered at 180 Degrees East Longitude
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.169 MB)     JPEG (1.681 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-30 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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The eastern half of the planet is displayed in this simple cylindrical map of the surface of Venus obtained by NASA's Magellan spacecraft.
PIA00256:
Venus - Simple Cylindrical Map of Surface (Eastern Half)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (24.03 MB)     JPEG (4.955 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-30 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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The western half of the planet is displayed in this simple cylindrical map of the surface of Venus obtained by NASA's Magellan spacecraft.
PIA00255:
Venus - Simple Cylindrical Map of Surface (Western Half)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.83 MB)     JPEG (4.354 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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These radar images show an identical area on Venus as imaged by the NASA's Magellan spacecraft in 1991 (left) and the U.S.S.R. Venera 15/16 spacecraft in the early 1980's (right).
PIA00465:
Venus - Comparison of Venera and Magellan Resolutions
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.626 MB)     JPEG (1.445 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-23 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA's Magellan spacecraft.
PIA00270:
Venus - Computer Simulated Global View Centered at 90 Degrees East Longitude
Full Resolution:     TIFF (7.793 MB)     JPEG (1.615 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-13 Earth Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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These six narrow-angle color images were made from the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by NASA's Voyager 1, which was more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic.
PIA00453:
Solar System Portrait - Views of 6 Planets
Full Resolution:     TIFF (530.3 kB)     JPEG (33.82 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-13 Sol (our sun) Voyager
 VG ISS - Wide Angle
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The cameras of Voyager 1 on Feb. 14, 1990, pointed back toward the sun and took a series of pictures of the sun and the planets, making the first ever 'portrait' of our solar system as seen from the outside.
PIA00451:
Solar System Portrait - 60 Frame Mosaic
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.124 MB)     JPEG (166.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-13 Sol (our sun) Voyager
 VG ISS - Wide Angle
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This color image of the sun, Earth and Venus was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft Feb. 14, 1990, when it was approximately 32 degrees above the plane of the ecliptic and at a slant-range distance of approximately 4 billion miles.
PIA00450:
Solar System Portrait - View of the Sun, Earth and Venus
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.676 MB)     JPEG (515.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-12 Dactyl Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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This image was the most detailed picture of then recently discovered natural satellite of asteroid 243 Ida taken by the Galileo Solid-State Imaging camera during its encounter with the asteroid on August 28, 1993.
PIA00297:
High Resolution View of Dactyl
Full Resolution:     TIFF (22.07 kB)     JPEG (7.709 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-12 Earth Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed 'Pale Blue Dot', is a part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA00452:
Solar System Portrait - Earth as 'Pale Blue Dot'
Full Resolution:     TIFF (698 kB)     JPEG (30.18 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-08-01 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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Maat Mons is displayed in this computer generated three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus. This NASA Magellan image was released on April 22, 1992.
PIA00106:
Venus - 3-D Perspective View of Maat Mons
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.791 MB)     JPEG (1.141 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-07-19 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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Ushas Mons, a volcano in the southern hemisphere of Venus is shown in this radar image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft. The volcano is marked by numerous bright lava flows and a set of north-south trending fractures.
PIA00272:
Venus - Simulated Color of Ushas Mons
Full Resolution:     TIFF (18.64 MB)     JPEG (5.424 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-07-18 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA's Magellan spacecraft.
PIA00271:
Venus - Computer Simulated Global View of the Northern Hemisphere
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.283 MB)     JPEG (1.764 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-06-06 Ganymede Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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NASA's Galileo spacecraft, now in orbit around Jupiter, returned this optical navigation image June 3, 1996, showing that the spacecraft is accurately targeted for its first flyby of the giant moon Ganymede on June 27.
PIA00273:
Optical Navigation Image of Ganymede
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.779 kB)     JPEG (9.291 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-03-14 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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This full resolution radar mosaic from NASA's Magellan spacecraftshows an oblique view of the impact crater Riley, named for Margaretta Riley, a 19th Century botanist.
PIA00266:
Venus - Oblique View of Crater Riley
Full Resolution:     TIFF (862.1 kB)     JPEG (214.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-03-14 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 0 degrees east longitude. NASA's Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping were mapped onto a computer-simulated globe to create this image.
PIA00257:
Venus - Computer Simulated Global View Centered at 0 Degrees East Longitude
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.884 MB)     JPEG (1.366 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-03-14 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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Landslides on Venus! The image on the left was taken in late November of 1990 during Magellan's first trip around Venus. The image on the right was taken July 23, as the Magellan spacecraft passed over the region for the second time.
PIA00248:
Venus - Aphrodite Terra
Full Resolution:     TIFF (797.9 kB)     JPEG (294.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-03-13 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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This compressed resolution radar mosaic from NASA's Magellan spacecraft shows a 600 kilometers (360 mile) segment of the longest channel discovered on Venus in 1990.
PIA00245:
Venus - 600 Kilometer Segment of Longest Channel on Venus
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.233 MB)     JPEG (1.415 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Triton Voyager
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This is one of the most detailed views of the surface of Triton taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on its flyby of the large satellite of Neptune early in the morning of Aug. 25, 1989. The picture was stored on the tape recorder and relayed to Earth later.
PIA00061:
Triton High Resolution View of Northern Hemisphere
Full Resolution:     TIFF (565.5 kB)     JPEG (131.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Io Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This full-disk image of Jupiter's satellite Io was made from several frames taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Mar. 4, 1979, as the spacecraft neared the satellite.
PIA00023:
Io - Full Disk
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.21 MB)     JPEG (40.95 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1989-10-27 Triton Voyager
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These three sequential images of an erupting volcano on Neptune's large moon Triton were taken by NASA's Voyager 2 as the spacecraft approach the moon on Aug. 26, 1989.
PIA14449:
Triton's Volcanic Plumes
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.404 MB)     JPEG (191.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1986-03-14 Comet 1836x961x3
In 1986, the European spacecraft Giotto became one of the first spacecraft ever to encounter and photograph the nucleus of a comet, passing and imaging Halley's nucleus as it receded from the sun.
PIA17485:
Comet Halley
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.295 MB)     JPEG (160.2 kB)
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