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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Neptune Voyager
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In Neptune's outermost ring, 39,000 miles out, material mysteriously clumps into three arcs. Voyager 2 acquired this image as it encountered Neptune in August of 1989.
PIA01493:
Neptune's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-03-13 Jupiter Voyager
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This photo, taken on Jan. 9, 1979 by NASA's Voyager 1, is dominated by the Great Red Spot. Swirling, storm-like features possibly associated with wind shear can be seen both to the left and above the Red Spot.
PIA01509:
Jupiter Full Disk with Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-03-13 Jupiter Voyager
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This photo of Jupiter was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on the evening of March 1, 1979, from a distance of 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers). The photo shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot (top) and one of the white ovals.
PIA01512:
Jupiter's Great Red Spot and White Ovals
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-03-13 Jupiter Voyager
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This photo of Jupiter was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on March 1, 1979, from a distance of 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers). The region shown is just to the southeast of the Great Red Spot.
PIA01513:
Jupiter - Southeast of Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-03-13 Jupiter Voyager
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Reconstruction of a plume on Jupiter, photographed on March 1, 1979 by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.
PIA01518:
Jupiter Plume
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-03-13 Jupiter Voyager
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This photo from NASA's Voyager 2 was taken on Jun. 9, 1979 and is centered over the long-lived disturbed region west of the Great Red Spot (GRS).
PIA01519:
Disturbed Region West of the Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-03-13 Jupiter Voyager
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This image shows one of the long-lived white oval clouds which have resided in the Jovian southern hemisphere. This photo was taken on July 5, 1979 by NASA's Voyager 2 from a distance of 3.4 million kilometers.
PIA01521:
Jupiter White Oval
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-03-23 Jupiter Voyager
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This special color composite made from NASA's Voyager 2 taken on June 28, 1979, has been processed to exaggerate color differences within the naturally colorful Jovian atmosphere. Such processing makes detailed structure in the clouds more apparent.
PIA01524:
Jupiter's Equatorial Zone in Exaggerated Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-06-22 Jupiter Voyager
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This image from NASA's Voyager 2 shows the region of Jupiter extending from the equator to the southern polar latitudes in the neighborhood of the Great Red Spot.
PIA01527:
Jupiter's Violent Storms
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 Uranus Voyager
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Processing brings out Uranus' atmosphere in this image taken by NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA01535:
Uranus' Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 Neptune Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2's post-encounter view of Neptune's south pole as the spacecraft sped away on a southward trajectory.
PIA01539:
Post-encounter View of Neptune's South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-11 Saturn Voyager
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This family portrait shows the smaller satellites of Saturn as viewed by NASA's Voyager 2 during its swing through the Saturnian system.
PIA01954:
Collage of Saturn's Smaller Satellites
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-14 Saturn Voyager
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This image from NASA's Voyager 2, taken Aug. 18, 1981, from a distance of 6.8 million kilometers (4.2 million miles), shows the region extending from 20 north latitude to Saturn's polar region.
PIA01956:
Voyager 2 Image of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-14 Saturn Voyager
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This image from NASA's Voyager 2, taken Aug. 18, 1981, from a distance of 6.8 million kilometers (4.2 million miles), shows the region extending from 20 north latitude to Saturn's polar region.
PIA01957:
Photograph of Saturn Constructed in False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-25 Saturn Voyager
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In this image from NASA's Voyager, taken Aug. 16, 1981, a strangely curled cloud attached by a thin ribbon to the bright white cloud region to the north.
PIA01958:
Saturn's Northern Mid-latitudes
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-25 Saturn Voyager
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In this image from NASA's Voyager 2 of Saturn, obtained Aug. 11, 1981, from a range of 14.7 million kilometers (9.1 million miles), north is at the upper right edge of the disc. Seen above the planet are the satellites Dione (right) and Enceladus.
PIA01959:
Voyager 2 Image of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-25 Saturn Voyager
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These images of NASA's Voyager 2 of Saturn's northern hemisphere were taken Aug. 19, 1981, from a distance of 7.1 million kilometers (4.4 million miles).
PIA01960:
Saturn's Northern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-25 Saturn Voyager
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In this false-color photograph Voyager 2, obtained Aug. 20, 1981, from a distance of 6.4 million kilometers (4 million miles), north is to the upper left. This view of the northern edge of Saturn's North Temperate Belt.
PIA01961:
Saturn's North Temperate Belt
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-28 Saturn Voyager
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Circulation around a large brown spot in Saturn's atmosphere can be seen in this pair of NASA's Voyager 2 images taken Aug. 23 and 24, 1981, from distances of 2.7 million and 2.3 million kilometers (1.7 million and 1.4 million miles), respectively.
PIA01963:
Large Brown Spot in Saturn's Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-06 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 returned this view of Saturn and its ring system Aug. 11, when the spacecraft was 13.9 million kilometers (8.6 million miles) away and approaching the large, gaseous planet at about l million km. (620,000 mi.) a day.
PIA01966:
Saturn and its Ring System
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-15 Earth Voyager
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This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon -- the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft -- was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by NASA's Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth.
PIA01967:
Crescent-shaped Earth and Moon
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-06-16 Saturn Voyager
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Further details of Saturn's atmosphere are evident in this photograph, a black-and-white print of a green-filter frame taken Aug. 21 by NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA01973:
Saturn's Atmosphere
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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 1999-07-25 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 1999-07-25 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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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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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 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 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 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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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 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 1999-08-01 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 1999-08-08 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 1999-08-18 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 1999-08-19 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 1999-08-23 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 1999-10-14 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 1999-10-15 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 1999-10-29 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 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 1999-12-10 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 took this photograph of Saturn on Oct. 18, 1980, 34 million kilometers (21.1 million miles) from the planet.
PIA02225:
Saturn Approach - Full Disk
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-10 Saturn Voyager
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The north polar region of Saturn is pictured in great detail in this NASA Voyager 2 image obtained Aug. 25 from a range of 633,000 kilometers (393,000 miles).
PIA02226:
Saturn - North Polar Region
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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 1999-12-20 Saturn Voyager
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This image of the northern hemisphere of Saturn was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 5, 1980 at a range of 9 million kilometers (5.5 million miles) shows a variety of features in Saturn's clouds.
PIA02230:
Northern Hemisphere of Saturn
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This false color image from NASA's Voyager 1, taken on November 6, 1980 from a distance of about 8 million kilometers, shows somewhat similar, although much smaller, red spot on Saturn.
PIA02239:
Saturn's Red Spot
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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 2000-04-06 Jupiter Voyager
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This frame from a movie records an eruptive event in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter over a period of 8 Jupiter days. As NASA's Voyager 2 approached Jupiter in 1979, it took images of the planet at regular intervals.
PIA02257:
Voyager 2 Jupiter Eruption Movie Animation Icon
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This frame from a movie shows a portion of Jupiter in the southern hemisphere over 17 Jupiter days. As NASA's Voyager 1 approached Jupiter in 1979, it took images of the planet at regular intervals.
PIA02258:
Voyager 1 Jupiter Southern Hemisphere Movie Animation Icon
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This frame from a movie shows the portion of Jupiter around the Great Red Spot as it swirls through more than 60 Jupiter days. As NASA's Voyager 1 approached Jupiter in 1979, it took images of the planet at regular intervals.
PIA02259:
Voyager 1 Red Spot Movie Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 Saturn Voyager
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The three separate components of Saturn's F-ring are seen in this image taken by NASA's Voyager l on Nov. 12, 1980, from a range of 750,000 kilometers (466,000) miles.
PIA02272:
Saturn's F-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn's F, or outermost ring was photographed from the un-illuminated face of the rings by NASA's Voyager 1 at a range of 750,000 kilometers (470,000 miles).
PIA02283:
Saturn's F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 Saturn Voyager
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Two satellites of Saturn share an orbit 151,400 kilometers from the center of the planet. The leading co-orbital satellite, designated 1980S1, is seen in transit across Saturn in this image taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980.
PIA02284:
Saturn's Satellite 1980S1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-12-19 Jupiter Voyager
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This is a frame from the original Voyager 'Blue Movie' (so named because it was built from Blue filter images). It records the approach of NASA's Voyager 1 during a period of over 60 Jupiter days.
PIA02855:
Voyager 1 "Blue Movie" Animation Icon
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Saturn's rings are bright and its northern hemisphere defined by bright features as NASA's Voyager 2 approaches Saturn, which it will encounter on Aug. 25, 1981.
PIA03152:
Saturn's Atmospheric Changes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-12-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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An artist's concept illustrates the positions of the Voyager spacecraft in relation to structures formed around our Sun by the solar wind.
PIA04927:
Voyager Approaches Final Frontier (Artist's Concept)
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft in a new region at the edge of our solar system where there are fewer low energy particles that originate from inside our solar system.
PIA15176:
Low-Energy Particles Leaking out of the Solar System (Artist's Concept)
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft in a new region at the edge of our solar system where the amount of high-energy particles diffusing into our solar system from outside has increased.
PIA15177:
Energetic Particles from Outside our Solar System Increase (Artist's Concept)
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft in a new region at the edge of our solar system where the magnetic field lines generated by our sun are piling up and intensifying.
PIA15178:
Magnetic Field Lines Intensifying (Artist's Concept)
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This frame from an animation shows how the magnetic field lines emanating from our sun spiral out into the solar system as the sun rotates. NASA's Voyager 1 is in an area scientists are calling the stagnation region, at the outer layer of the heliosphere.
PIA15179:
The Sun's Magnetic Field Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-12-03 Sol (our sun) Voyager
Magnetometer
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This artist's concept shows how NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is bathed in solar wind from the southern hemisphere flowing northward. This phenomenon creates a layer of giant bubble of solar ions just inside the outer boundary of the heliosphere.
PIA16482:
The Sun's Southern Wind Flows Northward (Artist's Concept)
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This artist's concept shows plasma flows around NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft as it approaches interstellar space. Voyager 1's low-energy charged particle instrument detects the speed of the wind of plasma, or hot ionized gas, streaming off the sun.
PIA16483:
Plasma Flow Near Voyager 1 (Artist Animation) Animation Icon
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This artist's concept shows the different expected directions of the magnetic fields in interstellar space (black lines) and the magnetic field emanating from our sun (white lines) as NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft travels northward out of the heliosphere.
PIA16485:
Solar and Interstellar Magnetic Fields (Artist's Concept)
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This image from a set of animations show NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft exploring a new region in our solar system called the 'magnetic highway'.
PIA16486:
Voyager 1 Explores the "Magnetic Highway" Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft in a new region at the edge of our solar system where the magnetic field lines generated by our sun are piling up and intensifying.
PIA16734:
Magnetic Field Line Pile-Up (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-27 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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This artist's concept shows NASA's two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the outer shell of the bubble of charged particles around our sun.
PIA17033:
Voyagers in the Heliosheath (Cropped)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-27 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft exploring a region called the 'depletion region' or 'magnetic highway' at the outer limits of our heliosphere, the bubble the sun blows around itself.
PIA17034:
Transitional Regions at the Heliosphere's Outer Limits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
Plasma Wave Instrument
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This visual represents sounds captured of interstellar space by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. Voyager 1's plasma wave instrument detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma.
PIA17045:
Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space Animation Icon
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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 2013-09-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
Very Long Baseline Array
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Radio telescopes cannot see Voyager 1 in visible light, but rather 'see' the spacecraft signal in radio light. This image of Voyager 1's signal on Feb. 21, 2013. At the time, Voyager 1 was 11.5 billion miles (18.5 billion kilometers) away.
PIA17047:
Voyager Signal Spotted By Earth Radio Telescopes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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This artist's concept shows the general locations of NASA's two Voyager spacecraft. Voyager 1 (top) has sailed beyond our solar bubble into interstellar space. Voyager 2 (bottom) is still exploring the outer layer of the solar bubble.
PIA17048:
One Voyager Out, One Voyager In (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager spacecraft against a backdrop of stars.
PIA17049:
Voyager in Space (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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This graphic of Voyager 1 shows its location when it crossed into interstellar space.
PIA17441:
Observed Change in Density Shows Voyager is in Interstellar Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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The artist's concept on left is based on theoretical models predicting the direction and strength of magnetic field lines coming from the sun and interstellar space.
PIA17442:
Mystery of the Interstellar Magnetic Field (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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This artist's concept shows the outer layers of our solar bubble, or heliosphere, and nearby interstellar space. NASA's Voyager 1 is currently exploring a region of interstellar space.
PIA17460:
Moving into Interstellar Space (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
Oschin Schmidt Telescope
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The image taken by the Oschin Schmidt Telescope, shows the star AC +79 3888, also known as Gliese 445. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is on a trajectory out of our solar system, is headed toward an encounter with AC +79 3888 (circled in red).
PIA17461:
Heading toward Gliese 445
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft entering interstellar space. Interstellar space is dominated by the plasma, or ionized gas, that was ejected by the death of nearby giant stars millions of years ago.
PIA17462:
Voyager 1 Entering Interstellar Space (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-12 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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This schematic shows our solar bubble moving through nearby interstellar space, or the space between stars.
PIA17463:
Heliosphere Traveling Through Interstellar Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 1986-12-18 Uranus Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This is an image of the planet Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986.
PIA18182:
Uranus as seen by NASA's Voyager 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-02-12 Earth Voyager
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image shows an updated version of the iconic Pale Blue Dot image taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
PIA23645:
Pale Blue Dot Revisited
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-03-25 Uranus Voyager
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An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field.
PIA23683:
GIF of Uranus' Magnetic Field
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-04 Uranus Voyager
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New modeling shows that there likely is an ocean layer in four of Uranus' major moons: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. Miranda is too small to retain enough heat for an ocean layer.
PIA25500:
Major Moons of Uranus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-24 Mars Viking
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
MOLA
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This view of Lyot Crater is a combined mapping by NASA's Project Viking with elevation information from Mars Global Surveyor showing at least one of the nine craters in the northern lowlands of Mars with exposures of hydrated minerals detected from orbit.
PIA13215:
Hydrated Minerals Exposed at Lyot, Northern Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-06-03 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera A
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Mosaic composed of 102 Viking Orbiter images of Mars, covering nearly a full hemisphere of the planet (approximate latitude -55 to 60 degrees, longitude 30 to 130 degrees).
PIA00003:
Valles Marineris Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-06-03 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera A
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This mosaic is composed of about 100 red- and violet- filter Viking Orbiter images, digitally mosaiced in an orthographic projection at a scale of 1 km/pixel.
PIA00004:
Schiaparelli Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-06-03 Mars Viking
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An oblique, color image of central Valles Marineris, Mars showing relief of Ophir and Candor Chasmata; view toward north. The photograph is a composite of Viking high-resolution images in black and white and low-resolution images in color.
PIA00005:
Oblique View of Valles Marineris
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-06-03 Mars Viking
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An oblique, color image of central Valles Marineris, Mars showing relief of Ophir and Candor Chasmata; view toward east. The photograph is a composite of Viking high-resolution images in black and white and low-resolution images in color.
PIA00006:
Oblique View with Altimetry of Valles Marineris
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-06-03 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera A
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Shown here is an oblique view of the polar region, as seen with NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft orbiting Mars over latitude 39 degrees north.
PIA00009:
North Polar Ice Cap
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-03 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera B
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This mosaic is composed of 104 images from NASA's Viking Orbiter acquired on February 11, 1980. At that time, it was early northern summer on Mars.
PIA00091:
Cerberus Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-03 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera B
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This mosaic of Syrtis Major is composed of about 100 red- and violet- filter NASA Viking Orbiter images, digitally mosaiced in an orthographic projection at a scale of 1 km/pixel.
PIA00092:
Syrtis Major Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-12-15 Mars Viking
Camera 2
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Operation of the surface sampler in obtaining Martian soil for NASA's Viking 2's molecular analysis experiment. Dubbed 'Bonneville Salt Flats,' the exposure of thin crust appeared unique in contrast with surrounding materials.
PIA00145:
Surface Sampler Arm Acquiring Sample
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera B
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Tharsis-centered volcanic and tectonic activity resulted in the formation of radial grabens of Memnonia Fossae, which cut materials of the ancient cratered highlands and relatively young, highland-embaying lava flows as seen by NASA's Viking Orbiter 2.
PIA00151:
Memnonia Fossae (Enhanced Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera A
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Water ice mixed with dust form the residual north polar ice cap (brown color) in these images from NASA's Viking Orbiter 2.
PIA00152:
North Polar Cap Margin (natural color (top) and enhanced color (bottom))
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera B
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A conspicuous fretted channel, Reull Valles, Mars which dissects wall deposits of the large Hellas impact basin, trends southeast towards the basin floor as seen by NASA's Viking Orbiter 2.
PIA00153:
Reull Valles (Enhanced Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera B
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Mars' Syria Planum-centered volcanism and tectonism produced fractures, narrow to broad grabens, large scarps, and broad fold and thrust ridges that deformed a basement complex captured by NASA's Viking Orbiter 2.
PIA00154:
Claritas Fossae (Enhanced Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera B
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This picture from NASA's Viking Orbiter 2 shows areas of central Valles Marineris, Mars, including Candor Chasm (lower left), Ophir Chasm (lower right), and Hebes Chasm (upper right).
PIA00155:
West Candor Chasm (Enhanced Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera A
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This picture (centered at latitude 10 degrees S., longitude 74 degrees W.) shows much of Mars' Melas Chasm and a portion of Candor Chasm (upper right) in central Valles Marineris as seen by NASA's Viking Orbiter 2.
PIA00156:
Melas Chasm (Enhanced Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera A
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Mars digital-image mosaic merged with color of the MC-1 quadrangle, Mare Boreum region of Mars. This image is from NASA's Viking Orbiter 1.
PIA00161:
MC-1 Mare Boreum Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Mars Viking
Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera A
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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
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