Dawn HAMO Image 40
Photojournal: PIA19982
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a portion of the southern hemisphere of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image was taken on Sept. 20, 2015, and has a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied this tight trio of craters as it approached Saturn's icy moon Enceladus for a close flyby on Oct. 14, 2015.
Saturnian Snowman
The NASA InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket, Saturday, May 5, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
InSight Off the Pad
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, located in asteroid Vesta's Marcia quadrangle, in Vesta's northern hemisphere, demonstrate a special analytical technique, which results in shadowed areas ...
Revealing Shadows 4
OSIRIS-REx's preliminary survefy of asteroid Bennu.
Preliminary Survey of Bennu
Titan's surface and atmospheric features are shown here in this processed, visible-light image taken by Cassini. Cassini's visible-light spectral filter is sensitive to a broad range of light, fro...
A Clear View of Titan's Surface
NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained these false-color images of a circular feature in a region known as Xanadu on Saturn's moon Titan. The images, obtained by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping s...
Circular Feature at Xanadu, Titan
This image of complex patterns on Occator Crater's floor on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 5, 2018 from an altitude of about 32 miles (52 kilometers).
Complex Patterns on Occator Crater's Floor
Three of Saturn's satellites are visible in this snapshot from the Cassini spacecraft. Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) is in the top left of the image.Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 mil...
Moons in a Row
The Cassini spacecraft is closing in fast on its first target of observation in the Saturn system: the small, mysterious moon Phoebe, only 220 kilometers (137 miles) across. The three images ...
Closing in on Phoebe
Saturn's moon Enceladus drifts before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora in this view that NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured on Nov. 1, 2009. The entire scene is backlit by the Sun, providing str...
A Song of Ice and Light
The MESSENGER spacecraft has captured the first portrait of our Solar System from the inside looking out.
A Solar System Family Portrait, from the Inside Out
This mosaic from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, of Cerealia Facula combines images obtained from altitudes as low as 22 miles (35 km) above Ceres' surface.
Mosaic of Cerealia Facula
Cassini made a close flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007, and the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer obtained these images showing surface composition and particle size. The vis...
Tiny Grains on Iapetus -- Labeled
Ceres' Haulani Crater is shown in these views from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. These views reveal variations in the region's brightness, mineralogy and temperature at infrared wavelengths.
Ceres Neutron Counts Reflect Hydrogen Abundance
Exposed interior of NASA's Dawn spacecraft showing ion propulsion system's xenon feed system.
Exposed Interior of Dawn Spacecraft
Asteroid 2015 TB145 is depicted in eight individual radar images collected on Oct. 31, 2015 between 5:55 a.m. PDT (8:55 a.m. EDT) and 6:08 a.m. PDT (9:08 a.m. EDT).
Halloween Asteroid Rotation
Saturn's moon Enceladus drifts before the rings, which glow brightly in the sunlight.
Magnificent blue and gold Saturn floats obliquely as one of its gravity-bound companions, Dione, hangs in the distance. The darkened rings seem to nearly touch their shadowy reverse images on the p...
Symmetry in Shadow
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Urbinia quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere. Urbinia crater is the large, irregularly shaped crater, Sossia the middl...
Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Urbinia and Sossia Craters
Two light sources illuminate Saturn's highly reflective moon Enceladus in this image featuring bright rings and the small moon Pandora in the foreground. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing s...
Dual Illuminated Enceladus
The shadow of the moon Enceladus darkens a small portion of the swirling clouds on Saturn. Enceladus itself is not visible in this view. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rin...
Shadow from Unseen Moon
Titan bears a distinct east-west banded pattern in this Cassini spacecraft image taken in the ultraviolet. The ultraviolet wavelength allows Cassini to see Titan's stratosphere, where superrotatio...
Bands of Titan
An extended-exposure image shows the Cassini spacecraft streaking through the early morning sky over the Cape Canaveral Air Station, with the help of the Titan IVB/Centaur launch vehicle. The succe...
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of Ceres shows a portion of a large crater with prominent spurs of compacted material and gullies along its rim.
Dawn LAMO Image 82
Prometheus has just passed -- and gravitationally disturbed -- some of the fine particulate material in the F ring, creating the sheared gap visible in the inner strands of the ring. Prometheus is ...
Engineers for NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft are working to return the mission to normal operating conditions after one of the spacecraft's autonomous fault protection routines was triggered.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe began its fourth solar encounter on Jan. 23, at a distance of about 23.3 million miles from the Sun's surface.
Parker Solar Probe Prepares for New Science, New Records on Fourth Solar Orbit
Preliminary results indicate that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale yesterday as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B phase activities.
OSIRIS-REx Completes Closest Flyover of Sample Site Nightingale
NASA has finalized the first 16 science experiments and technology demonstrations, ranging from chemistry to communications, to be delivered to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program.
First Commercial Moon Delivery Assignments to Advance Artemis
Launched in 2003, Spitzer revealed previously hidden features of known cosmic objects and led to discoveries and insights spanning from our own solar system to nearly the edge of the universe.
NASA is exploring technologies that could grow structures out of fungi to become our future homes in the stars, and perhaps lead to more sustainable ways of living on Earth as well.
Could Future Homes on the Moon and Mars Be Made of Fungi?