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ASTER Paris. NASA public domain image colelction.

ASTER Paris. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Eiffel Tower and its shadow can be seen next to the Seine in the left middle of this ASTER image of Paris. Based on the length of the shadow and the solar elevation angle of 59 degrees, we can calculate its... More

ASTER Paris. NASA public domain image colelction.

ASTER Paris. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Eiffel Tower and its shadow can be seen next to the Seine in the left middle of this ASTER image of Paris. Based on the length of the shadow and the solar elevation angle of 59 degrees, we can calculate its... More

Orbital Trajectories Presentation, America Space Program

Orbital Trajectories Presentation, America Space Program

On June 28, 1958, Charles Lundquist (right) gave a presentation on orbital trajectories at the Army Ballestic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Alabama to Hermann Oberth (left) and Wernher Von Braun (center). Von B... More

STS 30 - Space Shuttle Projects

STS 30 - Space Shuttle Projects

The STS-30 patch depicts the joining of NASA's manned and unmanned space programs. The sun and inner planets of our solar system are shown with the curve connecting Earth and Venus symbolizing the shuttle orbit... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane is attached to the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, or COS, still in its shipping container.  The crane will remove the COS and place it on a test stand. The COS is part of the payload on space shuttle Atlantis for the Hubble servicing mission, targeted to launch in mid-May.  Installing the COS during the mission will effectively restore spectroscopy to Hubble’s scientific arsenal, and at the same time provide the telescope with unique capabilities. COS is designed to study the large-scale structure of the universe and how galaxies, stars and planets formed and evolved. It will help determine how elements needed for life such as carbon and iron first formed and how their abundances have increased over the lifetime of the universe.   Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller KSC-2009-2148

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane is attached to the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, or COS, still in its shipping container. Th... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians oversee the lifting of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, or COS, from a stand.  The COS will be moved to and placed on the Orbital Replacement Unit Carrier that will be installed in space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay.  The COS is part of the payload for the Hubble servicing mission, STS-125, targeted to launch in mid-May. Installing the COS during the mission will effectively restore spectroscopy to Hubble’s scientific arsenal, and at the same time provide the telescope with unique capabilities. COS is designed to study the large-scale structure of the universe and how galaxies, stars and planets formed and evolved. It will help determine how elements needed for life such as carbon and iron first formed and how their abundances have increased over the lifetime of the universe.  Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2009-2162

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians oversee the lifting of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, or COS, from a stand. The COS w... More

First TV Image from Space. NASA public domain image colelction.

First TV Image from Space. NASA public domain image colelction.

Description (April 1, 1960) The Television InfraRed Observational Satellite (TIROS) 1 was the first weather satellite. Launched into a polar orbit equipped with two TV cameras, TIROS 1 was operational for only ... More

Venus - False Color Image of Alpha Regio

Venus - False Color Image of Alpha Regio

This Magellan radar image shows Alpha Regio, a topographic upland approximately 1,300 kilometers (806 miles) across which is centered on 25 degrees south latitude, 4 degrees east longitude. In 1963 Alpha Regio ... More

Venus - Impact Crater 'Isabella

Venus - Impact Crater 'Isabella

Crater Isabella, with a diameter of 175 kilometers (108 miles), seen in this Magellan radar image, is the second largest impact crater on Venus. The feature is named in honor of the 15th Century queen of Spain,... More

Venus - Impact Crater 'Isabella

Venus - Impact Crater 'Isabella

Crater Isabella, with a diameter of 175 kilometers (108 miles), seen in this Magellan radar image, is the second largest impact crater on Venus. The feature is named in honor of the 15th Century queen of Spain,... More

First Photograph of Mars. NASA public domain image colelction.

First Photograph of Mars. NASA public domain image colelction.

Description (August 20, 1965) The first photograph of Mars taken by the Mariner 4 flyby. Negatives supplied by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

First Picture Clearly Showing Craters on Mars

First Picture Clearly Showing Craters on Mars

Description (August 15, 1965) With a range of 13,600 km and a sun angle of 29 degrees from zenith, this Mariner 4 image was the first picture showing unambiguous craters on the surface of Mars. The area, 262 x ... More

The World's First View of Earth

The World's First View of Earth

Description (October 1, 1966) The world's first view of the Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon. The photo was transmitted to Earth by the United States Lunar Orbiter I and recieved at the... More

Surveyor 1 Shadow. NASA public domain image colelction.

Surveyor 1 Shadow. NASA public domain image colelction.

Image of Surveyor 1's shadow against the lunar surface in the late lunar afternoon, with the horizon at the upper right. Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor missions to make a successful soft landing, proved... More

Surveyor 1 Shadow. NASA public domain image colelction.

Surveyor 1 Shadow. NASA public domain image colelction.

Image of Surveyor 1's shadow against the lunar surface in the late lunar afternoon, with the horizon at the upper right. Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor missions to make a successful soft landing, proved... More

AS12-50-7326 - Apollo 12 - Apollo 12 Mission image  - Parts of United States and Central America.

AS12-50-7326 - Apollo 12 - Apollo 12 Mission image - Parts of United ...

The original database describes this as: Description: A view of the Earth as photographed during the translunar coast phase of the Apollo 12 mission. This view overlooks a great expanse of the Pacific Ocean. B... More

Pioneer 10 Trajectory. NASA public domain image colelction.

Pioneer 10 Trajectory. NASA public domain image colelction.

This image, drawn in 1970, is an artist's rendering of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft trajectory, with the planets labeled and a list of the instruments that were intended to be flown. Before the use of computer ani... More

Mars Orbiter Camera Views the " Face on Mars"- Best View from Viking

Mars Orbiter Camera Views the " Face on Mars"- Best View from Viking

Shortly after midnight Sunday morning (5 April 1998 12:39 AM PST), the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft successfully acquired a high resolution image of the " Face on Mars"... More

Mars Ice Age, Simulated. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mars Ice Age, Simulated. NASA public domain image colelction.

December 17, 2003 This simulated view shows Mars as it might have appeared during the height of a possible ice age in geologically recent time. Of all Solar System planets, Mars has the climate most like that... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane places the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, or COS, on the Orbital Replacement Unit Carrier where it will be installed.  The carrier will be placed in space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay for the Hubble servicing mission, STS-125, targeted to launch in mid-May.  Installing the COS during the mission will effectively restore spectroscopy to Hubble’s scientific arsenal, and at the same time provide the telescope with unique capabilities. COS is designed to study the large-scale structure of the universe and how galaxies, stars and planets formed and evolved. It will help determine how elements needed for life such as carbon and iron first formed and how their abundances have increased over the lifetime of the universe.  Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2009-2167

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane places the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, or COS, on the Orbital Replacement Unit Carrier wher... More

AS14-75-10258 - Apollo 14 - Apollo 14 Mission image - View of the Davy and Ptolemaeus Craters.

AS14-75-10258 - Apollo 14 - Apollo 14 Mission image - View of the Davy...

The original database describes this as: Description: View of the Davy and Ptolemaeus Craters. Images were taken during Revolution 15 of the Apollo 14 mission. Original film magazine was labeled R,film type wa... More

Mars Orbiter Camera Views the " Face on Mars"- Best View from Viking

Mars Orbiter Camera Views the " Face on Mars"- Best View from Viking

Shortly after midnight Sunday morning (5 April 1998 12:39 AM PST), the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft successfully acquired a high resolution image of the " Face on Mars"... More

Mars Ice Age, Simulated. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mars Ice Age, Simulated. NASA public domain image colelction.

December 17, 2003 This simulated view shows Mars as it might have appeared during the height of a possible ice age in geologically recent time. Of all Solar System planets, Mars has the climate most like that... More

AS15-95-12920 - Apollo 15 - Apollo 15 Mission image - View of Wallace Crater

AS15-95-12920 - Apollo 15 - Apollo 15 Mission image - View of Wallace ...

The original database describes this as: Description: View of Wallace Crater. Image was taken during the Post Rendezvous phase of the Apollo 15 mission. Original film magazine was labeled RR,film type was 340... More

AS15-92-12555 - Apollo 15 - Apollo 15 Mission image - View of Bright Crater northeast of Julius Caesar Crater

AS15-92-12555 - Apollo 15 - Apollo 15 Mission image - View of Bright C...

The original database describes this as: Description: View of Bright Crater northeast of Julius Caesar Crater. Image was taken during Revolution 71 of the Apollo 15 mission. Original film magazine was labeled ... More

Artist: Rick Guidice Solar System Artwork ARC-1972-AC72-1279

Artist: Rick Guidice Solar System Artwork ARC-1972-AC72-1279

Artist: Rick Guidice Solar System Artwork Public domain photograph - night sky, astronomy, universe, space, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Composite Pioneer 10 imagery Excitement rose as the PICS displayed images of Jupiter of ever-increasing size as Pioneer 10 plunged at high speed toward its closest approach to the planet. The most dramatic moment was perhaps after closest approach and after the spacecraft has been hidden behind Jupiter. PICS (Pioneer Image Converter System) began to show a few spots on the screens, which gradually built up into a very distorted crescent-shaped Jupiter. 'Sunrise on Jupiter,' exclaimed an experimenter excitedly. 'We've made it safely through periapsis.' Subsequent PICS images were of a crescent Jupiter gradually decreasing in size as the spacecraft sped away out of the Jovian system.  Note: used in NASA SP-349 'Pioneer Odyssey - Encounter with a Giant' fig. 5-15 and SP-446 ' Pioneer - First to Jupiter, Saturn, and Beyond' fig. 5-16. ARC-1973-AC73-9341

Composite Pioneer 10 imagery Excitement rose as the PICS displayed ima...

Composite Pioneer 10 imagery Excitement rose as the PICS displayed images of Jupiter of ever-increasing size as Pioneer 10 plunged at high speed toward its closest approach to the planet. The most dramatic mome... More

Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer (10) passing Jupiter ARC-1973-AC73-4247-6

Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer (10) passing Jupiter ARC-1973-AC73-4247-6

Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer (10) passing Jupiter Public domain photograph - night sky, astronomy, universe, space, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer Jupiter encounters Artwork: The gravity of Jupiter (or of Saturn), coupled with its orbital motion, can be used in a slingshot technique to speed spacecraft to the outer planets. (S.P. fig. no. 1-21). ARC-1973-AC73-9345

Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer Jupiter encounters Artwork: The gravity o...

Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer Jupiter encounters Artwork: The gravity of Jupiter (or of Saturn), coupled with its orbital motion, can be used in a slingshot technique to speed spacecraft to the outer planets. (S... More

Mercury At Closest Approach, NASA/JPL Mercury project images

Mercury At Closest Approach, NASA/JPL Mercury project images

Description (March 29, 1974) Taken only minutes after Mariner 10 made its closest approach to the planet Mercury on March 29, this is one of the highest resolution pictures obtained during the mission. Craters ... More

Mercury, NASA Mercury project. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mercury, NASA Mercury project. NASA public domain image colelction.

Description (March 24, 1974) Mariner 10's first image of Mercury. During its flight, Mariner 10's trajectory brought it behind the lighted hemisphere of Mercury, where this image was taken, in order to acquire ... More

Jupiter and Its Great Red Spot. NASA public domain image colelction.

Jupiter and Its Great Red Spot. NASA public domain image colelction.

Description (December 1, 1974) This view of Jupiter shows the giant planet's cloud tops taken by the Pioneer 10 spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter. This view was taken from 2,695,000 kilometers (1,842,451 miles... More

Venus, NASA/JPL Mercury project images

Venus, NASA/JPL Mercury project images

Description (1974) This picture of Venus was captured by the Mariner 10 spacecraft during its approach to the planet in early 1974. Taken with the spacecraft's imaging system using an ultraviolet filter, the pi... More

Planet Mercury. NASA public domain image colelction.

Planet Mercury. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mariner 10's first image of Mercury acquired on March 24, 1974. During its flight, Mariner 10's trajectory brought it behind the lighted hemisphere of Mercury, where this image was taken, in order to acquire im... More

Caloris Basin. NASA public domain image colelction.

Caloris Basin. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Caloris Basin, shown here in a 1 kilometer per pixel mosaic, 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 ... More

West Candor Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

West Candor Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km long, up to 240 km wide, and 6.5 km deep, whose connected chasma or valleys may have fo... More

East Candor Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

East Candor Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km long, up to 240 km wide, and 6.5 km deep, whose connected chasma or valleys may have fo... More

West Candor Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

West Candor Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km long, up to 240 km wide, and 6.5 km deep, whose connected chasma or valleys may have fo... More

East Candor Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

East Candor Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km long, up to 240 km wide, and 6.5 km deep, whose connected chasma or valleys may have fo... More

Highest-Resolution View of "Face on Mars

Highest-Resolution View of "Face on Mars

A key aspect of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Extended Mission is the opportunity to turn the spacecraft and point the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) at specific features of interest. A chance to point the spacecra... More

Ophir Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

Ophir Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km long, up to 240 km wide, and 6.5 km deep, whose connected chasma or valleys may have fo... More

Highest-Resolution View of "Face on Mars

Highest-Resolution View of "Face on Mars

A key aspect of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Extended Mission is the opportunity to turn the spacecraft and point the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) at specific features of interest. A chance to point the spacecra... More

Ophir Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

Ophir Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km long, up to 240 km wide, and 6.5 km deep, whose connected chasma or valleys may have fo... More

Voyager Spacecraft During Vibration Testing

Voyager Spacecraft During Vibration Testing

Two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets and some of their satellites. A prototype Voyager spacecraft is shown at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, as it... More

Venus - Mead Crater. NASA public domain image colelction.

Venus - Mead Crater. NASA public domain image colelction.

This Magellan image mosaic shows the largest (275 kilometers in diameter [170 miles]) impact crater known to exist on Venus at this point in the Magellan mission. The crater is located north of Aphrodite Terra ... More

Venus - Mead Crater. NASA public domain image colelction.

Venus - Mead Crater. NASA public domain image colelction.

This Magellan image mosaic shows the largest (275 kilometers in diameter [170 miles]) impact crater known to exist on Venus at this point in the Magellan mission. The crater is located north of Aphrodite Terra ... More

PIONEER VENUS ORBITER AND MULTI PROBE

PIONEER VENUS ORBITER AND MULTI PROBE

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 5/2/1978 Photographer: DONALD HUEBLER Keywords: 1978_01565.jpg c1978_01500s Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

PLANETS - VENUS - EARTH - SATURN, NASA Technology Images

PLANETS - VENUS - EARTH - SATURN, NASA Technology Images

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 4/30/1979 Keywords: Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

Jupiter System Montage, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

Jupiter System Montage, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

(March 1979) Jupiter and its four planet-size moons, called the Galilean satellites, were photographed in early March 1979 by Voyager 1 and assembled into this collage. They are not to scale but are in their re... More

PLANET JUPITER, NASA Technology Images

PLANET JUPITER, NASA Technology Images

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 5/8/1979 Keywords: Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

PLANET JUPITER AND ITS SATELLITES PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE VOYAGER SPACECRAFT

PLANET JUPITER AND ITS SATELLITES PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE VOYAGER SPACECRA...

PLANET JUPITER AND ITS SATELLITES PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE VOYAGER SPACECRAFT NASA Identifier: C-1979-2325

Pioneer 11 Image of Saturn and its Moon Titan

Pioneer 11 Image of Saturn and its Moon Titan

Description: (August 26, 1979) NASA's Pioneer 11 image of Saturn and its moon Titan at the upper left. The irregularities in ring silhouette and shadow are due to technical anomalies in the preliminary data lat... More

PLANETS - VENUS - EARTH - SATURN, NASA Technology Images

PLANETS - VENUS - EARTH - SATURN, NASA Technology Images

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 4/30/1979 Keywords: Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

PLANET JUPITER SHOWING THE GIANT RED SPOT - JUPITER MOON IO

PLANET JUPITER SHOWING THE GIANT RED SPOT - JUPITER MOON IO

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 4/9/1979 Keywords: Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

JUDY CHRISTOFFERSON WITH PLANET JUPITER PHOTOGRAPHS

JUDY CHRISTOFFERSON WITH PLANET JUPITER PHOTOGRAPHS

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 5/29/1979 Photographer: DONALD HUEBLER Keywords: Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

PLANET JUPITER AND ITS SATELLITES PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE VOYAGER SPACECRAFT

PLANET JUPITER AND ITS SATELLITES PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE VOYAGER SPACECRA...

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 6/5/1979 Photographer: COPY NEGATIVE Keywords: 1979_02325.jpg c1979_02300s Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

PLANETS - VENUS - EARTH - SATURN, NASA Technology Images

PLANETS - VENUS - EARTH - SATURN, NASA Technology Images

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 4/30/1979 Keywords: Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

Photo by Voyager 1 Jupiter's satellite Io poses before the giant planet in this photo returned Jan 17, 1979 from a distance of 29 million miles (47 million kilometers). The satellite's shadow can be seen falling on the face of Jupiter at left. Io is traveling from left to right in its one-and-three-quarter-day orbit around Jupiter. Even from this great distance the image of Io shows dark poles and bright equatorial region. Voyager 1 will make its closest approach to Jupiter  174, 000 miles (280,000 kilometer) on March 5. It will then continue to Saturn in November 1980. This color photo was assembled at Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Image Processing Lab from three black and white images taken through filters. The Voyagers are managed for NASA's Office of Space Science by Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (JPL Ref: P-20946C) ARC-1979-AC79-0143-4

Photo by Voyager 1 Jupiter's satellite Io poses before the giant plane...

Photo by Voyager 1 Jupiter's satellite Io poses before the giant planet in this photo returned Jan 17, 1979 from a distance of 29 million miles (47 million kilometers). The satellite's shadow can be seen fallin... More

Photo by Voyager 1 (JPL) The spacecraft took this photo of the planet Jupiter on Jan 24, while still more than 25 million miles (40 million kilometers) away. As the spacecraft draws closer to the planet (about 1 million kilometers a day) more details are emergng in the turbulent clouds. The Great Red Spot shows prominently below center, surrounded by what scientists call a remarkably complex region of the giant planet's atmosphere. An elongated yellow cloud within the Great Red Spot is swirling around the spot's interior boundary in a counterclockwise direction with a period of a little less than six days, confirming the whirlpool-like circulation that astronomers have suspected from ground-based photographs. Ganymede, Jupiter's largest satellite, can be seen to the lower left of the planet. Ganymede is a planet-sized body larger than Mercury. This color photo was assembled at Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Image Processing Lab from there black and white images taken through filters. The Voyagers are managed for NASA's Office of Space Science by Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  (ref: P-20945C  Mission Image 1-9) ARC-1979-AC79-0143-3

Photo by Voyager 1 (JPL) The spacecraft took this photo of the planet ...

Photo by Voyager 1 (JPL) The spacecraft took this photo of the planet Jupiter on Jan 24, while still more than 25 million miles (40 million kilometers) away. As the spacecraft draws closer to the planet (about ... More

NASA Space Science, Voyager Project

NASA Space Science, Voyager Project

On February 5, 1979, Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Jupiter since early 1974 and 1975 when Pioneers 10 and 11 made their voyages to Jupiter and beyond. Voyager 1 completed its Jupiter encounter in early... More

Photo by Voyager 1 (JPL) Jupiter, its Great Red Spot and three of its four largest satellites are visible in this photo taken Feb 5, 1979 by Voyager 1. The spacecraft was 28.4 million kilomters (17.5 million miles) from the planet at the time. The inner-most large satellite, Io, can be seen against Jupiter's disk. Io is distinguished by its bright, brown-yellow surface. To the right of Jupiter is the satellite Europa, also very bright but with fainter surface markings. The darkest satellite, Callisto (still nearly twice as bright as Earth's Moon), is barely visible at the bottom left of the picture. Callisto shows a bright patch in its northern hemisphere. All tThree orbit Jupiter in the equatorial plane, and appear in their present position because Voyageris above the plane. All three satellites show the same face to Jupiter always -- just as Earth's Moon always shows us the same face. In this photo we see the sides of the satellites that always face away from the planet. Jupiter's colorfully banded atmosphere displays complex patterns highlighted by the Great Red Spot, a large, circulating atmospheric disturbance. This photo was assembled from three black and white negatives by the Image Processing Lab at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. JPL manages and controls the Voyage Project for NASA's Office of Space Science. (ref: P-21083) ARC-1969-AC79-0164-2

Photo by Voyager 1 (JPL) Jupiter, its Great Red Spot and three of its ...

Photo by Voyager 1 (JPL) Jupiter, its Great Red Spot and three of its four largest satellites are visible in this photo taken Feb 5, 1979 by Voyager 1. The spacecraft was 28.4 million kilomters (17.5 million mi... More

This mosaic of Jupiter was assembled from nine individual photos taken through an orange filter by Voyager 1 on Feb. 6, 1979, when the spacecraft was 4.7 million miles (7.8 million kilometers) from Jupiter.  Distortion of the mosaic, especially where portions of the limb have been fitted together, is caused by rotation of the planet during the 96-second intervals between individual pictures.  The large atmospheric feature just below and to the right of center is the Great Red Spot.  The complex structure of the cloud formations seen over the entire planet gives some hint of the equally complex motions in the Voyager 1 time-lapse photography.  The smallest atomospheric features seen in this view are approximately 85 miles (140 kilometers) across.  Voyager project is managed and controlled by Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science.  (JPL ref. No. P-21146) ARC-1979-A79-7029

This mosaic of Jupiter was assembled from nine individual photos taken...

This mosaic of Jupiter was assembled from nine individual photos taken through an orange filter by Voyager 1 on Feb. 6, 1979, when the spacecraft was 4.7 million miles (7.8 million kilometers) from Jupiter. Di... More

Europa, taken from Voyager 1 to Jupiter

Europa, taken from Voyager 1 to Jupiter

Range : 5.9 million kilometers (3.66 million miles) Europa is Jupiter's 2nd Galilean satellites from the planet and the brightest. Photo taken early morning through violet filter. Faint swirls and linear patt... More

SATURN, NASA Technology Images - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

SATURN, NASA Technology Images - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 12/16/1980 Photographer: Unknown Keywords: Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

Galileo Regio Mosaic - Galileo over Voyager Data

Galileo Regio Mosaic - Galileo over Voyager Data

A mosaic of four Galileo images of the Galileo Regio region on Ganymede (Latitude 18 N, Longitude: 149 W) is shown overlayed on the data obtained by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979. North is to the top of the ... More

Sequence Showing Active Volcanic Plumes on Io

Sequence Showing Active Volcanic Plumes on Io

These four views of Jupiter's moon Io clearly show airborne plumes of gas and dust from two of Io's active volcanoes, Zamama and Prometheus. The bottom row consists of enlargements of the plume areas. The first... More

Completing a Global Map of Ganymede - Public domain map

Completing a Global Map of Ganymede - Public domain map

When NASA's two Voyager spacecraft passed through the Jupiter system in 1979, they captured many high resolution images of the Galilean satellites, but these encounters left some regions of these four largest J... More

Solar System Montage of Voyager Images

Solar System Montage of Voyager Images

This montage of images taken by the Voyager spacecraft of the planets and four of Jupiter's moons is set against a false-color Rosette Nebula with Earth's moon in the foreground. Studying and mapping Jupiter, S... More

Five Color Views of Io. NASA public domain image colelction.

Five Color Views of Io. NASA public domain image colelction.

Five color views of Jupiter's moon Io, as seen by NASA's Galileo spacecraft camera, were taken between the 25th and the 29th of June, 1996 Universal Time. The color is a composite of the red, green, and violet ... More

Galileo Regio Mosaic - Galileo over Voyager Data

Galileo Regio Mosaic - Galileo over Voyager Data

A mosaic of four Galileo images of the Galileo Regio region on Ganymede (Latitude 18 N, Longitude: 149 W) is shown overlayed on the data obtained by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979. North is to the top of the ... More

Shaded Relief with Height as Color, Iturralde Structure, Bolivia

Shaded Relief with Height as Color, Iturralde Structure, Bolivia

An 8-kilometer (5-mile) wide crater of possible impact origin is shown in this view of an isolated part of the Bolivian Amazon from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. The circular feature at the center-left ... More

Solar System Montage, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

Solar System Montage, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

This is a montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top to bottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, S... More

Hotspots on Io During the Ganymede 2 Encounter

Hotspots on Io During the Ganymede 2 Encounter

The Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) on the Galileo spacecraft imaged Io at high spectral resolution at a range of 439,000 km (275,000 miles) during the G2 encounter on 6 September 1996. This image sho... More

Uruk Sulcus Mosaic - Galileo over Voyager Data

Uruk Sulcus Mosaic - Galileo over Voyager Data

A mosaic of four Galileo images of the Uruk Sulcus region on Ganymede (Latitude 11 N, Longitude: 170 W) is shown overlayed on the data obtained by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979. North is to the top of the pi... More

Five Color Views of Io. NASA public domain image colelction.

Five Color Views of Io. NASA public domain image colelction.

Five color views of Jupiter's moon Io, as seen by NASA's Galileo spacecraft camera, were taken between the 25th and the 29th of June, 1996 Universal Time. The color is a composite of the red, green, and violet ... More

Shaded Relief with Height as Color, Iturralde Structure, Bolivia

Shaded Relief with Height as Color, Iturralde Structure, Bolivia

An 8-kilometer (5-mile) wide crater of possible impact origin is shown in this view of an isolated part of the Bolivian Amazon from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. The circular feature at the center-left ... More

HST's First Observation Of Jupiter

HST's First Observation Of Jupiter

*Description*: This black and white picture of Jupiter, taken in green light at 1:14 a.m. on the 11th March, 1991 by the Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows a wealth of fine detail in the ... More

Jupiter with Satellite Io. NASA public domain image colelction.

Jupiter with Satellite Io. NASA public domain image colelction.

Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter Feb. 1, 1979, at a range of 20 million miles (32.7 million kilometers). Voyager scientists can now see that different colors in clouds around the Great Red Spot imply that t... More

Europa Imaging Highlights during GEM

Europa Imaging Highlights during GEM

During the two year Galileo Europa Mission (GEM), NASA's Galileo spacecraft will focus intensively on Jupiter's intriguing moon, Europa. This montage shows samples of some of the features that will be imaged du... More

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Produces Clear Color Photo of Jupiter

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Produces Clear Color Photo of Jupiter

*Description*: This is the first true-color photograph of the giant planet Jupiter from the Wide Field Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. All features in this image are cloud formations in the ... More

Hubble Space Telescope Celestial Fireworks

Hubble Space Telescope Celestial Fireworks

*Description*: Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar e... More

Saturn System Montage, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

Saturn System Montage, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

(November 17, 1980) This montage of images of the Saturnian system was prepared from an assemblage of images taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft during its Saturn encounter in November 1980. This artist's view sh... More

Map of Pluto's Surface. NASA public domain image colelction.

Map of Pluto's Surface. NASA public domain image colelction.

This is the first image-based surface map of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto. This map was assembled by computer image processing software from four separate images of Pluto's disk taken with the E... More

Hubble Space Telescope Celestial Fireworks

Hubble Space Telescope Celestial Fireworks

*Description*: Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar e... More

Distribution of Sulfur Dioxide Frost on Io

Distribution of Sulfur Dioxide Frost on Io

Sulfur dioxide, normally a gas at room temperatures, is known to exist on Io's surface as a frost, condensing there from the hot gases emanating from the Io volcanoes. However, the deposition patterns and relat... More

SATURN, NASA Technology Images - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

SATURN, NASA Technology Images - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 12/16/1980 Photographer: Unknown Keywords: Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

Uruk Sulcus Mosaic - Galileo over Voyager Data

Uruk Sulcus Mosaic - Galileo over Voyager Data

A mosaic of four Galileo images of the Uruk Sulcus region on Ganymede (Latitude 11 N, Longitude: 170 W) is shown overlayed on the data obtained by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979. North is to the top of the pi... More

Range :  660,000 kilometers (400,000 miles) Time :  5:05 am PST This Voyager 1 picture of Mimas shows a large impact structure at 110 degrees W Long., located on that face of the moon which leads Mimas in its orbit.  The feature, about 130 kilometers in diameter (80 miles), is more than 1/4 the diameter of the entire moon.  This is a particularly interesting feature in view of its large diameter compared with the size of the satellite, and may have the largest crater diameter/satillite diameter ratio in the solar system.  The crater has a raised rim and central peak, typical of large impact structures on terrestrial planets.  Additional smaller craters, 15-45 kilometers in diameter, can be seen scattered across the surface, particularly alon the terminator.  Mimas is one of the smaller Saturnian satellites with a low density implying its chief component is ice. ARC-1980-A80-7034

Range : 660,000 kilometers (400,000 miles) Time : 5:05 am PST This V...

Range : 660,000 kilometers (400,000 miles) Time : 5:05 am PST This Voyager 1 picture of Mimas shows a large impact structure at 110 degrees W Long., located on that face of the moon which leads Mimas in its o... More

Saturn With Rhea and Dione (true color)

Saturn With Rhea and Dione (true color)

NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'true color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981, when the spacecraft was 33.9 million kilometers (21 million miles) from the planet. Two bright, presumably convective cloud pattern... More

History of Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

History of Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

This illustration is a diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's), Wide Field Planetary Camera (WF/PC), one of the five Scientific Instruments. The WF/PC uses a four-sided pyramid mirror to split a light i... More

Range :  7.7 million km. ( 4.8 million miles ) P-29465 In this image captured by Voyager 2, three newly discovered satellites of Uranus can be seen orbiting outside of the nine known rings of Uranus. The outermost of the rings, the Epsilon Ring can be seen here at upper right. The largest of the three moons viewed here, 1986U1, was discovered January 3rd. it is an estimated 90 km. ( 55 mi. )  across and its orbits Uranus every 12 hours, 19 minutes ata distance of 66,090 km. ( 41,040 mi.) from the planets center. the other two moons are slightly smaller, 1986U3 orbits every 11 hours, 6 minutes at 61,750 km. ( 38,350 mi.),1986U4 every 13 hours, 24 minutes at 69,920 km.  ( 43,420 mi.). They were dicovered on January 9th and 13th, respectively. Long exposures were required to bring out these small objects. As a result of the relative motions of the spacecraft and the moons, they appear slightly elongated. ARC-1981-A86-7005

Range : 7.7 million km. ( 4.8 million miles ) P-29465 In this image c...

Range : 7.7 million km. ( 4.8 million miles ) P-29465 In this image captured by Voyager 2, three newly discovered satellites of Uranus can be seen orbiting outside of the nine known rings of Uranus. The outerm... More

P- 24281 Saturn and it's seven moons, as photographed by Voyager 2. composite image ARC-1981-AC81-7073

P- 24281 Saturn and it's seven moons, as photographed by Voyager 2. co...

P- 24281 Saturn and it's seven moons, as photographed by Voyager 2. composite image

Artist: Gebing Artist's conception of a newborne star, still hidden in visible light by the dust clouds within which it formed, shows matter in orbit around the rotating star. Such leftover debris may eventually form comets, planets, satellites, and asteroids. Material squeezed out by the formation process is thought to be ejected along the star's rotation axis in relatively narrow, high-velocity streams of matter. (ref: SIRTF borchure 'A Window on Cosmic Birth 1987) -- Milky Way with Black hole ARC-1985-AC85-0199-5

Artist: Gebing Artist's conception of a newborne star, still hidden in...

Artist: Gebing Artist's conception of a newborne star, still hidden in visible light by the dust clouds within which it formed, shows matter in orbit around the rotating star. Such leftover debris may eventuall... More

Range:  72.3 million km. ( 44.9 million miles ) P-29314B/W This Voyager 2 photograph of Uranus shows the planets outermost, or epsilon, ring.  This is a computerized summation of six images shot by the narrow angle camera. It is the first photo to show the epsilon ring unblurred by Earth's atmosphere. The Epsilon ring, some 51,200 km. ( 31,800 miles )  from the planets center, is the most prominent of Uranus' nine known rings. Ground based observations of stellar occulations by the rings have determined that the Epsilon ring is eccentric, or elliptical, with its widest portion  about 100 km. ( 60 miles ) wide and its narrowest portion about 20 km. (12 miles ). Estimates of the rings brightness suggest that it is also very dark, with a reflectance of only 1 or 2  percent and a probable  composition of carbonaceous material similiar to that on dark asteroids and the dark side of Saturn's moon Lapetus. Because the ring is so narrow and dark, at this range,  the Voyager camera could not  resolve even the widest part,  resulting in long exposure times so obtain a good image. six exposures of 11 or 15 second duration were added together by computer to produce this image.  In this image, the central  portion is greatly overexposed. Various artifacts due to electronic effects  and image proccessing can be seen in the central portion of the frame, including the dark image just above the planets image, the diffuse brightening below it and the small, bright projection from the edge of the planet in the upper left. The ring is distinctly less prominent in the lower left portion and more prominent in the upper right. This is in agreement with the predicted locations of the narrow and wide portions of the ring, respectively. ARC-1985-A86-7001

Range: 72.3 million km. ( 44.9 million miles ) P-29314B/W This Voyage...

Range: 72.3 million km. ( 44.9 million miles ) P-29314B/W This Voyager 2 photograph of Uranus shows the planets outermost, or epsilon, ring. This is a computerized summation of six images shot by the narrow a... More

Range :  36 million km. ( 22 million miles ) P-29426B/W This Voyager 2 photograph of Uranus shows the is the  first picture to show clear evidence of latitudinal banding in the planet's atmosphere.  This is a computerized summation of five images shot by the narrow angle camera. The concentric pattern emanates like a bulls-eye from the planets pole of rotation, which, in this view, lies left of center. uranus lies almost on its side with respect to the other planets  and is rotating in a counter clockwise direction, as seen here. Clouds in the Uranian atmosphere give rise to the pattern, the first clear evidence of banding similiar to that seen previosly on Saturn and Jupiter. The bandind on Uranus, however, shows much less contrast. At the distance at which the images were acquired, Voyager's camera could have detected individual features as small as 660 km. (410 miles) across, but no such cloud or markings  were apparent. Scientists cannot yet say what properties, such as cloud height, composition, or particle size, are giving rise to the varying levels of brightness visible here. The images composing this picture  were shot through a filter that transmits only violet light. in the original, unprocessed images, the contrast of features  producing the banding is low, not more than 10 percent. In order to reduce 'noise' and enhance the visiblity of the features, processors  combined five images  and then compared the resulting  composite to a hypothetical featureless planet illuminated  by the Sun from  the proper direction. Only the ratio between the original data and the hypothetical image is shown. ARC-1985-A86-7002

Range : 36 million km. ( 22 million miles ) P-29426B/W This Voyager 2...

Range : 36 million km. ( 22 million miles ) P-29426B/W This Voyager 2 photograph of Uranus shows the is the first picture to show clear evidence of latitudinal banding in the planet's atmosphere. This is a c... More

Uranus, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

Uranus, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

Description (January 25, 1986) This view of Uranus was recorded by Voyager 2 on Jan 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet behind and set forth on the cruise to Neptune Voyager was 1 million kilometers (ab... More

Range : 12.9 million miles (8.0 million miles) P-29468C This false color Voyager photograph of Uranus shows a discrete cloud seen as a bright streak near the planets limb. The cloud visible here is the most prominent feature seen in a series of Voyager images designed to track atmospheric motions.  The occasional donut shaped features, including one at the bottom, are shadows cast by dust on the camera  optics. The picture is a highly processed composite of three images. The processing necessary to bring out the faint features on the planet also brings out these camera blemishes. The three seperate images used where shot through violet, blue, and orange filters. Each color image showd the cloud to a different degree; because they were not exposed at the same time , the images were processed to provide a good spatial match. In a true color image, the cloud would be barely discernable; the false color helps to bring out additional details. The different colors imply variations in vertical structure, but as of yet it is not possible to be specific about such differences. One possiblity is that the uranian atmosphere may contain smog like constituents, in which case some color differences may represent  differences in how these molecules are distributed. ARC-1986-AC86-7008

Range : 12.9 million miles (8.0 million miles) P-29468C This false col...

Range : 12.9 million miles (8.0 million miles) P-29468C This false color Voyager photograph of Uranus shows a discrete cloud seen as a bright streak near the planets limb. The cloud visible here is the most pro... More

Range : 9.1 million miles (5.7 million miles) P-29478C These two images pictures of Uranus, one in true color and the other in false color, were shot by Voyager 2's  narrow angle camera. The picture at left has been processed  to show Uranus as the human eye would see from the vantage point of the spacecraft. The image is a composite of shots taken through blue, green, and orange filters. The darker shadings on the upper right of the disk correspond to day-night boundaries on the planet. Beyond this boundary lies the hidden northern hemisphere of Uranus, which currently remains in total darkness as the planet rotates. The blue-green color results from the aborption of red light  by methane gas  in Uranus' deep, cold, and remarkably clear atmosphere. The picture at right uses false color and extreme contrast to bring out subtle details in the polar region of Uranus. Images obtained through ultraviolet, violet, and orange filters were respectively converted to the same  blue, green, and red colors used to produce the picture at left. The very slight contrasts visible in true color are greatly exaggerated here. In this false colr picture, Uranus reveals a dark polar hood surrounded by aseries of progressively lighter concentric bands. One possible explanation is that a brownish haze or smog, concentrated around the pole, is arranged into bands of zonal motions of the upper atmosphere. Several artifacts of the optics and processing are visible. The occasional donut shapes are shadows cast by dust in the camera optics;the processing needed to bring ot faint features also bring out camera blemishes. in addition, the bright pink strip at the lower edge of the planets limb is an artifact of the image enhancement. In fact, the limb is dark and uniform in color around the planet. ARC-1986-AC86-7009

Range : 9.1 million miles (5.7 million miles) P-29478C These two image...

Range : 9.1 million miles (5.7 million miles) P-29478C These two images pictures of Uranus, one in true color and the other in false color, were shot by Voyager 2's narrow angle camera. The picture at left has... More

P-29452 These two images of Uranus are shown here to reveal the pole rotation of the planet, as photographed by Voyager 2. The left is seen as the human eye would see, and the right isfalse color to reveal more intricate details. ARC-1986-AC86-7003

P-29452 These two images of Uranus are shown here to reveal the pole r...

P-29452 These two images of Uranus are shown here to reveal the pole rotation of the planet, as photographed by Voyager 2. The left is seen as the human eye would see, and the right isfalse color to reveal more... More

Range :  74 million km. ( 46 million miles ) P-29313CThis Voyager photograph of Uranus is a composite of for images taken by the narrow angle camera. At this range, clouds and other features in the atmosphere as small as 1,370 km. could be detected by Voyager 2. Yet, no such features are visible.  This view is toward the illuminated south pole of Uranus. The predominant blue color is the result of atmospheric methane, which absorbs the red wavelengths  from incoming sunlight. The spot at the upper left edge of the planet's disk reulted from the removal of a reseau mark used in making measurments on the photograph. Three of Uranus' five known satellites are visible; Miranda ( at far right, closest to the planet ), Ariel ( next out , at top), and Umbriel ( lower left ). Titania and Oberon are now outside the narrow angle camera's field of view when it centered on the planet. This color composite was made from images taken through blue, green, orange, and clear filters. ARC-1986-AC86-7000

Range : 74 million km. ( 46 million miles ) P-29313CThis Voyager phot...

Range : 74 million km. ( 46 million miles ) P-29313CThis Voyager photograph of Uranus is a composite of for images taken by the narrow angle camera. At this range, clouds and other features in the atmosphere a... More

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