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List 		Catalog # Target Mission Instrument Addition Date Size
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11525 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
 2009-06-30 800x953x1
The shadow of the moon Tethys stretches across Saturn's A ring before fading into the B ring as the shadow extends towards the lower right of this image.
Title:
Long Shadow of Tethys
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01361 Oberon Voyager
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 1999-08-20 2537x800x3
Montage of Uranus' five largest satellites taken by NASA's Voyager 2.. From to right to left in order of decreasing distance from Uranus are Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Ariel, and Miranda.
Title:
Uranus - Montage of Uranus' Five Largest Satellites
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01975 Miranda Voyager
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 1999-06-22 975x195x1
This 'family portrait' of Uranus' five largest moons was compiled from images sent back Jan. 20, 1986, by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Even in these distant views, the satellites exhibit distinct differences in appearance.
Title:
Uranus - Family Portrait
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12105 Mars Phoenix
 Surface Stereo Imager (SSI)
 2009-07-02 4500x6000x3
This mosaic of images from the Surface Stereo Imager camera on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows several trenches dug by Phoenix, plus a corner of the spacecraft's deck and the Martian arctic plain stretching to the horizon.
Title:
Composite View from Phoenix Lander
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11527 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-07-02 642x1016x1
Prometheus is seen near Saturn's tenuous F ring as the moon orbits in the Roche Division, between the F and A rings.
Title:
Between the Lines
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12107 Mars Phoenix
 Surface Stereo Imager (SSI)
 2009-07-02 2900x2048x3
Several of the trenches dug by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander are displayed in this approximately true color mosaic of images from the lander's Surface Stereo Imager camera.
Title:
Composite View of Phoenix Trenches
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12106 Mars Phoenix
 MECA
Surface Stereo Imager (SSI)
TEGA
 2009-07-02 3340x2664x3
This mosaic of images from the Surface Stereo Imager camera on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows a portion of the spacecraft's deck after deliveries of several Martian soil samples to instruments on the deck.
Title:
Phoenix Deck after Sample Deliveries
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11518 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
 2009-06-19 829x719x3
From Rings to Planet
Title:
From Rings to Planet
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11526 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
 2009-07-01 1004x1004x1
The Cassini spacecraft looks down on Titan's north pole and unveils the moon's upper-most atmospheric hazes, creating the appearance of a halo around Saturn's largest moon.
Title:
Atmospheric Halo
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA04594 Venus Mariner
 2003-06-27 1515x1218x3
Mariner 2 was the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft. Launched August 27, 1962, on an Atlas-Agena rocket, Mariner 2 passed within about 34,000 kilometers (21,000 miles) of Venus.
Title:
Mariner 2
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11661 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-22 700x700x1
As the moon Enceladus eclipses its neighbor Mimas, Cassini records a scene possible only around the time of Saturn's approaching equinox.
Title:
Eclipsing Mimas Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12081 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 2009-06-24 1800x1350x3
These illustrations indicate possible ways in which the water vapor and ice particles in the plume of Enceladus may be formed.
Title:
Plume Vent Models
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11660 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-22 5125x5892x1
Part of the shadow of Saturn's moon Mimas appears as if it has been woven through the planet's rings in this unusual series of images from Cassini.
Title:
Weaving a Shadow Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11516 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-17 582x582x1
Broad Impact on Tethys
Title:
Broad Impact on Tethys
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11524 Atlas Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-29 1020x1020x1
Saturn's moon Atlas plies the Roche Division between the A ring and the thin F ring.
Title:
Navigating the Blackness
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12080 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 2009-06-24 960x720x3
These drawings depict explanations for the source of intense heat that has been measured coming from Enceladus' south polar region. These models predict that water could exist in a deep layer as an ocean or sea and also near the surface.
Title:
Melted Ice
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11520 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-23 555x555x1
Serene Enceladus
Title:
Serene Enceladus
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA03153 2001-03-29 4500x5600x3
Solar System Montage - High Resolution 2001 Version
Title:
Solar System Montage - High Resolution 2001 Version
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11488 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
 2009-05-08 1018x562x3
Reciprocating Rings
Title:
Reciprocating Rings
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12102 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Microscopic Imager
 2009-06-03 4396x2061x1
This panorama of images from the Spirit rover, taken on Sol 1925 (June 2, 2009), is helping engineers assess the rover's current state and plan her extraction from the soft soil in the region now called
Title:
Spirit Photographs Her Underbelly, SOL 1925
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11522 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-25 1500x1500x1
The Cassini spacecraft examines the dark region of Senkyo on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Senkyo is in the center of the image, and it lies just south of the moon's equator.
Title:
Centered on Senkyo
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11659 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-22 3912x1585x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures the shadow of Saturn's moon Tethys as it seems to disappear as it crosses the planet's rings.
Title:
Shadow from the Dark Side Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12009 Moon Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)
 2009-05-18 6000x4000x3
The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission utilizes the technique of twin spacecraft flying in formation with a known altitude above the lunar surface and known separation distance to investigate the gravity field of the moon.
Title:
GRAIL's Twin Spacecraft fly in Tandem Around the Moon (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00037 Ariel Voyager
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2000-06-02 800x800x1
This picture is part of NASA's Voyager 2 imaging sequence of Ariel, a moon of Uranus taken on January 24, 1986. The complexity of Ariel's surface indicates that a variety of geologic processes have occurred.
Title:
Ariel at Voyager Closest Approach
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12065 Mars Dawn
 High Resolution Stereo Camera
 2009-06-04 3000x2896x1
Each image on this High Resolution Stereo Camera Image Composite (HRSC) mosaic is of the same location observed by Dawn's Framing Camera when it flew by Mars to complete the spacecraft's gravity assist maneuver on February 17, 2009.
Title:
Dawn's Framing Camera Flys by Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11658 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-22 6626x4966x1
Mimas' shadow traverses the sunlit side of Saturn's rings in this image and mosaic showcasing the unusual sights seen at Saturn as the planet approaches its August 2009 equinox.
Title:
A Shadow's Traverse Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11657 Mimas Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
 2009-06-22 986x974x3
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures the shadow of Saturn's moon Mimas as it dips onto the planet's rings and straddles the Cassini Division in this natural color image.
Title:
Across Resplendent Rings
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11523 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
 2009-06-26 979x979x1
The shadow of the moon Tethys is revealed on Saturn's B and C rings in this image which also includes the planet.
Title:
Exposing a Shadow
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12010 Moon Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)
 2009-05-18 8000x7500x3
The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission utilizes the technique of twin spacecraft flying in formation with a known altitude above the lunar surface and known separation distance to investigate the gravity field of the moon.
Title:
GRAIL's Twin Spacecraft -- Crust to Core (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09352 Jupiter New Horizons
 LORRI
 2007-05-01 3000x2025x1
Jupiter's Moons: Family Portrait
Title:
Jupiter's Moons: Family Portrait
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09703 Viking
 2007-07-09 3300x2661x3
Viking Lander Model
Title:
Viking Lander Model
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00311 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 2100x900x3
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows the boundary between the lowland plains and characteristic Venusian highland terrain in Ovda Region.
Title:
Perspective View of Venus (Center Latitude 15° S, Center Longitude 129° E)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00150 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 576x400x1
Nova Superposed on Yavine Corona
Title:
Nova Superposed on Yavine Corona
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11996 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Navigation Camera
 2009-04-23 1024x1024x1
'Von Braun' Mound in Spirit's Drive Direction
Title:
'Von Braun' Mound in Spirit's Drive Direction
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12082 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
 Composite Infrared Spectrometer
 2009-06-24 965x1348x3
This image shows the location of Cassini's most precise measurements so far of the surface temperatures at the active
Title:
Warm Tiger Stripes
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12007 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Hazard Identification Camera
 2009-05-11 1024x1024x1
Spirit's Wheels Digging into Soft Ground, Sol 1899
Title:
Spirit's Wheels Digging into Soft Ground, Sol 1899
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12002 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Hazard Identification Camera
 2009-05-01 1024x1024x1
Spirit Slipping in Soft Ground, Sol 1889
Title:
Spirit Slipping in Soft Ground, Sol 1889
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12078 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2009-06-25 1019x1024x3
The soft soil exposed when wheels of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit dug into a patch of ground dubbed
Title:
Variations in Soft Soil of 'Troy' (False Color)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12012 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Microscopic Imager
 2009-05-19 1024x1024x1
Opportunity Photographs Her Underbelly
Title:
Opportunity Photographs Her Underbelly
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09323 Sol (our sun) Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)
 SECCHI/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
 2007-04-27 1920x1080x3
NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory satellites have provided the first 3-dimensional images of the Sun. This view will aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics to improve space weather forecasting. .
Title:
Close-up View of an Active Region of the Sun, March 23, 2007 (Anaglyph)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10569 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
 2009-02-02 1019x695x1
It's Full of Moons!
Title:
It's Full of Moons!
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00309 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 1500x1500x3
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows the boundary between the lowland plains and characteristic Venusian highland terrain in Ovda Regio.
Title:
Perspective View of Venus (Center Latitude 0° N, Center Longitude 77° E)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11999 M33 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Ultraviolet/Visible Camera
 2009-04-28 2228x3462x3
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission celebrates its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way through its sensitive ultraviolet telescope, the only such far-ultraviolet detector in space. Pictured here, the galaxy NGC598 known as M33.
Title:
NASA's Galaxy Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12095 Earth Earth Observing System (EOS)
 ASTER
 2009-06-29 1280x720x3
Data from JPL's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer instrument on NASA's Terra satellite provides views of the L.A. Basin, including Dodger Stadium, the L.A.X. airport and JPL.
Title:
Cruising Over Los Angeles
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01882 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Viking
 HiRISE
 2006-12-05 5039x4356x1
Viking Lander 2 (Gerald A. Soffen Memorial Station) Imaged from Orbit
Title:
Viking Lander 2 (Gerald A. Soffen Memorial Station) Imaged from Orbit
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10149 Europa 2007-12-13 637x361x3
In this image, Europa is seen in a cutaway view through two cycles of its 3.5 day orbit about the giant planet Jupiter. Like Earth, Europa is thought to have an iron core, a rocky mantle and a surface ocean of salty water.
Title:
Europa Tide Movie Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11890 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-22 1348x2791x1
Odd rimmed depressions are located on the floor of this unnamed crater in Noachis Terra in this 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS VIS image.
Title:
Unusual Textures
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12098 Earth Earth Observing System (EOS)
 Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)
 2009-06-30 1600x1025x3
This image shows average daytime temperatures in May, 2009, as observed by JPL's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA's Aqua satellite.
Title:
Global Daytime Air Temperature for May 2009
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11889 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-19 1289x2780x1
This 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS VIS image shows a channel with extensive scalloping of its margins. The process of scalloping is widening the channel.
Title:
Channel
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11883 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-11 1271x5915x1
Channels dissect the northern rim of this unnamed crater in Terra Cimmeria.
Title:
Crater Rim Channels
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00157 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 4064x4064x3
Hemispheric View of Venus Centered at 0 Degrees East Longitude
Title:
Hemispheric View of Venus Centered at 0 Degrees East Longitude
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12099 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 2009-06-30 1856x1371x3
Rover team members Kim Lichtenberg (left) and Mike Seibert fill a mixer with powdered clay and diatomaceous earth, a combination found to offer physical properties similar to the soil where NASA's rover Spirit is embedded on Mars.
Title:
Preparing a Test Mixture
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA03151 Venus Magellan
 Arecibo Radar Data
Radar System
 2001-03-15 13966x8887x3
The images used for the base of this globe show the northern and southern hemispheres of Venus as revealed by more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in the 1990-1994 Magellan mission.
Title:
Venus Hemispherical Globes
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11528 Daphnis Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-07-03 1020x1020x1
A scalloped look is created in the edges of the Keeler Gap in Saturn's outer A ring as the moon Daphnis orbits in the gap.
Title:
Scallops at the Edges
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11881 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-09 959x2787x1
Intersecting linear ridges are found in several locations around the south polar cap.
Title:
Polar Ridges
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11882 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-10 929x2769x1
As spring turns to summer, the frost cover has been removed from the south polar cap. The surface textures seen in this VIS image are created by action of the sun on the icy cap.
Title:
South Polar Textures
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09331 Sol (our sun) Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)
 SECCHI/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
 2007-04-27 1920x1080x3
NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory satellites have provided the first 3-dimensional images of the Sun. This view will aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics to improve space weather forecasting.
Title:
South Pole of the Sun, March 20, 2007 (Anaglyph)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11893 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-25 1310x2797x1
This 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS VIS image of the western portion of Sirenum Fossae shows mesa formation.
Title:
Sirenum Fossae
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00314 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 700x1400x3
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows part of the lowland plains in Sedna Planitia.
Title:
Sedna Planitia (Right Member of a Synthetic Stereo Pair)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00306 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 2000x940x3
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows part of Sedna Planitia and illustrates a common phenomenon of the lowland plains of Venus.
Title:
Perspective View of Venus (Center Latitude 45° N, Center Longitude 350° E)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA05518 Sol (our sun) Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2004-03-08 399x198x3
The panoramic camera on NASA's Opportunity combines the first photographs of solar eclipses by Mars' two moons, Deimos and Phobos. Deimos appears as a speck in front of the Sun and Phobos grazes its edge.
Title:
Martian Eclipses: Deimos and Phobos
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA03526 Europa Galileo
Voyager
 2002-02-16 8812x4381x3
Europa Hemispherical Globes
Title:
Europa Hemispherical Globes
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12091 Earth Earth Observing System (EOS)
 ASTER
 2009-06-29 1488x1493x3
Death Valley, Calif., has the lowest point in North America, Badwater at 85.5 meters (282 feet) below sea level. It is also the driest and hottest location in North America.
Title:
Death Valley, California
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11885 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-15 320x1808x1
This infrared image of Proctor Crater shows the dune field on the floor of the crater. The dunes are bright in this daytime image, indicating they are warmer than the surrounding crater materials.
Title:
Proctor Crater Dunes
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09333 Sol (our sun) Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)
 SECCHI/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
 2007-04-27 1920x1080x3
NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory satellites have provided the first 3-dimensional images of the Sun. This view will aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics to improve space weather forecasting.
Title:
Left Limb of North Pole of the Sun, March 20, 2007 (Anaglyph)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00308 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 1500x1500x3
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows part of the lowlands to the north of Ovda Regio. The prominent topographic feature is a shield volcano.
Title:
Perspective View of Venus (Center Latitude 15° N, Center Longitude 77° E)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00310 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 2100x1500x3
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows the boundary between the lowland plains and characteristic Venusian highland terrain in Ovda Regio.
Title:
Perspective View of Venus (Center Latitude 0° N, Center Longitude 129° E)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12101 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 2009-06-30 1243x928x3
While a test rover rolls off a plywood surface into a prepared bed of soft soil, rover team members Colette Lohr (left) and Kim Lichtenberg (center) eye the wheels digging into the soil and Paolo Bellutta enters the next driving command.
Title:
Test Rover Sinks into Prepared Soil
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10124 Venus MESSENGER
 Mercury Dual Imaging System - Wide Angle
 2007-06-05 1024x1024x1
The MESSENGER spacecraft snapped a series of images as it approached Venus on June 5. The planet is enshrouded by a global layer of clouds that obscures its surface to the MESSENGER Dual Imaging System (MDIS) cameras.
Title:
Approaching Venus Image #2
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11888 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-18 320x1040x1
This is a 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS IR image of an unnamed channel in northwestern Terra Cimmeria.
Title:
Channel
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00158 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 4064x4064x3
Hemispheric View of Venus Centered at 90 Degrees East Longitude
Title:
Hemispheric View of Venus Centered at 90 Degrees East Longitude
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10224 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
 Visible Light
 2008-01-25 2000x2682x3
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows detailed analysis of two continent-sized storms that erupted in Jupiter's atmosphere in March 2007 shows that Jupiter's internal heat plays a significant role in generating atmospheric disturbances .
Title:
Jupiter Eruptions
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09325 Sol (our sun) Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)
 SECCHI/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
 2007-04-27 1920x1080x3
NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory satellites have provided the first 3-dimensional images of the Sun. This view will aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics to improve space weather forecasting.
Title:
Closer View of the Equatorial Region of the Sun, March 24, 2007 (Anaglyph)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10131 Europa 2007-12-13 6060x3000x3
Scientists are all but certain that Europa has an ocean underneath its icy surface, but they do not know how thick this ice might be. This artist concept illustrates two possible cut-away views through Europa's ice shell.
Title:
Thick or Thin Ice Shell on Europa?
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01341 1999-05-03 2000x2445x3
Solar System Montage (Updated)
Title:
Solar System Montage (Updated)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12077 Moon Deep Space Network (DSN)
 Goldstone Solar System Radar
 2009-06-18 4000x3796x3
This composite image depicts the moon's rugged south polar region in two lights. The color image is the highest resolution topography map to date of the moon's south pole.
Title:
Moon's Rugged South Polar Region Composite
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA03781 Ganymede Galileo
Voyager
 Imaging Science Subsystem
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2002-05-10 8817x4382x3
Global Map of Ganymede
Title:
Global Map of Ganymede
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11515 Pandora Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-16 876x876x1
Diminutive Debut
Title:
Diminutive Debut
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12092 Earth Earth Observing System (EOS)
 ASTER
 2009-06-29 1556x1370x3
In the Bhutan Himalayas, Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer data have revealed significant spatial variability in glacier flow.
Title:
Himalayan Glaciers in Bhutan
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12100 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 2009-06-30 1704x1458x3
Rover team members Mike Seibert (left) and Paolo Bellutta add a barrowful of soil mixture to the sloped box where a test rover will be used for assessing possible maneuvers for NASA's rover Spirit to use in escaping from a sandtrap on Mars.
Title:
Filling the Simulated Sandtrap
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00316 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 700x1400x3
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, is a look westward across the Fortuna Tessera toward the slopes of Maxwell Montes.
Title:
Looking Westward Across the Fortuna Tessera (Right Member of a Synthetic Stereo Pair)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10125 Venus MESSENGER
 Mercury Dual Imaging System - Wide Angle
 2007-06-05 608x919x1
After acquiring hundreds of high-resolution images during close approach to Venus, MESSENGER turned its wide-angle camera back to the planet and acquired a departure sequence.
Title:
MESSENGER Bids Farewell to Venus Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09327 Sol (our sun) Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)
 SECCHI/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
 2007-04-27 1920x1080x3
NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory satellites have provided the first 3-dimensional images of the Sun. This view will aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics to improve space weather forecasting. .
Title:
Right Limb of the South Pole of the Sun, March 18, 2007 (Anaglyph)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12093 Earth Earth Observing System (EOS)
 ASTER
 2009-06-29 1280x720x3
The Los Angeles Basin is bordered on the north by the San Gabriel Mountains. Other smaller basins are separated by smaller mountain ranges, like the Verdugo Hills, and the Santa Monica Mountains in this ASTER view.
Title:
Los Angeles Basin
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12076 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-22 447x928x3
Pastel colors swirl across Mars, revealing differences in the composition and nature of the surface in this false-color infrared image taken on May 22, 2009,by the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
Title:
Improved Infrared Imaging from Changed Odyssey Orbit
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11519 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-22 1010x1010x1
Fascinating F Ring
Title:
Fascinating F Ring
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12003 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
 2009-05-06 2560x1920x3
Branched Features on the Floor of Antoniadni Crater
Title:
Branched Features on the Floor of Antoniadni Crater
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00315 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 700x1400x3
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, is a look westward across the Fortuna Tessera toward the slopes of Maxwell Montes.
Title:
Looking Westward Across the Fortuna Tessera (Left Member of a Synthetic Stereo Pair)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA03876 Callisto Galileo
Voyager
 Imaging Science Subsystem
Solid-State Imaging
 2002-10-17 8860x4490x3
Callisto Hemispherical Globes
Title:
Callisto Hemispherical Globes
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09329 Sol (our sun) Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)
 SECCHI/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
 2007-04-27 1920x1080x3
NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory satellites have provided the first 3-dimensional images of the Sun. This view will aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics to improve space weather forecasting.
Title:
North Pole of the Sun, March 20, 2007 (Anaglyph)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00098 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-03 723x425x1
Close-up view of Yavine Corona
Title:
Close-up view of Yavine Corona
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11968 NGC 3242 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
 Ultraviolet/Visible Camera
 2009-04-03 2240x2240x3
This ultraviolet image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows NGC 3242, a planetary nebula frequently referred to as 'Jupiter's Ghost.' The small circular white and blue area at the center of the image is the well-known portion of the nebula.
Title:
The Extended Region Around the Planetary Nebula NGC 3242
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12103 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 2009-07-01 2288x1318x3
With a slope of about 10 degrees and a pointy rock under the test rover's belly, this sandbox setup at NASA's JPL, is ready for engineers to use the test rover to assess possible moves for getting Mars rover Spirit out of a patch of loose Martian soil.
Title:
Test Setup for Effort to Free Spirit
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11521 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle
 2009-06-24 1014x1014x1
Faint Spokes on a Ring
Title:
Faint Spokes on a Ring
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12000 M33 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Ultraviolet/Visible Camera
 2009-04-28 4402x4402x3
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission celebrates its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way through its sensitive ultraviolet telescope, the only such far-ultraviolet detector in space.
Title:
NASA's Galaxy Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11887 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-17 320x1808x1
Many craters around the south polar cap contain dune fields on their floors. This is one example of such a crater. This image was taken with the 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS infrared camera and shows the warm daytime temperature of the dunes.
Title:
Southern Crater Dunes
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01544 Venus Hubble Space Telescope
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 1999-05-18 170x248x3
Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken on January 24 1995, when Venus was at a distance of 70.6 million miles (113.6 million kilometers) from Earth.
Title:
Venus
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA03167 Venus Magellan
 Arecibo Radar Data
Radar System
 2001-08-27 15464x9249x3
The images used for the base of this globe show the northern and southern hemispheres of Venus as revealed by more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in the 1990-1994 Magellan mission.
Title:
Venus Hemispherical Globes (with place names)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09579 Messier 81 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 GALEX Telescope
Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)
Visible Light
 2007-06-01 3180x2456x3
M81 Galaxy is Pretty in Pink
Title:
M81 Galaxy is Pretty in Pink
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12096 Earth Earth Observing System (EOS)
 Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)
 2009-06-30 1600x1025x3
This image represents the total precipitable water vapor for May 2009 asobserved by JPL's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA's Aqua satellite.
Title:
Global Total Precipitable Water Wapor for May 2009
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12083 Mercury MESSENGER
 Mercury Dual Imaging System - Wide Angle
 2009-06-30 870x729x3
This image was recently featured in an article in Science magazine about the evolution of Mercury’s crust.
Title:
Mapping Mercury's Crust
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12090 Earth Earth Observing System (EOS)
 ASTER
 2009-06-29 4320x2160x3
NASA and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) released the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) to the worldwide public on June 29, 2009.
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ASTER's Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09321 Sol (our sun) Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)
 SECCHI/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
 2007-04-27 1920x1080x3
NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites have provided the first three-dimensional images of the Sun. The structure of the corona shows well in this image.
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Full Disk Image of the Sun, March 26, 2007 (Anaglyph)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10123 Venus MESSENGER
 Mercury Dual Imaging System - Wide Angle
 2006-11-24 1048x528x1
On Oct. 24, 2006, the MESSENGER spacecraft came within 2,990 kilometers (1,860 miles) of Venus during its second planetary encounter.
Title:
Approaching Venus
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00159 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 4064x4064x3
The view of Venus, after more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in the 1990-1994 Magellan mission, is centered at 180 degrees east longitude.
Title:
Hemispheric View of Venus Centered at 180° East Longitude
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11891 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-23 1227x5889x1
This 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS VIS image crosses Coprates Chasma, showing both floor and wall features of the canyon.
Title:
Coprates Chasma
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12094 Earth Earth Observing System (EOS)
 ASTER
 2009-06-29 1281x718x3
Data from JPL's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer instrument on NASA's Terra satellite provides views of the L.A. Basin, San Francisco Bay and more.
Title:
Cruising Over California
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11998 M33 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Ultraviolet/Visible Camera
 2009-04-28 2228x3462x3
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission celebrates its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way through its sensitive ultraviolet telescope, the only such far-ultraviolet detector in space. Pictured here, the galaxy NGC598 known as M33.
Title:
NASA's Galaxy Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11884 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-12 1312x2796x1
This image shows some of the eroded, layered crater fill material within Terby Crater.
Title:
Terby Crater
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00307 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 2000x1600x3
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows part of the lowland plains in Sedna Planitia.
Title:
Perspective View of Venus (Center Latitude 45° N, Center Longitude 11° E)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11892 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-24 1327x2804x1
This 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS VIS image shows a portion of the eastern end of Sirenum Fossae.
Title:
Sirenum Fossae
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12097 Earth Earth Observing System (EOS)
 Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)
 2009-06-30 1600x1025x3
This image represents the total precipitable water vapor for May, 2009 as observed by JPL's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA's Aqua satellite.
Title:
Global Total Precipitable Water Vapor for May 2009
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00312 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 1500x1500x3
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows the impact crater Markham, named after the English aviator Beryl Markham.
Title:
Perspective View of Venus (Center Latitude 0° N, Center Longitude 163° E)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA08697 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
 2006-08-23 3000x2400x3
Big Black Holes Mean Bad News for Stars (diagram)
Title:
Big Black Holes Mean Bad News for Stars (diagram)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11886 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 Thermal Emission Imaging System
 2009-06-16 1314x2919x1
This 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS VIS image shows a landslide in Capri Chasma.
Title:
Landslide
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00313 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 700x1400x3
This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows part of the lowland plains in Sedna Planitia. Circular depressions with associated fracture patterns, called 'coronae.'
Title:
Sedna Planitia (Left Member of a Synthetic Stereo Pair)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02245 Neptune Voyager
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2000-02-16 650x650x3
Neptune's blue-green atmosphere is shown in greater detail than ever before by the Voyager 2 spacecraft as it rapidly approaches its encounter with the giant planet. This color image shows several complex and puzzling atmospheric features.
Title:
Neptune's blue-green atmosphere
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00434 Moon DSPSE
 Star Tracker
 1999-06-12 1168x1552x1
Clementine Observes the Moon, Solar Corona, and Venus
Title:
Clementine Observes the Moon, Solar Corona, and Venus
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11805 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
 Digitized Sky Survey
 2009-02-18 2766x1977x3
Seeing Baby Dwarf Galaxies
Title:
Seeing Baby Dwarf Galaxies
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA00160 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
 1998-06-04 4064x4064x3
The view of Venus, after more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in the 1990-1994 Magellan mission, is centered at 270 degrees east longitude.
Title:
Hemispheric View of Venus Centered at 270° East Longitude
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11517 Janus Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-18 1014x1014x1
Janus' Ring Shadow Premiere
Title:
Janus' Ring Shadow Premiere
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11964 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Radar
 2009-04-01 1250x1440x1
Why does Fargo flood? The Red River of the North, which forms the border between North Dakota and Minnesota, has a long history of severe floods. Major floods include those of 1826, 1897, 1950, 1997, and now 2009.
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Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11727 Moon Chandrayaan-1
 Moon Mineralogy Mapper
 2008-12-17 631x635x3
Different wavelengths of light provide new information about the Orientale Basin region of the moon in a composite image taken by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, a guest instrument aboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
Title:
NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02140 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 High Resolution Imager (HRI)
 2005-07-11 314x234x1
NASA's Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft took this image after it turned around to capture last shots of a receding comet Tempel 1. Earlier, the mission's probe had smashed into the surface of Tempel 1.
Title:
Tempel Fades into Night Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02978 Moon Surveyor
 2000-11-04 873x414x1
Surveyor 5 image of the footpad resting in the lunar soil. The trench at right was formed by the footpad sliding during landing. Surveyor 5 landed on the Moon on 11 September 1967 at 1.41 N, 23.18E in Mare Tranquillitatis.
Title:
Surveyor 5 Footpad Resting on the Lunar Soil
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01360 Uranus Voyager
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 1998-12-05 1567x929x3
Uranus, towards the planet's pole of rotation.
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Uranus, towards the planet's pole of rotation.
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02975 Moon Ranger
 2000-11-04 720x707x1
Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the Moon by aU.S. spacecraft, on 31 July 1964 at 13:09 UT (9:09 AM EDT) about 17 minutes before impacting the lunar surface.
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First Image of the Moon taken by a U.S. Spacecraft
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02111 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Medium Resolution Imager (MRI)
 2005-07-01 720x169x3
Analyzing a Cometary 'Sneeze'
Title:
Analyzing a Cometary 'Sneeze'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02138 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Impactor Targeting Sensor
 2005-07-06 247x241x1
This image of the surface of comet Tempel 1 was taken about 20 seconds before NASA's Deep Impact's probe crashed into the comet on July 3, 2005. This particular region contains the impact site.
Title:
Wipe Out
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA05556 Sol (our sun) Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2004-03-12 360x360x5
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, shows the transit of Mars' moon Deimos across the Sun.
Title:
Deimos Crosses Face of Sun Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA06337 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 2005-09-11 1024x1024x1
The Night Sky on Mars
Title:
The Night Sky on Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA11656 Daphnis Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2009-06-11 834x834x1
Wavy Shadows
Title:
Wavy Shadows
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA12064 Earth Earth Observing System (EOS)
 ASTER
 2009-06-02 2282x1772x3
The oldest material on Earth which has yet been dated by man is a zircon mineral of 4.4 billion years old from a sedimentary gneiss in the Jack Hills of the Narre Gneiss Terrane of Australia.
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Jack Hills, Australia
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA10374 Messier 83 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
 GALEX Telescope
 2008-04-16 2852x2852x3
Ultraviolet Extensions
Title:
Ultraviolet Extensions
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09922 Jupiter New Horizons
 Visual and Infrared Imaging/Spectrometer
 2007-10-09 224x273x3
In this movie, put together from false-color images taken by the New Horizons Ralph instrument as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter in early 2007, show ammonia clouds (appearing as bright blue areas) as they form and disperse.
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Ammonia Clouds on Jupiter Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA02857 Io Voyager
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 2000-12-19 260x260x1
Io Rotation Movie
Title:
Io Rotation Movie Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA01351 Ariel Voyager
 Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 1998-12-05 1275x1275x1
Bright patches on Ariel
Title:
Bright patches on Ariel
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA09230 Asteroid New Horizons
 MVIC
 2007-04-02 300x300x1
The two 'spots' in this image are a composite of two images of asteroid 2002 JF56 taken on June 11 and June 12, 2006, with the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera component of the New Horizons Ralph imager.
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New Horizons Tracks an Asteroid