Saturn above Rhea’s Horizon
Saturn as viewed from Rhea.
This image shows Saturn above Rhea’s horizon and is an artistic combination of the following two images:
- Saturn with the big white storm on its northern hemisphere, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on January 02, 2011, from a mean distance of 2,556,958 kilometers.
Raw images taken using CB2, GRN and BL1 filters were combined to create this color view.
The color composite was rotated 180 degrees, cropped, downsized and blurred using Gaussian blur. - The surface of Saturn’s moon Rhea, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on January 11, 2011,
from a distance of about 200 kilometers.
The image was rotated 127 degrees counterclockwise, cropped, sharpened and slightly colorized.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/Montage by astroarts.org
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Ariel, moon of Uranus
Voyager 2 image mosaic of Ariel.
Mosaic of the four high-resolution images C2684533, C2684535, C2684537 and C2684539 of Ariel,
taken by Voyager 2 on January 24, 1986, at a distance of about 130,000 kilometers.
Ariel is about 1,200 km in diameter.
The most notable features on this moon are the interconnected rift valleys that run across the highly pitted terrain. Some of the valleys are up to 10 km deep. They have formed as a result of expansion and stretching of Ariel’s crust.
Two of the Voyager images covering the terminator on the right are somewhat blurred due to the spacecraft’s motion and the longer exposure times of the camera. This could not be completely corrected during image processing.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Mosaic by astroarts.org
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Karymsky Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
Karymsky volcano.
This aerial view shows the Karymsky volcano with the Akademia Nauk caldera lake (also known as Karymsky Lake) in the background.
The 1,486-meter high Karymsky is the most active volcano of Kamchatka’s eastern volcanic zone and one of world’s volcanoes with persistent activity. It is a symmetrical stratovolcano constructed within a 5-km-wide caldera that formed during the early Holocene about 7,700 years ago. The caldera cuts the south side of the Pleistocene Dvor volcano and is located outside the north margin of the 15-km-wide mid-Pleistocene Polovinka caldera, which contains the smaller Akademia Nauk and Odnoboky calderas.
Image Credit: Yann Arthus-Bertrand/astroarts.org
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Rocky Horizon
Mars rocky horizon by Viking 2.
Two high-resolution images (22a005.bb2 and 22a011.bb3) by the Viking 2 Lander camera 2 were mosaiced to create this scene of Utopia Planitia looking northeast to the horizon some three kilometers away. The rock in the lower right corner is 25 centimeters across. The largest rock near the center of the picture is about 60 centimeters long and 30 centimeters high. A small channel winds from upper left to lower right. The tilted horizon is due to the eight-degree tilt of the landed spacecraft.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Mosaic by astroarts.org
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Crescent Dione
Image mosaic of a crescent Dione.
Dione mosaic from three images (N00162056/57/58), taken by Cassini on September 03, 2010, from a mean distance of 77,837 kilometers. North is at approximately the 10 o’clock position.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/Mosaic by astroarts.org
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