Images from past and current space missions.
Closest-yet view of dwarf planet Ceres, taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on May 4, 2015, from a distance of 13,600 kilometers. The image resolution is 1.3 kilometers per pixel.
Shown here is the northern hemisphere of Ceres with bright spots in a crater about 80 kilometers in diameter. The exact nature of the bright spots remains unknown so far.
(Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/astroarts.org)
Voyager 1 took this image of Jupiter and two of its satellites (Io, left, and Europa) on February 13, 1979, from a distance of about 20 million kilometers. Io is about 350,000 kilometers above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot; Europa is about 600,000 kilometers above Jupiter’s clouds.
RGB color composite from the orange, green and violet filtered images C1578149, C1578151, and C1578153. Processed to better fit the natural color appearance of Jupiter.
(Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Planetary Data System (PDS)/astroarts.org)
Although Valles Marineris originated as a tectonic structure, it has been modified by other processes. This image shows a close-up view of a landslide at the 5 km high south wall of Ganges Chasma.
The unnamed impact crater on the plateau, which is a part of Aurorae Planum, is approximately 27 km in diameter. The floor of the crater is smooth and flat, so it seems likely that the interior of this crater has been partly filled with basalts or with sand and dust blown by wind. The landslide partially removed the rim of the crater. The debris apron appears to have formed by collapse of the slump blocks at the base of the wall and extends about 40 kilometers across the floor of Ganges Chasma.
The landslides in Valles Marineris generally show few meteorite impact craters, and so are quite young; they probably formed in the Amazonian Epoch of Mars’ history, some 1.8 billion years ago.
Viking 1 Orbiter image f014a30, taken on July 4, 1976.
The image covers a length of approximately 60 kilometers.
(Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University/astroarts.org)
Mosaic of the Martian Olympus Mons volcano and its surrounding plains made from two color composites using the following Viking 1 Orbiter images:
f735a41 and f735a42 (violet), f735a45 and f735a46 (green), f735a47 and f735a48 (red). These images were taken on June 22, 1978.
The mosaic covers an area of nearly 1,600 x 800 kilometers. North is right and west is up.
(Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University/Mosaic by astroarts.org)
This image shows Saturn above Rhea’s horizon and is an artistic combination of the following two images:
1. 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.
2. 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)
