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Encroaching Shadow

This image from NASA Cassini spacecraft, one of those acquired in the survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus, was taken as Cassini was looking across the moon south pole.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17184
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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Lights In The Night

This NASA Voyager 1 image was taken of Jupiter darkside on March 5, 1979 when the spacecraft was in Jupiter shadow, about 6 hours after closest approach to the planet at a distance of 320,000 miles. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00204

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA00204
Credit: NASA/JPL

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Charon Complexity

This image of Pluto's largest moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft 10 hours before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers), is a recently downlinked, much higher quality version of a Charon im...

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19932
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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December 2014 View of Rosetta Destination Comet

This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on the European Space Agency Rosetta spacecraft shows the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it appeared at 5 a.m. UTC on Dec. 17, 2014 9 p.m. PST on Dec. 16.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19092
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM

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Ammonia Ice Clouds on Jupiter

The top cloud layer on Jupiter is thought to consist of ammonia ice, but most of that ammonia hides from spectrometers. It does not absorb light in the same way ammonia does.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA10076
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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Uranus Upper Atmosphere

This computer enhancement of a NASA Voyager 2 image, emphasizes the high-level haze in Uranus upper atmosphere. Clouds are obscured by the overlying atmosphere.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA01488
Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

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Jupiter Ring

First evidence of a ring around the planet Jupiter is seen in this photograph taken by Voyager 1 on March 4, 1979. The multiple exposure of the extremely thin faint ring appears as a broad light band crossing the center of the picture. The edge of the ring is 1,212,000 km from the spacecraft and 57,000 km from the visible cloud deck of Jupiter. The backgro...

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA02251
Credit: NASA/JPL

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Turbulent Region Near Great Red Spot

This image is a still frame, created from images taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft, shows a turbulent region west of Jupiter Great Red Spot. The small, bright white spots are believed to be thunderstorms.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA02868
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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KSC-05pd2628

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Technicians install strips of the New Horizons mission decal on the spacecraft fairing in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The last strip will be installed on the fairing after the spacecraft is delivered to Pad 41 on Dec. 17. New Horizons carries seven scientific instruments that will characterize the global geology and geomorphology o...

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Perspective view of Damascus Sulcus, Enceladus

This perspective view, generated from high resolution images acquired by NASA Cassini orbiter, highlights one of the wall scarps of the medial trough of Damascus Sulcus on Enceladus.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12207
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/Universities Space Research Association/Lunar & Planetary Institute

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Dont Forget Telesto

Saturn moon Dione dwarfs the moon Telesto in this image captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft image. Dione is the fourth largest of Saturn moons, and it dominates this view. Tiny Telesto can be seen below and to the left of Dione.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12635
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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Rosetta Lander Captured Before/After Bounce

The descent of its comet lander Philae was captured by ESA Rosetta spacecraft main camera as the lander approached -- and then rebounded off -- the comet surface.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18897
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

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Nereid

Nereid, the last satellite of Neptune to be discovered before NASA Voyager's recent discoveries, was first seen by Gerard Kuiper in 1949. Until this Voyager 2 image was obtained, all that was known about Nereid was its orbital parameters and intrinsic brightness. This Voyager view of Nereid was obtained on Aug. 24, 1989 at a distance of 4.7 million kilometers (2....

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA00054
Credit: NASA/JPL

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Titania High-Resolution Color Composite

This high-resolution color composite of Titania was made from NASA Voyager 2 images taken Jan. 24, 1986, as the spacecraft neared its closest approach to Uranus. A large, trenchlike feature is seen near the terminator. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00036

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA00036
Credit: NASA/JPL

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Still from Processed Movie of Zonal Jets

This image is one frame from a movie clip of cloud motions on Jupiter, from the side of the planet opposite to the Great Red Spot. It was taken in the first week of October 2000 by the narrow-angle camera on NASA Cassini spacecraft,

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA02832
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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Jupiter

This processed color image of Jupiter was produced in 1990 by the U.S. Geological Survey from a Voyager image captured in 1979. Zones of light-colored, ascending clouds alternate with bands of dark, descending clouds. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00343

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA00343
Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

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Rosetta Approach Tripych: Comet 67P

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was imaged by ESA Rosetta spacecraft on July 20, 2014, from a distance of approximately 3,400 miles 5,500 kilometers. These three images were taken two hours apart.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18418
Credit: Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

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Atmospheric Structure

This is a composite of several images taken in several colors by the New Horizons Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera, or MVIC.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA10098
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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Atmospheric Waves

With its Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera MVIC, half of the Ralph instrument, New Horizons captured several pictures of mesoscale gravity waves in Jupiter equatorial atmosphere.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA10097
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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Charon Surprising Youthful and Varied Terrain

Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles (466,000 kilometers). A swath of cliffs a...

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19709
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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Source Region for Possible Europa Plumes

This map composed of images NASA Galileo and Voyager missions shows the hemisphere of Europa that might be affected by plume deposits. The view is centered at -65 degrees latitude, 183 degrees longitude.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18030
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute

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Atmospheric Waves

With its Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera MVIC, half of the Ralph instrument, New Horizons captured several pictures of mesoscale gravity waves in Jupiter equatorial atmosphere.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA10097
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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