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Comets & Asteriods

A NEAR encounter with asteroid Eros (4 k)
Bopp-bopp-shoo-wop! False color Comet Hale Boppimage (7 k)

Earth

Galileo snapshot of Earth and our Moon. (5 k)
The “Dark Side of The Moon“, or the side we never see from earth. (14 k)
A fallen legend: Space Station Mir(9 k)
Earth & Moon Viewer (so many ways to view earth & moon here!)
Get more satellite shots of earth at the KC Weather Report

Mars

Hubble Space Telescope captured a dramatic change in Mars’s weather: a dust storm wiped out Martian surface features in amateur telescopes in July 2001. Both images show the same Martian hemisphere!

A stunning Mars composite map from National Geographic

Mars smiles at us from the happy face crater. (21 k)

Mars in 3D. This map is from Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter data. MOLA is an instrument aboard Mars Global Surveyor. (23 k)

Olympus Mons is taller than Mount Everest! (18k) Evidence of water flowing recently on Mars! (26k) Martian sand dunes. Sweet! NASA thought this is life from Mars?! (24 k) Mars moon Phobos (5 k) Phobos crater detail (21 k) Mars moon Deimos (4 k)

Jupiter

A Jupiter video animation taken by the Cassini spacecraft during the gravity assist flyby (54 k)
A Great Red Spot animation(24 k)
the strom on Jupiter that is three times as big as Earth: the Great Red Spot
A Jupiter storm cloud with magnificent wispy detail (13 k)
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede taken by Galileo (7 k)
Galileo vs Voyager – comparing new and old Ganymede images with SF Bay images (36 k)
Callisto – Galileo catches Callisto! (37 k) NEW!
Europa – Galileo delivers surface features galore! (47 k)
Io, I owe, so off to work I go! The best image of this volcanic moon of Jupiter. (45 k)
Volcano on Io – the colorful volcanic crater Tupan Patera (22 k) NEW!

Tupan Patera is a volcanic depression, about 47 miles (75 kilometers) across, surrounded by cliffs about 3,000 feet (900 meters) tall. The color is only slightly enhanced from what the human eye would see. The red in the image includes a small amount of infrared energy. Tupan Patera is named after a Brazilian thunder god. Resolution is 135 meters (443 feet) per picture element. Shows varied results of lava interacting with sulfur-rich materials.

Saturn

Saturn and Titan in sight! The first visual contact from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft.

Another pretty photo of the planet with the most famous rings!

Uranus

Uranus with lots of clouds, the 4 major rings, and plenty of moons. (7 k)

Neptune

Neptune to compare the weather in 1996 with 1998. (25 k)
Neptune with wispy white clouds. (8 k)
A real close look at Pluto which reveals surface details for the very first time! (55 k)

Pluto

A real close look at Pluto which reveals surface details for the very first time! (30 k)