Flight 93 impact site - September 2001
Flight 93 impact crater with debris, taken early in the investigation. The investigators at top of image provide scale.
GEMINI S-10 - EXPERIMENTS - MICROMETEORITE PACKAGE - MSC
S66-44887 (1 Aug. 1966) --- Single panel from micrometeorite package showing classic hypervelocity impact by micrometeorite particle. Crater is similar to that produced artificially on Earth and by particle imp... More
Ophir Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.
Description: (1976) During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km long, up to 240 km wide, and 6.5 km deep, whose connected chasma or... More
Range : 5 million miles (8.025 million kilometers) This is a morning ...
Range : 5 million miles (8.025 million kilometers) This is a morning shot of Ganymede, largest of Jupiter's 13 satellites. It's slightly larger than Mercury with a density about twice that of water. It's be... More
Range : 5 million miles (8.025 million kilometers) This is a morning ...
Range : 5 million miles (8.025 million kilometers) This is a morning shot of Ganymede, largest of Jupiter's 13 satellites. It's slightly larger than Mercury with a density about twice that of water. It's be... More
Evidence for Recent Liquid Water on Mars
Gullies eroded into the wall of a meteor impact crater in Noachis Terra. This high resolution view (top left) from the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) shows channels and associated aprons o... More
P-29521 BW Range: 557,000 kilometers ( 346, 000 miles) The southern he...
P-29521 BW Range: 557,000 kilometers ( 346, 000 miles) The southern hemisphere of Umbriel displays heavy cratering in this Voyager 2 image. This frame, taken through the clear-filter of Voyager's narrow-angle c... More
P-29522BW Range: 369,000 kilometers (229,000 miles) This is the highes...
P-29522BW Range: 369,000 kilometers (229,000 miles) This is the highest-resolution picture of Titania returned by Voyager 2. The picture is a composite of two images taken through the clear-filter of Voyager's ... More
P-29512 BW Range: 36,000 kilometers (22,000 miles) Miranda, innermost ...
P-29512 BW Range: 36,000 kilometers (22,000 miles) Miranda, innermost of Uranus' large satellites, is seen at close range as part of a Voyager 2 high-resolution mosaicking sequence. This clear-filter, narrow-an... More
Range : 40,000 km (24,8000 mi.) This picture of Triton is a mosaic of...
Range : 40,000 km (24,8000 mi.) This picture of Triton is a mosaic of the highest resolution images taken by Voyager 2. The mosaic is superimposed on the lower-resolution mapping images taken about 2 hours ea... More
P-34717 Range: 80,000 kilometers (50,000 miles) This image taken by Vo...
P-34717 Range: 80,000 kilometers (50,000 miles) This image taken by Voyager 2 of Neptune's largest satellite, Triton, shows an area in the northern hemisphere. The Sun is just above the horizon, so features cas... More
Venus - Mead Crater, Venus Magellan Images
NASA's Magellan image mosaic shows the largest impact crater known to exist on Venus at this point in the Magellan mission. The crater is located north of Aphrodite Terra and east of Eistla Regio and was imaged... More
Venus - Crater Golubkina, NASA Magellan spacecraft
This image mosaic from NASA Magellan spacecraft shows the impact crater Golubkina. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00236 NASA/JPL
Venus - Impact Crater in Guinevere Planitia
This image mosaic from NASA Magellan spacecraft is of an impact crater located in Guinevere Planitia on Venus. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00238 NASA/JPL
Earth observations taken during the STS-77 mission
STS077-737-096 (19-29 May 1996) --- The Palmer River emerging from the left corner of the photograph separates the Gardener Range to the right from the James Ranges on the left. To the bottom and off the photo... More
Venus - Multiple-Floored, Irregular Impact Crater
NASA' sMagellan imaged this multiple-floored, irregular impact crater at latitude 16.4 degrees north, longitude 352.1 degrees east, during orbits 481 and 482 on 27 September 1990. This crater, about 9.2 kilomet... More
Venus - Transitional Crater, Venus Magellan Images
During orbits 423 through 424 on 22 September 1990, NASA's Magellan imaged this impact crater that is located at latitude 10.7 degrees north and longitude 340.7 degrees east. This crater is shown as a represent... More
Roter Kamm Impact Crater in Namibia
This space radar image shows the Roter Kamm impact crater in southwest Namibia. The crater rim is seen in the lower center of the image as a radar-bright, circular feature. Geologists believe the crater was for... More
Venus - Impact Crater in Eastern Navka Region
This Magellan image, which is 50 kilometers (31 miles) in width and 80 kilometers (50 miles) in length, is centered at 11.9 degrees latitude, 352 degrees longitude in the eastern Navka Region of Venus. The crat... More
Venus - Complex Crater Dickinson in NE Atalanta Region
This Magellan image is centered at 74.6 degrees north latitude and 177.3 east longitude, in the northeastern Atalanta Region of Venus. The image is approximately 185 kilometers (115 miles) wide at the base and ... More
Venus - Impact Crater Isabella, NASA Magellan spacecraft
Crater Isabella is seen in this radar image from NASA Magellan spacecraft. The second largest impact crater on Venus, the crater is named in honor of the 15th Century queen of Spain, Isabella of Castile. NASA/JPL
Ganymede - Mixture of Terrains and Large Impact Crater in Uruk Sulcus ...
A mixture of terrains studded with a large impact crater is shown in this view of the Uruk Sulcus region of Jupiter moon Ganymede taken by NASA Galileo spacecraft during its first flyby of the planet-sized moon... More
Europa Active Surface, NASA / JPL Europa Image
On June 27, 1996, during Galileo first orbit around Jupiter, a newly discovered impact crater could be seen just right of the center of this image of Jupiter moon Europa returned by NASA Galileo spacecraft came... More
MGS Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Topographic Profile of Impact Crater
MGS Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Topographic Profile of Impact Crater NASA/JPL/GSFC
Natural and False Color Views of Europa
This image, taken on September 7, 1996 by NASA Galileo orbiter, shows two views of the trailing hemisphere of Jupiter ice-covered satellite, Europa. The left image shows the approximate natural color appearance... More
The Galilean Satellites, NASA / JPL Europa Image
In this "family portrait," the four Galilean Satellites are shown to scale. These four largest moons of Jupiter shown in increasing distance from Jupiter are (left to right) Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. ... More
Earth Moon - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images
NASA Galileo spacecraft took this image of Earth moon on December 7, 1992 on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-97. The distinct bright ray crater at the bottom of the image is the Tycho impact basin... More
Mars Ophir Chasma, NASA Viking Images
During its examination of Mars, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km long, up to 240 km wide, and 6.5 km deep, whose connected chasma or valleys may have... More
Detail of an Impact Crater, Acidalia Planitia
Detail of an Impact Crater, Acidalia Planitia NASA/JPL/MSSS Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Impact Crater with Peak, 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey images
This image taken by NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a classic example of a Martian impact crater with a central peak. Central peaks are common in large, fresh craters on both Mars and the Moon. NASA/JPL/Ariz... More
A Seabee assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four (NMCB-4)...
Mahmuydiyah, Iraq (Nov. 16, 2004) A Seabee assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four (NMCB-4), Kalsu Detachment, operates a fork life as it pushes large pieces of sheet metal over an impact crater as... More
A Seabee assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four (NMCB-4)...
Mahmuydiyah, Iraq (Nov. 16, 2004) A Seabee assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four (NMCB-4), Kalsu Detachment, operates a fork life as it pushes large pieces of sheet metal over an impact crater as... More
Impact Crater with Ejecta Blanket
Impact Crater with Ejecta Blanket NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI
Impact Crater Filled With Layered Deposits
Impact Crater Filled With Layered Deposits NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona
Two-toned Impact Crater in Balmer Basin: A Reflection of the Target?
Materials excavated during formation of this ~450 m diameter impact crater have an unusual two-toned character, likely a reflection of heterogeneity in the target materials. This crater occurs in Balmer Basin. ... More
False-Color Image of an Impact Crater on Vesta
NASA Dawn spacecraft obtained this false-color image right of an impact crater in asteroid Vesta equatorial region with its framing camera on July 25, 2011. The view on the left is from the camera clear filter.... More
Impact Crater and Mountain-central Complex in Vesta South Polar Region...
This anaglyph image from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows the topography of the mountain-central complex in asteroid Vesta south polar region. You need 3D glasses to view this image. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Mercury Globe: 0°N, 90°E. NASA public domain image colelction.
Mercury Globe: 0°N, 90°E NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Impact Crater with Unusual Rim. NASA public domain image colelction.
This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows Caparronia crater on asteroid Vesta, an unusually shaped, irregular rim that is sharp and fresh in some areas and more rounded and degraded in others. NASA/JPL-Caltech... More
Ice Deposition and Loss in an Impact Crater in Utopia Basin
This image captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spans from wall to wall across the center area of an impact crater. From what we see, a lot has happened to modify the appearance of the crater since it w... More
Lava Against an Impact Crater in Elysium Planitia
This image shows lava crumpled against the upstream side of an impact crater as seen by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Frosted Impact Crater in Late Northern Winter
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was planned to search for gully activity in the Northern Hemisphere. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
An Impact Crater in Isidis Planitia
An impact crater in Isidis Planitia observed for a fifth time by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
A black and white photo of the moon. Mercury planet surface.
The surface of the moon / The moon's surface is a great place to see the moon / Public domain space exploration photo.
Crater with Exposed Layers - NASA Mars images
On Earth, geologists can dig holes and pull up core samples to find out what lies beneath the surface. On Mars, geologists cannot dig holes very easily themselves, but a process has been occurring for billions ... More
A New Crater on a Dusty Slope. NASA public domain image colelction.
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a new impact site originally detected by the Context Camera onboard MRO. The crater is on a dusty slope, which also has several dark slope streaks due to d... More
Is that an Impact Crater?. NASA public domain image colelction.
This image was acquired to take a closer look at a circular feature that might be an impact structure on the South Polar layered deposits. Measuring the sizes and frequency of impact craters provides a constra... More