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Flight 93 impact site - September 2001

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

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.

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 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 believed to be made of rock and ice with a surface of water and ice.  Ganymede is 4 times brighter than our Moon with the bright spot in center of photo 5 times brighter than the Moon, and may contain more ice than surrounding areas.  The bright pattern around the spot seems like ray craters on the Moon and Mercury and the area may in fact be an impact crater that has exposed fresh, underlying ice.  Photo taken through blue, green and orange filters. ARC-1979-A79-7026

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 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 believed to be made of rock and ice with a surface of water and ice.  Ganymede is 4 times brighter than our Moon with the bright spot in center of photo 5 times brighter than the Moon, and may contain more ice than surrounding areas.  The bright pattern around the spot seems like ray craters on the Moon and Mercury and the area may in fact be an impact crater that has exposed fresh, underlying ice.  Photo taken through blue, green and orange filters. ARC-1979-AC79-7026

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

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 hemisphere of Umbriel displays heavy cratering in this Voyager 2 image. This frame, taken through the clear-filter of Voyager's narrow-angle camera, is the most detailed image of Umbriel, with a resolution of about 10 km (6 mi). Umbriel is the darkest of Uranus' larger moons and the one that appears to have experienced the lowest level of geological activity. It has a diameter of about 1,200 km (750 mi) and reflects only 16 percent of the light striking its surface; in the latter respect, Umbriel is similiar to lunar highland areas. Umbriel is heavily cratered but lacks the numerous bright-ray craters seen on the other large Uranian satellites; this results in a relatively uniform surface albedo (reflectivity). The prominent crater on the terminator (upper right) is about 110 km (70 mi) across and has a bright central peak. The strangest feature in this image (at top) is a curious bright ring, the most reflective area seen on Umbriel. The ring is about 140 km (90 mi) in diameter and lies near the satellite's equator. The nature of the ring is not known, although it might be a frost deposit, perhaps associated with an impact crater. Spots against the black background are due to 'noise' in the data. ARC-1986-A86-7037

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 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 narrow-angle camera. The resolution of this image is 13 km (8 mi). Titania is the largest satellite of Uranus, with a diameter of little more than 1,600 km (1,000 mi). Abundant impact craters of many sizes pockmark the ancient surface. The most prominant features are fault valleys that stretch across Titania. They are up to 1,500 km (nearly 1,000 mi) long and as much as 75 km (45 mi) wide. In valleys seen at right center, the sunward-facing walls are very bright. While this is due partly to the lighting angle, the brightness also indicates the presence of a lighter material, possibly young frost deposits. An impact crater more than 200 km (125 mi) in diameter distinguishes the very bottom of the disk; the crater is cut by a younger fault valley more than 100 km (60 mi) wide. An even larger impact crater, perhaps 300 km (180 mi) across, is visible at top. ARC-1986-A86-7038

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 of Uranus' large satellites, is seen at close range as part of a Voyager 2 high-resolution mosaicking sequence. This clear-filter, narrow-angle image shows an area about 250 km (150 mi) across, at a resolution of about 800 meters (2,600 feet). Two distinct terrain types are visible; a rugged, higher-elevation terrain (right) and a lower, striated terrain. Numerous craters on the rugged, higher terain indicate that it is older than the lower terrain. Several scarps, probably faults, cut the different terrains. The impact crater in the lower part of this image is about 25 km (15 mi) across. ARC-1986-A86-7028

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 the highest resolution images taken by Voyager 2.  The mosaic is superimposed on the lower-resolution mapping images taken about 2 hours earlier in order to fill in gaps between high-resolution images.  The smallest features that can be seen on the images are about 0.8 km (0.5 mi.) across.  The terminator (line separation day and night) is at the top of the picture and is centered at about 30 degrees north latitude and 330 degrees longitude.  These highest-resolution images were targeted for the terminator region to show details of the topography by the shadows it casts.  Near the center of the picture is a depression filled with smooth plains that are probably ices which were once erupted in a fluid state.  The depth of the depression is about 300 meters (900 feet) and the prominent fresh impact crater on its floor is about 20 km (12 mi.) in diameter and about 1 km (0.6 mi.) deep.  On the right is a elongate crater with adjacent dark deposits about it.  This feature may be an explosive eruption vent formed by gaps within the ice.  The linear structure on the lest is probably a fracture along which fresh ice has been extruded. ARC-1989-A89-7063

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 Voyager 2 of Neptune's largest satellite, Triton, shows an area in the northern hemisphere. The Sun is just above the horizon, so features cast shadows that accentuate height differences. The large, smooth area in the right-hand side of the image shows a single, fresh, impact crater. Otherwise there is no evidence of impacts such as those that have pocked the faces of most of the satellites Voyager 2 has visited. Many low cliffs in the area, bright where they face the Sun, and dark when they face away from it, suggest an intricate history for Triton. The cliffs might be due either to melting of surface materials or, possibly, caused by unusual fluid materials that flowed sometime in Triton's past. ARC-1989-A89-7051

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Region

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

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

MGS Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Topographic Profile of Impact Crater NASA/JPL/GSFC

Natural and False Color Views of Europa

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

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

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

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

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

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), Kalsu Detachment, operates a fork life as it pushes large pieces of sheet metal over an impact crater.

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), Kalsu Detachment, operates a fork life as it pushes large pieces of sheet metal over an impact crater as he helps reconstruct a bridge in Mahmuydiyah, Iraq.

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

Impact Crater with Ejecta Blanket NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI

Impact Crater Filled With Layered Deposits

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?

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

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 Anaglyph

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Public domain stock image. Mercury planet surface.
Public domain stock image. Mercury planet surface.
Crater with Exposed Layers - NASA Mars images

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.

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.

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