30 calibabor Vertical Gun Range in horizontal loading position. Dr. Wi...
30 calibabor Vertical Gun Range in horizontal loading position. Dr. William Quaide and Donald Gault of Ames planetology branch used this gun range to study the formation of impact craters on the Moon. N-204A Ve... More
Range : 6 million kilometers (3.7 million miles) Central Longitude 12...
Range : 6 million kilometers (3.7 million miles) Central Longitude 120 degrees west, North is up. and 3rd from the planet. Photo taken after midnight Ganymede is slightly larger than Mercury but much less de... More
Range : 7 million kilometers (5 million miles) Callisto is Jupiter's o...
Range : 7 million kilometers (5 million miles) Callisto is Jupiter's outermost Galilean satellites and darkest of the four(but almost twice as bright as Earth's Moon). Mottled appearance from bright and dark ... More
This photo of Callisto, outermost of Jupiter's four Galilean satellite...
This photo of Callisto, outermost of Jupiter's four Galilean satellites, was taken a few minutes after midnight (PST) Feb. 25 by Voyager 1. The distance to Callisto was 8,023,000 kilometers (4.98 million miles... More
Range : 4.2 million kilometers (2.6 million miles) Ganymede is Jupite...
Range : 4.2 million kilometers (2.6 million miles) Ganymede is Jupiter's Largest Galilean satellites and 3rd from the planet. Photo taken after midnight Ganymede is slightly larger than Mercury but much less... More
P-21744 C Range: 4.2 million kilometers (2.6 million miles) In this im...
P-21744 C Range: 4.2 million kilometers (2.6 million miles) In this image of Europa acquired by Voyager 2, global scale dark streaks are becoming visible. Europa, the size of the earth's moon, is apparently cov... More
Range : 4.2 million km. ( 2.6 million miles ) Jupiter's moon Europa, ...
Range : 4.2 million km. ( 2.6 million miles ) Jupiter's moon Europa, the size of earth's moon, is apparently covered by water ice, as indicated by ground spectrometers and its brightness. In this view, global ... More
Range : 1,094,666 km (677,000 mi.) This false color picture of Callis...
Range : 1,094,666 km (677,000 mi.) This false color picture of Callisto was taken by Voyager 2 and is centered on 11 degrees N and 171 degrees W. This rendition uses an ultraviolet image for the blue componen... More
Range : 85,000 kilometers (53,000 miles) This photo of Jupiter's sate...
Range : 85,000 kilometers (53,000 miles) This photo of Jupiter's satellite Ganymede shows ancient cratered terrain. A variety of impact craters of different ages are shown. The brightest craters are the youn... More
P-21751 C Range: 1.2 million kilometers This Voyager 2 color photo of ...
P-21751 C Range: 1.2 million kilometers This Voyager 2 color photo of Ganymede, the largest Galilean satellite, shows a large dark circular feature about 3200 kilometers in diameter with narrow closely-spaced l... More
Range : 241,000km (150,600 mi.). This black and white image of Europa...
Range : 241,000km (150,600 mi.). This black and white image of Europa, smallest of Jupiter's four Galilean satellites, was acquired by Voyager 2. Europa, the brightest of the Galiliean satellites, has a densi... More
Range : 225,000 kilometers (140,625 miles) This image of the Jovian m...
Range : 225,000 kilometers (140,625 miles) This image of the Jovian moon Europa was taken by Voyager 2 along the evening terminator, which best shows the surface topography of complex narrow ridges, seen as cu... More
100,000 kilometers (62,000 miles) This photomosaic of Ganymede, Jupite...
100,000 kilometers (62,000 miles) This photomosaic of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest satellite, shows many impact craters, some with bright ray systems. The rough mountainous terrain at lower right is the outer p... More
P-21760 BW This color image of the Jovian moon Europa, which is the si...
P-21760 BW This color image of the Jovian moon Europa, which is the size of our moon, is thought to have a crust of ice perhaps 100 kilometers thick which overlies the silicate crust. The complex array of strea... More
P-21760 C This color image of the Jovian moon Europa, which is the siz...
P-21760 C This color image of the Jovian moon Europa, which is the size of our moon, is thought to have a crust of ice perhaps 100 kilometers thick which overlies the silicate crust. The complex array of streak... More
Range : 2.77 million miles (1.72 million miles) resolution : 51 km. (...
Range : 2.77 million miles (1.72 million miles) resolution : 51 km. (32 mi.) P-29495C This Voyager 2 photograph of the outermost Uranian satellite, Oberon is a computer reconstruction of three frames , expose... More
P-29502C Range: 1.04 million kilometers (650,000 miles) This color pho...
P-29502C Range: 1.04 million kilometers (650,000 miles) This color photo of Umbriel, the darkest of Uranus' five large moons was synthesized from frames exposed with the Voyager narrow-angle camera's violet and... More
P-29504BW Range: 500,000 kilometers (300,000 miles) This full-disk vi...
P-29504BW Range: 500,000 kilometers (300,000 miles) This full-disk view of Uranus' moon Titania in the early morning hours, a clear-filter image returned by the Voyager narrow-angle camera, shows many circula... More
P-29513 BW Range: 31,000 kilometers (19,000 miles) This Voyager 2 imag...
P-29513 BW Range: 31,000 kilometers (19,000 miles) This Voyager 2 image of Miranda was taken shortly before the spacecraft's closet approach to the Uranian moon.The high resolution of 600 meters (2,000 feet) re... More
P-29518 BW Range: 130,000 kilometers (80,000 miles) This highest-resol...
P-29518 BW Range: 130,000 kilometers (80,000 miles) This highest-resolution Voyager 2 view of Ariel's terminator shows a complex array of transecting valleys with superimposed impact craters. This clear-filter,... More
P-29515 BW Range: 42,000 kilometers (26,000 miles) This image of Miran...
P-29515 BW Range: 42,000 kilometers (26,000 miles) This image of Miranda, obtained by Voyager 2 on approach, shows an unusual 'chevron' figure and regions of distinctly differing terrain on the Uranian moon. Gr... More
P-34692 Range : 500 km. ( 300 miles ) Smallest Resolvable Feature : ...
P-34692 Range : 500 km. ( 300 miles ) Smallest Resolvable Feature : 900 m. or 2,700 ft. Part of Triton's complex geological history canbe seen in this image, shot by Voyager 2. Part of a sequence, it shows a... More
P-34668 This narrow angled image of Neptune's Triton, part of a sequen...
P-34668 This narrow angled image of Neptune's Triton, part of a sequence recieved from Voyager 2 shows a large flooded basin about 200 km. or 120 miles wide and 400 km. or 240 miles long. It appears to have bee... More
P-34689 Range : 130,000 km. ( 80,000 miles ) Smallest Resolvable Feat...
P-34689 Range : 130,000 km. ( 80,000 miles ) Smallest Resolvable Feature : 2.5 km or 1.5 miles This image of Neptune's moon Triton, shot by Voyager 2, is seen here. The long linear feature exteding vertically... More
Voyager II Imagery, Neptune: This is one of the most detailed views of...
Voyager II Imagery, Neptune: This is one of the most detailed views of the surface of Triton taken by Voyager 2 on its flyby of the large satellite of Neptune early in the morning of August 25, 1989. The pictur... More
P-34713 This Voyager image of Triton reveals two kinds of mid-latitude...
P-34713 This Voyager image of Triton reveals two kinds of mid-latitude terrain. Near the center and the lower half of the frame is a gently rolling terrain pock-marked with a modest number of impact craters. Th... More
This image shows a comparison between a Magellan image (right) and the...
This image shows a comparison between a Magellan image (right) and the highest resolution Earth-based radar image of Venus, obtained by the US National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center's Arecibo Observatory in P... More
This Magellan image mosaic shows the impact crater Golubkina, first id...
This Magellan image mosaic shows the impact crater Golubkina, first identified in Soviet Venera 15/16 data. The crater is names after Anna Golubkina (1864-1927), a Soviet sculptor. The crater is about 34 km (... More
This three-dimensional representation of brightness variations in a Ma...
This three-dimensional representation of brightness variations in a Magellan radar image of Golubkina crater enhances the structural features of the crater. Golubkina is 34 kimometers (20.4 mi.) in diameter, a... More
This dynamic planet : world map of volcanoes, earthquakes, impact crat...
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Natural color view of Ganymede. NASA public domain image colelction.
Description Natural color view of Ganymede from the Galileo spacecraft during its first encounter with the satellite. North is to the top of the picture and the sun illuminates the surface from the right. The d... More
Oberon at Voyager Closest Approach
This image of Oberon, Uranus outermost moon, was captured by NASA Voyager 2 on Jan. 24, 1986. Clearly visible are several large impact craters in Oberon icy surface surrounded by bright rays. http://photojourn... More
Venus - Adivar Crater, NASA Magellan spacecraft
Many of the impact craters of Venus revealed by NASA Magellan spacecraft have characteristics unlike craters on any other planetary body. This crater, named Adivar, is located just north of the western Aphrodit... More
Mosaic of Large Impact Craters. NASA public domain image colelction.
This mosaic from NASA Magellan data is in the Lavinia region of Venus. Three large impact craters can be seen located in a region of fractured plains. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00086 NASA/JPL
Callisto False Color, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo
This false color picture of Callisto was taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on July 7, 1979 at a range of 1,094,666 kilometers (677,000 miles) and is centered on 11 degrees N and 171 degrees W. This rendition uses an ul... More
Europa During Voyager 2 Closest Approach
This color image of the Jovian moon Europa was acquired by NASA Voyager 2 during its close encounter on Jul. 9, 1979. Europa, the size of our moon, is thought to have a crust of ice perhaps 100 kilometers thick... More
Venus - Possible Remnants of a Meteoroid in Lakshmi Region
This full resolution mosaiced image covers an area of approximately 100 kilometers by 120 kilometers (62 by 74 miles) and is located in the Lakshmi region of Venus at 47 degrees north latitude and 334 east long... More
Northeast View from Viking Landing Site
This Mars view looks northeast from Nasa's Viking 1 and completes the 360 panorama of the landing site begun earlier with the spacecraft's other camera. A layer of haze can be seen in the Martian sky. Large dar... More
Ganymede At 150,000 Miles, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo
This picture of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest satellite, was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on the afternoon of March 5, 1979, from a range of about 250,000 km (150,000 mi.). The center of the picture is at 60 north l... More
A Chain of Impact Craters on Callisto
A portion of a chain of impact craters on Jupiter's moon Callisto is seen in this image taken by the Galileo spacecraft on November 4, 1996. This crater chain on Callisto is believed to result from the impact o... More
Ridges on Europa, NASA / JPL Europa Image
This view of Jupiter's moon Europa shows a portion of the surface that has been highly disrupted by fractures and ridges. This picture covers an area about 238 kilometers (150 miles) wide by 225 kilometers (140... More
Dark-floored Impact Craters on Ganymede
Dark-floored Impact Craters on Ganymede NASA/JPL/Brown University
Impact Craters on Icy Callisto: Doh Crater and Asgard
Impact Craters on Icy Callisto: Doh Crater and Asgard NASA/JPL/ASU
Mars and Syrtis Major, NASA history collection
Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space- based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. The telescope... More
Impact Craters on Xanadu - NASA Titan images
Impact Craters on Xanadu NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ten Newly Named Impact Craters on Mercury
Ten Newly Named Impact Craters on Mercury NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Taking the Measure of Impact Craters on Mercury
Taking the Measure of Impact Craters on Mercury NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Spatter Cone - free images of Idaho
Once thought to resemble the Moon, Craters of the Moon's features are borne from volcanic eruptions, not impact craters as on the lunar surface.
Fresh Cluster of Impact Craters on Mars
This set of images from cameras on NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter documents the appearance of a new cluster of impact craters on Mars. The orbiter has imaged at least 248 fresh craters, or crater clusters, on... More
Bosumtwi Worldwind SW
Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana, view from Southwest. Bosumtwiis a lake-filled impact crater, about 10.5 km in size an 1.3 million years old. Vertical exaggeration 3x.
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Relief models of part of the surface of the Moon (left), and Vesuvius and Bay of Naples (right).
Barringer Crater aerial photo by USGS
The origin of this classic, simple meteorite impact crater was long the subject of controversy. The discovery of fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, including fragments within the breccia deposits that p... More
Ausschnitt des Nördlinger Rieses aus der "Geognostischen Karte von Deu...
Deutsch: Geologisches Blatt „Mannheim“ der von dem Verlag von Simon Schropp et Comp. herausgegebenen, sehr großen Gesamtkarte Geognostische Karte von Deutschland und den umliegenden Staaten in 42 Blättern, Ber... More