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ASTER Paris. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Eiffel Tower and its shadow can be seen next to the Seine in the left middle of this ASTER image of Paris. Based on the length of the shadow and the solar elevation angle of 59 degrees, we can calculate its... More

ASTER Paris. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Eiffel Tower and its shadow can be seen next to the Seine in the left middle of this ASTER image of Paris. Based on the length of the shadow and the solar elevation angle of 59 degrees, we can calculate its... More

Nicolai Copernici Toriensis De revolvtionibvs orbium cœlestium, [Title...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated title page book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri...

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum siue machina orbium mundi ex hypothesi Ptol...

While most of the maps in this exhibit depict just the Earth -- reflecting mankind's perception of his immediate and perceived environment -- very few address the planet's position in the larger universe. Howev... More

Systema cosmicvm, autore Galilaeo Galilaei... [Title page]

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Dialogvs de systemate mvndi. ... , [Added title page]

Public domain scan of 17th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Three maps of the cosmological systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Br...

Title supplied by cataloger. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy assembled from three separate maps, trimmed and mounted on sheet. LC copy imperfect... More

[Four diagrams of Solar eclipses]. - Public domain map

Title devised by cataloger. Appears in: Universal Geography, Johanne Bunone, London, 1711. In upper right margin: p. 30. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamp... More

A scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets and comets...

Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 82A. LC copy imperfect: Darkened, use-worn, losses along edges, mounte... More

A scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets and comets...

Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in ink on verso: Whiston's Solar System.

The Solar System, with the orbits of 5 remarkable comets.

Appears in: A complete system of geography / Emanuel Bowen. London, 1747. 2 vol[s]. Includes diagrams of: Oblique sphere -- Right sphere -- Parallel sphere. Available also through the Library of Congress Web si... More

The solar system displayed. - Public domain old map

Jan Brandes - Zonnestelsel, ink drawing

Diagram van het zonnestelsel, met opschriften en legenda. Public domain scan of 18th century Dutch drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A new map of the world : with all the new discoveries by Capt. Cook an...

Relief shown pictorially. Also shows lines of magnetic variation and marine wind-direction arrows. "Published as the Act directs, Aug't 1st 1799, by I. Evans, No. 41 Long Lane, West Smithfield." Originally prin... More

map from "A compendious and complete system of Modern Geography. Or a ...

This image has been taken from scan 000081 from "A compendious and complete system of Modern Geography. Or a view of the present state of the World. Being a faithful abridgement of the American Universal Geogra... More

map from "A compendious and complete system of Modern Geography. Or a ...

This image has been taken from scan 000006 from "A compendious and complete system of Modern Geography. Or a view of the present state of the World. Being a faithful abridgement of the American Universal Geogra... More

map from "A compendious and complete system of Modern Geography. Or a ...

This image has been taken from scan 000531 from "A compendious and complete system of Modern Geography. Or a view of the present state of the World. Being a faithful abridgement of the American Universal Geogra... More

A plan or map of the Solar System projected for schools & academies /

"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1846, by Hall Colby, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York." Available also through the Library ... More

Gran tavola cosmografica contenente le rotazioni annuali terresti corr...

Includes text, four hemispherical views of the Earth showing night and day and different times and latitudes, and colored illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image... More

The universe after Cosmas, [A.D.] 550.

Pen-and-ink and blue watercolor, mounted on cloth. Traced from a print in Voyageurs anciens et modernes by Edouard Charton. Includes notes. On label affixed in upper left corner: 3. Available also through the L... More

Laterna magica bild målad i färg på glasskiva.Bilder ur solsystemet.

Laterna magica bild målad i färg på glasskiva.Bilder ur solsystemet. Public domain photograph - night sky, astronomy, universe, space, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The solar system. - Public domain vintage map

In lower right margin: 7. Includes diagrams of: Theory of the Seasons -- Eclipses -- Theory of Tides -- Phases of the Moon -- Mariner's Compass. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Erde und Planeten, Erde und Mond / - Public domain map

Appears in: Sydow-Wagners methodischer Schul-Atlas. 1923, 1926 and 1928 editions. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on cloth.

Venus - False Color Image of Alpha Regio

This Magellan radar image shows Alpha Regio, a topographic upland approximately 1,300 kilometers (806 miles) across which is centered on 25 degrees south latitude, 4 degrees east longitude. In 1963 Alpha Regio ... More

Venus - Impact Crater 'Isabella

Crater Isabella, with a diameter of 175 kilometers (108 miles), seen in this Magellan radar image, is the second largest impact crater on Venus. The feature is named in honor of the 15th Century queen of Spain,... More

Venus - Impact Crater 'Isabella

Crater Isabella, with a diameter of 175 kilometers (108 miles), seen in this Magellan radar image, is the second largest impact crater on Venus. The feature is named in honor of the 15th Century queen of Spain,... More

Surveyor 1 Shadow. NASA public domain image colelction.

Image of Surveyor 1's shadow against the lunar surface in the late lunar afternoon, with the horizon at the upper right. Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor missions to make a successful soft landing, proved... More

Surveyor 1 Shadow. NASA public domain image colelction.

Image of Surveyor 1's shadow against the lunar surface in the late lunar afternoon, with the horizon at the upper right. Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor missions to make a successful soft landing, proved... More

Mars Orbiter Camera Views the " Face on Mars"- Best View from Viking

Shortly after midnight Sunday morning (5 April 1998 12:39 AM PST), the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft successfully acquired a high resolution image of the " Face on Mars"... More

Mars Ice Age, Simulated. NASA public domain image colelction.

December 17, 2003 This simulated view shows Mars as it might have appeared during the height of a possible ice age in geologically recent time. Of all Solar System planets, Mars has the climate most like that... More

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Mars Orbiter Camera Views the " Face on Mars"- Best View from Viking

Shortly after midnight Sunday morning (5 April 1998 12:39 AM PST), the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft successfully acquired a high resolution image of the " Face on Mars"... More

Mars Ice Age, Simulated. NASA public domain image colelction.

December 17, 2003 This simulated view shows Mars as it might have appeared during the height of a possible ice age in geologically recent time. Of all Solar System planets, Mars has the climate most like that... More

Planet Mercury. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mariner 10's first image of Mercury acquired on March 24, 1974. During its flight, Mariner 10's trajectory brought it behind the lighted hemisphere of Mercury, where this image was taken, in order to acquire im... More

Caloris Basin. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Caloris Basin, shown here in a 1 kilometer per pixel mosaic, is one of the largest basins in the solar system, its diameter exceeds 1300 kilometers and is in many ways similar to the great Imbrium basin on ... More

Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer 10 Crosses the Asteriod Belt: If spacecra...

Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer 10 Crosses the Asteriod Belt: If spacecraft are to visit the outer Solar System, they must cross the asteroid belt between Mars and Jpiter. The Pioneer mission was faced with the qu... More

West Candor Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

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 valleys may have fo... More

East Candor Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

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 valleys may have fo... More

West Candor Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

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 valleys may have fo... More

East Candor Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

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 valleys may have fo... More

Highest-Resolution View of "Face on Mars

A key aspect of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Extended Mission is the opportunity to turn the spacecraft and point the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) at specific features of interest. A chance to point the spacecra... More

Ophir Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

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 valleys may have fo... More

Highest-Resolution View of "Face on Mars

A key aspect of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Extended Mission is the opportunity to turn the spacecraft and point the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) at specific features of interest. A chance to point the spacecra... More

Ophir Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

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 valleys may have fo... More

The Sounds of Earth Record Cover

This gold aluminum cover was designed to protect the Voyager 1 and 2 Sounds of Earth gold-plated records from micrometeorite bombardment, but also serves a double purpose in providing the finder a key to playin... More

The Sounds of Earth, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo

Flying aboard Voyagers 1 and 2 are identical golden records, carrying the story of Earth far into deep space. The 12 inch gold-plated copper discs contain greetings in 60 languages, samples of music from differ... More

Venus - Mead Crater. NASA public domain image colelction.

This Magellan image mosaic shows the largest (275 kilometers in diameter [170 miles]) impact crater known to exist on Venus at this point in the Magellan mission. The crater is located north of Aphrodite Terra ... More

Venus - Mead Crater. NASA public domain image colelction.

This Magellan image mosaic shows the largest (275 kilometers in diameter [170 miles]) impact crater known to exist on Venus at this point in the Magellan mission. The crater is located north of Aphrodite Terra ... More

Voyager 1 Image of Ganymede. NASA public domain image colelction.

(March 4, 1979) Voyager 1 took this picture of Ganymede from a distance of 1.6 million miles. Ganymede is Jupiter's largest satellite with a radius of approximately 2600 kilometers, about 1.5 times that of Eart... More

Galileo Regio Mosaic - Galileo over Voyager Data

A mosaic of four Galileo images of the Galileo Regio region on Ganymede (Latitude 18 N, Longitude: 149 W) is shown overlayed on the data obtained by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979. North is to the top of the ... More

Sequence Showing Active Volcanic Plumes on Io

These four views of Jupiter's moon Io clearly show airborne plumes of gas and dust from two of Io's active volcanoes, Zamama and Prometheus. The bottom row consists of enlargements of the plume areas. The first... More

Completing a Global Map of Ganymede - Public domain map

When NASA's two Voyager spacecraft passed through the Jupiter system in 1979, they captured many high resolution images of the Galilean satellites, but these encounters left some regions of these four largest J... More

Five Color Views of Io. NASA public domain image colelction.

Five color views of Jupiter's moon Io, as seen by NASA's Galileo spacecraft camera, were taken between the 25th and the 29th of June, 1996 Universal Time. The color is a composite of the red, green, and violet ... More

EARTH RISING OVER MOON - SOLAR SYSTEM COMPOSITE

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 3/20/1980 Keywords: c1980_01500s 1980_01550.jpg Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

Galileo Regio Mosaic - Galileo over Voyager Data

A mosaic of four Galileo images of the Galileo Regio region on Ganymede (Latitude 18 N, Longitude: 149 W) is shown overlayed on the data obtained by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979. North is to the top of the ... More

Shaded Relief with Height as Color, Iturralde Structure, Bolivia

An 8-kilometer (5-mile) wide crater of possible impact origin is shown in this view of an isolated part of the Bolivian Amazon from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. The circular feature at the center-left ... More

Hotspots on Io During the Ganymede 2 Encounter

The Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) on the Galileo spacecraft imaged Io at high spectral resolution at a range of 439,000 km (275,000 miles) during the G2 encounter on 6 September 1996. This image sho... More

Uruk Sulcus Mosaic - Galileo over Voyager Data

A mosaic of four Galileo images of the Uruk Sulcus region on Ganymede (Latitude 11 N, Longitude: 170 W) is shown overlayed on the data obtained by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979. North is to the top of the pi... More

EARTH RISING OVER MOON - SOLAR SYSTEM COMPOSITE

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 3/20/1980 Keywords: c1980_01500s 1980_01549.jpg Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

Five Color Views of Io. NASA public domain image colelction.

Five color views of Jupiter's moon Io, as seen by NASA's Galileo spacecraft camera, were taken between the 25th and the 29th of June, 1996 Universal Time. The color is a composite of the red, green, and violet ... More

Shaded Relief with Height as Color, Iturralde Structure, Bolivia

An 8-kilometer (5-mile) wide crater of possible impact origin is shown in this view of an isolated part of the Bolivian Amazon from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. The circular feature at the center-left ... More

Jupiter with Satellite Io. NASA public domain image colelction.

Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter Feb. 1, 1979, at a range of 20 million miles (32.7 million kilometers). Voyager scientists can now see that different colors in clouds around the Great Red Spot imply that t... More

Europa Imaging Highlights during GEM

During the two year Galileo Europa Mission (GEM), NASA's Galileo spacecraft will focus intensively on Jupiter's intriguing moon, Europa. This montage shows samples of some of the features that will be imaged du... More

Map of Pluto's Surface. NASA public domain image colelction.

This is the first image-based surface map of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto. This map was assembled by computer image processing software from four separate images of Pluto's disk taken with the E... More

Distribution of Sulfur Dioxide Frost on Io

Sulfur dioxide, normally a gas at room temperatures, is known to exist on Io's surface as a frost, condensing there from the hot gases emanating from the Io volcanoes. However, the deposition patterns and relat... More

Uruk Sulcus Mosaic - Galileo over Voyager Data

A mosaic of four Galileo images of the Uruk Sulcus region on Ganymede (Latitude 11 N, Longitude: 170 W) is shown overlayed on the data obtained by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979. North is to the top of the pi... More

Saturn With Rhea and Dione (true color)

NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'true color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981, when the spacecraft was 33.9 million kilometers (21 million miles) from the planet. Two bright, presumably convective cloud pattern... More

Art by Don Davis Pioneer 10 looking back at the Sun from Neptune's orb...

Art by Don Davis Pioneer 10 looking back at the Sun from Neptune's orbit as it becomes the first spacecraft to leave the Solar system

Miranda as seen by Voyager 2. NASA public domain image colelction.

(January 25, 1986) Flying by in early 1986, Voyager 2 captured this picture of Miranda, which enabled scientists to study this moon of Uranus in much greater detail than ever before. Discovered in 1948 by Gerar... More

Global Color Mosaic of Triton. NASA public domain image colelction.

Global color mosaic of Triton, taken in 1989 by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the Neptune system. Color was synthesized by combining high- resolution images taken through orange, violet, and ultraviolet filters... More

Two Hours Before First Neptune Flyby

Description (1989) Two hours before closest approach to Neptune in 1989, the Voyager 2 robot spacecraft snapped this picture. Clearly visible for the first time were long light-colored cirrus-type clouds floati... 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

Sheyenne River Valley Scenic Byway - Jupiter Rock at Medicine Wheel

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: This rock, marked "Jupiter", is part of a model of the solar system at the Medicine Wheel in Valley City. Rocks for the other planets ar... More

Geology of the solar system, 1997 / - Public domain map

Bibliography on verso. Text and ill. on verso. On verso: I-2596. On verso: NW-1997-02-149-HQ. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

New Hot Spot on Io Discovered by NIMS During Orbit C9

NASA Galileo spacecraft observed Io on nearly every orbit as part of a program monitoring the level of volcanic activity on this moon. Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System. NASA/JPL

Mars Olympus Mons, NASA Viking Images

Shown here is a digital mosaic of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the Solar System. It is 27 kilometers high, over 600 kilometers at the base, and is surrounded by a well-defined scarp that is up to ... 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 Alba Patera, NASA Viking Images

A color image of the Alba Patera region of Mars; north toward top. The scene shows a central circular depression surrounded by splays of fractures, named Alba Fossae (west of Alba Patera) and Tantalus Fossae (e... More

Yellowstone Park. NASA public domain image colelction.

Thirteen years after devastating forest fires burned over 1.6 million acres in Yellowstone National Park, the scars are still evident. In this simulated natural color ASTER image, burned areas appear gray, in c... More

Los Angeles from Space. NASA public domain image colelction.

This ASTER image was acquired on July 23, 2001 and covers an area of 64 x 72 km. The data were processed to create a simulated natural color image. From its start as a sleepy Spanish pueblo in 1781, LA and its ... More

Huaraz, Peru. NASA public domain image colelction.

A chunk of glacier was threatening to fall into an Andean lake and cause major flooding in a Peruvian city of 60,000. A fissure has appeared in the glacier that feeds the Lake Palcacocha near the city of Huaraz... More

Shaded Relief and Radar Image with Color as Height, Bosporus Strait an...

The Bosporus (also spelled Bosphorus) is a strait that connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara in the center of this view of northwest Turkey, taken during the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. The water... More

SeaWinds - Oceans, Land, Polar Regions

The SeaWinds scatterometer on the QuikScat satellite makes global radar measurements -- day and night, in clear sky and through clouds. The radar data over the oceans provide scientists and weather forecasters ... More

Scarp at Head of Chasma Boreale

This view shows sharp detail of a scarp at the head of Chasma Boreale, a large trough cut by erosion into the martian north polar cap and the layered material beneath the ice cap. The picture is a mosaic of two... More

Science Magazine Cover Image. NASA public domain image colelction.

This image of the two Martian hemispheres was seen on the cover of Science magazine in May of 1999. NASA Identifier: PLAN-PIA02040

Istanbul, Turkey. NASA public domain image colelction.

This June 16, 2000 image of Istanbul, Turkey show a full 60 by 60 km ASTER scene in the visible and infrared channels. Vegetation appears red, and urban areas blue-green. Bustling Istanbul, with its magnificent... More

Mount St. Helens. NASA public domain image colelction.

This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image of Mount St. Helens was captured one week after the March 8, 2005, ash and steam eruption, the latest activity since the volcano... More

Athabasca Vallis Streamlined "Islands

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-322, 12 December 2002 Tremendous floods carved these tear drop-shaped landforms in Athabasca Vallis in the Cerberus region, south of the Elysium volcanoes. The orientation of the strea... More

Galileo discovers caldera at Prometheus Volcano, Io

This is a high-resolution image of part of Prometheus, an active volcano on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. The image was taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on October 10, 1999, during its close flyby of Io. It sho... More

Venice, Italy. NASA public domain image colelction.

Four hundred bridges cross the labyrinth of canals that form the 120 islands of Venice, situated in a saltwater lagoon between the mouths of the Po and Piave rivers in northeast Italy. All traffic in the city m... More

Martian South Polar Cap Close-Up

This picture, illuminated by sunlight coming from the upper left, shows some of the variety of surface textures observed on the south polar residual cap. Here, the upper surface is dotted with a combination of ... More

Prometheus silicates/sulfur dioxide/NIMS

The Prometheus region of Jupiter's moon Io was imaged by the camera onboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft in July 1999 (A), and by the spacecraft's near-infrared mapping spectrometer during its October 10, 1999 fly... More

Hurricane Emily. NASA public domain image colelction.

When NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat) captured this image on July 13, 2005, Emily was just a few hours away from becoming a hurricane. The tropical storm was approaching Trinidad with winds of 95 kilometer... More

Single Still Image. NASA public domain image colelction.

This narrow angle image taken by Cassini's camera system of the Moon is one of the best of a sequence of narrow angle frames taken as the spacecraft passed by the Moon on the way to its closest approach with Ea... More

New Gully Deposit in a Crater in the Centauri Montes Region

Two Martian southern mid-latitude craters have new light-toned deposits that formed in gully settings during the course of the Mars Global Surveyor mission. Images from the Mars Orbiter Camera documented one ca... More

Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco formed as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates about 80 million years ago. This collision destroyed the Tethys Ocean; the limestone, sandston... More

Hurricane Emily. NASA public domain image colelction.

When NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat) captured this image on July 13, 2005, Emily was just a few hours away from becoming a hurricane. The tropical storm was approaching Trinidad with winds of 95 kilometer... More

Closeups of Io (false color). NASA public domain image colelction.

NASA's Galileo spacecraft acquired its highest resolution images of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io on July 3, 1999 during its closest pass by Io since it entered orbit around Jupiter in December 1995. This color mo... More

Hubble Views Colossal Polar Cyclone on Mars

[left]: Here is the discovery image of the Martian polar storm as seen in blue light (410 nm). The storm is located near 65 deg. N latitude and 85 deg. W longitude, and is more than 1000 miles (1600 km) across.... More