Planet Collection (page 100)

Voyager 1 composite image of Jupiters moon Io
Full-disk image of Jupiters satellite Io made from several frames taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on March 4, 1979, from a range of 862, 000 kilometres

Pluto and Charon and Kuiper Belt
Pluto and Charon. Artwork of the planet Pluto and its moon Charon (right) seen from space with some other Kuiper Belt objects

The impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter
Comet Shoemaker-Levy/Jupiter collision. Infrared image (2.12 microns) of the impact sites (from left to right) of fragments A, E, F, H, D and G of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter

Artwork showing Voyager 2s view of Uranus

Carbon dioxide ice on Mars, artwork
Carbon dioxide ice on Mars, computer artwork. This area is part of the carbon dioxide ice cap at the Martian South Pole. The large pits are where the carbon dioxide ice cap has sublimed to reveal ice

Pluto, Charon and new moons, 2006
New moons of Pluto. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of Pluto (centre) and its large moon Charon (below and right of Pluto), and two newly discovered moons

Flooded basin on surface of Triton
Visible light image of the surface of Triton, the largest of Neptunes moons. This image was made on 25 August 1989 at a distance of 40, 000 km

Artwork of first comet impacts on Jupiter, 1994

Computer artwork showing Jupiter and Earth sizes
Jupiter and Earth, Computer artwork showing the relative sizes of Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, and Earth

Surface of Titan. Computer artwork of rivers on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn (upper centre). The Sun is at upper left

Solar flare threatening Earth. Computer artwork of the Earth being threatened by solar flares from the Sun. A solar flare is an explosion in the Suns atmosphere that causes a large increase in levels

Saturn & its rings

Sedna. Computer artwork of the surface of Sedna, one of the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt of the outer solar system. It is a candidate for a tenth planet because it has a relatively stable

Neptune seen from Triton

Charon from Pluto. Artwork of the surface of Pluto, with Charon and the two smaller moons of Pluto seen in the sky, along with the Sun. Plutos very thin atmosphere is also seen

Titans surface

Martian landscape and Sun, artwork
Martian landscape. Artwork of a typical Martian landscape with a boulder in the foreground and Sun in the sky. Mars is a rocky desert world with no surface water

Clouds in atmosphere of Uranus
Uranus. Coloured Hubble Space Telescope near- infrared image of Uranus, showing clouds in its hydrogen & helium atmosphere

Aurorae on Jupiter. Coloured ultraviolet Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of aurorae (light blue) at the north pole of Jupiter

Planet Neptune, showing weather patterns
Clouds on Neptune. Planet Neptune, showing weather patterns in its atmosphere. Neptune appears mostly blue because of absorption of red light by methane gas in its atmosphere

Iapetus and Saturn

Phobos 2 spacecraft photo of Martian moon Phobos
Combined optical & near infrared image of the Martian moon Phobos, seen against the background of the red Martian surface

Artists impression of surface of Titan
Titan. Artists impression of the surface of Titan, the largest of Saturns moons. Titan is the largest moon in the Solar System and the only one with a planet-like atmosphere

Computer artwork of Titans surface and Saturn
Titan. Computer artwork of the surface of Titan, the largest of Saturns moons. The planet is seen in the sky. Larger than the planet Mercury

Two views of Europa from the Galileo spacecraft
Europa. Two Galileo spacecraft images of Europa, one of Jupiters four Galilean moons. The image on the left shows Europa, which is about the same size as Earths Moon, in natural colours

Voyager 2 photo of Europa, one of Jupiters moons
Voyager 2 photograph showing surface details of Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter. It is thought that the crust of the moon is water ice 75-100km thick & surrounding a rocky interior

Ultraviolet image of Saturn showing aurora
Aurora on Saturn. Coloured ultraviolet image showing an aurora near the north pole of Saturn. The aurora is the bright patch at the top of the planet

Artists impression of Jupiter & its ring
Artists impression of the planet Jupiter, viewed from within its thin, dusty ring. The Sun appears as a bright, star-like object at this distance (upper left)

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 splash on Jupiter
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9/Jupiter collision. Colour image made by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of the large impact site of Fragment G of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

Voyager 2 photo of Callisto, Jupiters fourth moon

Computer artwork of Io cut away to show interior
Interior of Io. Computer artwork of the interior of Io, a moon of the planet Jupiter. At its core (silver) is metal, with a turbulent rocky mantle (orange) above it

Comet and Earth, artwork
Comet and Earth. Artwork of a comet passing the Earth. Comets are bodies of ice and dust that enter the inner solar system from the outer solar system

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, artwork
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Computer artwork of a fragment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 approaching Jupiter (top right). Debris forming the tail of the comet fragment is at right

Space Telescope image of Saturn showing white spot
Hubble Space Telescope image of the planet Saturn, showing an unusual, long-lived storm system known as the " white spot"

Jupiter and the Galilean moons seen from Callisto
Jupiter and its Galilean moons. Montage of images of Jupiter and its four largest satellites. These are known as the Galilean moons as they were discovered by the astronomer Galileo in 1610

Uranus and Ariel. Hubble Space Telescope image of the moon Ariel (white dot) orbiting its planet Uranus (blue and green). The shadow of the moon (black dot) is seen to the moons right

Artwork of Phobos spacecraft in orbit around Mars
Artists impression of the Soviet Phobos spacecraft in orbit around Mars in early 1988, prior to its final approach to Phobos (upper right), the larger of the two small Martian moons

Pegasus constellation. Optical image of the constellation Pegasus, the winged horse. North is at top. The bright object at lower right is the planet Saturn. At upper right is the square of Pegasus

IR image of Uranus atmosphere
Uranus atmosphere. Coloured infrared image of three layers of the atmosphere of Uranus. The red around the planets edge represents a thin haze at high altitude

Saturn on a starfield

Uranus. Computer artwork of Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun. Uranus is a gas giant, composed mostly of hydrogen and helium with some methane. It has a diameter four times that of the Earth

The rings of Saturn, artwork
The rings of Saturn. Artwork of the view from inside one of the rings of Saturn. The presence of rings around Saturn was first inferred by the astronomer Huygens in 1659

Hubble view of Saturn
Saturn. Coloured Hubble Space Telescope image of the planet Saturn and its rings. This image was taken by the Near Infrared Camera and Multi- Object Spectrometer (NICMOS)

Galileo spacecraft image of Europas surface

Hubble image of Uranus
Uranus. Coloured Hubble space telescope (HST) infrared image of Uranus, showing clouds in its hydrogen and helium atmosphere

Star birth. Artwork of a new star shining in an illuminated gaseous cloud (reflection nebula), as seen from a nearby Saturn-like planet

Volcano on Io
Volcano erupting on Io, artwork. Io, the third largest of the moons of Jupiter, is one of the closest (422, 000 kilometres)

Tritons geysers. Artwork of erupting geysers (lower left & right) on Triton, with the planet Neptune seen at upper left. The geysers are composed of liquid nitrogen and methane

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