This false-color mosaic shows the entire hemisphere of Iapetus (1,468 kilometers, or 912 miles across) visible from Cassini on the outbound leg of its encounter with the two-toned moon in Sept. 2007.
The image was captured by Rubin Observatory using the 3200-megapixel LSST Camera — the largest digital camera in the world. zoom in and explore the details.
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby
These sulfur crystals were found inside a rock after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it on May 30, 2024
Smooth and rugged sections are likely to do with the dynamics of an asteroid that is a loose pile of rubble rather than a solid rock
This series of images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows asteroid Bennu in one full rotation from a distance of around 50 miles (80 km).
Image Credit & Copyright: Alfredo Vidal Pérez
Sentinel-3 carries four instruments, including its Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) – a powerful and highly accurate sensor that measures temperatures over both land and sea
Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace
Cassini took this image of the much smaller Encke Gap after rocketing through a larger 25,000 kilometer wide gap in the planet's rings at about 15 kilometers per second.
Image Credit & Copyright: Francesco Antonucci
January at the top, December at the bottom, and the middle of the night running vertically just left of center. Image Credit & License: Cees Bassa (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)
This image from March 2026 was acquired by Copernicus Sentinel-3’s Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI)
Credit: NASA/Luna Posadas Nava