Jupiter’s impressive Clouds from New Horizons
Jupiter famous for its Great Red Spot, is also known for its regular, equatorial cloud bands, visible through even modest sized telescopes.
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New map of Jupiter reveals what’s beneath clouds
A new radio map of Jupiter, reveals what’s beneath the clouds on the giant planet.
Stargazing From the Space Station
An astronaut aboard the Space Station (ISS), took this broad, short-lens photograph of Earth’s night lights while looking out over the remote reaches of the central equatorial
Dark Sun over Ternate
A dark Sun hangs in the clearing sky over a volcanic planet in this morning sea and skycape. It was taken during this week’s total solar eclipse,
Close-up images of Pluto
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator. It’s about a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet above the surface of the
This is Pluto!
With the speed of 30,800 miles per hour, New Horizons spacecraft will pass by Pluto tomorrow, offering us for the first time, unique images of the distant
Seasons and Rings of Saturn
On Earth, June 21 marks a solstice, the time when the Earth’s spin axis tilts directly toward the Sun. On Saturn, the rings tell you the season.
Fresh Crater on Mars
This impressive closeup image captured from (HiRISE) camera, of a “fresh” (on a geological scale, though quite old on a human scale) impact crater in the Sirenum
New detailed view of Antarctica’s Ocean currents
This visualization from the Lab’s MPAS-Ocean Model, shows in high-resolution the ocean currents and eddies in a global ocean simulation with the Antarctic in the center.
Cloudy Earth global map
A study based on 13 years of satellite data estimated that about 67 percent of Earth’s surface is typically covered by clouds.