Color Voyager 2 Image Showing Crescent Uranus

This image shows a crescent Uranus, a view that Earthlings never witnessed until Voyager 2 flew near and then beyond Uranus on Jan 24, 1986. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00346

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA00346
Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

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Zoom-in on Epimetheus

This zoomed-in view of Epimetheus, one of the highest resolution ever taken, shows a surface covered in craters, vivid reminders of the hazards of space. Epimetheus (70 miles or 113 kilometers across) is too small for its gravity to hold onto an atmosphere. It is also too small to be geologically act...

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA21335
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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Lake-like but Different

This mosaic of image swaths from Cassini’s Titan Radar Mapper, taken with the synthetic-aperture radar SAR, features a large dark region several hundred kilometers across that differs in several significant ways from potential lakes observed on Titan.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12162
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI

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Color Voyager 2 Image Showing Crescent Uranus

This image shows a crescent Uranus, a view that Earthlings never witnessed until Voyager 2 flew near and then beyond Uranus on Jan 24, 1986. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00346

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA00346
Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

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Barnard's Galaxy (NGC 6822), a member of our Local Group of galaxies

Credits: data obtained using the MegaCam camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope; image by Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum); copyright © 2016 CFHT

https://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStarlight/AIOM/English/CFHT-Coelum-AIOM-Oct2016.html

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