Miscellaneous Planetary Pictures

Index

• Ida
• Gaspra
• Mathilde
• Other asteroids
• Comets
• Meteorites
• Spacecraft

Ida

• Galileo image of Ida asteroid 114k gif; 41k jpg
• color of Ida and moon 34k gif; 15k jpg
• false color of Ida 21k jpg
• Highest-res Galileo image Ida 29k gif
• Ida rotation series 31k gif
• 6 images of Ida 37k jpg
• Ida and moon 45k gif
• Closeup of Ida's moon 24k gif
• Highest res Galileo image of Ida's moon Dactyl 29k gif

Gaspra

Images

• Large false color image of asteroid 951 Gaspra 172k gif; 33k jpg
• Gaspra in true and false color 18k jpg, 140k gif, 596k tiff
• Montage of 11 images taken by Galileo spacecraft of 951 Gaspra 75k gif 75k jpg
• Best view of asteroid Gaspra 174k gif
• Gaspra approach sequence 75k gif
• Gaspra, taken from Galileo, and Phobos and Deimos taken from Viking 96k gif; 81k jpg
• True & Enhanced Color images 140k gif; 18k jpg; 596k tiff

  Movies

• Galileo Gaspra animation 41k quicktime; 38k fli
• Smoothed Gaspra animation 700k quicktime

Mathilde

• first NEAR image 57k gif
• 4 image mosaic 36k jpg
• comparison with Ida and Gaspra 59k jpg
• NEAR closest approach 53k jpg
• two views showing irregular shape 35k jpg

  Movies

• flyby animation 440k gif 226k mpg

Other asteroids

• Mathilde (1st image from NEAR) 58k jpg
• 4 NEAR images of Mathilde 112k jpg
• more NEAR images of Mathilde html
• Asteroid Fortuna HST (9/10/93) (0.044 arcseconds per pixel) 3k gif
• radar images of 4179 Toutatis 110k gif
• 4179 Toutatis radar images html
• Asteroid Radar Research (more Toutatis images) html
• 16 views of a computer model of 4769 Castalia 78k gif
• map of 4769 Castalia 50k gif (caption)
• HST images of 4 Vesta (rotation series) 25k jpg; 216k gif; caption
• a map of Vesta 89k gif (caption)
• Keck II rotation sequence of Vesta html
• more HST pix of Vesta showing a huge crater html
• radar image of 1620 Geographos 11k gif
• 9969 Braille html

Comets

• Comet Hyakutake HST images html
• Comet Kohoutek 227k gif
• String of pearls comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 by HST (7/1/93) 17k gif
• Close-up of bright nucleus in comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 by HST (7/1/93) 40k gif
• Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 by Spacewatch Camera of the University of Arizona (3/30/93) 88k gif
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy imaged by Hubble/WFPC 145k gif
• Tail of Halley's Comet 1000k gif
• Halley's tail from Mt. Wilson 40k gif
• Nucleus of Halley's Comet (B&W) 95k gif
• detachment event 310k gif
• ray structure of Comet Halley 1000k gif
• false color image from 1986 158k gif
• Halley's nucleus from Mt. Wilson html
• more Halley spacecraft images from 1986 html
• shaded relief map of Halley's nucleus 55k gif
• Halley images from Vega Mission html
• CCD image of comet Mueller 93a 96k gif
• Kuiper Belt Object 1993 SC 155k gif
• Kuiper Belt Object 1995-QY9 72k jpg (caption)
• Comet West showing distinct dust and ion tails 111k gif
• Comet Hyakutake (Fred Burger) 68k jpg; 209k gif
• Comet Hyakutake nucleus (HST) 11k jpg; 67k gif
• Comet Hale-Bopp (HST) html
• a sungrazing comet (SOHO) 573k gif (caption)
• many recent comet images from JPL
• Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page from JPL
• Comet Hyakutake images from JPL

Meteorites

• Chondrite Meteorite 186k gif
• Achondrite Meteorite 178k gif
• Iron Meteorite 193k gif
• Martian meteorite 212k gif
• ALH84001: evidence of life on Mars? 64k jpg (more info)
• a piece of 4 Vesta 78k jpg; 376k gif; caption
• Barringer Crater 308k gif; 107k jpg; 2000k tif
• a fireball captured on video 20k gif (caption)
• a bit of stardust 35k jpg (caption)

Spacecraft

Images

• Clementine gif
• Mariner 6/7 gif
• Viking gif
• Voyager heliopause-Diagram and release 68k gif
• Voyager spacecraft 61k gif
• Ulysses spacecraft to fly over Sun's poles 157k gif
• Rendering of Cassini spacecraft 91k gif
• more at SEDS

  Movies

• Launch of Saturn V (Apollo 11) 570k quicktime
• Video clip of the Hubble Telescope repair (1) 692k mpeg
• Video clip of the Hubble Telescope repair (2) 256k mpeg
• Pioneer 10/11 plaque html