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Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221.; The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:50, 2 February 2025: 4,215 × 2,233 (3.33 MB): IapetusCallistus: Adjusted the size of the Moon to be exactly 25.27% the size of Earth.
The size of solid bodies does not include an object's atmosphere. For example, Titan looks bigger than Ganymede, but its solid body is smaller. For the giant planets , the "radius" is defined as the distance from the center at which the atmosphere reaches 1 bar of atmospheric pressure.
Size of Saturn compared to Earth and Earth's Moon. Saturn is a gas giant, composed predominantly of hydrogen and helium. It lacks a definite surface, though it is likely to have a solid core. [37] The planet's rotation makes it an oblate spheroid—a ball flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator.
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The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013. During an eclipse of the Sun , the spacecraft turned to image Saturn and most of its visible ring system , as well as Earth and the Moon as distant pale dots.
The skit, which has racked up nearly 1.5 million views on YouTube already, has been praised as one of SNL’s best at a time when ratings for the show have been in steady decline. “This skit is ...
A giant planet, sometimes referred to as a jovian planet (Jove being another name for the Roman god Jupiter), is a diverse type of planet much larger than Earth. Giant planets are usually primarily composed of low-boiling point materials (), rather than rock or other solid matter, but massive solid planets can also exist.