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The Family Portrait of the Solar System taken by Voyager 1. The Family Portrait, or sometimes Portrait of the Planets, is an image of the Solar System acquired by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, from a distance of approximately 6 billion km (40 AU; 3.7 billion mi) from Earth. It features individual frames of six planets and a partial background ...
Pan is the innermost named moon of Saturn. [4] It is approximately 35 kilometres across and 23 km wide and orbits within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring.Pan is a ring shepherd and is responsible for keeping the Encke Gap free of ring particles.
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of over 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
3-D anaglyphs of Rheasilvia's central peak at photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov: top view and side view; Color views of Rheasilvia's central peak at Planetary.org: side view (peak is at upper right) and mosaic of Vesta's southern hemisphere; Color panorama of Aeolis Mons from 21 September 2012 (smaller color-balanced view here)
Mimas Profile at NASA's Solar System Exploration site; The Planetary Society: Mimas; Google Mimas 3D, interactive map of the moon; Mimas page at The Nine Planets; Views of the Solar System – Mimas; Cassini images of Mimas; Images of Mimas at JPL's Planetary Photojournal; 3D shape model of Mimas (requires WebGL)
NASA's Launch Services Program managed the launch of both spacecraft. Spirit successfully landed on the surface of Mars on 04:35 Spacecraft Event Time (SCET) on January 4, 2004. This was the start of its 90-sol mission, but solar cell cleaning events would mean it was the start of a much longer mission, lasting until 2010.
486958 Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU 69; formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule [a]) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt.Arrokoth became the farthest and most primitive object in the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Horizons conducted a flyby on 1 January 2019.
at NASA's Solar System Exploration site; The Planetary Society: Hyperion; NASA: Saturn's Hyperion, A Moon With Odd Craters; Cassini images of Hyperion Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine; Images of Hyperion at JPL's Planetary Photojournal; Hyperion nomenclature from the USGS planetary nomenclature page